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The Greatest Game Ever PlayedAlright, alright. Lemme introduce myself. I'm a gamer, plain and simple. I mash buttons and stare deeply into a screen that transports my brain to another world for several hours as I sit on my ass and munch doritos. (Fuck yeah, brain food). If you know me, which I'm assuming most of you reading this don't, thus the introduction, I've played and still play a fucking ton of vidja games. When people gave me those little applications in high school that asked, "what sport do you play?" I put GameCube. That's right. Why bother kick a frickin' round spotted ball around a field all goddamn day. I proudly kill alien zombies and does not afraid of an

How To Make a Worth It FemaleWarning: Excessive Cursing Ahead

Women have come a long way in society and in real life. This has also been seen reflected in many works of fiction with many different female characters. But female characters just gotta follow certain lines if they just wanna make the cut and play it with the big boys in a big boy world. So here are some tips to make a deep, meaningful, and completely well thought out female character!

1. Face Her face must always be round, cherubic, or child-like. Don't want it too angular or she'll look too old. If it's too long she'll look like a horse. If it's round, it will always have a youthful, pretty look, almost l

How to Make a BadassBadasses. The media's chock-full of them. Ever since the 80s-90s darker and edgier characters have been steadily emerging as main characters instead of staying as the usual bad guy role. Today, they're so prevalent that it seems like every other game, film, or comic we pick up has some form of dark, chaotic, trench-coat wearing protagonist. Chances are, you want some of the sweet, darkly feeling of badassery to rub off on you too. So here are some tips to help you on your way to making one of the coolest, hardest, fastest, strongest, ass-kickingest, tired-of-these-snakes motherfuckerest badassed character of all time.

1. Clothes Like how Abe

How to Be The Perfect FanFans. They're one of the biggest driving life forces behind media today. In fact, without them, your works probably wouldn't get anywhere. You'd probably be stuck somewhere in a crappy one-room apartment living on ramen as a hack writer or lonely college kid spending all his free time making hentai games. However, in this world, people have the potential to simultaneously both have fans and be fans. Chances are, while you may not get a sizable fanbase in this lifetime, you can sure as hell learn to be one helluva fan yourself. So here are some guidelines and tips to get you started on being the perfect fan.

1. Love Do you love your fandom? G

How to Make An Action GameVideo games. Everyone and their mother plays them these days. Yes, even chicks. This isn't like how it used to be when gaming was a hobby only undertaken by a select number of nerdy white males. With so many other gamers and so many other games to choose from, how can one possibly stand out amongst it all?
By playing action games of course, the manly genre. But maybe playing them isn't enough of a challenge.
Maybe you want to take it a little farther and make an action game yourself.
Well, fear not! For in a number of steps, you too can create the next big blockbuster hardcore action game that will have every other fanboy and their uncl

How2Make an Animal Antagonist1. I Wouldn't Pet That If you're going to make a "bad guy" animal, make sure the animal itself is either ugly or has some freaky deformities (bonus points if you never explain their origin). Like a sparkledog accessorized with glitter and neon ribbons, this particular creature is better off being seen with at least one irisless eye, a notched ear, or a jagged scar decorating some point of its face.
Additionally, the coloration of this particular "bad guy" should always be something dark. Because the coloration of an animal is a clear indication of its character which, in this case, should be inexplicably soulless. Have you ever heard the sa

How to be a True Fan1. Merch Does the object of your obsession have merchandise? Yes? Good. Make it your job to own every available piece of it. If you don't own every piece of available merchandise, you aren't complete. In fact, you won't have a functioning life because there will be a large gaping hole in your chest where that missing merchandise should be. The hole will be so mind-rendingly large that your mother, your best friend, your car, your dog, not even your smoking hot girlfriend will be able to fill. Also, the hole and stinking lumps of meat that surround it will be gradually eaten by the nastiest of flies until you do find something to plug it up wi

How to Make an Awesome SeriesWanna know how you can make your original works popular? Want people to salivate over every other thing you push out, regardless of how seemingly outlandish or silly? In a few easy steps, you, too, can have every fanboy and girl from North America to Japan licking the festering shit that spews forth from your anus delicious golden fame that drips from your very fingers.

1. No Adult Main Characters The key to a successful series is to never have the main character be a day over 17 years of age. It makes it more accessible to a more general audience and thus gives it more popularity through a wider fan base. Only young people in the prime of l

Harry Potter AnalysisThe wonderful world of Harry Potter has touched countless lives upon its release. It contains many colorful elements from magic and fantasy to fighting bald snake people with little wooden sticks. Yet at the same time, despite touching so many countless lives, the ever-popular series has not been without its fair share of criticism, a large portion of which may not have been completely unfounded. Harry Potter has been said to promote more than a few more shady practices. It wouldn't hurt to explore and prod some of them in scholarly analysis.

Let us take, for example, the most prevalent example in the HP wizarding world. Wands. Ha

How To ArgueIf there's one thing that a person can't live without, it's arguments. Whether it's online or real life, chances are you're going to get sucked into them. Like the death of a pet or every ongoing anime series since the mid nineties tanking horribly and hitting rock bottom, it's inevitable. So here are yet a few more tips to help you succeed in that key aspect of life (and online).

1. Name Calling Dropping Something that you're bound to see in almost every other argument in life is the ever-present name-calling. Fuck key points or backing up your retorts with actual intelligence. None of that is necessary when you have name-calling. Name call

How 2MakeaSuccessfulSeriesWe've all been a fan of something at some point in our lives. But have you ever dreamed of creating your own series and having your own fans? Well fear no more! With a few easy steps you'll be well on your way to creating your own series that will not only garner its own fanbase but earn you love and respect by millions!

1. Theme Song All great series have their own theme. A song that will remind people of the series whenever it plays. But remember! It has to be something that everyone is sure to like, something that tailors to the masses and can be readily swallowed as something "deep" and "meaningful." In other words: pop music. Everyone l

How to Make VillainsWe've already gone over how to make every kind of awesome main character. While main character's have little things to add to their epicness here and there, there's another vital thing that makes them truly great. Something that means more than their weapons or their bravery or they adventures they go on.

1. Puns Nearly every awesome or memorable villain that has ever been awesome or memorable before has usually made puns at some point. They're not lame or cliche, they're the the universal measure of villain intelligence. The more they're able to come up with puns for any given moment or any given situation, the cleverer they are. That's why

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Wanted to break out from the usual many static poses I do in my comics. I want to start making my comics more detailed so I did another practice art to mark my progress and see if I'd improved at all. It's really simplistic and has some weird-looking errors, but hopefully I'll be able to move on bit by bit and improve enough so that even my comics aren't re-using the same poses/stances over and over and whatnot.

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