Opti-Pessi

Closed/Moved

KoreRat — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 06:01:00 +0000

Opti-Pessi.BlogSpot.com is no more. There won’t be anymore updates, or anything. I’ve moved from here to a new location at completeBS.net.

This site won’t be deleted or removed, but some pictures my be lost. Everything is being transfered to a different server, and I’m not going to take the time to fix all the old posts links and images.

If you are a fan of the comic(s), feel free to check out my new haunt. I can’t say that I will be making new comics, but I won’t say that I’m not.

Thanks to all the visitors that checked back each week for the latest Opti-Pessi release. And didn’t complain or stop visiting when we were late with releasing them.

Bury “KoreRat” Shimel
http://www.completeBS.net

I don’t give a wooden nickel about your compatibility…

KoreRat — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 02:14:00 +0000

Steam has a great sale going on, so I padded my game list a bit more. Only to have McNaire and I to start talking about old school games… Mainly, Red Alert 2. But it seems that out of all the Command & Conquer games, that is the only one that has compatibility issues with Vista. From what my research discovered, even the original Command & Conquer and Red Alert will run, although I haven’t tried them myself.

I’ve tried all the tricks that I know, and everywhere I look everybody keeps telling me the same things(change compatibility and run as admin), which is what I tried before I even looked. Ah well…

Comic stuff:

Still getting things together for the big release, which as you may have guessed has been postponed, or readjusted, or whatever you want to call it. I’m guessing the second week of January, but that’s not concrete. I really hope before February, hope…

Rrandom TF2

KoreRat — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 03:58:00 +0000

Just a couple of random screens of TF2…

I’m not dead…

KoreRat — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 17:35:00 +0000

Despite the rumors, I’m not dead. Nor is McNaire or Garin. We’ve… uhh… been busy…? with other stuff… I guess…

We did start a Thanksgiving Special. We did mention a second season of Opti-Pessi. I think I even mentioned a few more BLU’s yet-to-be-released. And all of this stuff, is still hanging out on our collective hard drives.

Speaking of hard drives. I finally got around to getting my CD collection ripped.

Now it’s time to get that hard drive I’ve always wanted.

But that’s off topic, or is it? I don’t really remember.

The point is, we are around, we are working on comics and projects and such. But we are slaves to the retail world, and this being the craziest time of the year for us retail peons, it’s just hard to find time.

We also lost the ability to run our own GMod servers. I used to be able to host them, but now I’m on a local network, and we’ve never been able to computer on a local network to host a server. I might work out a way to run a dedicated on one of the other computers, but I don’t think that will solve the problem. I’m also pricing the cost of buying a GMod server, as well as web space and a proper dot com.

I also really enjoyed writing the ‘Anat omy of a Comic‘, and want to try to do some more things like that.

Anyways, I hope to get some stuff coming this way shortly, and I am still hoping on Opti-Pessi season 2 to be released on/around Christmas, but that’s still in the air a bit.

Opti-Pessi – Thanksgiving Special – Part One

KoreRat — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 01:36:00 +0000

I’d like to thank the poor sap whom’s internet I am currently stealing, for allowing me to bring you part one of our Thanksgiving Special!

You there, Stalker, come over here.

KoreRat — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 04:35:00 +0000

Okay, couple of quick notes:

I’m playing too much S.T.A.L.K.E.R. right now.

We may or may not be working on a Thanksgiving Special, that may or may not intertwine both Opti-Pessi and BLU.

There will most likely be a delay with Opti-Pessi Season Two as I am moving this weekend, which along with the previously mentioned causes more delays.

It’s A Special, It Doesn’t Have To Fit The Main Line

KoreRat — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 04:16:00 +0000

I am doing some maintenance on our stored images, some images in old posts may no longer work. At least until I bother to fix them.

We are planning an early release special for Thanksgiving, or maybe we aren’t… The suspense thickens…

Have a taste:

Never tell your password to anyone.
McNaire: Cool, that worked for once
KoreRat (uc): Whoa, this is a first.
Garin: Sweet
KoreRat (uc): Are we going to use this for constructive things? Or just being ourselves?
McNaire: Hmm…
McNaire: HMM….
Garin: why does it have to one or the other?
McNaire: I give up
McNaire: What’s the answer?
Garin explodes form the wrath of god
KoreRat (uc): Purple.
Garin: i shouldn’t have said
Garin: yellow
McNaire: M’kay. I just thought, since Garin was asking me about Korerat replying we could save some time (And my fingers)
Garin: cool,
KoreRat (uc): Let me get my “thinking music” going…
KoreRat (uc): There, Sabbath.
Garin: anyway all I have for an idea so far is some king of character gathering,some video game reference, and a violent thanksgiving reference
McNaire is listening to Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along. “I know you guys thought this was lame, but this music is catchy.:P”
Garin listens to TSO
KoreRat (uc): What’s more catchy than, “I’m going off the rails on a crazy train!” ??
McNaire: Actually a lot of Japanese stuff, but that gets stuck in your head
KoreRat (uc): But on point, I think it would be cool to do a Turkey day bit.
Garin: likse that one HORRIBLE flash song….
McNaire: Don’t go there Garin
McNaire: Anyhow
KoreRat (uc): hehe
McNaire: We can, but what’s the theme?
KoreRat (uc): Opti’s first Antlion Day?
McNaire: let’s catalog T-day themes. “Football, Turkey, eating alot…”
McNaire: Why would Opti go for antlions?
Garin: no other food
KoreRat (uc): Better yet, Opti just realizes that its a real holiday.
KoreRat (uc): And tries to seek out its history.
KoreRat (uc): But we make changes, like the antlions and turkeys.
McNaire: Nah, I’d rather have him looking for the fabled Plymouth Rock
KoreRat (uc): first settlers into Combine and Indians into refugees.
McNaire: So we get great shots of him holding a rock and talking to it
KoreRat (uc): Adopting a pet antlion, and Pessi wanting to eat it?
Garin disconnected.
KoreRat (uc): He thinks Antlion day is in support of Antlions, so he finds one, then Pessi makes it for dinner.
McNaire: Can we make the antlion smaller and cute?
McNaire: brb
KoreRat (uc): I might be able to deflate them, or see if there is something on gmod.org
KoreRat (uc): kk
KoreRat (uc): Oooh. L4D models, we could do a special with them celebrating thanksgiving in the zombie apocalypse..

Left 4 Wanting More

KoreRat — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 05:29:00 +0000

The Left 4 Dead Demo is availible for a few more days. I would reccomened taking a look at it. It’s only two levels, but after you play through it a couple of times you see how the A.I. Director works. I’ve played about a dozen times and it’s always been different. And that’s only with two levels…

The loading screen, just before you start the round, rules. Plain and simple. Although I did have some issues with the game. I ran it on it’s reccomended defaults, except changing the aspect ratio to 14:10. And not even two minutes in it crashed to the desktop…

So I went back in. Quickly joined a game inprogress, wondering if it would be the same one. It wasn’t. But it wasn’t far from where I had crashed, so I didn’t mind. We made it to the end, surviving all the Smokers, Hunters, Boomers, and Witches it threw at us. And I was left wanting more. But I had to go to work.

So, eight hours later I was back at home and loading up the demo again. Only this time I decided to go at it alone, in that I was the only human. This was in a way, better. I had the opertunity to explore the enviroments better. When I was with a team of other players they were more focused on the task at hand and less in looking at VALVe’s handywork. I discovered there are almost two ways to anywhere, and that setting off car alarms is a big no-no. Well, seeing a horde of zombies running at you from three directions is pretty sweet.

I’ve played a couple of zombie games, a big fan of the Resident Evil series. But Left 4 Dead, it feels less like a game and more like a movie. The way the zombies move about and attack reminds me more of the good ‘ol zombie flicks.

Oh, and I’m really excited about SteamCloud. So many hassels will be saved.

Ess Tee Ay Ell Kay Ee Arr

KoreRat — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 05:56:00 +0000

Spent a good portion of the evening working on getting the Credits page updated. I think I have everything on there now. Even added a few things to pop in with Opti-Pessi: Season Two.

McNaire and I did some shooting tonight also, then he managed to spend two hours messing up and fixing GMod. I don’t think he fixed it yet, just gave up due to fatigue. A few jolly good laughs.

Still planning on posting those last few BLU’s. But there is a lot going on in both the McNaireHood and the KoreRatHood. So, may be a little longer.

One of the reasons might have something to due with the fact I bought S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl the other day, and have already logged a good ten hours in it. Sadley, I don’t think I’ve done much of anything yet…

Anatomy of a Comic is completed. Part five was written in about two minutes, and when I re-read it a few hours later I didn’t feel like it came across how I ment it too. So I re-wrote it, so give it a second look. And if you missed it read the whole thing.

Part One
Part Two
Part Three
Part Four
Part Five

Anatomy of a Comic – Part Five

KoreRat — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 00:46:00 +0000

In the final installment of Anatomy of a Comic I will go over posting.

Really, do I have to tell you how to post a comic on the Internet? Because I’m assuming that you would already know how. Therefore this final instalment of Anatomy of a Comic is kinda pointless.

You want people to see you newly created GMod comic, right? You got a few options; First you can email it to all your friends. Have no friends? Well in that case you can store it on one of the many image sharing sites(photobucket, imageshack, etc) and post it in a forum of your choosing. Don’t feel like getting banned from the forums for stupid reasons? Well then you’ll just have to make your own site to release your comic. There are hundreds of options out there for free hosting, and plenty more if you want to buy some web space. I personally recommend Blogger, but McNaire pesters me into going with Word press.

Of course, if you set up your own site you might need to do some PR work to help people find it. But watch out, some places(like the Steam Fourms) will ban you for ‘advertising’.

You still want more? Well I’m not gonna site here and teach you how to set up the site, write the HTML, or come up with a eye-pleasing layout. I’m afraid you’re on you own with that…