It was when my childhood died

Remember those great shows on Cartoon Network like Dexter's Laboratory, Johnny Bravo, Courage the Cowardly Dog, Powerpuff Girls, Ed Edd n Eddy, Tom and Jerry, Fosters Home For Imaginary Friends and the like?  Those were great cartoons that I held onto dearly as a kid, then slowly, very very slowly, each show got cancelled one by one, year by year.  Each time a show got cancelled and replaced with another, anotherp peice of my childhood disappeared.  And it was the when I was in 6th or 7th grade that they stopped Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on Miguzi that everything worth watching minus Toonami was worth watching on Cartoon Network. And that was when my childhood died and I had to become a big boy.  Later on I started watching Discovery Channel and became a big boy.  Life sucked since that moment, I stopped getting cable and only had basic cable a few months later and watched That's 70 Show and the Simpsons on a daily basis and enjoyed a nice 2 hours of awesome TV, then the stupid Tyra Banks show messed up everything and TV sucks for me again.  

And that's when my childhood died.  When all of my favorite shows on Cartoon Network all got cancelled.

I suppose it's a brief evolution of Cartoon Network, I suppose these new shows like Chowder and Total Drama Island is like the new Dexters Lab, etc. and in a few years when they're replaced with crappier shows the same kids that watched those shows will think the same think I think right now.

I did a real guitar too.

Before the Guitar Hero faceplate was done, there was an actual real guitar.  A friend of mine learned that I colored shoes for profit (OH SNAP! shoes too!) and asked me if I could color his guitar.  I accepted and whipped out my sharpies, (me being an amateur and a kid in high school, I don't have that kind of money to get really good material, but it still ended up looking awesome) and started to color away.  It took my a good month or so to finish.  

It's a squier by the way, it's my first and only custom guitar so far, but I suppose it's best to start off on a crap guitar than start on an expensive guitar.  

Oh, I noticed I clearly had my artists signature on the picture of the back.  I poorly photoshopped my signature out for safety reasons.  You can kinda tell where I poorly photoshopped it.  XD

Regarding Fallout 3

Fallout 3 is a great game, but there is one big problem I have with it.  Once you have reached your level cap, things tend to get a bit boring.  To be honest, there is alot of content, items, weapons, armor, and meds, but when you reach level 20 so quickly you start to lose motivation.   You will also have a nice lot of the map explored, and you'll have just about every piece of armor, every weapon, every item, a myriad of meds to get hopped up on, and be swimming in pools of bottle caps.  Now what do we do?  

Once can only have fun nuking super mutants and beating little children that can't die with a sledge hammer for so long.  And while all of their downloadable content finished, ("finished" you can never be too sure.)  While new places to explore is very nice and adds something nice and most importantly new to the game, but up until Broken Steel, there was no extended level cap, which basically meant, there is virtually no challenge when playing the game.  You explore, you shoot and you kill.  

Despite how much there is to explore, it all begins to start to look the same after a while, and in reality it kinda is the same.  It's the same looking hallways, the same enemies, and when you've explored an entire place, it's the same treasures you found in the last place you explored.

There's not too much room to complain about when each play though is at least a good 50 hours and unless you're some super focused freak, you'll probably be side tracked from the main quest for at least another 10 hours.  Let's not forget about playing through another time, which you'll probably do just because, I personally replayed the game a second time specializing in stealth which is like playing a whole new game.  

But then again, regardless if I played the game sneaking around like Solid Snake, we come to the same dead end, the game just gets stale once you 

a)  Reach level 20

b)  Are swimming in bottle caps and 9mm Pistols

c)  Beaten the main quest

all 3 of which generally happen around the same time frame kinda.

I distinctly remember in one play through I did half of the main quest, reached level 20, invested in all of the traveling salesman, did every sidequest I could, and had every item in the game.  I played for about 40 hours in that save file, and after that, the motivation is gone, all reason to explore is gone and everything just turns stale.

Despite how awesome of a game Fallout 3 is, in the end, you usually always end up in the same place.  At the top of post Apocalyptic America...Bored.  

Then DLC comes along, then you repeat the entire cycle.

Then you are King of Post Apocalyptic America...Bored.

Oh well, it was a great time getting there, but what ever!

That was all somewhat pointless.  I suppose that's just my view and only gripe about Fallout 3, it can be what ever you want it to be.

Guitar Hero Faceplate

My cousin is a pretty intense Guitar Hero player and he asked if I could color his faceplate, and me being his cousin and all I did it free of charge.  And I think the picture of the finished prodcut really reflects both aspects of the blog, oh yeah.  I did this all in sharpie too, then I proceded to put some laquer on.

First post.

Alright, first post.  Let's get things going, I am an artist and I am a gamer.  And that's the basic jist of what this blog is about.  Art and video games and what ever else I feel like.