The DYOS Consul (DYOS XI: 2009-2013)
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Kan' Sharuminar
Fluffy
The really annoying thing is I have 4/5 of my first batch of comics done, it's just that it's the second of those comics that is giving me trouble. I'm gonna try and get it done tomorrow.
GenMarshall
High Elven ISB Capt & Ghost Agent
I just got another batch of good news. I have managed to go through my old posts in DYOS 10 and updated the links of my comics that I have taken the liberty to rehost in dA. 
However, there are still some comics that have ether been shrunken (Notably the earlier ones) or eaten up by the Imageshack Gremlins. But the majority of the comics are still present.
However, there are still some comics that have ether been shrunken (Notably the earlier ones) or eaten up by the Imageshack Gremlins. But the majority of the comics are still present.
GenMarshall
High Elven ISB Capt & Ghost Agent
Quick question, perhaps to help me better adjust to the "jokes directed to me". How do all of you handle jokes that are directed to you?
Stylesrj
Tabitha SEAL
By laughing at them and moving on. Or even joining in with the fun.
For example:
Guy: Man that was much worse than Stylesrj's comics.
Me: Nothing is as bad as those.
For example:
Guy: Man that was much worse than Stylesrj's comics.
Me: Nothing is as bad as those.
Angst
Rambling and inconsistent
Self-irony is a bliss, CG. 
Personally, I usually shrug and move on; as long as you're secure and you trust in yourself, you can joke with it; if people are laughing at you, or if you feel that, you can help turning it around and make them laugh with you.
And if they're being despicable towards you, stand up against it and/or shrug it off. People don't know better; don't tell me you haven't ever done questionable things yourself. ^^
With great self-respect comes great certainty and irony of self. Or something.
Personally, I usually shrug and move on; as long as you're secure and you trust in yourself, you can joke with it; if people are laughing at you, or if you feel that, you can help turning it around and make them laugh with you.
And if they're being despicable towards you, stand up against it and/or shrug it off. People don't know better; don't tell me you haven't ever done questionable things yourself. ^^
With great self-respect comes great certainty and irony of self. Or something.
Kan' Sharuminar
Fluffy
Working on the next comic to candlelight* with a glass of whisky nearby. DYOS can be good sometimes.
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GenMarshall
High Elven ISB Capt & Ghost Agent
I have completed uploading all of the DYOS 11 comics to my dA account and updated the links. Thanks to Thorvald and his feedback, I have compiled my closing thoughts for both DYOS 10 and 11 that I'd figure I'd repost here .
After an entire week of re-uploading many of my previous comics from imageshack and updating the links. I've decided to sit down and compile my thoughts about both DYOS 10 & 11. I know the 11th series has yet to end, I feel there is enough progression for me to reflect upon them as well as feedback that I have gotten.
Though I have only participates in DYOS 10 towards December, It was enough for me to go in with the whole starting fresh idea and starting off as a mercenary for the Republic that's been usurped by my old avatars and had to fight my avatars to liberate it. It gave me the opportunity to relive the days of DYOS 1 as a mercenary figure without the worries of some power gaming shenanigans that would render my plot moot point in the next hour. I had the pleasure to work with faces, both old and new. I grew as a comic maker; transitioning from unorganized speech bubbles, literal onomatopoeias to making my speech bubbles somewhat fluid and gone from literal onomatopoeias to actually using onomatopoeias properly.
DYOS 11 is an interesting case for me. Largely because it runs during my depressive era when I lost my job not to long after the thread was going and it was where I felt I had regressed and made some careless mistakes here and there. Though overall my story was not that bad, it just need some more care, love, and attention as it should have. What I could have done differently was not dwell and stress over Plans within Plans and instead did what I did in each DYOS previously. There are many, many things that I wish I could go back and change, perhaps polish up some strips and sand off the rough edges. But what's done is done and take the mistakes that I have learned and apply them to DYOS 12 and (knocks on wood) not repeat the same mistake.
Now some of the mistakes that I am taking to learn from:
Excessive Retconning: I know done right it can be effective. But the way I have done it tends to be on the clunky side that's more of a band-aid or an ass pull to explain something that happened previously. I have noticed that in my previous comics before the wiki aired, much of my comics contained little to no annoying retcons.
Not thinking the plot clearly: Infamously with Mariko's rise to power. At the time, I did not thought before planning her initial rise to power and just did it out of impulse. Thorvald addressed the issues and brought them to my attention recently. By logic, Mariko taking down a planetary Senator would not net her a planet to control and would have to find other venues for her rise to power. Such as using the material assets she's gathered during her raid and what she had when she liquidated Umbrella Corp and continue her coup on one of the other planets she targets. Instead, I took the lazy route. In future DYOSes, I intend to not make the same mistake that I did in the example I gave. Fortunately, I am more chill now a days and more receptive of criticism than I was before. Though as Stylesrj said "I operate like DOS, I can't tell you if something is wrong if it hasn't happened already" (or something along those lines)
Omnipotency/Metagame: This is an infamous case for me that my faction/characters have and largely is the remnants of my defensive mechanics between DYOS 5-9 when power gaming was rampid and the need to stay ahead of the power gamers became a necessity. With the current era of DYOS simmered down and Stylesrj reforming himself, it became unnecessary to constantly keep that defensive mechanic up.
Flat Characters: I would admit, that some of my characters are not that memorable and are just simply my troopers just to fill a role. The only memorable ones so far, other than my character, are Hanna Antilles, Ayane, and Marsha Conrad. Largely because they aren't molded into a specific role. Obviously Hanna Antilles would still fill a motherly role because she's my character's mother. The others, like Tina Hitachi have been set for a specific role and/or not given enough screen time for a significant amount of character development to happen. Let alone enough to sympathize with.
Venomous Take That's: Most would know me as a guy with no sense of humor when it comes to jokes directed towards me. If there is a light hearted jab at my way, chances are that I'd respond back with a venomous and harsh take that. Lately, I have been working to not be overly sensitive with jokes directed towards me. Though, at this stage in my self improvement, have resorted to biting my tongue when a joke directed towards me comes my way.
These are the things that I could think up at this time.
Yes people, I won't bite your heads off if you offer up any sort of constructive criticism.
.Closing thoughts on DYOS 10 & 11
After an entire week of re-uploading many of my previous comics from imageshack and updating the links. I've decided to sit down and compile my thoughts about both DYOS 10 & 11. I know the 11th series has yet to end, I feel there is enough progression for me to reflect upon them as well as feedback that I have gotten.
Though I have only participates in DYOS 10 towards December, It was enough for me to go in with the whole starting fresh idea and starting off as a mercenary for the Republic that's been usurped by my old avatars and had to fight my avatars to liberate it. It gave me the opportunity to relive the days of DYOS 1 as a mercenary figure without the worries of some power gaming shenanigans that would render my plot moot point in the next hour. I had the pleasure to work with faces, both old and new. I grew as a comic maker; transitioning from unorganized speech bubbles, literal onomatopoeias to making my speech bubbles somewhat fluid and gone from literal onomatopoeias to actually using onomatopoeias properly.
DYOS 11 is an interesting case for me. Largely because it runs during my depressive era when I lost my job not to long after the thread was going and it was where I felt I had regressed and made some careless mistakes here and there. Though overall my story was not that bad, it just need some more care, love, and attention as it should have. What I could have done differently was not dwell and stress over Plans within Plans and instead did what I did in each DYOS previously. There are many, many things that I wish I could go back and change, perhaps polish up some strips and sand off the rough edges. But what's done is done and take the mistakes that I have learned and apply them to DYOS 12 and (knocks on wood) not repeat the same mistake.
Now some of the mistakes that I am taking to learn from:
Excessive Retconning: I know done right it can be effective. But the way I have done it tends to be on the clunky side that's more of a band-aid or an ass pull to explain something that happened previously. I have noticed that in my previous comics before the wiki aired, much of my comics contained little to no annoying retcons.
Not thinking the plot clearly: Infamously with Mariko's rise to power. At the time, I did not thought before planning her initial rise to power and just did it out of impulse. Thorvald addressed the issues and brought them to my attention recently. By logic, Mariko taking down a planetary Senator would not net her a planet to control and would have to find other venues for her rise to power. Such as using the material assets she's gathered during her raid and what she had when she liquidated Umbrella Corp and continue her coup on one of the other planets she targets. Instead, I took the lazy route. In future DYOSes, I intend to not make the same mistake that I did in the example I gave. Fortunately, I am more chill now a days and more receptive of criticism than I was before. Though as Stylesrj said "I operate like DOS, I can't tell you if something is wrong if it hasn't happened already" (or something along those lines)
Omnipotency/Metagame: This is an infamous case for me that my faction/characters have and largely is the remnants of my defensive mechanics between DYOS 5-9 when power gaming was rampid and the need to stay ahead of the power gamers became a necessity. With the current era of DYOS simmered down and Stylesrj reforming himself, it became unnecessary to constantly keep that defensive mechanic up.
Flat Characters: I would admit, that some of my characters are not that memorable and are just simply my troopers just to fill a role. The only memorable ones so far, other than my character, are Hanna Antilles, Ayane, and Marsha Conrad. Largely because they aren't molded into a specific role. Obviously Hanna Antilles would still fill a motherly role because she's my character's mother. The others, like Tina Hitachi have been set for a specific role and/or not given enough screen time for a significant amount of character development to happen. Let alone enough to sympathize with.
Venomous Take That's: Most would know me as a guy with no sense of humor when it comes to jokes directed towards me. If there is a light hearted jab at my way, chances are that I'd respond back with a venomous and harsh take that. Lately, I have been working to not be overly sensitive with jokes directed towards me. Though, at this stage in my self improvement, have resorted to biting my tongue when a joke directed towards me comes my way.
These are the things that I could think up at this time
.Yes people, I won't bite your heads off if you offer up any sort of constructive criticism.
Angst
Rambling and inconsistent
Thinking things through, and especially evaluating your own progress, is a good thing. What I'm most concerned about in your post is the part about Flat Characters; that is the thing I'd personally work on the most.
Stylesrj
Tabitha SEAL
If I get anything wrong... well please do yell at me for not reading properly.
That's OK, we do it all the time. Even my Narrators have commented about the fact that they're no longer the Galava Narration Crew, because I'm changing their backstory to something of my own making rather than something clunky and frustrating as Galava. Because only Stylesjl knows what I'm talking about and even then he didn't pay much attention to what was going on.
I still remember Choxorn's Convenient Plot Device trying to justify everything in DYOS X
Well if your planets are easily controlled by killing the leader, that's fine by me. It's your story and if that's how you want it to work, do it. But if that trick were pulled on someone else's planet or an introduced planet by someone else (like the Switzerplanet System or Wetickra) there may be issues and needs further thought in how you can get your bad guys taking it over.
Although I still have complaints about the whole Roxxane Rose thing. Why would they NOT keep her on a leash when hunting people? "What if she tells them she's a slave and needs help? She wasn't exactly a respectful person towards us. She might return with those badasses we're looking for and they'd kill us." "Nah, she'll be fine out of our sight"
Then you made her a Manchurian Agent because I complained about how incompetent those pirates were (I mean not just understandable incompetence, but Saturday Morning Cartoon Villain Incompetence). So that could go under Annoying Retcons I guess...
Even if this issue is resolved, I'm still going to complain about it. It's just that burned into my memory.
Thankfully you've kept that down. Although try not to play DYOS like IOT... or IOT like DYOS... or like a game of Risk.
Because I think Australia would be hard to take
This definitely is something we both need to look into. We introduce these characters who only appear for like a few comics (or even a few panels) and then we forget they ever existed.
For example, Tali Zorah. And perhaps Tina. But that's because you're using the same model for Kasumi, whom I really didn't put much interest into.
You also have (or had?) a tendency to use existing characters from other works of fiction and expect us to know who they are and their backstory so you don't have to explain it to us.
For example, I still don't know much about DOA or Resident Evil. If understanding a character requires hours of a wiki trawl, I won't bother. Make up your own backstory or explain it in DYOS for those who do not play the series.
I'm sure I'm guilty of this too... although at this moment I can't recall anything significant. I know I've taken characters from fiction and reworked their backstory.
And in my case... I threw in six narrators (that's as many as two threes! And that's terrible) on the Duo and now, how many of them have proper speaking roles? Three (One became part of the Duo, Qara went to the main story and Ave is still there)
Then you have the Blood Gulch Mercenary Council/Board who's only role seems to be "Agree with the Chairman" and "Have a guy named Larry"
So yeah, introducing characters is a major problem.
I'm proud of youson CivGeneral.
That's OK, we do it all the time. Even my Narrators have commented about the fact that they're no longer the Galava Narration Crew, because I'm changing their backstory to something of my own making rather than something clunky and frustrating as Galava. Because only Stylesjl knows what I'm talking about and even then he didn't pay much attention to what was going on.
I still remember Choxorn's Convenient Plot Device trying to justify everything in DYOS X
Well if your planets are easily controlled by killing the leader, that's fine by me. It's your story and if that's how you want it to work, do it. But if that trick were pulled on someone else's planet or an introduced planet by someone else (like the Switzerplanet System or Wetickra) there may be issues and needs further thought in how you can get your bad guys taking it over.
Although I still have complaints about the whole Roxxane Rose thing. Why would they NOT keep her on a leash when hunting people? "What if she tells them she's a slave and needs help? She wasn't exactly a respectful person towards us. She might return with those badasses we're looking for and they'd kill us." "Nah, she'll be fine out of our sight"
Then you made her a Manchurian Agent because I complained about how incompetent those pirates were (I mean not just understandable incompetence, but Saturday Morning Cartoon Villain Incompetence). So that could go under Annoying Retcons I guess...
Even if this issue is resolved, I'm still going to complain about it. It's just that burned into my memory.
Thankfully you've kept that down. Although try not to play DYOS like IOT... or IOT like DYOS... or like a game of Risk.
Because I think Australia would be hard to take
This definitely is something we both need to look into. We introduce these characters who only appear for like a few comics (or even a few panels) and then we forget they ever existed.
For example, Tali Zorah. And perhaps Tina. But that's because you're using the same model for Kasumi, whom I really didn't put much interest into.
You also have (or had?) a tendency to use existing characters from other works of fiction and expect us to know who they are and their backstory so you don't have to explain it to us.
For example, I still don't know much about DOA or Resident Evil. If understanding a character requires hours of a wiki trawl, I won't bother. Make up your own backstory or explain it in DYOS for those who do not play the series.
I'm sure I'm guilty of this too... although at this moment I can't recall anything significant. I know I've taken characters from fiction and reworked their backstory.
And in my case... I threw in six narrators (that's as many as two threes! And that's terrible) on the Duo and now, how many of them have proper speaking roles? Three (One became part of the Duo, Qara went to the main story and Ave is still there)
Then you have the Blood Gulch Mercenary Council/Board who's only role seems to be "Agree with the Chairman" and "Have a guy named Larry"
So yeah, introducing characters is a major problem.
I'm proud of you
Stylesrj
Tabitha SEAL
I've got a complaint for e350tb though...
Why is it you find CivGeneral's repurposed female Resident Evil characters good looking (and schmexy) but you don't say anything about my original characters?
Is Qara that hideous-looking you don't want to say anything hurting my feelings? Just tell me already so I can start crying at being such a failure to create attractive characters.
Not that I was designing some of them that way
Why is it you find CivGeneral's repurposed female Resident Evil characters good looking (and schmexy) but you don't say anything about my original characters?
Is Qara that hideous-looking you don't want to say anything hurting my feelings? Just tell me already so I can start crying at being such a failure to create attractive characters.
Not that I was designing some of them that way
e350tb
Stupendously Illogical Englishman
Because Fallout and the Sims. 
J/k, I don't actually think anyone's characters are more attractive then anyone elses.
J/k, I don't actually think anyone's characters are more attractive then anyone elses.
And half of what he said was still retconned again later on in 10.5 and 11.
I'll have to bring him up again some time in 10.5 so my character can complain about his inaccuracies.No, it's not OK. It's fine if it's necessary (like if you're basing a story on something that only you can understand, like, as you said, Galava) or if you do it occasionally for laughs, but too much and you just make the story unreadable.
That was necessary to clean up the rampant plotholes, deadends, inconsistencies and excessive retconning in that thread, and I must say he did it quite well considering the circumstances.
Oh yes, definitely.
Stylesrj
Tabitha SEAL
Bad news nobody!
My Sims Medieval has decided to not work any more
I load it up and it crashes immediately. I've tried uninstalling/reinstalling, but the uninstall couldn't happen due to botching up the last one and causing some problems. There hasn't been any new patches or new mods causing the problem... it's just stopped working.
I could format my hard drive and start over, but I'm thinking of getting another computer... one that probably won't freeze up if jostled too hard.
So this means I can't get any new screenshots from the game and use them in any future comics until the problem is fixed or I get a new computer.
I have saved several character poses for some of my characters (but not all) so not everything is lost, but I can't do things like Qara's wedding.
So yeah, I might have to resort to Skyrim or something...
My Sims Medieval has decided to not work any more
I load it up and it crashes immediately. I've tried uninstalling/reinstalling, but the uninstall couldn't happen due to botching up the last one and causing some problems. There hasn't been any new patches or new mods causing the problem... it's just stopped working.
I could format my hard drive and start over, but I'm thinking of getting another computer... one that probably won't freeze up if jostled too hard.
So this means I can't get any new screenshots from the game and use them in any future comics until the problem is fixed or I get a new computer.
I have saved several character poses for some of my characters (but not all) so not everything is lost, but I can't do things like Qara's wedding.
So yeah, I might have to resort to Skyrim or something...
GenMarshall
High Elven ISB Capt & Ghost Agent
Stylesrj
Tabitha SEAL
Never thought of that. Thanks. I'll get right on it!
The whole "Send an error report to Microsoft" crash.
Stylesrj
Tabitha SEAL
So I ran CCleaner and cleaned up the registry. Now Windows tells me much quicker it can't uninstall the game due to an error.
Would deleting it manually, then running CCleaner work? Or would that make the problem worse?
Because last time I tried uninstalling, I actually went through the registry after deleting the game and tried to delete the errant files. What's most likely causing the issue is that I missed a few. So would CCleaner do what I couldn't do and delete those stray files if I deleted the game itself?
Would deleting it manually, then running CCleaner work? Or would that make the problem worse?
Because last time I tried uninstalling, I actually went through the registry after deleting the game and tried to delete the errant files. What's most likely causing the issue is that I missed a few. So would CCleaner do what I couldn't do and delete those stray files if I deleted the game itself?
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