First off, Hello there. Nice to see you. Hopefully you read something which tickles your fancy in some way, and makes you either likely to come back, or establish a good reason to never look this way again. Either way, I would hate to be simply ignored as mediocre. Better to die trying than to waste away.
Secondly, regarding the subject matter of this blog: I have no set in stone plans. I would like to cover a broad range of topics, from current events, to media interests of mine, as well as discuss projects of my own, from art to music to game design and back again, with prose and poetry thrown in for good measure. For I am a Dungeons and Dragons Bard: A jack of all trades, and an expert in none.
With the necessary yet unwanted introduction out of the way, it is time to move on to business. First off, a news story on the BBC which caught my eye while I was browsing the internet at work in between assignments. Namely, how the Spanish police arrested several members of Anonymous, purported to be involved with some hacking. In response, Anonymous launched a DDoS(Distributed Denial of Service) attack on the police's website, crashing it for several hours. They defended their actions as being akin to that of a sit-in protest, or any other form of non-violent, prohibitive protest.
I am not defending the actions of hackers. I, like Extracredits questioned Anonymous's link to the PSN hack, question why a group like Anonymous, which stands for(Other than For the Lolz) such things are freedom of speech, would hack banks, which was one of the charges brought against the hackers. They may indeed be responsible for hacking the banks. However, profiting like that would be against the spirit of Anonymous. And Anonymous will deal will those who act in such a manner in their name, I'm sure.
(No, I am not a "member" of Anonymous.)
Onto a cheerier subject, The second and final thing I'd like to mention in this post(since the introduction artificially added length) is something I came across quite by accident while trying to find this blog, whose URL I had forgotten between making it yesterday and writing the first post today. Attempting to find it without simply going to Blogspot, I googled myself, or more specifically, one of my internet aliases, Griffonknight.
I was quite surprised when I not only found several other things of mine I expected to show up, I also found an Esnips album, something I had entirely forgotten I had made. It contains a set of Fire Emblem sprites, some splices, some recolors and some animations.
Several of them I remembered fondly, and I'll include a few here for your viewing pleasure.
Not masterpieces sure, but I had forgotten I had even made these. So it was a nice, pleasant surprise.
On that note, I shall bid thee farewell, and with luck, I shall be posting again soon, hopefully with more forethought and finesse.
~The Griffonlord.
The BBC news links:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-13749181
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-13727639
The Fire Emblem Sprites:
http://xxx.esnips.com/web/GriffonknightsFireEmblemSprites/
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