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| I for one welcome our new spam overlords | 2008-09-25 |
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The site has just started to get slammed with comment bots posting links to online pharmacies and other less savory things you don't want to click on. This is a major milestone for the site, it means that some cybernetic spider has laid eggs on the homepage and told all its friends.
You won't see any of those comments because the website automatically filters them out, but you will see the website start to show up more often in google searches, and higher on the list. It means I'm that much closer to quitting my job and using the internet as my welfare check. God bless America. |
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| Big update before the weekend | 2008-08-29 |
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Recently I was able to find the time to draw 15 more pictures and scan them, upload them to the site, and post the articles. So there has been a pretty big update over the past 2 days. I still have over 80 articles with no pictures, but I put a serious dent in that number, which used to be well over 100. Here's a list of the new articles:
Arbalest
Caliga
Claymore
Crysknife
Francisca
Lance
Main Gauche
Morning Star
Nimcha
Parrying Dagger
Pulwar
Saif
Tanto
Tsurugi
Tulwar
I've also posted other articles to the site over the past month without an accompanying news item, but you can click on the History, Mythology, or Fantasy tabs at the top of the page to see them and what date they were posted. Have a great weekend! |
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| Final Fantasy Mythology | 2008-08-18 |
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So what was that exciting thing I hinted at? On my other site Od Studios I wrote an article which explains the origins of much of the equipment from Final Fantasy games. As part of the research for that article I added a lot of articles to this site, especially relating to Japanese swords.
The main article may forever be a work in progress as new games come out, but it has given me some motivation to move away from European arms and armor and research Japanese equipment. So you can expect new articles from both the east and the west as I try to complete the interlinketry between the two sites.
Yes that's a word, want to fight about it? |
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| Your skill in Tedium has increased (244)! | 2008-07-30 |
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I honestly thought it would take longer, but I've finished interlinking the articles to each other. There are some references to articles that don't exist (yet!) but I'll add them in later. I also added several new search classes such as:
Arthurian - Should get your most of the equipment from Arthurian folklore
Dietrich Cycle - Weapons and Armor related to Prince Dietrich of Bern and his knights
Gladiator - Gladiator related equipment
Medieval Europe - Kind of a catchall for weapons and armor prominent in Europe but not specific to a single country
Song of Roland - Equipment related to the 12th century French national epic, Song of Roland
Wayland the Smith - Weapons and armor said to be forged by Wayland the Smith (who is also the elf Volund in the Norse tradition)
I have an exciting new project coming up that should tie into this site well and there should be some new articles coming soon. |
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| From Acinaces to Xiphos | 2008-07-28 |
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My task of converting all of the site's JPGs to GIFs is officially complete. It was a tedious and tiresome process, and while most of the images are virtually identical, a few experienced a loss of quality. However, it was (hopefully) a good move to make for the long term quality of the site.
The next tedious and tiresome process is to interlink the articles to each other, which should take a week or two. And from there, who knows, maybe I'll do something that is neither tedious nor tiresome, like write new articles. |
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| Now 30% easier to read! | 2008-06-09 |
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I've added another 30 articles since the last update. What has been taking up most of my time is a graphical change to the scroll background. The old scroll made the text very hard to read, and it was something that always bothered me but my Photoshop skills are...poor. Let's leave it at that.
However, I buckled down and with the help of many photoshop tutorials for the graphically challenged, I discovered the beauty and the wonder of layer masks and I think the articles are much easier to read.
What remains is to change the pictures from .jpg format to transparent .gifs, which will likely take several weeks. Most users won't notice the difference, and the rest won't care. So happy surfing!
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I added 40 new articles to the mythology section today. It seems like there's always another Norse saga or Danish ballad to read. ;)
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I added 17 more articles today, mostly weapons and armor from European mythology. Every time I think I'm almost done, I find out about another story with a bunch of equipment I've never heard of.
Clicking on the Mythology link above will show you all of the articles related to mythology that have been posted so far. If you're looking for something specific, you can click on the "Search" link on the right. Entering a keyword will return any articles with that word, or you can add filters.
Filters return a class of articles, for instance Japanese articles or 14th century articles, etc. If you wanted to look at all of the Japanese swords in the database, try adding the filters "Japan" and "sword". You can get very specific with the filters, and use AND/OR logic to broaden or narrow your search. Have fun! |
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| Articles based on user feedback | 2008-05-09 |
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I've had some comments from readers stating that they'd be more interested in weapons and armor from mythology. In response, I posted 71 new articles today, mostly mythology or fantasy based. Some of them are fairly obscure (i.e. not the stuff you can find on Wikipedia) so I hope you enjoy.
As always, feel free to rate the articles and leave comments. If not, I'll just assume everything's fine and I'll do whatever I want. ;)
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| That's not a mancatcher! | 2008-04-02 |
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Someone noted (correctly) the mancatcher pictured in the article I posted last week doesn't actually fit the description of the mancatcher. So I drew another one. I also posted a few more articles:
Dacian Falx
Fuscina
Rhomphaia
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