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Romantic Computers Cannot Cry

September 27, 2006 by Bartoneus

I’ll start off with an apology for not having a comic or any kind of new drawing for this week, it’s been an off week in general. I will, however, dazzle you with an amazing (and true) proverb! Pretty much all online sites with comments get innundated with spam, and we are no exception. Thankfully […]

Filed Under: The Architect DM

This is How a Guild Dies (part 2)

September 22, 2006 by Bartoneus

Welcome back, I assume you enjoyed the puppies.  We left off on our story at the vicious modem refusing to bear its electronic burden, instead opting to commit ritual sepuku on a regular basis.  I was driven temporarily insane, either from the lack of constant internet or because of solar flares, it could have been […]

Filed Under: The Architect DM

This is How a Guild Dies (part 1)

September 20, 2006 by Bartoneus

So here’s the story how it happened. What seems like ages ago (2 years) I somehow stumbled upon the closed beta signups for a game, which was then called World of Warcraft. It’s still called that, but it was called that then too. I’m not sure why I’m surprised that I found it, considering I […]

Filed Under: The Architect DM, Video Games

It Was the Only Logo Available

September 13, 2006 by Bartoneus

I find it very funny, considering all the the internet allows us to do and achieve, that the copyright logo carries very little legal weight.  It can be slapped on just about anything, dates falsified, or you could even go so far as to copyright the copyright logo itself!  Ryon and I had  a discussion much like this […]

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Part 3: An Apt Conclusion

September 6, 2006 by Bartoneus

Again, as always, this is based entirely upon real events. The preceedings, however, did not happen while in our current house as shown. Instead they took place in the dank cesspits of scum and villainy known as a Dorm room, which to this day remains the den of untold evils I dare not disclose (most […]

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Part 2: The Confrontation

August 30, 2006 by Bartoneus

Okay so it isn’t exactly a dungeon, more of an insanely huge cathedral, it is not entirely ludicrous to concieve of them having dark passageways and shall I say almost dank accomodations. Now we finally see that the thing which our hero was curious about in the first one is none other than the cuddly, […]

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Part 1: Into the Dungeon

August 23, 2006 by Bartoneus

While not exactly a typical day at work for me, any day’s events could be similar to the ones in this comic at their essence. Corridors are traversed, doors opened, oozes groped, and ominous corners turned into. As the title commands, this is the first part of what has already been deemed an epic saga. […]

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With Naked Eyes

August 16, 2006 by Bartoneus

This week in the news it was released that several photos published by Reuters from a Lebanese photographer were pulled from circulation because they discovered the photos had been editted to depict darker, more dreary images of the destruction happening there and to make certain combat images appear more dramatic. You can find the specifics […]

Filed Under: News, The Architect DM

The Seductive Powers of the Beard

August 10, 2006 by Bartoneus

In light of the impending movie, and several videogames in development, the Star Trek franchise seems to still be going strong. A large problem continues to obstruct it from ever reaching everyone in the world, the fact that if you watch Star Trek you must be a really big dork. Certainly she seemed to think […]

Filed Under: Science Fiction & Fantasy Genre, Television, The Architect DM

A Slight Overreaction

August 2, 2006 by Bartoneus

It was in the news a few weeks back that, upon further analysis, there were in fact references to Doom in the notebooks of the two students who were responsible for the Columbine Massacre. The media seemed to accept this as ‘Veritas Lux Mea’ and that this was the final proof needed to complete another […]

Filed Under: Editorial, News, The Architect DM, Video Games

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    Danny works professionally as an architectural designer and serves as managing editor here at CH, which means he shares many of the duties of being an editor but without the fame and recognition. He also writes about RPGs, videogames, movies, and TV. He is married to Sucilaria, and has a personal blog at Incorrect Blitz Input. (Email Danny or follow him on Twitter).

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