Alex Holden's Comments

HijiNKS ENSUE - A Geek Webcomic : They Call Me The Workin' Man

Mon, 24 Jan 2011 16:15:18 +0000

I have always said the day DNF is released is when I will finally upgrade to a gaming PC capable of doing it justice. Now there's a real chance it might actually happen, I have no money. Perhaps if I had put a quid in a piggy bank every time I read a story about how it was nearly done I would now have, erm, about twenty five quid. Anyone want to buy a 486 DX2 66? Slightly used. It has VESA graphics and a Soundblaster clone.

HijiNKS ENSUE - A Geek Webcomic : Cuatro de Julio

Fri, 4 Jul 2008 15:52:37 +0000

We found out it was second hand.

HijiNKS ENSUE - A Geek Webcomic : HijiNKS Ensue Podcast Episode #16

Mon, 9 Jun 2008 07:53:17 +0000

Stranger in a Strange Land was by Heinlein, not Bradbury.

HijiNKS ENSUE - A Geek Webcomic : Guitar Hero IV: The Inevitable Conclusion

Thu, 29 May 2008 05:09:00 +0000

Guitar Burnt-out Failure: Burger-Flip Hero

HijiNKS ENSUE - A Geek Webcomic : Overruled. I'm going to allow this.

Thu, 1 May 2008 13:44:24 +0000

Then the IRS will have to defrost Judge Dredd to catch him.

HijiNKS ENSUE - A Geek Webcomic : HijiNKS Ensue Podcast Episode #11

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 08:03:07 +0000

By the Power of He-Man's Toasted Nadgers!

Josh's understudy was great. Let's have more Denise please.

HijiNKS ENSUE - A Geek Webcomic : Need some feedback on Shirt Design

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 23:34:10 +0000

I do like the Mercury capsule idea because it fits with the "Godspeed, John Glenn" reference, but I would make it a bit bigger and put it on top of an Atlas booster (just the top part; most of it would be off-frame).

HijiNKS ENSUE - A Geek Webcomic : Questions for Podcast #11 "Male Sack"

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 02:54:59 +0000

If you could permanently kill off one current TV series and bring back a previously cancelled show to replace it, which two would you pick?

HijiNKS ENSUE - A Geek Webcomic : Need some feedback on Shirt Design

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 00:56:58 +0000

Two things bother me slightly about the designs with the Mercury capsule:
1. the capsule is way out of scale WRT Josh.
2. where's the booster rocket?

That aside, the Strangelove/Flashdance riding the rocket to oblivion pose is good.

HijiNKS ENSUE - A Geek Webcomic : Need some feedback on Shirt Design

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 03:59:35 +0000

I like the first astro-Josh. He needs some mission patches on his sleeve though. And a monocle.

HijiNKS ENSUE - A Geek Webcomic : I'm going to ask Battlestar Galactica to Homecoming

Fri, 4 Apr 2008 02:51:01 +0000

This comic has so many brilliant touches - you've out-done yourself. I'm going to have to start cutting the corners off the paper when I write to people now. The thought of Adama giving your eulogy over the Galactica's intercom cracked me up.

I'm also one of those poor unfortunate Brits stuck with the "should I wait months for the DVD to come out over here" dilemma.

"So say we all!"

HijiNKS ENSUE - A Geek Webcomic : Isn't it ironic? Don't you think?

Fri, 7 Mar 2008 00:39:42 +0000

I got an even cheaper bundle with a Creative-branded 2x Panasonic CDRom drive and an odd no-name ISA sound card that was almost but not quite completely compatible with the Soundblaster 16. The drive used some weird proprietary interface that connected to a port on the sound card. No bundled speakers, so I connected it up to my ghettoblaster.

When I eventually did get a printer, it was a HP Deskjet 500C, which could only take either a three-colour cartridge or a black cartridge, not both at the same time, so black areas on colour prints came out as a muddy dark greeny-brown and used the ink up in no time.

HijiNKS ENSUE - A Geek Webcomic : Isn't it ironic? Don't you think?

Thu, 6 Mar 2008 15:22:33 +0000

This stuff is all way too familiar. My first PC was a 40Mhz 386 with 4MB of RAM, a 120GB hard disk, an ISA graphics card, and both 3.5" and 5.25" floppy drives. I couldn't afford a printer at first so I used to take stuff on floppy to my friend who had a hand-me-down PC XT with a 20GB hard disk and a tractor-fed 9 pin dot matrix.

Windows 3.11? I installed MS DOS 6.0 and Windows 3.1 from floppy. Wolfenstein was one of my favourite games! I got hold of a shareware map editor from somewhere and spent days designing and playing my own levels.

HijiNKS ENSUE - A Geek Webcomic : Call it a going away present

Fri, 22 Feb 2008 01:30:26 +0000

Anyone know any good Purple Explosion Ninja recipes?