Return of the Usual, Happy Evilness

Aaaaaand, that's just about enough for Emo Week. Thanks for playing! Hope you all had a good sulk and got some catharsis. But we're done now.

Okay, just one more:

Yeah.  That's the stuff.

 

Darkity Darkness: Great for Villains, Not So Great for Screenshots

Emo Week at IU chugs onward with a technical question to the viewers of this site.  Oh shoot, I'm not good at beating around the bush, so I'll just blurt it out: Are my screenshots too dim?

Here's the deal.  On my PC at home, I take action- and drama-filled screenshots of CoX using the magical Print Screen key.  Then I paste the capture into Paint, save it as a .bmp, then load that into ArcSoft PhotoStudio 2000.  Here I crop the picture, adjust the size, and paste Jennifer Connelly's head on all the female NPCs' torsos.  Those go into a special folder and are not relevant to this post.  The screenshots destined for this website get saved as .jpg files, and are then uploaded for all to enjoy here, here, and here.

But here's the kicker: when I'm viewing this site from my PC at the office, my screenshots look really, really dark.  They look fine, however, when I view them from home – on the PC where I took the screenshots.  I don't know the reason for the difference, whether it's an issue with my office PC or my home one, or if it's a problem for anyone else who looks at this site.  It doesn't help, either, that my technological skill set begins and ends with replacing the batteries in my electric pencil sharpener.  Hence I pose the issue to you, loyal readers.

Are y'all seeing what I'm seeing?  Any help would be super.  I'm very, very angsty and moody about this.

 

Infamy Unlimited Goes Emo

It's Emo Week here at Infamy Unlimited!  Sure, being supervillains, we enjoy reveling in our own wickedness.  And we always will.  But this week, we shine the black spotlight on the empty, barren stage of our angst — that cold marble slab upon which we dance our daily joyless jig as we endure the numb stares of a disinterested audience.

That's a total metaphor right there.  The stage is, like, our lives; and the audience is the WHOLE WORLD.  Or possibly just your girlfriend, or maybe your parents.  Whatever works.

Why does the Grinning Ghoul always lash out?  Why does he always hurt others?  Is it because of the razor-sharp steel claws protruding from his wrists?  Of course not.  This is Emo Week, and that means the practical, straightforward answer is always wrong.  The Grinning Ghoul hurts because he CANNOT LOVE.  Because he doesn't DESERVE love.  His only outlets are mass murder and moody poetry, but all you know about is the murder part because he keeps the poetry to himself because he's afraid of being judged.

Regular, non-angsty Infamy Unlimited service will resume on Sunday, Mother's Day.  Nothing clears away the clouds of depression like the love of Mom.  (Unless Mom is a crackhead.)  Until then, Emo Week kicks off with the unveiling of a new page to the blog: Foes & Others, profiles of the heroes and villains who make Infamy Unlimited's life so, so hard every day.  I hope you will be as interested by this new window onto IU's little world as I was in putting it together.

Now weep.  Weep, damn you!

 

Bios, Bios, Bios

Visitors to this site have surely noticed our “About” page, on which I make a more than half-hearted attempt (let’s call it a three-quarters-hearted attempt) to maintain a current list of our membership.  Now I’ve created another page, our “Roster” page, which will be the new home for our member list.

What I’d like to do with the Roster page, rather than just listing a bunch of names, is to have a brief write-up for each of our members, and perhaps even include a picture as well.  I think that’d be spiffy.  Therefore, I’m taking submissions for bios and pics that you all would like to see featured on the Roster page.

Because we have so many villains, I’m imagining maybe a paragraph for each character at first — a few sentences discussing what the villain does, how they got that way, their role in Infamy Unlimited operations, that sort of thing.  In time, if we turn out to be prolific enough, I could break this up into multiple pages.

For now, if you’ve got something you’d like to see on this site for your character, just send it to me (at Vermic@aol.com) and I’ll start adding to the page.  We’ve got cool villains in the house, now let’s show ‘em off!

 

Biggest Challenge: Posting

My first proposed CoV challenge (“I Am Legion”) is up on the blog, but since the post was started December 15th and then not finished and posted until now, it’s appeared a little down the page, right below “Getting Our Craft On”. Enjoy!

 

Mwahahahaha!

Welcome one and all to Infamy Unlimited, the eponymous web page for the supervillain group on City of Villains’ Triumph server.  IU was founded by the ingenious Grinning Ghoul (that’s me) shortly after CoV’s release, and currently has a roster of some 20 villains played by half a dozen players.

While I learn all about the features of this blog software, please feel free to post, share stories and ideas, gripe, or whatever.  We’re all evil, so it’s all good.  That’s our motto.  Or one of ‘em, anyhow.