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on an interesting sidenote about employment laws in california...

if you quit (don't know about being fired but it would be easy enough to find out via the dept of labor website) and you don't get your last paycheck on your final day of work you can seek a penalty against your employer. the requirements for this are that you gave at least 72 hours advance notice of quitting and that you are not a contracted employee.

i actually just went through this with my employer as they didn't have my final paycheck for me until 2.5 weeks after my final day. i told them i was filing a complaint with the dept of labor and they decided to settle out of court and pay me the penalty.

btw, the penalty is whatever you would be paid if you were still employed from the time of your last day (only those days you would normally have been scheduled to work) to the time you finally got your paycheck with a maximum of 30 days. in my case i got a nice check out of this as they screwed me out of 2.5 weeks of having my check...

a robot monkey? sorry, had to plug...

i wrote an article a while back about this very issue on my website. imho, you are 100% correct. take a look...

love the doom patrol? visit my 'doom patrol extravaganza' on my site. sorry about the plug, but it's something we've worked a lot on (and obviously still has lots of work to go)...

And under more mainstream (if only slightly so), there's Rebis of the Doom Patrol comics, quite possible the first hermaphroditic comic book hero.

And under more mainstream (if only slightly so), there's Rebis of the Doom Patrol comics, quite possible the first hermaphroditic comic book hero.

please read my article which touches a little on your first sentence here...

actually, warhol was one of the first artists to experiment with digital artwork... it is doubtless he'd have been doing digital art.

my site has a neat featured section all about grant morrison, specifically doom patrol but we do have a lot of his other work on there. it is a work in progress, but more feature-filled than most other sites on him (aside from bullough's)... take a look. :)

my pal future wrote this review of sam and max: surfin' the highway. we've got all sorts of fun popculture crap on there as well. take a look :)

we have a theatre room in our house and this past weekend had a bunch of people over for a gaming party. a friend of mine brought over the new matrix game, and we were pretty excited to see it, even though we all thought the movie pretty much sucked. so he pops it in and starts showing us how the game works.

well my first impression was that the game was very dark and lacked detail in the levels. the details of the levels looked about like a really good quake 1 3rd party map. next he shows us the bullet time effects and superslow (or fast depending on your perspective i suppose) fighting moves. the bullet time stuff looked better in max payne, and the slowmo stuff looked really craptacular as your punches and kicks rarely land squarely on (or even close to) your enemy. then look at your players body animation. going back to quake 1, hell even doom animation seemed better. your player runs like he has a board attached to his back and his arms don't look right. the whole feeling to the animation is entirely off and isn't lifelike whatsoever.

just about everyone in the room was laughing at how silly it looked. i couldn't help feeling like i played this game about 5 years ago when it felt state-of-the-art instead of tired and generic.

i dunno, i have more to say, but meh... overall it seemed bland and not very exciting for a game that cost a supposed $20m to make and $60m to secure the license for.

don't believe the hype, rent first and see what i mean.

i was stunned it stunk so much. here's a review that gets it right.

Yes

check out the review of the original sam and max (before the game!) at monkeysvsrobots.com

http://monkeysvsrobots.com is what you're looking for =) take a look!

True. You should check out a cool comic by a guy in like sweden or somewhere named Demian 5. It's called When I am King. And while you are at it, sned him a couple of bucks. =)

Just thought you all would benefit from some of Scott McCloud's writings on comics (he's the author of Understanding Comics and Reinventing Comics as well as a comic artist himself). His work on Online Comics has been really interesting, and informative. You might also enjoy reading Demian5's webcomic "When I Am King" which has been getting a lot of attention. If you are at all interested in self publishing, you must take a look at Dave Sim's "Cerebus' Guide To Self-Publishing".

Sorry, but I think DJ Boy is the most racist videogame ever made...

You like canned foods? How about Potted Meat Food Product? Take a look at our review of this delicacy at monkeysvsrobots.com.

You like canned foods? How about Potted Meat Food Product? Take a look at our review of this delicacy at monkeysvsrobots.com.

Hey if you want to find out more about the Tick comics, check out our review of the Tick Omnibus 1.

After reading, you really should go buy a copy! :)

check out monkeysvsrobots.com. You'll have plenty to keep you happy. =)

Hollywood of monkeysvsrobots.com

Hollywood of monkeysvsrobots.com

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