Graphic Designer/Illustator/Game enthusist

Designing video games, logos, playing loads of video games, and going on adventures!

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So the Holiday season is over and now it’s time to head back to work. It’s been super busy as of late and I just wanted to share that I had a ton go on. So I made these awesome Christmas stockings for Matt and I and they are Legend of Zelda themed. We took a trip to NYC and in our travels down there, we went to Nintendo NYC in Rockafeller Center. Lots of fun, got a new Zelda shirt, got a photo take with the biggest Link statue I have ever seen and had a blast.

This past weekend we had a huge snow storm that covered about every car in the parking lot and even though it snowed a lot, Matt and I braved the winter weather and got a Samsung 50 inch 4K Smart TV at Shop Rite (a grocery store) for $340. Such a steal and it looks amazing!

And finally today I have edited my main website and updated a lot of info. Mostly info about my new youtube channels, What Should We Play Today? and Ashwii’s Critical Hits. My let’s play channel, What Should We Play Today? has a few games that I have been playing as of late, which are, Spyro the Dragon the Reignited Trilogy, Devil May Cry 2, and the Resident Evil 2 Remake Demo. 

My Review Channel, Ashwii’s Critical Hits just has my intro video up on it right now but will have my in-depth review of the World of Final Fantasy for the PSVita. 

I am quite excited for all of the current updates and developments I am undertaking as a person and as a creator so I hope with this hobby of mine I can find a bit more happiness in my life, heck it’s already starting to improve my mood tremendously. 

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Cthulhu type stuffs and Halloween!

Just a quick update here! Tomorrow night (October 31st, 2018) between 6:30 pm and 7:00 pm I, Fyoosh87 and Jo_Bar will be tag team streaming via Twitch.TV, Call of Cthulhu for the PS4! We’ll be playing for a while, probably until Midnight so come to join the fun! Jo_Bar and I will take turns playing and moderating the Twitch chat! I hope you will all join us! https://www.twitch.tv/fyoosh87

And as always:

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Living a boring life and the Harry Potter book reading marathon!

So there hasn’t been much going on lately other than Jo_Bar got his new server system in the mail which we will be booting up this weekend after we have Verizon Fios installed at our apartment. 

We have also just started a reading marathon of the Harry Potter series to which I am reading aloud when Jo_Bar is working on his tech stuff. I am on Chapter 13 as of yesterday and started this endeavor last Saturday (October 13th). We will probably finish the first book this week, then watch the film. We plan on reading the book first then watching the film, then reading the next book and so on and so forth. So the book is fresh in our mind as we critique the film. Should be interesting.

Yesterday in the mail I received this as well. Apparently, this pen business caught wind of my domain name or my website and sent me a free pen. Quite happy about his because in using this pen, it writes smoothly and has a stylus nub on the end. I think I might actually order a box of these in purple and hand them out to people. *shrug* Just a thought. 

And last but not least this little monster, our fur baby, Cici, has been such a pain in the butt lately. She poops on the floor for no reason and now has gotten into the habit of walking up to either Jo_Bar or I, or jumping up on the couch or our bed when we are sitting there, without any noise at all, and throwing up for no reason and then walking away like nothing happened. 

She is super cute but also a pain, we don’t know what is causing this but it’s not making either Jo_Bar or I all that happy.  

Other than that not all that much is going on. We are planning a trip to NYC on November 1st for our anniversary but that’s about all we have going on right now. 

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Mayhem, Cats, and Spidermen!

So these last few weeks have been super crazy. So much going on, there was my mom’s wedding, Spiderman for the PS4 came out (more on this in a second), our cat has been running amuck, and there has been family drama all over the place. 

So to start off I was able to go to the 9 pm release of Spiderman at Gamestop which was interesting, to say the least. So how this whole thing works is from 6 pm to 9 pm you have to go to the store and either finish paying off your preorder OR buy it outright at a pre-ring event. Then either wait or come back at 9 pm to pick it up. (Here is an image of the box for this system, pretty sweet eh?)

So after Jo_Bar got out of work on Friday we headed to the mall to get there for 6 pm and low and behold I was the first person to do the pre-ring thing. After that, we waited the 3 hours in and around the mall for the system to come out. When it got closer, around 8:45 pm we got back to the store and there was no one in the store at all, as the time ticked by more and more people started to show up. At 9 pm officially the store was packed and there were people outside the store who still didn’t do the pre-ring thing and I almost feel bad for them because if you didn’t get a yellow sticker for the pre-ring event you were SOL. At 9 pm I was the third in line for group 1 and when I got my system and was cradling it like my newborn child, and turned around all of the men’s faces in line dropped. Jo_Bar was walking out with me and it was funny because they were all shocked that I was the one walking out with it. I wanted to say, “What?? Never seen a girl gamer before?” But I digress.

So when I got home I wasn’t going to open the system until the next morning so I could do an unboxing video of the system BUT noticed this. The seal of the box was open and it was like it was open by either someone in the store or someone else and I was LIVID! It completely ruined my unboxing because I had to take the system out of the box and quickly turn it on to make sure nothing was broken or that nothing was missing. I was super upset about this. And because of this, I won’t be pre-ordering anything from Gamestop again. I was expecting a pristine system that was sealed in the box but NOPE. Mine was opened for whatever reason. If I were a collector I would be more annoyed than I was at the time. But since I bought the system to use, it’s not that big of a deal. 

This system is actually my favorite version of the PS4, I have been watching movies on this thing and it even upscales DVDs slightly. I also am so in love with Spiderman as well. It is such an amazing game and I can’t wait to finish it but since I am trying to complete all of the DLC and side missions it will take a little while to finish. But I play it for hours at a time after work and on weekends. I haven’t been this excited to play a game since Legend Of Zelda Breath of the Wild. The landscape is beautiful and swinging around NYC is liberating and is a great stress relief. Though I have noticed that I kind of suck at the whole stealth thing and fighting enemies in general. I have lost a lot of the skills I had when I was younger playing video games it’s kind of sickening. Though the more I play and the more side missions I do the stronger spidey gets so it’s easy enough to go back to an area I died in and try the battles again. The story is also really well done. Which gives me hope for this:

If Insomniac Games and Marvel make this game or any more games based on the Marvel Universe it will be a day one purchase for me. Hands Down!

And on a final note we got our cat Cici a new scratching post and she is so lazy when she plays with it. This is how she plays with the marbles in the base. Laying on her side swatting at them with her paws. Super cute! :D

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The countdown to Marvel’s Spiderman and the PS4 Pro Bundle!

So in 1 week and 2 days, this amazing bundle of joy will finally be at my house and ready to play! I am so excited that I have already started a small PS4 collection in anticipation of the coming system. While I will probably get a few triple-A titles for the system I plan to use this primarily for Horror, Anime, Superhero games as well as the coming Cyberpunk 2077 game on the horizon.

These are a few of the gems I found at Gamestop with my power up rewards subscription renewal coupon. Darksiders: Warmastered Edition, Darksiders II: Deathintive Edition, and Sherlock Homles: The Devil’s Daughter. I have Resident Evil Origins Collection on the way as well as Call of Cthulhu, Darksiders III, Devil May Cry 5, and Cyberpunk 2077 preordered for the system as well.

For anyone who knows or has played this series, Darksiders is like a beat um up, Zelda like game with puzzles and bosses. The first Darksiders game is centered around one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocolypse, War. I have played a little bit of this game but never beat it officially, so it will be really nice to start from scratch and play the trilogy as a whole once Darksiders III comes in.

Darksiders II you play as Death, a different member of the Four Horsemen. I have not officially played this title but if it’s similar to the first game in the series I have no doubt I will like it just as much.

Now, this gem of a game I found while looking at the preowned games at Gamestop and was super intrigued by it. It was either this game or Until Dawn but for some reason, I kept getting pulled back to this game after browsing a little bit more through the shelf. Apparently, this is the third game in a series of games for the PlayStation that I had no idea even existed. I have looked at the game before this one and I don’t think you need to play the others in order for you to understand the story. Then again I only read a little bit about this game so I am not entirely sure on that so don’t quote me. In being a Sherlock Holmes fan I couldn’t pass on picking this up and am quite interested to see how it plays and if it will be similar to Call of Cthulhu. 

So the countdown is still on-going until I get my hands on the PS4 Pro Spiderman Edition and get a chance to play all of these games. When all is said and done, look for an unboxing video and a review of each of the games that I will be playing soon! 

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Technical Difficulties and Rendering Issues!

So over the last week or two, I have run into major difficulties with editing and rendering the unboxing video for Big Trouble in Little China: The Game! First with trying to use iMovie for rendering and getting error messages every time I have tried to render it. Then with Premiere Pro because I had no clue as to how to use it at all. I have been frustrated and at a loss for words as to why I was having such a learning brain fart that today I finally sat down and worked out everything I could do with this program. After a few tutorial videos and a lot of going back and forth between iMovie and Premiere Pro, I finally was able to render the video and am uploading it to youtube as we speak.

So I had to do a lot of different steps to get this thing to render properly, including using iMovie, saving the audio, then saving the beginning clip and the ending clip, then bringing it all into Premiere Pro and splicing it all together. And the thing that really sucks is I had to save the video as a QuickTime file because it wouldn’t render properly in any other format.

So now that that is done (which took about a half an hour) I am waiting for the video to upload on youtube which is going to take another 30 minutes after an already 3-hour upload. Kinda dumb, thanks Spectrum for your overpriced internet and bullshit upload speeds!! *Sarcastic Grin and Thumbs up* But overall after having a depressing week I feel accomplished because even after all of the technical difficulties and rendering issues I finally got this done. So hopefully everyone enjoys it. Look for the youtube video via Moondust Pixelworks.

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Our permanent home!

Hey everyone!

After a long two months, Jo_Bar and my website is fully operational! Please go and check it out, show us some love, enjoy everything you see, and maybe drop us a line to get a logo or two made!

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Jo_Bar and Fyoosh87's adventure to Sterling, NY!

A small reflection of our time at the Sterling Renaissance Faire in Sterling NY!

Over the weekend Jo_Bar and I went on a 3 and a half hour car trip to

Sterling, New York to check out the festivities at the Sterling Renaissance Festival. There were quite a lot of attractions and places to shop. My favorite areas were the Glass Dragon (Pictured to the right), and a few of the jewelry shops. I fell in love with one of the custom necklace and earring sets that were made of opal and were designed so fantastically. I am not quite sure what the shop was called and it's hard for me to remember but their work was fantastic. Some of the shows were also quite amazing. One of the ones we checked out was the Vodca Family of dancers and the girl named Yana looked just like Jennifer Morrison from the ABC Show Once Upon a Time. They were quite funny and all of them very talented. They travel around the world on the Renaissance Faire circuit in America and do other shows in Europe and Asia. Go check out their Instagram, @vodcafamily for videos of what they do.

As we were walking around seeing the sites, it was interesting to see how many people dressed in costume, how many just put on a cape or flowered headband or crown and called it a "costume", and how many didn't even bother to dress up at all. While it is a place to go and have fun and see what a town would have been like (even though it is a real exaggeration) during the Renaissance, I feel like those who actually put in a lot of effort into their costumes were the talk of the festival for me. I saw like 4 Links and 1 Zelda from Legend of Zelda, one awesome looking demon girl who actually had the Eye of Agamoto from Doctor Strange around her neck so I feel like she was the comic version of a character from Marvel. And this awesome juggling fairy chick who stood in front of me in line for food. I didn't have the courage to tell her her costume was awesome. I also felt really bad for her because I overheard her telling the wait staff at the food stand that she had a booth today and that an hour-long wait was not what she had in mind when she hopped in line. So to that girl (doubt you will read this), I hope your booth went okay!

I had gotten a couple of shots of Jo_Bar as we were walking around just because I felt like it. Going on adventures with him is always a blast and for personal reasons, he doesn't want his face shown on the website. So for future reference, there will always either be back or side shots of him, just how it is. Though I don't mind hamming it up in front of the camera from time to time I will more often than not have just pictures of the events, adventures, works in progress without me in it. I'm the blogger here! :D

Jo_Bar and I stood in line for this turkey leg for about 30 minutes. Just after we got our number they ran out of legs. The saddest part about this leg not only being a whopping $10.75 (Damn you inflation!) it was dry and overcooked. It wasn't juicy as Jo_Bar had hoped. I took a very small bite and it reminded me of November of last year when I had the worst stomach bug. I had eaten a turkey sandwich from the turkey Jo_Bar had made for Thanksgiving and was fine until I got home and went to bed and at 2 in the morning until 3 days later couldn't keep anything down. I stayed in bed for 3 days and couldn't do anything. Worst holiday ever! The smell of that leg brought me back to those 3 horrible days and I nearly couldn't keep myself from puking. So I quietly switched places in line with Jo_bar as I was waiting for my food so I wouldn't be downwind from the smell, and felt instantly better. All of the wait staff for each stall were very nice and friendly. The one girl who worked the beer stall was amazing and got me a water so I wouldn't have to wait in the other line for regular drinks. Such a sweetheart.

This was an image shot of the crowd when I was eating my lunch from the deck of the wine and beer stall. The festival was pretty busy and pretty crowded on this particular Saturday. The theme of the weekend was Fantasy, Fairies & the Future Weekend, though we didn't see a ton of people dressed from the future (meaning sci-fi or steampunk-esque costumes). Though there were a ton of people dressed in fantasy costumes. I saw some pirates and quite a few men in armor which were really cool. The second time Jo_bar got a beer and we sat at a picnic table there was an elderly man who looked like he was ripped right out of a fantasy novel/film. His armor was worn and the chainmail very tarnished and his cloak was super battered. But since I suffer from quite a bit of social anxiety it was hard for me to go over to ask for a picture.

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Welcome everyone to Fyoosh87's Weekly Shenanigans!

Each week come here for weekly updates on what Fyoosh87 and Jo_Bar are up to.

So I decided to start a weekly blog so all of our customers can know what we are up to and what is going on in our weekly lives, what is currently in development and what have you. This week is a special week because you'll not only get this blog post but a bonus blog post as well! How about that! So this week we went on a small road trip to Sterling NY for the 42nd annual Sterling Renaissance Festival which you can read about above. I also did a lot of work on new gaming assets and found out a few things about my Wacom Intuos Tablet that I didn't even realize it had going for it. For anyone who knows Jo_Bar and me, we are currently working on our own video game. I have been slacking off really bad with creating the game assets or game artwork for quite a long time. Well, Friday of this past week I decided that since I have the days off from work until mid to late September I will make a set schedule and start creating again. I feel like it is time to get back into the swing of creating art again.

And so far here is a sneak peak of what I have been working on for the last few months. The drawing has been complete for quite a while. It has just been sitting on a piece of paper since I believe mid-June. Friday I finally hooked up my printer/scanner and scanned the raw image into my Macbook and started cleaning it up. I have both a photoshop file and a vectorized Illustrator file for this image. It took me several hours to get to this point. But I am proud of what I was able to get done.

Now on to the interesting thing about my Wacom Intuos Tablet that I happen to find. You see this brilliant Pen Stylus here, you see that little base it is sitting in all quiet like. Well turns out that all of the nibs for the end of the pen are in this base. I HAD NO IDEA! I was quite shocked to find this out. I was looking online about to order some new ones and didn't even know how to change them in the first place when I stumbled upon the Wacom website with a tutorial about how to change them and the guy was like, "Oh yeah for those who don't know, just unscrew the base of your pen holder and there are 10 unused nibs and a nib grabber in there for you!" I was like no flipping way! And sure enough there they sat in all of their little nib like glory. Now some designers would call me a bit of an airhead but when the instruction manual for this crazy tablet says nothing about what it comes with you would be shocked to find this out as well. The last tablet I had had them all inside of the base of the tablet and not the pen holder so finding out they were in the base of the pen was not only surprising but also a relief that I didn't have to spend like $20 on a set of like 5 nibs. Now with that crisis averted and a new nib selected because the one I was using was really worn down and 3 years old, I am able to get back to work without much difficulty.