Sorry for the update drought there. School started and managed to do terrible things to me even though I only have class two days a week this quarter. At least there're only a few weeks left, bah.

Anyway. Yesterday I filled out an art meme about favorite things in Pokémon games, and I uploaded it to the fanart gallery. It's there, and you can view it, but... well, something seems to have gone horribly wrong with the gallery software. It's displaying all of the thumbnails vertically, and the lightbox script seems to have borked out completely (so you can't see the description that goes with the new image, for example). I didn't do anything to fiddle with them recently, so I have no idea what happened. The gallery and a few other things around here are due for some maintenance/updating, however, so hopefully that will fix it. I'll probably upload at least a few of the images used to fill in the meme after said fixing. (Assuming I can fix it. Because, you know, I don't know what's going on.)

I should also have two or three new free renders sometime soon. Hopefully. More substantial updates should come with the break in a little while.

EDIT: Yup, a quick update fixed everything. Business as usual on the gallery front. Sorry if it was borked for a while before I noticed.

A small update, but a spiffy one. (And one that comes only a day after the last... has that ever happened before? Two days, maybe, but... whoa.)

Infrequent updates aside, let's get down to business. There's another picture in the requests/gifts section of the gallery, a Blaziken drawn as a prize for the contest I held on dA at the end of last year. dcNET also has its first sibling site–a position I'd never really considered but am more than happy to accept–in Studio-Revolution.net. SR.net is a small site but is full of unbridled, unadulterated awesome. This comes primarily in the form of the fanfic Anima Ex Machina, which you should probably check out, but Jax is an all-around great writer and awesome person and everything else up there reflects that as well. Go on, what are you waiting for?

Oh, and don't forget Hiram Farm! :)

I can meet them! No, really, I can! Sometimes!

I said I'd get the written version of the ref scale up on the site before my break ends this Tuesday. Lo and behold, I did! If you've been using my calculator then you should read it over–it'll give you a better understanding of why the calc works the way it does and what's going on, which will come in handy when explaining things to the head ref, making calls about tricky moves, and figuring out how to come up with your own rubric should you so desire. Go, go, click, click! (Maybe next I can fix that horrible ASB for beginners page. Ugh.)

Fear not, non-ASB-nerds: I bring something for you, too! There are three new renders up on the free goodies page (Pikachu, Marill and a new-and-improved Lucario), all of which are of vastly superior quality when compared to the old stuff up there. God only knows why I haven't axed said old stuff, but I guess maybe I'm laboring under the impression that someone out there prefers crappy attempts at cel shading to halfway decent art. Must be somebody like that somewhere, right? Right?

The Pepsi Refresh project is still going on, by the way, and Hiram Farm could still use your help! See the previous update for more info on how you can give them a hand.

Speaking of reminders, remember that I will be taking DexGenesis offline completely at the end of next week. If there's something you want to recover, I suggest you do so now before it's all lost to the sands of time. Don't say I didn't warn you.

Hey guys. I don't have anything substantial to add just yet, though I am determined to get the written reffing scale done before I go back to class; just working through a backlog of non-dcNET obligations first. In the meantime, though, it would be awesome if you guys could do a friend of mine a favor and check out this link. It leads to a page of the Pepsi Refresh Everything competition, benefiting a project called Hiram Farm. The idea is that you can vote for a project once per day in a bid to boost its rankings. The top ten projects in each category get a grant from Pepsi to help get them off the ground or reach a certain goal. Hiram Farm is a project run by this friend's father, intended to provide a constructive place for autistic adults to spend time. It'd be a big help to them and their community, and if they can place in the top ten they win fifty thousand dollars, so it'd be pretty awesome if you could give your support and vote for them at least once, if not once a day!

Unfortunately voting does require that you sign up for a free account on the Refresh Everything website, but it only appears to need that so that it can keep track of the number of votes you've made per day. You can uncheck the boxes that ask if you want newsletters–I haven't been sent anything so far–and if it really bugs you you can always use an old email address or something, or sign up for a quick free one you can use for junk stuff.

Thanks in advance for any help you can give Hiram Farm. Here's the link again, just in case you missed it: Hiram Farm @ Pepsi Refresh. (Oh, and if you've got a Facebook page or Twitter account and can spread the news to your friends, that'd be cool too!)

Small update today. I added two old pictures to the Other fanart gallery and one to the Pokémon gallery, all depicting original characters from fanprojects that I hope to god I will actually get around to completing and sharing. Go say hi to Virgil, Vail and Icarus for me, k?