dolari | Jan. 31st, 2004

It's 1996 all over again.

1) I've been mulling over some concept designs for a Mortal Kombat fan site. I haven't been specifically asked for the work, but it's been hinted that I should come up with something. Which is wierd because I've been out of the MK scene since about 2000. Mainly because of the devolution of Usenet, but also some percieved bad blood from Midway. Also...heaven help me...I didn't really like the latest installment of MK all that much. It's got gorgeous character designs, wonderful stages, but plays too much like Tekken for my tastes. Still, I'm being pulled back into the MK arena...so....

2) Because of that, I dusted off my Playstation 2 and (after crippling my hands on Robotech Battlecry) playing my PSX copy of MK Trilogy (when it runs) MK4 and MK 5. I've also been playing MK 1, 2, 3, and UMK3 by "other" means. I forgot how much I really enjoyed these games. Even MK5 ain't that bad once you learn the massive Tekken dial-a-combos. Well, 1,2,4 and 5. :)

3) Due to the Extended Keenspace Downtime and my quest for serverspace, Kevin up and gave me my old site back at Dragondata. From about 1996-2000 this was Jenn Dolari HQ (the world needs more free Shell Accounts). Dolari.org, AWFW and CS have been relocated there.

4) Several people from the old AGMk have EMailed/IMmed me in the last few days. One is doing an MK Sprite Based Comic and saw that Iw as doing hand drawn ones. Another just wrote to say "Hey, howya doin'."

5) I'm still unemployed - which is how I spent mosxt of 1996, 1998 and 1999. Talk about Deja Vu! ::laugh::

I miss those glory days....

Anyways, Keenspace's Boardy server is now back up and so are my comics. They really screwed up last week, which was a pretty important one for me . I had a buildup to Carrie's Song going on and a possible Big Exposure for AWFW. Because of the downtime, the song is being postponed a week (to give people time to read this week's comics), and I haven't heard back from Coast to Coast about AWFW at all. And I'm a might miffed.

This morning both CS and AWFW came up and seem to have my whole site online. Which is good because I accidentally erased my latest backups making the consolidated Dolari.org site. Originally I was so peeved that I was gonna take the whole site off Keenspace and go to Dragondata (it's the main reason I was looking for hosting space). Now, I'm wondering if I should keep the Dragondata AND Keenspace, and use one or the other as a mirror?

Con: A lot of people have the thought in their head that Keenspace comics suck,
Pro: I'd have two sites hosting the comics. If one goes down, the other is still up.
Con: I'd need to keep two seperate versions of the comics (one with ads, the other without and different links).
Pro: I'm used to Keenspace's tracking program more than Sitemeter's.
Con: All the sites won't be consolidated under www.dolari.org which is something I've been thinking about doing since I got the domain.
Pro: The Keenspace site is more well known than the Dragondata one.
Con: Keenspace is very prone to breakdowns. So much so that a web-saavy friend of mine has brought it up more than once.
Pro: It would take a lot of Emailing sites to update their links.

I'm still pretty predisposed to dropping Keenspace at this point, and I'm gonna sleep on it. HOWEVER, I'd like your (the readers) input on this one, since it's you who'd be most impacted. PLEASE LET ME KNOW.