Wednesday, November 01, 2006

When Chekhov saw the long winter, he saw a winter bleak and dark and bereft of hope. Yet we know that winter is just another step in the cycle of life. But standing here among the people of Punxsutawney and basking in the warmth of their hearths and hearts, I couldn't imagine a better fate than a long and lustrous winter.

Slim pickings this week... if they stay slim for Sunday, I shall pass you

Item One: A femuscle DA group.

Item Two: Coloured She-Hulk.

Item Three: Bouncing boobs video.

Item Four: Classic BE from Critters 2.

Item Five: A sequence of BE, preggers and growth - furry.

Item Six: Wonder Woman - must scroll down.

Item Seven: Another Wonder Woman, looking more robust.

Item Eight: Tireless Manic has performed another picture, growth/GTS this week for Bozo and free for all.

Item Nine: If you like Nagas...

Item Ten: She-Hulk looking busty - colour.

Item Eleven: Another good bouncing boob video.

Item Twelve: Happy Halloween - Subichan style.

Item Thirteen: Some kind transformation - demon type?

Item Fourteen: Another shoe bursting one.

Item Fifteen: An age progression and breast expansion manga.

Item Sixteen: Red Silver draws Tetsuko and Sonya dressed up as anime characters.

Item Seventeen: To close - She-Hulk again, in colour.

Yeah, that's all we have for now. So... we'll see how things are going and if things are quiet, I shall deliver unto you the great interview with Bambi Blaze. If it's busy - well usual time... oh and thanks to everyone that voted in the poll.

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Sunday, October 29, 2006

There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.

Ok, so we've got the usual links today and an interview with Adama... I'm thinking that I'll post the Bambi Blaze interview in a fortnight, unless anyone is absolutely GAGGING to see it next week. Anyway, let the show begin.

Item One: Eva Mendes FMG video by Ironb667.

Item Two: Dave Matthews draws Tetsuko as Cammy (FMG).

Item Three: In case you've somehow missed it - Lightfoot's Shego breast expansion drawing.

Item Four: Giant Boob Supremacy should tell you what this guy likes to draw.

Item Five: Manic is truly tireless these days, he has an eight page piece coloured by the amazing Eegore!

Item Six: Sutibaru tracks down a Tifa Lockheart breast expansion, pregnancy and lactation manga.

Item Seven: A bondage/BE CG and straight BE manga at the bottom of the page from Evil Consumer.

Item Eight: Memopad with some wholesome growing breasts.

Item Nine: Pokemon BE!

Item Ten: Yatz draws Big Barda.

Item Eleven: I'm including this just for the same, I know American soap operas have done some pretty wacky things but apparently they're going to be doing an actual superheroine storyline... Link contains a trailer.

Item Twelve: Sexy Cleavage Shots Cleavage Gallery... the name says it all.

Item Thireen: Bubblegum BE gifs, don't get too excited - the BE isn't great... but it does involve girls blowing bubbles.

Item Fourteen: Peach Age Progression.

Item Fifteen: Age progression and breast expansion clips from Guardian Hearts.

Item Sixteen: A bunch of FMG morphs.

Item Seventeen: A delicious Sabrina Sabrok video including some progress shots of her at previous smaller sizes morphing to her current size. That's about 4 minutes in.

Item Eighteen: Exquisite She-Hulk transformation photomanipulation.

Item Nineteen: Melty Lancer BE.

Item Twenty: BE sequences form Kraban.

Item Twenty One: Catgirl Hentai transformation.

Item Twenty Two: Another catgirl transformation.

Item Twenty Three: Some manga BE + AP.

Item Twenty Four: BE manga... if you like stuff getting toward WOW...

Item Twenty Five: Here we have some scans of "American Dream" a suitably fit looking female version of Captain America.

Item Twenty Six: Powergirl's boobs never looked so big.

Item Twenty Seven: Some Kim Possible related TFs.

Item Twenty Eight: Just a quickie but a vide of growing breasts none the less.

Item Twenty Nine: A bit of furry BE, with some inflation/belly growth/hip growth in there.

Anyway, here is the interview you may well have been waiting for - self-proclaimed Addventure Mega Geek Adama speaks of life, love and the Addventure.

PT: Adama - hello.

A: Howdy doo.

PT: Let's start at the beginning, shall we - how'd you get into the BE community?

A: I used to write little BE short-shorts for myself (pretty bad ones) back in the 80s... then I got connected to the Internet for the first time in the early 90s, and discovered alt.sex.stories found some of the early download sites (like Acotto), hung out at the Wren Spot while it was going, then found the BEA shortly after it started. But I was a lurker only, until I started writing for the Addventure.

PT: So, were you on the addventure from its inception in mid 1998.

A: Yes, I started reading it right after MarkT posted it, end of June 1998. I liked the Addventure because it was a good place for the kind of writer I am - someone who is best at writing scenes, but can't manage to create a plot all the way through to the end of the story. Fall of 1998 I also started keeping my own Index of the Addventure episodes but gave up on that after a few months.

PT: How come?

A: It was all manual effort (no software assistance) and I was falling farther and farther behind. I started the Index because I like keeping track of lists... I used to be interested in the old Choose-Your-Own-Adventure books which were very similar to the Addventure. I used to make charts of all the different possible story paths

PT: so how did you make the leap from interested fan to the lord and master of the Addventure.

A: In 2000 I persuaded MarkT to give me my own area on the Addventure server where I could post and maintain the Index without any need for him to spend time on it. (He'd been reluctant to let the Index exist until he found out I was willing to maintain it myself rather than make him post it).

Over the next couple of years I became more familiar with the Addventure source code, and its file system, and would make suggestions to MarkT of where bugs needed fixing, or where corrupt files needed to be cleaned up. MarkT never really had much time by then to do software changes, however. So in 2004, when we were being moved to a new server, I asked if I could have admin access so that I could fix software bugs myself. By then I guess MarkT had gotten to know me somewhat, and thought I could be trusted. So he gave me access.

So now I keep an eye out for bugs or corruptions (or broken programs) and fix them as they occur. It's a lot less frustrating than before, when I knew what needed to be fixed but couldn't do it. ;) Eventually that included the purging of episodes that broke the posting rules.

PT: And MarkT just faded away?

A: I last talked to him some months back. He indicated it had been quite a while since he'd last looked in on the place. MarkT's been limited the last several years by the amount of time he's had to spend on work and other things. I can sympathize with him these days now that I too am forced to spend some time working in the evenings and on weekends. That's why I haven't had time to work on Addventure enhancements or certain parts of the Index lately.

PT: Any amusing anecdotes from your eight years on the Addventure?

A: I tried to think of some, but none come to mind. The funniest stuff has been what occurs inside the Addventure itself. The story of Addventure Admin is mostly one of fixing problems and updating Indexes...

[cue maudlin violin]

PT: You've just said you don't have much time but is there anything exciting in the Addventure's future as far as new features go?

Adama: One thing people have asked for repeatedly is the ability to comment on episodes. I do worry about creating brand new possibilities for flame wars, but I could keep an eye on it. I've got a few ideas about implementing such a feature, but haven't had much time to work on it. Some other ideas for new features (such as the ability to add options to existing episodes) I'm not so sure about - I like the idea, but others seem to dislike it. Possibly because they feel it would ruin continuity.

PT: On other Addventures, it does seem to just encourage leeches to try and get content without participation.

A: Well the Addventure has its own brand of that, with people who post list-only episodes.

PT: That's true. Do you ever feel like taking a more heavy handed approach to the enforcement of rules?

A: The rules are pretty loose as it is. It's tempting sometimes to delete episodes which technically fall within the rules, but are obviously there for the purpose of being obnoxious. And sometimes I give in to temptation. A couple of times I've considered banning certain people, but decided that it was better not to. I agree with MarkT's original intention of keeping this place as open as possible.

PT: Undoubtedly it's the Addventure's single greatest strength and its biggest weakness.

A: The other way to become more heavy handed would be to try to moderate for content but who has time for that?

PT: You could always have a squad of deputies.

A: I just don't think moderation is the way to go - as I've said elsewhere, it would at the very least kill the popularity. Yeah, the Addventure attracts a lot of garbage - but a lot of good stuff too.

Right now I think we're the most prolific (in terms of episode creations per day) game of this type out there -- at least of the ones I'm familiar with. 8 years is a long time. 120,000 written episodes so far.

PT: Some might argue that quality is better than quantity...

A: Yeah.

PT: But the enduring popularity of the Addventure is certainly impressive.

Any people you'd like to thank for their help/support/tender love and affection over the years?

A: First I'd like to acknowledge some history in case anyone was unaware of it. The original Addventure software was written by Allen Firstenberg for http://www.addventure.com, in 1995 MarkT took a copy of that, and made extensive additions and changes to it to create the BEA's Addventure. So both of them should be thanked for that. I made some additions, as did another programmer named Dmuk, but theirs was the bulk of the work.

I want to thank people who've helped out with Index contributions, including RaoulDuke, Dabbler, Scriptfox, JH, and FlySpek1947. They addressed areas I've not had time to cover. And thanks to everyone over the years who've notified me about Addventure problems (including junk episodes) that I hadn't been aware of yet. Lastly thanks to everyone who's made suggestions for enhancements to the Addventure - even if I haven't always agreed with them...

PT: Thanks to you Adama, for your tireless efforts to make the Addventure a better place to live.

A: It's fun... I enjoy reading through the Addventure, and I like helping to keep it alive.

PT: Do keep up the good work and thanks for taking the time to do the interview.

Well chaps, that's all the fun and games over for another update... Don't forget Tuesday is the absolute last day for Erik's Lusty Busty Breast Expansion Story Contest.

Also, it has been suggested by some people that I - of all people - should act as scribe and chronicler of Breast Expansion history. Any thoughts? Here's a poll for you to show your opinion be it yay or nay...


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