Weekend over. Slept most of it. Had writing to do. Didn't do it. Bad Lizard. Lizard who could not focus after 12 non-stop work days, many of which involved extra hours.Things I learned from playing 'Star Wars Galaxies':A…
Well, I haven't even bought it yet, but SWG is already following in the footsteps of, oh, every other MMORPG out there -- the launch is a catastrophe. The boards set up for post-release are filled with complaints from pe…
And so, hell ends for a moment. We've shipped, and that's that. Now comes the nightmare of waiting for the anguishes scream of the clients, not to mention the integration of the hastily-written patch code back into the…
Oh, gods, where to begin?This has been the several-days-from-hell, and it's not ending. We could discuss the crippling migraine Friday evening/Saturday morning. I was a particualrly 'special' kind of pain, the kind where…
Well, since the Star Wars Galaxies NDA has been lifted, here's the notes I took in my first day of testing.================My first beta experience.In broken sentence fragments.Like this.Download. Install. Try to run. Ge…
A random rant.
Non-programmers do not understand the concept of 'placeholders'. In programming, a lot of time, you just want to see if a function doesn't crash when you call it -- you don't care about the output. But wh…
1:1 "And Lizard, following the efforts of his wife, did take the trash unto the dumpster."1:2 "Therein did he place it, along with the cleansing from the litter box."1:3 "Whereupon, a voice spoke to him from the dumpster…
Finally detensing after a very long day. This code didn't work, that code didn't work, several tasks I was trying to get done by end of work didn't get done, not sure what's wrong. Frustrated, tense, and angry. And looki…
My wife is playing Everquest. I have a headache. These aren't necessarily related. :) We played together for some time. A nice frog-lady gave us a bunch of buffs, so, we ran for Hollowshade Moor, where we did well until …
Today's word is "Ouch!"Actually, it was a lot of other words. I worked my way through about three issues of 'Barry Ween' in about six seconds. (If you don't know what Barry Ween is, go to your local comic book shop and a…
Hven't blogged in a while. Bad Lizard.Most of yesterday and today was taken up with editing. The kinds of comments I'm getting now are the things I *should* have gotten over playtest. Sigh. My schedule on that-which-cann…
My life is presently defined by the word "Beta".I am writing beta software at work.I am in the final stages of beta-testing the rules for "Book of War".In what little free time remains, I am beta-testing STAR WARS GALAXI…
This weekend was spent in the company of Excel. I spent the bulk of it massaging numbers for Book of War in a frenzy of final calculation, and I'm finally almost happy with the results. I'll never be truly happy, because…
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