Stefan Gagne (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} twoflower) wrote,@ 2008-04-14 08:51:00 |
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Falling Sakura Petals @ 29'F / 4e | !4e
What a weird spring.
Spring sprang last week, when 2-3 days of nicely 60-70'F weather caused the trees to go "Oh, gooody, time to bloom!" Very petty. Then we got nailed with a WEEK or overcast and occasionally stormy damn cold weather, which wrecked that completely. Now my car is parked under a beautiful pink shower of petals... and it's below freezing out there. What a shame.
If you wanna read way too deeply into this, that's a bit like my life right now. Some initial joy and hope, crushed by cold hard reality, but with promise to eventually, slowly, get back to normal. The 7Seas project was an amazing idea squished by the suckitude of SL and is now on track to getting stabilized. There were even micro-moments of "Yay! Wait, ack! Ahwell..." within the project itself -- this weekend I got a nice warm feeling from prepping all the 2.0 components for distribution, gave some to a few beta testers, and WHAMMO, game crushing bug! But it's one we can fix, so, in time, it'll be okay.
My goal is to have this thing out of my hair by the end of the month. No more IMs, no more missing items, no more failed upgrades. Just COAST on our success and let the team make some new fish and we simply enjoy things. I know we can get there. It'll just take time and headache pills.
In amusing news, Amazon.com gave me $50 store credit out of pity since I bought an HD-DVD drive through them. I felt it only appropriate to spend it on the PC version of Mass Effect, which was announced two days after I bought my clunky 360 version. What's more, I'm selling back my 360 version for $20 in credit at the local game shop, so in the end, I MADE $10 profit off this thing! Ha ha! In your face, universe!
In joyful news, the Yuri's Night DJ session at Extropia ruled. I always get a good, responsive crowd at Extropia that doesn't mind some of the weirdness I play for them. Nobody really batted an eye at the COPS song from Sam & Max that Shadur dared me to play, for instance, and they're always up for some Johnathan Coulton. I still feel I'm tapped for "party music", though... the majority of my library is angry rock or hiphop or creepy weirdness or chillout. Very little 'upbeat'. I might need to go on another buying rampage for some stuff that's upbeat but still very ME. Otherwise we're gonna go into reruns, and that's no fun.
EDIT: Since Amazon had it dirt cheap, I decided to sink more potential Idiot Tax into D&D 4th Edition. Player's book only, for now. As much as D&D's mechanics got in the way of what I was trying to do in NWN, I still like it in concept.
Notably, 4e has an online service that lets me play despite having no local friends. For adults with lives who can't arrange a weekly cheetos-and-dew powered session with D&D geeks, this is mandatory for the modern age. A lot of folks have railed against the monthly fee but for people like me with a steady job who feel well orchestrated free time is more valuable than money, it'd be worth it. We'll see how it goes.
What a weird spring.
Spring sprang last week, when 2-3 days of nicely 60-70'F weather caused the trees to go "Oh, gooody, time to bloom!" Very petty. Then we got nailed with a WEEK or overcast and occasionally stormy damn cold weather, which wrecked that completely. Now my car is parked under a beautiful pink shower of petals... and it's below freezing out there. What a shame.
If you wanna read way too deeply into this, that's a bit like my life right now. Some initial joy and hope, crushed by cold hard reality, but with promise to eventually, slowly, get back to normal. The 7Seas project was an amazing idea squished by the suckitude of SL and is now on track to getting stabilized. There were even micro-moments of "Yay! Wait, ack! Ahwell..." within the project itself -- this weekend I got a nice warm feeling from prepping all the 2.0 components for distribution, gave some to a few beta testers, and WHAMMO, game crushing bug! But it's one we can fix, so, in time, it'll be okay.
My goal is to have this thing out of my hair by the end of the month. No more IMs, no more missing items, no more failed upgrades. Just COAST on our success and let the team make some new fish and we simply enjoy things. I know we can get there. It'll just take time and headache pills.
In amusing news, Amazon.com gave me $50 store credit out of pity since I bought an HD-DVD drive through them. I felt it only appropriate to spend it on the PC version of Mass Effect, which was announced two days after I bought my clunky 360 version. What's more, I'm selling back my 360 version for $20 in credit at the local game shop, so in the end, I MADE $10 profit off this thing! Ha ha! In your face, universe!
In joyful news, the Yuri's Night DJ session at Extropia ruled. I always get a good, responsive crowd at Extropia that doesn't mind some of the weirdness I play for them. Nobody really batted an eye at the COPS song from Sam & Max that Shadur dared me to play, for instance, and they're always up for some Johnathan Coulton. I still feel I'm tapped for "party music", though... the majority of my library is angry rock or hiphop or creepy weirdness or chillout. Very little 'upbeat'. I might need to go on another buying rampage for some stuff that's upbeat but still very ME. Otherwise we're gonna go into reruns, and that's no fun.
EDIT: Since Amazon had it dirt cheap, I decided to sink more potential Idiot Tax into D&D 4th Edition. Player's book only, for now. As much as D&D's mechanics got in the way of what I was trying to do in NWN, I still like it in concept.
Notably, 4e has an online service that lets me play despite having no local friends. For adults with lives who can't arrange a weekly cheetos-and-dew powered session with D&D geeks, this is mandatory for the modern age. A lot of folks have railed against the monthly fee but for people like me with a steady job who feel well orchestrated free time is more valuable than money, it'd be worth it. We'll see how it goes.
