Author Archives: Takuan

Nothing to see here, move along please

I’ve finally realized that I simply have no interest whatsoever in maintaining this blog anymore, and have decided that I will be shutting it down soon.  I had been meaning to redesign and repurpose it, but it’s just been sitting idle, so I think it’s time to stick a fork in it and call it [...]

Taketori update coming soon, Wave Katana retired

I’ve been insanely busy lately in RL, due primarily to the need to pay bills and make ends meet despite having recently been laid off from my day job, so I haven’t really been able to give C:SI the attention it deserves.  I still only have one weapon for sale, and I’ve been getting a [...]

Simulating llSensor() in Blue Mars

While I’m quite sure that there are probably more efficient ways to get the same kind of information, I decided to spend an hour seeing what it would take to simulate the familiar LSL function llSensor() in Blue Mars. Below is a lua function that detects all avatars within a given radius, and narrows down [...]

CodeName: "Choppy Choppy"

Do you ever play the "Band Names" game, the one where you try to think of a cool-sounding and unique band name?  For me, it usually results in some pretty goofy-sounding phrases (witness above), though I do occasionally come up with something kind of almost halfway clost to being mediocre. “There are only two hard [...]

Oh my that’s a lot of comments!

Goodness… My last post is clearly a hot topic, I’ve never had so many comments on a single post before. I still have not caught up, been insanely sick, but I’m actually up and about today and feeling much better, so I have some heavy reading ahead of me tonight, apparently. So, while I’m busy [...]

Open Thread – Discussions about Wave Katana and balance

I have a really heavy RL schedule this morning, and it’s going to be insanely hectic for me, so when I woke up this morning and saw that there were several comments on my last blog post regarding balance issues with the Wave Katana, I was not able to get up to speed before work [...]

New Directions

It’s been nearly three years since I first discovered Torley Linden’s blog post (humorously titled Samurai Island Pizza Cats) and absolutely fell in love with Samurai Island.  Prior to that, I was just kind of wandering around playing with stuff and exploring this strange and wonderful new Virtual World I had heard about. During that [...]

Please pardon the dust

You might have noticed that there’s been a lot of instability and oddness going on with this blog over the last few days. I am sorry to say that it’s not over yet, I am still in the midst of a major overhaul, and I expect it to continue over the next few days. I [...]

Ugur Tunwarm is a thief

By now anyone who reads this blog or knows me in-world knows this story already, but I’ve received several IMs from people who say that when they went to look, Ugur was not selling a copybot copy of the Wave Katana like I claimed. When I told Ugur Tunwarm that I had reported him to [...]