Category Archives: off topic

Muh brain

Just felt like posting this, for no particular reason other than the fact that I like the way my eyes appear to be glowing in this one, which is a pretty darned cool effect

Reproducing the Detach-and-lose-item bug

I found some very interesting information on Keiki Lemieux’s blog this morning : Keiki posted some repro steps (discovered by Nock Forager) for consistently reproducing the "Inventory Item permanently disappears when detached" bug that I posted about before and which can be found in JIRA as issue VWR-6610.  The really frustrating part is that, as [...]

I’m going to frikkin die

I’m very nearly done with the insane schedule I’ve been following to meet my deadline for the trade show/convention.  I’ve got one task remaining, not a very large one at that, and I have until the end of business on Monday to complete it.  All in all, I’m feeling pretty relieved. I’m not feeling very [...]

Still alive and kicking, but busybusybusy

Just wanted to drop a quick note for those few of you who might actually care a little bit that I’m not spending much (or really any) time in-world lately or blogging because I’ve been fully consumed by getting the product I am working on in my RL job ready for a dog-and-pony show at [...]

Tokugawa Sim Is Closing

I just received this group notice : Group Notice From: DomoKun Giotto Dear Merchants, it is with a heavy heart that I write you today to  let you know that Tokugawa sim will be closing down. I know that many of you have an active clientele and that we have created a popular shopping experience [...]

Just for fun : A picture of the Taketori Katana

Okay, well, it’s sort of a picture, at least, a picture of it in my modeling program It’s just a goof-around picture I thought would be fun to post :

Beware of falling rocks – Redesign in progress

As I mentioned yesterday, I’ve decided that now is a good time for me to redesign the theme I use for my blog.  For too long now, I’ve used a WordPress theme that, while it looked nice enough, did absolutely nothing to visually convey the topic or spirit of the site. I’m pretty pleased with [...]

You’re Killing Me Here!!!

Just announced on the Official Second Life® Blog (emphasis mine) : We are aware of multiple issues affecting the whole of Second Life® and are working to resolve them as quickly as possible. Please refrain from uploading textures or making any transactions for the time being. You may notice problems with logging into Second Life® [...]

Florida Supreme Court to Jack Thompson: ‘STFU’

I just read on the Game Politics blog that the Florida Supreme Court has implemented sanctions against notorious anti-games attorney Jack "Murder Simulator" Thompson : The Florida Supreme Court will no longer accept anything directly from controversial Miami attorney Jack Thompson. If Thompson wants to file with the Court, he’s going to need to hire [...]

Human Reaction Times

While reading today’s installment of AIGameDev [Side Note: If you are interested in AI development for games, this site should be on your "required reading" list], which, while not generally relevant to the main topics of this blog, I did find some information that might be of interest to many members of the community.  In [...]