I read the Game Politics blog, which this morning featured an absolutely awesome video about Jack Thompson that I just *HAD* to share If you don’t know who Jack Thompson is, you can think of him a bit like the Prokofy Neva of the legal world. He’s such a deluded, self-righteous, crazy, busybody pain in [...]
I’ve been INSANELY busy these last two days, and haven’t been able to make it in-world for any substantial amount of time, so tonight I thought I’d slow down a little and take a peek at my Google Analytics numbers for this site while I was eating dinner. Google Analytics is freaking awesome if you [...]
I’ve been thinking about some ideas and comments recently brought up by the conversation on C:SI and animation overrides, and I’ve decided two important things: I’m going to personally switch to the ZHAO-II AO. I’ve looked at the code, and it’s much cleaner than the previous ZHAO and uses less scripts (which was, of course, [...]
From the Samurai Island Warriors group notice, today’s WindLight® release has more "wouldn’t you think they’d test this stuff?" bugs: Group Notice From: Archanox Underthorn Hey all, There’s a bug with the newest WindLight® client that causes planar texture surfaces to be rendered wrong. Part of the C:SI HUD is planar textured so if you [...]
As reported on the Wired blog There’s nothing I can say that can add to what Ryan Singel has already reported, and politics are far too polarizing a subject to discuss them on this blog, but I feel strongly compelled to publicly state that the only way I can imagine being more disappointed in my [...]
Kind of in the spirit of Colin’s Dear Lindens post, this is a rant targeted at some anonymous Linden Lab® developer, though less funny and more verbose. Right now, I don’t know whether I’m more pissed off at the guy that decided "Release Controls" should – completely without warning or confirmation – blow away every [...]
So here I am, working really hard on data mining C:SI data without changing the existing C:SI code or database schema (because you can’t change any existing non-trivial system without introducing bugs), and while I’ve gotten farther than I originally thought I would by this point, I keep running into stuff like this: Here’s another, [...]
As excited as I was at the announcement that I could now test LSL Running on Mono on the Beta Grid, I immediately downloaded the new client and signed in to see how the C:SI scripts would run under this fancy schmancy speedy new backend. And… They don’t. Well, most of them do, though not [...]
If you haven’t heard of the online comic XKCD (and you love geek humor), then you really should check it out! If you need a little idea of why I think it’s so good before you go clicking blind links, lemme just post a couple of examples that I thought were funny (and that would [...]
I mentioned previously that the latest version of WindLight® was an abomination, but only now is the true measure of FAIL being discovered. Apparently, the issue with C:SI swords and other attachments being partially visible (or as Colin puts it: "turned my Wave into airport landing lights) when they are not supposed to be is [...]