Preparing for further development of Shadowrun: Corrosion and the ridiculous amount of spam accounts that have been registered over the years, I have decided to implement a human verification challenge/response system. While implementing that, I’ve decided to disable site registration so that I can also take a critical look at the current account base and do some liberal deleting of bullshit accounts. More on this later.
Busy
It’s getting uncomfortably busy in my life, but it’s not that I find myself without free time to do things in, it’s just that I’ve got more things I want to do than I have free time for. A luxury position, I realise. I’ve got a few half-written journal entries that I will, at one point or another get back to.
“Feeling Like an Assassin,” about my trip to Dubai.
“Who and What to Believe,” about genetically modified foods, additives, preservatives and the lack of unbiased information.
“Escapism, Romance and Cowardice,” about me wasting my time.
“Relationships,” about me losing my friends.
“The Social Network,” a film review.
And then I haven’t really had a proper sit-down to do some reading lately. I waste my time in public transport dicking around with casual computer games on my phone, or reading up on MMA news (which really isn’t all that educational and I could do without a little bit.) The only thing I’m happy with is pickup up Corrosion again. That’s actually going well.
Anyway, more later.
It’s been a while…
…but I’ve finally starting working a little bit on Corrosion again. I guess I overdid it a bit when I started working on it pretty much non-stop, taking occasional breaks to wash and feed myself and take trips to work in order to get paid. I took a little break over the summer and gave myself some time, waiting for the logos that are being developed. It’s a sub-project that my brother is taking care of, so perhaps I shouldn’t be surprised that it’s been taking as long as it has. ;)
Anyway, I built something that had been necessary for a long while; a daily refresh mechanism. It turned out not to be quite so difficult after all. Now the finished quests get refreshed after a day has gone by since the last daily refresh. I’m not sure whether it’s a smart idea on my part to make the daily refresh character dependent (each character having their own daily refresh time, but whatever, we’ll see where it ends, otherwise I’ll move it to midnight, server time.)
We’ll see how fast development goes from now on. I’m not putting any pressure on myself or my brother. He’s been keen on getting his own development environment set up so that he can start working on designing the next mission; The Arena. :)
Lynch
This is going to be fun!
Journal Diving
I just found that searching around in my journal gives me a lot of insight into who I was and what was occupying me years ago. I’ve neglected this place in favour of Facebook and to a certain extent Twitter. The latter doesn’t seem to be working for me on a conceptual level, so it’s like a really low-threshold type of e-mail right now, and a way to listen in on the most inane thoughts of some of my friends. Facebook is probably a keeper, but I think I’ll try and scale down my involvement there and try to provide more substance to this place. As always, I’ll be catering mostly to myself and the handful of other people that sporadically check in, but I feel a lot better about it. And yeah, somebody needs to keep the Google spiders company.