Rorschach.net

This is a draft of a 2 month old post. Never got around to finishing it, but thought it would be worthwhile to post anyway.

Nothing else to do during the 3.5 hour ride home from Tulsa but to read. Found out that the Apocalypse is over in the World of Darkness (WoD) so White Wolf has started the 2nd edition of their core games. Start out with the $20 WoD Player’s Guide for the basics of the Storyteller system and character creation, then move on to the $35 Vampire: The Requiem for all things blood sucking.
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My big project for the year was completed on Friday after a week of 12 hours days. It was touch and go for a while especially around noon when we decided to rebuild one server which is basically re-doing half of the project. Everything turned out well in the end. We had 17 exceptions in a process that had around 810 documented and audited steps with a cast of about 40 people participating in various trusted roles.

Now I’ve got some breathing room to enjoy the holidays. It’s time to get going since the lights aren’t up, the Christmas letter isn’t written and only one present is bought. But I think I’ll sleep for a bit first.

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Here’s a quote from Lum over on one of the video game boards I frequent:

Emergent gameplay is actually one of the AI holy grails for MMOs, since MMOs tend to be a yawning chasm of demanded content, and presumably it would be more feasible to script an AI that can produce these interactions than to write content “by hand”.

To date the few experiments in such haven’t gone very well. UO launched with an “emergent system” ecology which, granted, simulated the raping of a world by thousands of rapacious predators (the players) very effectively.

So if the first Matrix movie was written by someone else would that mean that Matrix: Reloaded and Matrix: Revolutions were both written by the brothers Watchowski without help (and thus explain the difference in quality and coherence between the three)? Or is this Sophia Stewart a nutjob looking to cash in? Looks like the FBI and U.S. judicial system say she’s got a claim, even though the mega-corp that is Time-Warner-AOL has done everything to stop her.

At second glance the first link to the JuCo article above has a date of Oct. 28th. While Stewart’s fan site in the second link has the latest update of Nov. 22nd and no mention of any final rulings. I’ll give that a +2 on the bogosity meter.

Anyway we’ll see if this gets picked up anywhere and have some journalists look into instead of some fan-site stuff. Should be fun to watch.