Interrupt

[prog]

Am supposed to be starting to attend to my end of the revenue model implementation now, but wound up spending the afternoon fixing a hairy problem in the Perl libraries that has hung up another Volity hacker, a fellow chugging along with a Hearts implementation. It was a conscious decision: getting developers psyched is a top priority for us, and having broken libraries is not the way to do it. Furthermore, I am really excited about having a well-known game like Hearts on the Network.

I did the right thing but I really can't punt any more with the revenue stuff. The Andys will look at me badly if I haven't made progress by Monday night. But there's also all the RSS stuff that needs to get done... eek.

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I didn't feel like doing anything last night so I worked on the G*mesh*lf for about three hours, enough to throw together a rough draft out of the footage from last December. It is not our best work - the guest players are great, but the host bits are a bit too dorky if you can believe that - but I wanna get it done. I can't start thinking about where to take the show next when I have this eight-month-old undigested bolus sitting on my hard drive. Gotta poop it out. I think you'll like it anyway, when it's done.

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Speaking of poop, I dropped Tom Vasel's The Dice Tower podcast after listening to a few episodes. It's an all-right show - I especially like what he does with guest-produced content - but its overall attitude about games and maybe about life in general is just different enough from mine to irritate me.

I finally dropped the feed when a recent show featured a top-ten list of worst themed games, and I thought that every "worst theme" they mentioned was actually pretty awesome. They hated all the Cheapass Games themes for being either boring ("Who wants to pretend to be in a ren faire?!") or absurd ("'Devil Bunny'? That doesn't make any sense!"), and dismissed other games on bogus perceptions, like calling Funny Friends a game about "being a cool teenager" - though I'm sure that if they knew more about the game they would have hated it anyways. As far as I can tell these guys just don't like either sort of below-the-waist-based humor, and as far as I'm concerned that makes them aliens. (The kind of aliens that don't go to the bathroom and reproduce via budding, I guess.)

Speaking of aliens, I have picked up taskboy3000's Pseudocertainty, a news podcast covering the world of pseudoscience and bizarre phenomena. I have only listened to the first ten minutes of the most recent show so far, but I like what I've heard, and now I won't be able to prompt jjohn for further mock outrage about how I never listen to his show.

It sort of fills the void left by Skepticality, which I stopped listening to when (and believe me, I feel like a jerk about this) Derek came back from hospital and I found it just too igry listening to him trying to communicate through his recent brain damage. Maybe he and the show are better now... I suppose I could give it another listen sometime.

Comments

[karlvonl.livejournal.com]

I've thought of Tom Vasel as being a little bit off ever since about two years ago, when he threw into the middle of his review of Dino Hunt, "I'm a Christian, thus I don't agree with the evolution aspects of the game".

[prog.livejournal.com]

What!! Frrt. If I knew that I would have never even given him the time of day. (He mentions churchgoing on the show, but didn't specify that it was a United Church of Duh.)

[dougo.livejournal.com]

Tom Vasel is a Baptist missionary in Korea. The Gathering of Engineers game journal had a big debate about podcasts including some discussion about religion and game themes.

[prog.livejournal.com]

Ew.

Still, I have a hard time dissing missionaries out of hand because that's what Larry Wall wanted to do until health forced him to stay home and invent Perl instead. Then again, on reflection that's not a very good reason to not not like missionary work, unless you wish Perl was never invented. :)

Guess I'd better call zorknapp

[taskboy3000.livejournal.com]

We need more shows if we have an audience!