ACC Video Game Seminars

This news really only applies to those who live in the Austin area (sorry!) but I still thought it was worth sharing...

Austin Community College regularly holds a variety of Video Game Seminars that are free to the public. The next one focuses on "ActionScript for Casual/Web Games" and I urge any interested Central Texan to go check it out. It is free, and we all know that "free" is quite possibly the best damn word in the universe.

More info on ACC Video Game Seminars

With all the bad publicity video games seem to get in general I feel very blessed to live in such a pro-game industry city.

Inconvenience.

You know, it's a shame, but such is life - the things I think you all would find interesting are generally the things I cannot go into details about. Maybe one day I can write a juicy "tell all" book and pray I don't get sued. All the names could be changed to protect both the innocent AND the guilty...HA!!

Okay, new topic.

I've seen this too many times - several business oriented software programs use imported spell checkers that are completely whacked. And there is one particular program we use here likes to auto-correct by default. I'm the typo queen, so I love spell checkers. But I'm not a big fan of auto corrections. When I used to write Knowledge Base articles for CoH it would drive me crazy.

But it's not even so much that. Businesses tend to use the word "inconvenience" a lot, yes? Well you can mispell it *oh so* slightly and it will switch to a COMPLETELY different word, and why it is ALWAYS this word, I don't know.

And that word word incontinence.

"We apologize for the incontinence."

WHY oh WHY?

Busy Bee

I've been quiet...I've just been really busy lately so I had to slack on posting for a bit.

I'd also like to add that daylights saving time is a pain in the you-know-what.



You know, I really wish I had a flat panel monitor at work, but at least I can put stuff on top of it. Here we have Butters from South Park, (my fav SP character) an official Lineage II Coke can from Korea, and Heroclix piece of Lockjaw, who is the coolest superhero dog EVER.

Speaking of dogs...Houston, we have a problem.



Charlie the forum avatar dog is now apparently a movie critic, and he is NOT a fan of the movie Sean of the Dead. I'm still not sure how he got his hands on it, nor do I really understand why he did this. He's normally a good dog. You can also see what looks to be a somewhat cluttered living room. We have my sneakers, a PS3, a Wii, a Wii controller and a laptop case, amongst other things. The PC and my laptop are just out of sight ;)

Back to work. I'll post again soon.

NCsoft GM Interview

I did want to draw some attention to this one because it is VERY RARE for a GM to speak publicly. I wish they did it more, but I've been in their shoes and I completely understand why it is the way it is.

Here we have LemonCobra (Lineage I) discussing about his GM duties:

Q&A with GM Lemoncobra

"I NO BOT!! I NO BOT!!"

MMOFury and Dungeon Runners

"Dungeon Runners certainly deserves a pat on the back for a great content update to a game that we feel was already a blast to play. This patch is also a reminder that NCsoft is committed to keeping fresh content on this free to play title, which adds value to any gamer that invests the time to level a character."

- Quote from http://mmofury.com/

MMOFury was gracious enough to award Dungeon Runners their "Patch of the Week" award. Sure, it was for last week and I'm slow, but hey, we seriously feel very honored here :) Thank you, MMOFury!

*bows*

Read all about it here:
http://mmofury.com/gamingnews/news.php?extend.14