Hello, ladies and gentlemen! No, I’m not dead. Just overworked and underpaid. I don’t care how unprofessional it looks, “severely underpaid civil servant” is going on my resume as my job description. Yes, despite the fact that Halo 3 just came out, I’ve emerged, blinking, into the sunlight. (This has everything to do with the fact that I feel the responsibility to be a productive member of the workforce, and nothing to do with the fact that I beat the game in one night. Nosirree Bob.) Nothing much has happened these last couple of weeks, but I’ll do my best to report on them anyway.
We do have another new guy, Weapon_Bob. I assume he is a product of the supersoldier Weapon Bob program, and that he originally joined in order to kill us all. However, after witnessing our compassion towards our fellow humans, Weapon_Bob instead decided to join us in our quest to establish peace and understanding between game designers and the rest of the world. Oh, also, he does sound effects. I assume with computers.
AE3 was also launched, although you probably knew that already. Go check it out sometime. I would, but (as mentioned before) I’m too busy. You’re lucky I decided to write this instead of my English assignment.
Be sure to check out the Schism section of the site. There’s all sorts of new goodies, including PowersWithin’s wicked awesome character art. Also, Alg got into the control panel and wrote all over the “Aliens” section. Good thing most of his data was accurate…
Lyger is so close to finishing the Schism logo. So very tantalizingly close. You can almost taste it, if it’s possible to “taste” a collection of pixels on a screen. I tried licking my monitor once to get a sense of what the logo could taste like, but that didn’t go over well. Tongue burns sting. And now I can’t get the smear off the glass, no matter what cleaning product I use. Hmm.
We had to lay the smackdown on Boss-Man Alg after he came up with a bunch of stupid item names for the game, and was drunk/tired/retarded enough to reveal them to us. We’re seriously considering just putting him in the corner and having him answer phone calls at this rate. You know, kind of like the station manager in WKRP.
… Oookay, I’ve really dated myself with that one. Let me wallow in my nostalgia.
And finally, I will be at the Sci-Fi event Pure Speculation on October 13-14. If you’re going to be in the Edmonton area at that time, come and say hi. If you distract me with shiny objects, I might just let drop some tantalizing details about Schism. Money works too.
That’s all for this week, folks. Be sure to check out the Anaglyph Store, and I’ll leave you with today’s haiku:
repeated statements
over and over again
oh god, kill me now