We have an agreement with a big OEM for the handset launch (Vendetta Online on phones.. don't laugh, it's actually pretty fun. I've even been botting on the Xperia PLAY), so we've been pressing extremely hard, for about a month, to get that all done. It's been a struggle, and Ray has probably been working 7 days a week for some weeks now, and we've spent some 18-hour days in the last week.

Anyway, that's part of why things have been so silent again. I figure you all guessed as much, but I wanted to post some kind of heads-up.

As soon as things are a little more "shipped", I'll write a big newspost and newsletter about it.

Particularly, we want to get back to game bugfixes, we're aware of some of the weird new issues (along with long-standing issues) that have cropped up lately.

As though idiots talking and texting while driving wasn't bad enough, now there will be idiots botting and driving.

I mean, if they want to go somewhere isolated and off themselves, that is perfectly fine with me, but there are other people on the roads too.

How can you live with yourselves.

We're still here.

Why?

Eh, glad to see that Guild can make some sacrifices in the short term that'll pay in the long term. Not happy about it, but it's for the best. The US government could learn something from this.

I'm not so worried about people botting and driving. I figure people will be more apt to bot on public transportation. I'll know VO has truly dominated when I overhear some homeless guy in the back of the train mutter "BOOM! ....Shoulda paid".

Walking while playing and botting might also be interesting. Imagine the guy who is strolling down the sidewalk and begins sidestepping the invisible plasma bursts.

In other news Impavid's posts are approaching the existential. It's difficult to tell if it's desperation, satire, or barely suppressed conflicted love.

So, homeless-guy still manages to afford a phone, a data plan, a subscription, and train fare?

Finally, somebody with the correct priorities.

Actually that probably wouldn't to hard to do, assuming the homeless person is willing to do a small amount of work. A phone is a one-time purchase. A crank-charger is another one-time purchase. I figure the rest probably comes out to around $120 per month or so, plus or minus $50. If you keep yourself clean and presentable, you could mow lawns, shovel snow, rake leaves, etc. for random people and pull that off. You could even get an actual part time job and just not bother with having a home - work eight hours a week at $5/hour, and you are set. I mean, you could work one full eight hour day at minimum wage (possibly in a nice air-conditioned convenience store or cinema) and spend all the rest of your time playing VO or begging for food. Or work a few hours extra and buy your own danged food.

Houses are for chumps.

http://artofmanliness.com/2009/09/10/how-to-be-a-hobo/

Feb 15, 2009 Whistler:

They're so busy adding content and fixing things that I doubt they'd put much much thought into porting to another device right now.

Man oh man, has that ever worked out well.

The disinformation tactic is working.

Yes, all statements made 2 years ago must still be true today.

Correct.

Heh, I wouldn't have predicted the mobile thing in 2009, either. That happened after I saw an NVIDIA buddy on the show floor at GDC 2010 (around Feb/March of 2010), who showed me Tegra.

Anyway, I think the original intent of this post has been fulfilled.