Random Musings ...

Another year, another quarter of school. I'm actually pretty excited, because my Game Design class is turning out to be very engaging, more than I ever expected. Hardy LeBel is the instructor, famous for his work at Bungie on Halo and Halo 2.

I was elected President of the Cascadia Business Club last night. As honored as I am, this leaves me with a lot of hard work to do, as we're planning for a trip to New York City in April, and have a lot of fundraising to do to get there.

Penny Arcade righly revoked "Game of the Year" status from Blizzard's World of Warcraft, which has been nigh-unplayable for several days as a series of upgrades have gone terribly wrong. This is the only game I can remember playing that was more stable in beta than in final release. I'm not entirely sure I buy the public explanation, either. It seems to me that you use the stress test they had to figure out how many players each realm can support (a single realm is multiple servers), then simply scale by how many players you are expecting. Unless these are hardware failures (which they say it isn't, they're blaming database upgrades), there is no good reason why the game should be performing this poorly, since the game must have fewer players now than it did in the last few days of the stress test (over 500,000 signups v. 200,000 initial sales).

Anyway, I'm going to endeavor to post more actively to my blog, since I really do enjoy it. Hopefully my schedule won't be nearly as packed as it was at the end of last year. Thanks for bearing with me.

Other musings ...

Note to News Media: Reality TV is NOT NEWS. People being intentionally set up for failure is NOT NEWS.

Richard Hatch is apparently the most ignorant person alive, if he thought that the IRS didn't watch Survivor.