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What do you mean, "not in word list!"

You Know You've Been Playing Clan Lord Too Long...

I quickly read (or misread) this headline from Apple Insider:

Apple seeds OS X 10.9 Mavericks Server GM to developers ahead of Oct. 22 special event

 ...and my reaction was "why is Apple giving the Clan Lord ServerGM a copy of Mavericks?"

Literal Humor

I read this joke the other day and got a laugh from it:

A wife asked her husband to go to the market.  "Buy one carton of milk, and if they have avocados, get six."  A short time later the husband returned with half a dozen cartons of milk.  "Why did you buy six?" asked the wife.  Replied the husband "they had avocados."

After writing logic code for the past week, I found this especially funny.

Scripter Humor

I have been reading other scripts with the intent of plagiarizing becoming inspired by other GMs/scripters' works.

Scripters will often add comments within their code as to describe what task/role the section of code performs.  I was interested in how other GMs have handled math problems (like calculating the average size of a mobile), and while researching that subject I was entertained by some amusing one liners.  Or in some cases, multi-liners.

    // Initialize it, cap'n!
   
    //    This is a public file.
    //    Everyone is welcome, nay encouraged,
    //    to use it and add to it.   
   
    // OK, dumkopf. You use it, you lose it.
       
    // All the nifty display poo goes here

    /*
    **    utilities for manipulating the [player]'s store-string
    **    err, I mean the data-string
    **    no, wait, make that the thing-string
    */

And my personal favorite:

    **    **Warning** this code is god-like and perfect.
    **    When we work on it choirs of angels
    **    gather around and sing. Mortals must keep out.
    **    This code is so blindingly beautiful
    **    that your eyes will melt if you look at it.

Box 3-5-0

What do you get when you cross a 1970's children's television show with a Thoom?



Thoom.

All these years later, I still remember the mailing address.

Chasing Bugs

I spent a portion of this afternoon chasing down some bugs.  No, not scripting bugs – I was shooing away fruit flies.

Early last week I bought some fruit at the market and saw the fruit flies in my kitchen the following day.  The numbers grew as the week progressed; today I must have swatted close to a dozen of them and there's still another dozen buzzing around.  I found it difficult to concentrate upon the computer screen whilst frequently interrupted by dive-bombing fruit flies.

If anything good came from this experience, it was an inspiration for a new Clan Lord monster.  I think that we can all be grateful that I did not draw this inspiration from experiencing bed bugs!

One Sucky Fighter

This reminds me of my 2nd circle fighter.

Cheap Wine Is Best When Shared

When You Have Eliminated the Impossible...

Sometimes I amuse myself.

I added an option to one of the NPC scripts and submitted some NPCs that utilized this option a couple of updates ago.  I recently noticed that the option was not working properly within game which puzzled me because it worked perfectly during testing.  This evening I spent almost 30 minutes debugging the code, looking for a reason as to why the option was not triggering within the game.  My frustration increased with each reading and rereading the script: the script was perfect.  Why was it misbehaving on the live server?

And finally, I realized the answer to the problem.  I never submitted my script changes to the server.

Oh brother.

Yipping At Yappy

This cracked me up.

All Fools Day

In case you missed it, here is today's web page from clanlord.com:

Erin Go FAIL.

I thought that it would be fun to make some silliness for St. Patrick's Day.

It started off well enough, but as you will see, I should have paid a little less attention to the set-up and paid a little more attention to grammar:















Oh well.  I blame the excessive Guinness.  Here's wishing that your grammar on St. Patrick's Day is better than mine.  Cheers.

Drunk as a Darshak

Sometimes I make myself laugh.

This silliness exposed a bug: drunk monsters should not speak. I've fixed this bug for V633:

Clan Lord is a game of surprise and discovery. Sometimes I surprise myself by what I discover.