Hedgemistress

Joined: Aug 22 2002

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I bring nothing to the table except my boundless enthusiasm, charity, good will, and soul-crushing negativity.

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No need to call the doctor cause I'm not yet dead.
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...what exactly were you expecting to see? I'm assuming the people who watched it have seen the other two movies.
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Any budding Latin scholars care to help me construct a motto which would translate into English as "Progress Through …
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Say what you will about the Brits (go ahead, it's fun), but they know how to do sophisticated satire of a sort that's …
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People who are close acquaintances of mine for a long time have sometimes noticed that opinions I once felt very …
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Hey, England? You know how your money's worth twice as much as ours? Well, not any more... suckers! Or should I say, …
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So, I'm trying to work out the finer points of a science fantasy universe. A big part of it is going to revolve around …
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A thought to consider: the people who made the V-Tech shooter's life a living hell in high school aren't guilty of …
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Are you watching this show? Why the hell not? It's on an hour before Heroes, so there's no excuse not to. :P It's not …
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Call me kooky, but I find psychopaths with semiautomatic or even automatic weapons to be a greater threat to my life, …
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Whoo... my first paid publication is now live.
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Started the actual task of formatting material to be published as a novel tonight. It looks like Star Harbor Nights …
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By not piddling around on the internet so much during the day or once I came home, I was able to finish tomorrow's …
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The world has lost one of its great lights.
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I just realized that in the past week, I've got almost no work done on Hedgerow Hall... but accomplished lots of …
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I just installed MediaWiki software on my site to begin the process of tricking my loyal readers into providing …
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My promised post on the subject of quantum mechanics was almost finished (I decided to move a few things around so I …
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Dear England, After two-hundred-plus years and much soul-searching, we have come to the inescapable conclusion that our …
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"Looks like the calvary is here," Lily said. "Cavalry," Minerva corrected, ducking under the scythe and executing a …
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In France, where the custom hails from, "April Fools" is translated as "l'avigne d'avril."
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Hee hee hee. So, aside from the little luminosity bug mentioned elsewhere, I've got stoves working pretty well. They …
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Dear flurking goth... why is it that everybody under the mental age of 13 thinks saying "IN WHICH" all the time makes …
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I am epic-level bad at separating out useful information from my code in order to figure out if a bug is with BYOND or …
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Having deviated from my design schedule is turning out to be a good thing. I've got a vestigial character creation and …
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I guess my mantra of "write drunk, edit sober" can be applied to BYOND as "code drunk, debug sober"... I was working on …
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Gug's post about gaming news and Lummox's about adverts reminded me of this Coke spot, shown in theaters... normally, I …
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I'm a big fan of the default BYOND interface. There's other ways of doing things, I know, and if it makes sense for a …
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I know the fire icon I used in the original HrH had some problems, so I reworked both its colors and its animation …
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...to reflect some of the new animal graphics. I'll probably do so again when the "fashion" system gets done. Here's …
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I was making a big rambling development post about burrows in Hedgerow Hall and my use of LummoxJR's Swap Maps library …
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Semi-Massive Online Roleplaying Game, or SMORG. This is how I'm going to describe the new Hedgerow Hall to convey the …
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...is that it gives me a motivation to get my writing work done more than two minutes before deadline (midnight …
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Whoo. Got the basic smithing system in, which will form the basis for most types of item crafing. I did smithing first …
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...when you yourself are on lower elevations, but it hinged on whether or not invisible objects that were also opaque …
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...and working on my story for tomorrow. Probably no more HrH ramblings until tomorrow night.
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In case anybody wonders, I'm posting this crap here because 1) what else am I doing with my membership, 2) people might …
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I've been working on the introduction text for HrH today... that's a slowly-scrolling message which appears in the text …
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So I didn't go to work today after all. :P I was considering not going in last night, and then I accidentally broke …
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The U.S. Supreme Court is seriously hearing a case about whether or not a high school student has the right to hold up …
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Well, circumstances make it prudent for me to actually go into work tomorrow, despite the confirmed existence of …
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I'm kind of handling the coding tasks in bursts, interrupted by periods of reflection... including reading up on …
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Yet another random HrH progress report post. While some material gathering skills are specifically limited to a …
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Whee. :P I am now an actual paid author. And yes, the wording in the title is correct. I've been rejecting publication …
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Wednesday's usually my slack night for the whole writing thing, so I decided to poke around the Hedgerow Hall .dme some …
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My first weekend of development ended last night (yes, my weekends end Monday. How I love my job.) On a weekend that …
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Yeah, I'm pretty much going to use this thing to post notes/ideas/updates, for now. The eight original races are …
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A lot of things are changing/have changed between the once-familiar version of Hedgerow Hall and what I'm working on …
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Okay, so, every couple of months I run down to a tiny little town in Kansas where nobody can reach me, in order to …
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