friday
friday was a great day. it started with a nice bike ride to work. work started with a silly chat with mtoy (one of the original developers of rogue) about what exactly makes a game rogue-like. he started to answer. but one of our younger employees piped up with the answer. permadeath, proceduraly generated content, bird's eye view, turn based, and a ridiculously steep difficulty curve. the topic came up cause there's a bit of buzz about a contest like event to write a playable rogue-like from start to finish in 7 days. google it yourself. anywho the day turned towards greatness when lj showed up and delivered HOOJ hugz. like coworkers were shuffling their feets and awkwardly looking elsewhere. she was at old onlive. and is now deliriously happy at yahoo. but then. then. then the nerd porn arrived. we spent the rest of the afternoon trying out the oculus rift. and of course, making fun of the people wearing it. cause in their world you're a talking fountain. and in our world they're a dumbass with a pancake on their face.