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Women cannot concentrate on multiple things! A verified trend (note the emphasis on TREND) observed lately.
Things are going well enough MUD thinking has rebegun. How will the McCalip combat system work? I don’t know yet, but it’s going to be realistic without being as crazy as DragonRealms. No position-based stuff…too many unrealistic special cases. How can you be in crossbow range if you’re inside a well or up a tree? How would the program know to forbid this? Too many questions.
One primary assertion: spellcasting will be “investment”-based, meaning that MP is not consumed, but it is rather “tied up” while creating an effect. This would mean all combat spells would be summons, which I like. Fireblasts don’t make sense a lot of the time.
One speculation: mana from inanimate objects…or other people? Wouldn’t it be cool to have a “draw” ability (yes…MTG…tapping) where you could draw out energy from your surroundings. This would give rocks, etc., a certain amount of MP per spawn. This could be cool.
Special note: if I am killed with a large tireiron by a certain ex-girlfriend I have officially called my death. That would totally not be cool…but it would be pretty cool to call your own death like that.
Sidewalk chalking update: guys have written “I won’t need forgiveness” followed by a phone number underneath the “I’m sorry Kristin”s. Very witty.
Class looms, and I sit in a computer lab to write this. Why? Because I’m messing around. I will paraphrase Vonnegut: “The purpose of life is to fart around. Don’t let anyone convince you otherwise.”
Current reading: Brief Interviews with Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace. One of the edgiest, most innovative collections of short stories I have ever seen. A must-read for writers.
Job search update: pathetic, but still hopeful. A couple of lines are still out there. We’ll see. There’s always research up here, which would be alright.
Is this long? I can never tell on the blog screen. I’ll post, check, and write back more later.
Quick note: “fart” is not in the blogger dictionary. Strange…