Ok, so the mud is in beta testing right now. We have had some users for quite a long period (some people who joined us before we declared alpha are still around). Yet, these people… are acting like utter and complete morons ;)

Last night they just posted 3 bug reports on the same well-intended feature. Specifically, I have changed the skill tree layout and converted people’s old abilities over to the new tree. Magic spells now require a vast array of abilities in order to cast them successfully. For example, our ice bolt spell requires skill with ice mana and evoking technique.

Well, when people’s skills converted over from the old system, some magical technique skills (such as dancing and cursing) did not have any previous analogues, so nobody wound up getting them. People are reporting a ‘bug’ that they don’t know every ability in the game. Yeesh. The other bug report was that somebody didn’t have proficiency in whips… sigh.

It’s user failure. Replace the user.

My, how time passes. Multitudinous things have changed in the several months since I last posted here. Again, the thought occurs to me that I should be hosting this on my own site, but I’m bored and it’s a good enough contact tool for now.

My stomach is killing me. I was not feeling horribly wonderful this morning, so when I took my pill, I was not able to accompany it with anything solid (as per doctor’s instructions). I hoped that milk would be solid enough, but I guess I was wrong. Eight hours later, I am regretting this muchly. I ate some salad a bit ago and got northing more than a serious case of the gurgles as a result. Oh well. Maybe the gut will melt off and float away or something.

Pill? Yeah. Pill.

I have recently finally convinced myself to seek psychological attention for my sleep problems. My friends are all well acquainted with the situation – I have never really been able to sleep at night. The two counsellors and one psychologist that I spoke to were all in agreement that in addition to the sleeping issue, I have also had some variety of low-grade depression for the last many years. Whether the sleep is causing the depression or the other way around, nobody knows. But helping the one will probably help the other.

I have been taking anti-depressants for just over a week now, am finally on the full dosage. It is not supposed to reach full effectiveness until next week some time. I am feeling good results from the stuff mentally – I am able to concentrate on things again and am generally able to get things done at work. However, they’re doing a number (a big number) on my body. We’ll see who wins out, ne?