Gallery of the Bizzare

Sometimes things just don't go right. A late check-in post data freeze, a QA pass that just didn't think to look in third person, a misplaced multi-texture comment in an art file, any of these can and do happen. And when they do, they are all my fault! Yup. I wear the pants in this family and as you can see, yesterday they fell off. Hehe. Wee, this shit will happen on occasion. Best to laugh. Oh, that's a French infantry man firing his weapon...in another dimension apparently. If you have more photos of this madness I'm collecting them for The Gallery Of the Bizarre.

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Happy Holidays!

Well, the holidays have come and gone and we're back to work on getting 1.28 out the door. I'd like to thank everyone for all the well wishes...in case you haven't heard, she said yes! That's right, there'll be a Mrs. Gophur in the near future, though, I'm sure if you call her that she's likely to punch me in the mouth. Love is great, truly. I am a lucky man.

In other news, this is the strangest holiday thing I've seen since my new pet robot got after the cats.

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Just had to share today's gem of a report. Always so entertaining reading these. FYI I do read ALL of these almost everyday, unless we're in open testing and beta and then I tend to focus on those. Here goes:

2007-09-14 21:36:06  playerNameWitheld   German 8. Zerstörerflottille maniacm mission cell#145 near Dordrecht N51.49.11 E4.38.51
   "silent bombing/straffing should be an exploit"
2007-09-14 21:46:08  playerNameWitheld   German 8. Zerstörerflottille mwhitman mission cell#145 near Dordrecht N51.48.35 E4.38.47
   "WTF MFING PANHARD FIRING THROUGH A FING HILL AT DORD, ALLIED BIASM"
2007-09-14 22:01:34  playerNameWitheld   German brigade scrn last nearDordrecht N51.49.28 E4.39.4
   "rename the game to allied and crs loser idiocy online"

Ahh, Loser Idiocy Online. Now that's catchy! All from the same player; all in a row. I love my job...

WoW Webcomic, Now With Babies on a Stick!

Long time funny man Lum then Mad, known to all WWIIOLers for the timeless rant on using 7 fingers to fire a rifle in our early days, now more respectfully known as Scott, posted a new WoW web comic that is worth the read if you swing that way. A true successor to the old Flintlocke's Guide to Azeroth that recently met its demise. The eternally macroed Loping the Chinese ninja looting bot who is Flintlocke's favored wee companion is more often than not, comedy gold.

Thanks Lum. If we get the chance to sit down and trade some snark this year in Austin I'll happily sport the first round.

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Something just isn't right here. Also, note to self, Sheep need AI.

Scientists to Create Plant to Absorb CO2

French scientists have announced a cunning plan to create a plant that can capture CO2 emmissions and in a rare sign of European cooperation have decided to sell the French technology to the Germans, as reported by none other than Chinese news source Yahoo!

Cornered Rat Software lead physics producer "rickb" was quoted as saying, "Wow a plant that absorbs CO2! Now if they could only get it to convert it to something useful, like say oxygen."

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The (Naval) Love Patch

So we've been talking in beta a lot about what to add to the naval love patch this fall. Apparently this is all we've come up with. Thanks Chris for the "Player produced argument for naval play."

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