Majestic Update:
To be honest. I’m still not real sure about this game. It’s kind of interesting. But the story is (as far as I can tell). Mostly just on rails. You can only do things as they give information to you and there isn’t any real branching that I’ve been able to tell. So it comes down to did you happen to figure out the needed clue to get to the next step. It isn’t even like there are multiple ways to get there (that I can determine).

It’s definitely a very interesting concept though. I could see this kind of game really getting quite complex. I’d love to have there be little side puzzles you can stumble across that are part of the overall storyline, but if you miss them you aren’t missing anything.

One of the funkier things is getting IMs from the game. I personally think that is pretty cool. They do need to work on the parsing of stuff a tiny bit, but it isn’t too bad for a start.

okay, one good thing about being on this late.
I found my LOTD: Dance Dance Resurrection
Praise tha Lord!

being on call sucks

Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneith. At night, the ice weasels come.
– Matt Groening

Things are getting weird. I got an IM from one of the guys from Anim-X, the company that created Majestic and he said that they’d been getting threats about putting the game out. Then he sent me this recording of this conversation, along with some other notes. I actually had to call Anim-X and go into someone’s voice mail to get the name of their new web site.

They also seem to be intermingling real news in with stuff to do with the game. At least. I think that is what they are doing.

(I just wish this also ran on the mac. I wouldn’t think it would be too difficult)

Majestic Day 2:
So I got a bulletin that the game has been shut down. But that’s what the strange call I got yesterday said would happen. So I’m not sure what to think at this point. Are they playing with me? The weird guy who called me yesterday said he’d get in touch with me this morning, but I haven’t heard from him yet.

So I just started trying out the first episode of Majestic and so far I have to say that it’s a little bit boring. Though the game is only just starting. I’d kind of hoped it would start off with more of a bang. The one thing the game is very good at though is community building. It sets you up with other players that you can IM with from the start and I’ve had other people IMing me from out of the blue. That part is quite cool. So we’ll see. I’ll post updates on how it goes as time goes on.

I also ordered Dance Dance Revolution from Amazon yesterday. I’m also going to order a third party pad for it. While I can’t necessarily use it that well right now I’m sure my friends can :).

I seem to have this knack for getting up really early and yet never being able to make it out of the house until about 8:30. Of course now I’ve started using that time to do work stuff. Mostly reading documentation and getting the stuff done that I can never seem to get done when I’m in the office.

I found out that an aquaintence of mine was diagnosed with cancer. Things like this seem to affect me differently now. It freaks me out a little bit more because I seem to see it all over the place now. This has been quite an eventful year or so as far as friends with medical conditions. There’s me and my lung, Jay with his brain, and now this. I asked my friend Rachel to send my best to her, since she knows her better. I just wish I could help more.

In some ways it makes me appreciate how some of my friends must feel. I have this odd lung condition and they know it is serious, but all they can really do is offer support. And they really do an amazing job of it. People are continuously offering to help me out. I just need to be much less stubborn and prideful and accept it more often.

On another completely random note. I ran into my old high school friend Julie, who lives one building over, and found out that our other good friend Tamson is moving back soon. I’m actually fairly psyched. I’ve fallen out of touch with Tamson since she moved back out to San Diego and I miss hanging out and chatting with her.

I just found out that Utena isn’t all out on DVD yet. So I’ve started watching something that I can’t see all of. AUGH.

On another note. My friend colleen is cycling across the US on her way to Burning Man. Folks should check out the site tracking her: Intrepid Heroines. It sounds like it has definitely been quite a trip, but she is cranking along. I am really impressed. It is one of those things I’ve always wanted to try to do. Who knows, maybe someday I’ll be able to.

So everyone I know has been taking the Find Your Spot test. I just took it and got the following results:

1. New Haven, CT
2. Providence, RI
3. Boston, MA
4. Hartford, CT
5. Albuquerque, NM
6. Worcester, MA
7. Danbury, CT
8. Stamford/Norwalk, CT
9. Newport, RI
10. Santa Fe, NM
11. Cambridge, MA (<-- home!)
12. Baltimore, MD
13. Reno, NV
14. Los Cruces, NM
15. Washington, DC
16. Las Vegas
17. Portland, OR
18. Eugene, OR
19. Cape Cod, MA
20. Corvallis, OR
21.Little Rock, AR
22. Annapolis, MD
23. Amherst, MA
24. Northampton, MA

I thought it was pretty interesting the places it came up with. More of a few have been places that I have lived or have wanted to live.