Let’s just skip the boilerplate crap about being busy and making excuses and get right to the info-dump:<\/p>\n
1) I’m still working on Good Robot. <\/strong><\/p>\n I’ve never taken a public project this far and I’m kind of at a loss as to what to say next. I’m not solving interesting problems and I’m basically done with the experimenting and prototyping. We’re to the phase of the project where I’m just working my way through feedback, complaints, bug reports, and Very Dull Features. Blogging that would be like a cooking show where you watch the chef sit around for half an hour waiting for the cake to finish baking. <\/p>\n So… ask some questions?<\/p>\n B) Yes, editing comments is disabled. <\/strong><\/p>\n I was using Ajax Edit Comments plugin for WordPress, and it was causing way too many SQL queries, which was leading to performance problems. The majority of you probably didn’t notice. (Unless you visited during one of those moments when the queries ate so much CPU(?) that the machine went down and the site vanished) but for those of you who leave comments you probably noticed it took the site bloody ages to do anything. (The reason for this is that most people see a cached copy of the page that only updated when someone left a new comment, but for people who themselves left comments a fresh page was generated every time, since it needed to update the “edit” buttons and pre-fill the comment fields.)<\/p>\n But those slowdowns were peanuts compared to what I was experiencing in the moderator pages, which sometimes took several minutes to load.<\/p>\n So, the edit comments plugin is gone. Sorry. Try not to make any embaressing typoes.<\/p>\n III. No Spoiler Warning this week. Again.<\/strong><\/p>\n We’re about to finish up Metro 2033, and we want to have the whole crew on hand for that. So, we have to wait for a week where all four of us are available. <\/p>\n We don’t have our next game picked out yet. We’re hoping to find something Mumbles is into. <\/p>\n Forth: The Diecast this week is going to be odd.<\/strong><\/p>\n There were only three of us, and I went into it tired and in a bad mood. I don’t know if that impacted the show, but when it was over I felt like I’d just been in an argument or read some horrible news. I didn’t know it at the time, but while we were recording I was in the run-up to a day long migraine. I don’t know if the bad mood had anything to do with the migraine or not. For a long time I’ve had this pet theory that migraines begin long before I can feel them, and so I’m always looking for altered mental states<\/a> before and after the event<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Let’s just skip the boilerplate crap about being busy and making excuses and get right to the info-dump: 1) I’m still working on Good Robot. I’ve never taken a public project this far and I’m kind of at a loss as to what to say next. I’m not solving interesting problems and I’m basically done […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[111],"tags":[321],"class_list":["post-21592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notices","tag-notice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}