Thoughts On An Age Now Passing

Well, my weekend didn't start well. Last night, my longest-standing online friend began preparing for quitting Ultima Online. She has more reasons than most for calling it a day, online and "off", but that doesn't make it any easier to handle - even though you can walk through the major cities of the game's world, and sometimes never see another player, unless some evil force is invading, and there's "pixel crack" to be looted.

For UO to stand any chance of surviving, it really will have to go "free to play", getting income from selling "expansion packs". People are upping sticks and heading to games that are non-subscription, but I don't want to see this game just bleed to death. I'm not planning on going anywhere, unless a game emerges that doesn't require processing power that's too expensive to acquire, and has the same openness - when you put eleven years into something, you just don't turn your back on it. As far as bleeding is concerned, I pretty much bleed Ultima Online - even though I don't play as intensively as I once did - and I most likely will to the very end.

Thanks for giving the game a try at my suggestion, Jessica. Thanks for being a part of it with me.

Now, boys and girls, let's go out with a roar.

Now excuse me while I post the rest of today separately.

Saturday Part II - The Meh Strikes Back

Argh. I wasn't in the best frame of mind for today's Move-related business, given last night, but I got on with it all the same. Unfortunately, there wasn't all that much to do, apart from take some old stuff to charity shops, and worry myself sick about woodworm - oh joy...

At least I was able to confirm that I do indeed own a copy of Rush's "Signals". Hardly a cause for celebration, but there you go - you take what you can get.

Oh, and we had an entirely unexpected house-viewing. Hopefully our willingness to accommodate will work in our favour.

I so want this to be over. Even the thought of leaving the first, and only home I've ever known doesn't dampen (ugh, bad choice of word, that) my desire to get the whole business behind us. It doesn't help that there are effectively now three properties in the mix, in one way or another. Excuse me while I throw my hands up in despair - don't think I'll post about this again until something genuinely concrete happens.

Development News... Progress continues with Chapter 1 of TDD-610 ...Third Movement. I am definitely into "the final stretch" for Season Six now, and a dose of definitive plotting is going to be needed. Time for a double-page spread in The Notebook of Awesome, I'm thinking...

With luck - and I could use some - I should be able to have an Episode to post each month, leading up to REIGNFALL in May. At the current production rate, that's definitely achievable.