So it’s been a couple of months since I last posted anything. This is because I have been busy being poor and lazy. It’s ok though because no-one reads this blog because everyone else is as apathetic about it as I am.

Partly as a remedy for the being poor situation and partly because I want to, I am making a game. A kind of F-Zero/Wipeout clone, tentatively called Velocity, which I am aiming to sell (probably on Steam) for about £4-5. I’ll be looking into some sort of online scoreboard a la AudioSurf, but that probably depends on me finding some hosting which is much quicker than this. Also it will be cel-shaded. And have reflective stuff. And a hopefully neat glass-effect. It will use OpenGL because it is perfectly sufficient for what i want to do, and I have never used DX so using that would probably result in it looking worse and being slower.

I might update this blog with stuff about the game when more is done. It will end up with its own website when it’s closer to being done, so updates might end up there instead. Provided I can sort out using Steam, there will probably be a beta weekend or two because I am too poor to buy different configurations of machine to test it on. Also it’s good for publicity purposes.

So Scrubs finally ended last night after 8 seasons. I only really got into it two years ago, but ever since I did I’ve absolutely loved it. At times (mostly seasons 6&7) it felt like it was long past it’s prime, and should’ve ended a long time ago. But I’m glad it didn’t. Season 8 was a return to form (if a little shaky in places), and the only TV shows which have left me smiling as much as the finale are nature documentaries. Really good ones. And I like nature documentaries. A lot.

In short; the finale was absolutely the perfect end to the series. Bye Scrubs.

So there’s a big G20 summit coming up in London where politicians are going to try to figure out how to un-break the global economy. It’s important for politics and solving the recession and blah blah blah. To be honest I’m a bit bored of news and analysis about the economy.

The whole thing has had one interesting effect, though, which hasn’t really been reported on that much. Touched on a little, perhaps, but that’s about it. Probably discussed more so by bloggers and suchlike but since I don’t read topical blogs I wouldn’t know. In any case, as the economy has gotten progressively worse I’ve noticed that people have become more and more disillusioned with politics and politicians.

People not being huge fans of politicians is no new thing, of course, but the general outlook has changed.

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A while ago I stumbled across the Discordianism article at wikipedia, but never actually read the whole thing. I seem to remember that at the time (a few years ago now), it was not quite so well written and apparently in the middle of an edit war. In any case, I was intrigued by it then, and earlier I found myself looking at the article again, and with nothing better to do (other than attempting to bring my faltering motivation to heel and do some work) I ended up reading it.

Just recently I actually remembered my previous brief introduction to Discordianism when I found myself thinking about the fact that order is generally given preference over chaos in society. I forget why I was thinking about that but that’s moot really, and I spend large amounts of my time thinking about things that aren’t really as important as things like “Do I have any food?” so it’s not very surprising either. In any case, I have never really been a particularly ordered person, although I don’t deliberately tend to disorder either, just do whatever comes naturally. If I wake up at 4PM and don’t sleep the following night, then so be it. And it’s probably because of that that I find Discordianism quite brilliant, in places.

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