Curious

[BioRage]

How ome NOV2008xx w.e didn't come out?

Usally thothie makes them every month :\

 

[Jon]

Really slow in development this month... I think its mainly because of one big coding problem. The one that is keeping 1.1 from coming out. Im not positive tho.

 

[Dridmar]

NOV2008xx

 

[The Man In Black]

2008, lol. Thothie is caught up with RL things. We need to leave him be ;-)

 

[[FSM]Higgins]

or.... we could flood his PM box....

 

[The Man In Black]

He'll hunt you down. Thoth is crazy.

 

[Red Cell]

Hell I'll hunt you down. And I'm not crazy, or at least my shrink says so

 

[The Man In Black]

Psssh... Shrinks can't be trusted. Mine likes me ;-)

 

[HomestarR]

Psssh... Shrinks can't be trusted. Mine likes me ;-)

Your shrink told me something entirely different. Yes, your shrink talks about you to me behind your back.

 

[The Man In Black]

What's his name?

 

[Thothie]

Out of curiosity, what is the hold up with this patch? Was it my f*cking up of your code, or did you just get to the point of "Well, I'll add this...and this.....and this.........and this....Hey.. It's the 13th!"?

Thothie responds:

As for why this patch has been slow, it’s nothing to do with anything you’ve done. It’s mostly the fact that I’m almost never home. I’m taking care of my grandfather, who has the shingles, while at the same time, alternating between his house, my house, and Lady X’s dad’s house, who is (also) on his death bed (more so). No one wants to force either of these guys into a hospice or retirement home, as while they are semi-invilids, the can still handle most basic bodily functions for themselves, and neither really wants to be watched over by strangers either. This is going to sound absolutely sick, but unless something magical happens, or (until) one of them dies, I’ve got almost no time for MSC - and when I do have time, I often don’t have net access, which complicates things. There’s no internet access, wireless or otherwise, at Lady X’s house, save once in a blue moon - and the only access and gramp’s house involves leaching off a neighbor’s unsecured network via a repeater I installed here - and such access is very intermittent.

When I’m home, I’m spending the majority of my time fixing all the stuff that broke while I was out (ie. work related crap), and rushing to get done all my work uploaded, and such, while I still have solid net access. By the time I’m done with that I’m exhausted and brain-dead, and want to take advantage of my one opportunity to actually play games.

Also much of the last two weeks of October were taken up when my Uncle died and I wound up driving my Aunt all over the place while she was here - in addition to all that - don't ask me how I volunteered for that job.

Seriously, I’m burning out. If this keeps up I may need to find another caretaker for the project.

So yeah, in short RL stuffz.

What I'm hoping to do is release a new full installer in December to make up for it, basically, make that the MSC 1.1 release until this RL stuff cools down (sadly, I think the only way that'll happen is if someone dies - although I suppose there's a *chance* my gramps will come out of the shingles without dieing.) I r also considering investing in DSL in one of these places – even when I can get MSC to work offline, seems I’m always missing some obscure file or program I need, and get stuck that way. DSL tis a year-long commitment though (cable, being $70/month in the areas in question, doesn’t look much better.)

Can’t guarantee anything being on-time though, but hopefully it’s a Christmas present, and not a new year’s celebration. And hopefully I’ll cram at least half as much new stuff into it as a I want to in order to make it worth the extra wait.

PS. It's also because Vlad kept asking when it was going to be out... ( Yeah, blame Vlad. Good one! >_> )

 

[CrazyMonkeyDude]

It's okay Thoth. Take your time. Don't stress over us, get your RL stuff sorted out first. We have patience for things that would actually delay coding/scripting, not "LOL HERZ A BOX I R GRATE CODER LAWL *slacks off for long periods of time making new boxes intermittenly(SP?)*"

As much work as you've put into this, you're entitled to take time off from it, especially if you need to get your life sorted out.

 

[J-M v2.5.5]

Can’t guarantee anything being on-time though, but hopefully it’s a Christmas present, and not a new year’s celebration. And hopefully I’ll cram at least half as much new stuff into it as a I want to in order to make it worth the extra wait.

You don't have to guarantee us anything; I think I speak for a lot of people when I say that we're already grateful to you for releasing patches as often as you do

 

[The Man In Black]

No matter how many people tell him, I don't think he gets it