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Creativity

Scopique December 13, 2019

I had originally written a totally different post, but while out getting lunch I was conversing with my most ardent fan (myself) and realized that in pursuing this topic out loud, I wanted to take a different approach. Creating is a calling.…

S.A.D.I. Discord Bot Update

Scopique December 13, 2019

I’ve reached a milestone with the S.A.D.I. Discord bot, so its development is going on hold for the remainder of the year. Database Woes I ended up spending too much time fiddling with the database construct so I kicked it all to…

This is Not a Retrospective

Scopique December 13, 2019

We (almost) made it around the Sun once more. I don’t do retrospectives mainly because my memory is absolute crap and I don’t have any idea what happened yesterday nevermind what happened 6 months ago or 10 years ago, but here’s a…

Of Mechs and Monsters

Scopique December 11, 2019

Mechwarrior 5: Mercenaries As a life-long Battletech fan, I was obligated to pick up a copy of Mechwarrior 5: Mercenaries yesterday, and to fire it up when I got home from work. Battletech is a universe of large, stompy robot tanks piloted…

The DV Rebel’s Guide For People With Ambition But Not A Lot Of Money

Scopique December 5, 2019

In yet another case of starting something, I’ve picked up “The DV Rebel’s Guide” An All-Digital Approach to Making Killer Action Movies on the Cheap” from Amazon last week. In this book, former ILM artist and co-founder of the VFX company The…

Crime and Punishment in Star Citizen

Scopique December 4, 2019

Thanks, @pasmith, for putting us on this path to looking at crime and punishment in Star Citizen. Foreword: Compensation for Lost Goods One of the (many) overarching questions folks have is how Star Citizen will deal with the fact that a ship…

Discord Bot, Databases, and Promises to Keep

Scopique December 3, 2019

Work on S.A.D.I. continues. Right now, I have the bot hooked into the Star Citizen API (community edition) and commands created so you can ask S.A.D.I. to get ship and star system information. This is good. However, to be a true corporate…

Discord Bot S.A.D.I. and API Lookups

Scopique November 27, 2019

I mentioned a Discord bot in the last post, and I wanted to cut out all the Star Citizen-ness of it (as much as I can, really) and talk about doing it. Node is a popular platform for coding Discord bots (hereafter…

Star Citizen Corporations and a Discord Bot

Scopique November 26, 2019

Sit right back and you’ll hear a tale. A tale of a…stream of consciousness. For a while now I have been contemplating leaving or at maybe downgrading my membership in my Star Citizen corporation. I have to say, they are an amazing…

Star Citizen, Quantum, and a Dynamic Universe

Scopique November 25, 2019

The CitizenCon live stream is a mass of continuous video which makes it difficult to pull out specific panels, so on Sunday morning, I jumped over at The N00bifier’s channel for a recording of the “Building a Universe” presentation. I keep saying…