Today was a pretty sad day for our household. We had to put our beloved pet Clinton to sleep. He was 11 years old; an overly large and very loving golden retriever. We got Clinton just a few months before Alex was born. For months now Clinton's health has been deteriorating, and in recent weeks he could no longer go up and down stairs. This morning he couldn't get up and when I came home for lunch he hadn't moved. When I coaxed him up to go out the front door to the bathroom he collapsed. Eventually he did get outside, but was obviously in a lot of pain. It was an extremely difficult decision to make. When I came home to take him to the vet he was up and about, and wagging his tail. It was very hard to do.
Planetside Screenshots
I realize that this post is going to cause some Web-Wiplash, but I think that is ok. For years I have held onto some old Planetside screenshots that I wanted to post online some day. After scouring an old hard drive yesterday these are the ones I came up with. Still, I know I am missing many of the screenshots I really wanted to keep. Especially ones from when the game was very early in development. I designed the entire client side game engine myself and I had a lot of fun during the development process. One of my regrets is that, in many respects, the final game did not look nearly as visually impressive as it did at certain points during development. There were a number of reasons for this. One was from a technology stand point. Most developers of an MMO game engine might assume it would be reasonable to stream data in as a player moved around the environment. That was certainly my original design. However, once the game got into heavy beta testing there was a strong push to get eve
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