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I dislike wild fires on many levels. Fighting them, watching them destroy things. But when they are caused by a poorly maintained power grid that really sucks. All the wild fires in recent years and the current ones have been caused by poorly maintained above ground low voltage distribution lines and high voltage transmission lines. The Power Companies in California have recently started what they call Public Safety Power Shutdowns, to prevent their gear from causing fires in low humidity/high wind events. Many millions of people have been without power for almost a week.

I was thinking if I an figure out an algorithm to randomly place objects in the world to make mapping less tedious, then we could dynamically randomize any object. In theory we could recompile the map after randomizing the monsters with a script, making ds2 or ds1 dynamic. A possible feature could be the user selecting the monster density, levels, types, etc.

Today I am patching swtor to 6.0 new expansion quite a few changes including a playable Nautolan species...new armor, etc

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaYnNdte3I4#[/youtube]

Star Wars: The Old Republic – Onslaught Expansion Launch Trailer 6.0

patch notes are here -
http://www.swtor.com/patchnotes/10222019/game-update-6.0-onslaught

I almost forgot about my item creation project in DS2, lol. I wrote the fundamentals in vanilla javaScript, but realized it'd be much better in react. I've been working on an open source game with a few other devs. Having difficulty connecting it to the server I built . However, I will eventually get to it. I want to write it both in React with node and c# for a desktop version. It will be open source.

5 days ago it was 103 degrees Fahrenheit today it is 39 degrees Fahrenheit! The average for this time of year is 83 degrees Fahrenheit! I want the climate change to stop and things being back to normal (average). I am having cycling withdrawal.

I found this YouTube video earlier this evening. It was posted quite recently.

The Rise and Fall of Dungeon Siege

I only watched about 10 minutes, but it seems to be discussing Chris Taylor and how GPG came to be, as well as the different challenges encountered during the production of the game. Looks interesting and I plan to finish watching later on.

I was in a Starbucks coffee shop and there where two people having an argument. The woman jumped up grabbed her coffee and yelled at the person still sitting down "Did your mother have any children that lived?" then stormed out the door. I never thought about using that to end an argument, but I will put it my book of useful phrases.