A city in need is a city indeed?

Tonight was Lance's high-level D+D game (yes, we *did* play a second session!). We were transported to a prestigious scifi novel, and attacked a city full of evil. And kicked their ass. But most of the important ones got away, except for the one carrying all the phat lewt, who was incinerated, zapped, doused in acid, poisoned, driven insane, turned to stone, and destroyed utterly.

Oops.

( game summary )

MOO 3 deserves another rant

( AAARRRGGGH! )

Jealousy

How come every time someone comes up with something that I wish I'd thought of, I can't copy it and still be original, because they did it first? Every time! It's just not fair.

If this is Wednesday, it must be...

...time for the Bug From Hell! [cue reverb]

Today I discovered that the ascent and descent on a font are really just sort of guidelines for how to position a font on a page, and don't actually tell you anything useful about how large the characters of the font will actually be when drawn. At least, not in ATSUI.

More importantly, I discovered that the people long ago who wrote all the text layout, positioning, and draw code that I work with didn't know this either. To be fair, they were using QuickDraw, where it wasn't the case.

But now I have to go and... ugh, I don't want to talk about it. -.- I don't want to *do* it either, but I don't have a choice about that.