OK, that’s a kick in the pants. Let’s see if it makes everyone pissed off about Mike Capps and Tim Langdell finally calm the hell down for a little bit.

I ran into Gordon Walton recently. You might have heard of him, he’s kind of a big-deal guy around town, especially in my circles.

We asked each other how things were going. We’re both busy, though him arguably far more than me. Not much to complain about.

He asked if I was still writing.

I said, not really.

He said, “At least I know I’m not missing anything.”

Totally happened.

Coming soon. Yeah, I want to see it, don’t you? Stephen Colbert’s in it! There’s also a Facebook page for it.

Haven’t seen this much news about square footage in a long time. So Vigil Games, owned by THQ, the latter flush with cash for selling one of their studios and firing 200-some people just four months ago, is going to move into a new 33,000-square-foot office space in Austin, in somewhere called Four Points Centre. (Austin Business Journal had the official word on Friday, not that I noticed.)

What the gaming sites have yet to point out is that Four Points Centre is barely what anyone would call “Austin,” at least not counting suburban sprawl. Its own location map advertises the fact that it’s way out in the sticks, and if anyone would care to check the Google Maps version, you might get double-checks their estimates on drive times.

I’d call it “out by Lake Travis”. Or, “about seven miles from Hippie Hollow“.

Edit: In all fairness, I’m not (officially) making a qualitative statement about suburban sprawl, just that while the developers most likely expect that the area will build up and become a growth center in the next few years, it isn’t much of one now, and while a 15-minute drive to anywhere might seem fine to anyone from, say, L.A., Texans would call it ‘livin’ in the country.”

But, in truth, the place where I go to work, out on Loop 360, was just hills and trees less than 30 years ago. ‘Course, back then they thought it’d be made into a freeway. Didn’t quite happen that way, and it’s still pretty nice country out there.

At least I’m not Marc Jacobs. Yeah, I know the guy’s got a company to run, but that should give him more to talk about, not less. Not that I have a huge interest in what the guy has to say these days beyond what Scott points out or when I have a cheap joke in mind.

Actually, with the way Warhammer’s shaking out these days, I doubt he has much good to write about.

Talking about Wizard 101 and how it’s all kid-friendly and stuff. EXTREME CLOSEUPS.

You’ve come a long way, baby. I might update later when I actually watch it all the way through.

Pour out your favorite beverage. It’ll all be over soon.

A little late, but for whoever pays attention to Final Fantasy XI and what they’re doing to combat gold farming, they recently revealed their secret weapon:

(1)RMT-PWNER V1.337
This is a tool that makes it possible for us to understand the entire flow of gil from collectors to buyers in an instant.
For example, if we enter a character into the RMT-PWNER who we have determined is involved in RMT activities through reports received from FINAL FANTASY XI players and through our own investigations, the tool will act according to the image below.

The image more or less describes, if you even buy gold (or “gil,” in FFXI terms) with real money, then you get banned. Immediately. And the tool that tracks the gil transactions has a ridiculous name.

LOL PWND.

One night only at Austin’s ZACH Theatre, it’s Richard Garriott LIVE. Only $65 per seat.

Yeah, so, remember this guy, assuming you don’t watch his reviews every Wednesday as religiously as I do? He’s got a new project that’s basically him and the two guys from this thing (one of whom’s his roommate) trying to do a game review/variety comedy TV show. They finally linked the 30-minute Youtube video that they’re calling a “pilot”.

At 21:19, after the start of a segment called “Postcards from Nerd Town,” the surly bearded guy in a Trilby hat and a waistcoat admits to playing City of Heroes, creating a female character “with the boob slider all the way up” called “Jiggle Physics”. And that while he would only play it again “if I have to,” he didn’t totally pan it.

Anyone who knows anything about this guy should consider this serious praise. I mean, look what he did to Sonic Unleashed today. And he doesn’t even like “mumorpergers”.