I seem to have traded my World of Warcraft obsession for a dual Team Fortress 2/Demigod demo obsession. It’s sort of at once better, and more insidious. Neither TF2 nor Demigod are engrossing enough to sink a lot of time on, but one can capture my attention for a half hour, and then as I try to get back to programming, the other one seems interesting enough to spend a half hour on. And then it’s 12:30 and I have to get to bed.

I do have to admit I’m having more fun with them than I was Warcraft. Turns out I’m not all that great at the game, really. I got into a really good guild, and then was surprised to find that I was just mediocre. I thought for a while I’d be able to tolerate being a second-rate player in a first-rate guild, but in the end my pride couldn’t hack it. And as the only other choice available to me was being a first-rate player in a second-rate guild, I didn’t really have much that I wanted to do in the game anymore.

I did make a bit of distance on A1, though. It’s grabbing captions in an ajaxy way, but I have some polishing to do on that part. I’m kind of lost on the whole sorting/voting part, though, but I haven’t really sat down and planned it out yet, which I really have to convince myself to do. I was getting really frustrated last month because I figured I should just be able to sit down and start typing out code and then the damn thing could be working already, but I should know better than try to start coding a project without getting a clear spec from the client.