I’m going to take a moment to complain about school. If you don’t want to hear about it, you don’t have to read it.
As you know, I’m still in high school. (I’m a senior, which means I’m almost done, though.) My school is taking advantage of these modern times. We have a 1 on 1 netbook deal, where every student has a school-issued netbook. This year, the school initiated a new program – the e-learning day.
Dear CWG followers,
First off, I would like to thank each an every one of you who have subscribed to our website. It is you who we strive to create content for, and you who will ultimately help us achieve our goals too simply by just signing up for this site.
Unfortunately, when we migrated servers, our registration page did not retain our previous customizations, and thus reverted back to the default registration method. This means that users were required to wait for an email containing their temporary login passwords for the site, but that email was not setup to actually send. Therefore, we had about 54 “locked” accounts dormant on our website. For that, we apologize.
While this issue has been corrected for all future registrants of the website, those who used the faulty registration method still are unable to login. To correct this, a series of emails are being manually sent to all those affected. These emails will contain your username (as a reminder) in the salutation, and also contains a randomly generated login password. You will be given the opportunity to change that password upon first login.
Last night, we discovered that 50-odd people made accounts on this site.
That’s weird.
Aside from the NSA and people who my parents know but I was too young to remember, I didn’t think there was anyone who I didn’t know, but who knew about me.
That means that I actually have to start putting real, quality content here. For the first time, I have a responsibility to real people.
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Huh. People talk about social interactions between people over the internet as impersonal. As far as my responsibilities to other people go, though, the ones in school or within the family seem very self-contained compared to this. Sure, I have to do homework, but only because one person told me to, and college people judge me based on how well I do it. But now I’m responsible to a few people who I don’t even know, or don’t even have a guess about. These people are more “real” to me because they are outside of the pre-determined track that is education. My existence is affecting “real” people, in the “real” world, however small that group is.
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I’m probably going to make posts more frequently from now on. I’ll think of something to talk about. Surely.
Oh, and one more thing. I forgot to say this in the Electric RC post: UNINSTALL BETA II FIRST! Things will break otherwise. Also, the settings file will behave weird on most computers (all of them that I tried), so I recommend going into the settings and fixing up the new stuff before you play. The music volume will be off, and the new controller inputs will all be assigned to “Button 0,” which doesn’t exist. Also, clicking “Restore to defaults” causes a crash. The best course of action is probably to delete the settings file after you install RC and run it the first time. That should take care of it. If it doesn’t, tell me, because that’s not supposed to happen.
Most of this happened over Fall break, Thanksgiving, and Christmas break.
RC is out, and it’s different.