08:16:51Devastator: No, he got shanked in a well-timed 1v1 war with his neighbour with a nice starting spot.
08:17:27Devastator: and it led to a guy who hasn't caught a break ever catching a break and chasing down that guy by running over three people in turn.
08:18:28Devastator: Hannibal hasn't caught a break any year yet, but in this game he outfought his neighbour, and did three consecutive solo conquests to grab enough land to out-tech the frontrunner to space.
08:21:51syv: Over the last few days I was hunting down stupid obscure bugs that were patched, and have to be replicated because people exploited them.
08:22:43syv: Like deliberately mangling the object code to strip behavior from objects in a precise way, which needs to fail in -several specific ways- and work in others.
08:23:12syv: And then yesterday just before I went to bed, Ricecake released the demo to the entirety of AoTTG2's staff
08:23:40syv: Who haven't had an actual real progress update or actionable goals for over a year
08:24:44syv: So everyone's scrambling to figure out what they can do. And I am, like, one of three people who can answer questions, as well as being relatively high level in organization. And sort-of having three seperate jobs in the project.