Scary day. I agree with Lorne Gunter. Especially this bit:

In last month's budget there was not a word or even a hint this change was coming. Instead, the budget was full of talk about working with regional health authorities, delivering service through the authorities, strengthening their "governance and leadership" and "the performance, financial management, cost control and reporting structures of health authorities."

There was nothing about a super board coming in three weeks, which leads me to believe this decision is just another in a long line of slap-dash, seat-of-the-pants, last-minute, back-of-the-envelope pronouncements made by this government.

I hope I'm wrong, but this moves looks as if it will produce no improvements in patient care and could well lead to needless duplication of expenditure between the new board and the Health and Wellness Department, as well as between the central planners and the regions.

I don't know about you, but I think this needs to happen more often:

One provincial board to govern Alberta's health system:

One provincial governance board will replace Alberta’s nine regional health authority boards, the Alberta Mental Health Board, Alberta Cancer Board and Alberta Alcohol and Drug Abuse Commission (AADAC) to ensure the provincial health system is patient-focused and provides equitable access to all Albertans in the 21st century.

The new Alberta Health Services Board will be responsible for health services delivery for the entire province and will report directly to the Minister of Health and Wellness. Alberta Health and Wellness will continue to be responsible for setting, monitoring and enforcing provincial health policy, standards and programs, as well as for managing health capital planning, procurement and outcome measures.

Yep Tay that the way to do it. Just work your ass off and enjoy the success (sp) and learn from the failure that happen. But at this age we got the energy so we got to be hungry and driven to want more. I guess this talk as of late with age, work, reviews from third parties has got me thinking about wanting more in life. I know my dad thinks I'm too hungry for money, but it's just that I want more, you know just more of everything, no point in passivly sitting on the sidelines watching. Got to jump in the game, get hurt, score the big goals, have fun.

Don't worry Al, with a graphics score of 3/10 I don't think I'll be getting too cocky anytime soon, haha.

But to be honest, I listened to the IGN podcast where the guy explained why he gave it a 3, and basically he seems to think that all of the graphics were just scanned into the computer. Unfortunately that's not the case. Some of the graphics were certainly scanned, I won't deny that, but a good portion of them were created by hand from scratch in photoshop. The eraser, the spraycan, the dice, the playing cards, the calculator, the d-pad: all those things are very complex objects which were made by me in photoshop, and they certainly were not scanned. In a certain way I think getting a low score in graphics is almost a compliment that attests to my ability to create photorealistic objects.

In that sense, maybe I did TOO good of a job, haha.


But trust me Al. I won't change. Even if my game was outselling FF (which it 100% guaranteed will not even come close to doing) I still wouldn't let it affect me. That's just not how I roll. It's when you think you're unstoppable that you let your guard down. Stay humble, keep your guard up, and keep working hard. Failure will come and go just as success will come and just as easily go.

Good job Tay! But don't let it go to your head, sale numbers are more important to you especially for a small company like yours. Good reviews bring attention to your product but if sales don't materialise it won't matter how good the reviews are.

well, I never in a million years expected to see this:

Defend Your Castle
Final Fantasy

DYC was given a score of 7.9
FF was given a score of 7.5

Are you kidding me? Better than FF?

Well you aren't old, but you also aren't young. You have about the same energy, spirit and enthusiasm (sp) as a teenager but the patience, understanding and perseverance of age. In other words watch out! Think of this as your prime, you have the world by the tail!

yeah, I'm the aforementioned geezer. Though I'm 26 now, not 25. Gawdang I'm an old man. I can't believe msnbc called me a geezer, haha.

That's a crappy ascii art arrow pointint to the void in question.