I felt pretty shitty yesterday and ended up not going in to work. I told myself that if it didn't get better overnight, I'd see a doctor.

So, this morning, I went to the doctor. At the time, I had a 101.8 degree fever and strep throat. Sucks ass. I really hate being sick. I wish my body understood that I have important things to do! That being said, AHWU probably won't be coming out this week, but know that a bunch of games and DLC came out.

I'm supposed to be flying to Orlando on Thursday...not sure if that is going to happen now. Stupid dumb body with it's stupid weaknesses. Anyone else get sick after PAX? (Or during?)

Oh yeah, and PAX was f'ing amazing. I had a blast out there with you kind folks. Let's do it again soon. Feel free to tag me in your photos if I ended up in them.

Monty had an idea way back in April, and I loved it -- because I really dig simple ideas with big consequences. We were talking about the major action scenes in Revelation and at the time we were busy building Foundry for Episode 10. It was pretty painstaking, because Monty is a big, big stickler for continuity in both geography and action. I think his stuff moves so fast that you can cheat a lot with editing, but he's used to people watching his work frame-by-frame.

Anyway, while we were busy turning Foundry into "offsite archive facility", as is the methodology for most of our sets, Monty suggested we flip that process for the next sequence. What if instead of taking a halo map and using Forge to turn it into an RvB set, we took an RvB set and over the course of an episode destroyed it to make a Halo map?

So, that was essentially the process used to make Episode 19. Monty built an iced-over canyon and then had Tex detonate the glacier in order to reveal the map we all know and love underneath. Pretty cool idea and led to a great scene, IMO. And judging by the comments to the episode, I think you will agree.

We showed the last two episodes of Revelation at PAX last night and people are bound to be talking about it on the site. Please community with caution for the next week if you don't want any spoilers. And thanks to all the PAX attendees for keeping the site spoiler-free for everyone else. *hint* *hint*

I got home the other day to find that my younger brother of 19 had unleashed my cat at a pigeon that he saw in our back garden. From the sounds of it, my cat bitch-slapped it out of the air and the continued to stare at it and be generally intrigued by it (as well as run away from it when it jumped). My brother then decided that he wanted to "wring its neck" because he'd never done it before.
I stepped in at this point because I didn't want the cat to shred it to pieces all over the lawn and also i didn't want my brother to kill it and then leave it on the lawn. So I got it out of there alive. My brother filmed the little evacuation on my phone.

I saw it a few days later sitting on someone else's front lawn just chilling.

You have bested me today, but I shall rebound from this smiting to vanquish you.

I am going to miss a lot about our current office when we move, but there's a few things I will be happy to leave behind. The main thing will be this:



You can't see it, but my office (and the right turn I need to make) are on the other side of that massive vehicular wall. The bus stop outside our office gets a bus once every 30 seconds. Sometimes, they have to line up when scheduling gets off, which apparently happens every single day. This particular line of buses was six deep. It was literally our entire block.

After suffering through the sounds of half a million buses in three years, if I ever wait for more than a minute to catch a bus in Austin, I am going to punch that bus in the face.

Second on the list of things I won't miss are all the fucking maniacs who ride the bus. I really can't wait to go a full twenty-four hours without being forced into a conversation with a random stranger who is clinically insane.

Don't forget, if you want to submit a theme song for consideration for use in the Drunk Tank, email your entry to podcast@roosterteeth.com. Try to keep submissions under 5 megabytes and less than a minute in length (about 30 seconds is ideal). Thanks guys!

Achievement Hunter has been taken over by the RvB landing page (which will change in the future...) so if you want to see today's AHWU right now, you can go here:

http://achievementhunter.com/archive/episode.php?id=1514