The only complain I had with OOO was formatting. Eventually, I settled on and she treated me well for a long number of years. Over the next few years, I bounced from format to format, trying to find something that fit perfectly with my growing collection of stories and also worked on the platforms of my choice (Windows, Mac, and Linux). I really didn't like the stress of losing my files and one corruption was painful. During the process, I realized that calculus really wasn't that fun and set it aside, but it got me to thinking.
I did recover most of the document eventually, using the classic method of typing it all out again from hardcopy. Even paying money on various recovery websites didn't crack open the now worthless pile of bits sitting on my D drive. I had a whole range of tools to recover the data, but in this situation, none of them worked. When I wasn't working on my RPG during working hours, I was writing 400-500 page documents and watching them occasionally implode on themselves, usually about ten minutes before they were due. Now, a corrupted Word file isn't that rare of an occurrence. Everything was going just fine until one day I went to add some custom rules on creating people out of gold and cats when the most horrible of events befell me: I couldn't scroll past page thirty. Three hundred pages of (supposedly) flawless writing and enough tables to built a house. I had everything carefully ensconced in a Microsoft Word document.
It was going to be the best role-playing game in the world, one that used proper object-oriented concepts and only required a bit of calculus to play. (I'm not telling people how to write, but I thought there would be interesting for my reasons to use plain text files for writing.)Ī long time ago, probably a decade or so ago, I was writing my magnum opus (of the week).
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