If only I could sleep I would be doing just that right at this very minute. Folks, that is apparently not the case. Going on 3 hours ago I went to bed. Here I sit before you in the flesh. What sucks is that I am supposed to be in class in under 4 hours. What sucks more is that I've been plain out good ol' fashion sick for the past 4 days or so now and I haven't gone to classes as is. What sucks even more is I have a program to turn in for said class. Why do I have this nagging feeling I'm not going to make it to class today?

As you all should know by now Snipe Hunt is out. If not...what rock have you been under? In VorTeX's text file (I actually read those things) he gives me a great big thanks for keeping things going here at Z Factor during his absence. My only response to that is...what else are friends for? Besides this is just as much mine as it is his. I just got 'stuck' with the job of frontman. That been said. I would like to thank VorTeX for his recent contributions to the site. Without him lately it would have been dead, if only temporarily, but dead none the less. I have spent the past three months in a poor state of health and now that I'm finally starting to get better in that respect I go and get real sick. Go fig. The point being that Z Factor is important to us all here. Even if we all aren't active in it at the same time it stands as a part of us all.

Lastly I have this little bit to share with you all. To any of you who have ever been told that spending most of you spare time online is a waste of life or even those of you who just plainly spend all your time here on the internet you can appreciate this more than you can imagine. I also encourage you to look at the rest of the site as it is most interesting to read. Visit the plan often and have a little insight into yet another crazed depressive fool's life.

Lord Bishop's Thought of the Day
Insanity doesn't come cheap.

That's right folks! Snipe Hunt, my take on the sniper war style map is now available for public consumption. I could babble on and on about it.. but why not just head on over to the downloads section and check it out for yourself?

Now that Snipe Hunt's been released.. be on the lookout for something new in that box over to the right... and be on the lookout for peaks into our new projects. VorTeX out.

VorTeX's Quote of the Moment
* LordBishop pets Dick
<LordBishop> ooppss bad bad bad
- LB getting silly in IRC

The Snipe Hunt playtest has come and gone, and much fun was had by all (as far as I could tell). Now I just need to take the feedback I get from the testers and make some final adjustments.. and it's looking like it's going to be released sometime this weekend! Woo!

A big huge thanks goes out to Bob for hosting the playtest. You can check out the page for his server on JFF Pup's site. A big thanks goes out to all the testers as well.

So yeah.. it's only a matter of days before Snipe Hunt sees the light of day.. Wahoo! Anyhow.. I guess that's it for now..

VorTeX's Quote of the Moment
"Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure." - Anonymous

Miss me? Oh fine I see how you are, you didn't even know I was gone?!?! BAH! There is hope for me yet I suppose. So last week stared spring break for me. Exciting no? I thought it was as it gave me a few days of much needed peace and quite. Of course I cross the county line of where home is and it starts snowing like that instant. You know SPRING break and it snows THAT day. Hell we stopped at Katie's house for a couple of hours and by the time we got back out to my car there were INCHES of snow on my car. Man I LOVE home.

As you should be able to see, VorTeX has reappeared once agian. Lets all get down and do a little dance. That makes more sense if you know VorTeX. And all things point to us for sure having a play test on his latest creation this week. Hopefully that is just a prelude to the release of the map to the general public. I mean we've tested this map twice before some time ago. On top of it he's already tested it a bit at a small LAN party recently. Which is where I *think* the current picture is from up top. Of course knowing me and my luck I'm probably wrong.

Does anyone know where I placed my motivation? Now that I am back at school I get to spend the rest of spring doing school work. Of course if I get all ambitious and get it done as quickly as possible I might be able to spend what is left of it doing something 'fun'. I use that word loosely these days as very few things bring me any kind of joy anymore. It's becoming rather pathetic if you ask me. Such is life I guess. Off to do *something* or another. BAH!

Lord Bishop's Scary Thought of the Day
Borg sitting in front of the computer nekked!

As if I was tempting fate with my last update.. March decided to whip out some jungle cat action and fuck up my computer. As always happens when I'm getting close to finishing Snipe Hunt, my computer was incapacitated for a time (in this case it was a little more than a week.. last time it was several months). Luckily, I got it all back up again because this was a small problem compared to last time. My OS just got corrupted this time.. last time the hard drive shorted out. Anyhoo.. got the big playtest for Snipe Hunt set up and ready to go.. so that's all going well. In my time without a computer I ended up writing about 15 poems.. so it wasn't a complete waste of time. Hmm.. I guess that's really all there is to say.

Till next time.. same batty time, same batty channel.

VorTeX's Quote of the Moment
"I'm so blind. Why can't I see that?" - Michael Arps

Some how I'm trying to figure out where the past week and a half went. I seem to have lost it somehwere, somehow. But I do have a bit of news to bring to you for once. Amazing isn't it? The first bit is that Snipe Hunt has finally made it into it's final testing state. Of course that came about Wednesday evening some time but I haven't seen VorTeX since then. Actually I didn't even see him then. He just left me an icq message while I wasn't around. So has anyone seen him? I think his little sister might have locked him in the closet and is keeping him barely alive by feeding him three day old Burger King french fries. She's malicious like that.

Now my real big news of the day. Hold onto your keyboard and your Mountain Dew cause this is just fucking down right unheard of. We, Z Factor Productions, king of the insanity, has a new member. Holy fuck you say? Yes precisely what I said. (you do read the topic of the post no?) Who is it that could be blessed with such an honor? He goes by the name AD Squirrel. Those of you who read the UBB will know who I'm talking about. And those of you who actually read what he says, you should be confused. Why? Let me enlighten you. He has NO mapping ability what-so-ever. Doesn't sound like that should fit in around here right? Wrong. We aren't all about mapping. So there! The reason he was brought onboard was two fold. A) He's as fucked up as we are and fits in well. B) He has more ideas than Bill Gates has monopolies. That actually was the big selling point. I just happen to be in need of an idea factory right at this very instant. Nice eh? I thought so too. So here's to the start of something new around here. Lets hope it sells once it's finished.

Lord Bishop's Answer to Everything
Kick it!

Hi kiddies!! Yea that's it...me being SO old and all. Speaking of age...my birthday is coming up. Yea that's right I'll be a whole 22 years old in 20 days. For those of you who can't do the math that's the 28th of this month. And for those of you who have a memory, VorTeX's birthday is precisely 2 months after mine. Why do I mention this? No fucking reason really. I pimped BatMaNGaL9's birthday last July so why can't I pimp mine?

So what is new around here? Well first of all I've discovered I'm as twisted as an individual as rumored. Some of you know this and some of you don't but I've been in a rather poor state of health lately. Let me tell you that it fucking *sucks* ass! But why would most of you care really? That's not the point. I was at the hospital having some tests done on me to help figure out precisely what is wrong with me. So they stick a needle in my arm to get some tubes of blood. I sit there and watch as the blood gushes out into the tube and chuckle. I have no clue why that struck me as humorous but it just goes to show you how fucked up I am. I'm sure the nurse thought there was something wrong with me. Who cares...at least I can still laugh once and awhile. Here's to hoping they actually find out what is wrong with me physically, mentally is a lost cause.

Uh news...yea that's what this page is labled as no? So that means I *should* post some kind of news here. So let me see. I'll rumage around in my 100 e-mails a day I get for news. I'm lying you know. I'm lucky to get AN e-mail a day, let alone 100 pertaining to something of importance. Hell the only e-mail I've gotten for the past two days was from my professor about something I asked her about. Lucky me eh? Oh wait fuck I was going to give you news wasn't I? I think I lied there too. I can't think of a damn thing to say. Hell I usually already have my parody of the day picked out before I update and here I am almost done and I have no clue what to say. Fack! Such is life. Behold the great wonders of my mind.

Lord Bishop's Fuck Up of the Day
I actually got out of bed this morning...bad idea.

Welp.. March certainly hasn't come in like a lion.. so I don't know what the hell that proverb was thinking.. So yeah.. now comes a little rant about the futility of my life right now..

I sit here every day and just stare at the computer screen.. so often I do absolutely nothing.. not cuz there's nothing to do.. just that there's nothing worth doing. School right now is just me going through the motions.. I literally am just blowing through it like it's absolutely nothing.. I'm probably getting a perfect report card for the first time ever.. and I feel like I've accomplished absolutely nothing. What's with that? Shouldn't I be happy that I've got my best grades I've ever had? Or is that I finally feel like there's no challenge in school so that just makes my life suck? Hrm.. then there's my social life.. I feel like I'm pushing some of my friends away cuz I dunno.. it's like I don't want them to be infected by my depressed mood. I could've gone over to my friend's house yesterday and played some Quake 2 or something. Instead, I sat on my ass and watched some basketball (Buckeyes beat the Gophers, became co-champions of the Big Ten).. I usually would never turn down an offer of LAN gaming.. wtf? And then I end up sitting at home watching my sis while my mom goes out and has some fun.. and another friend calls up and asks if I wanna come over and play Counterstrike at his house. Figures.. I would've actually done it.. but nooooo.. I'm watching my sister. Blah. Then there's mapping.. I'm down to the last little details on Snipe Hunt.. so why the hell don't I just do them and put a fork in it cuz it's done? I mean it's like a good 15-30 minutes of work and I'll feel like it's done. Instead I sit on my ass, playing some solitaire, and mindlessly surfing the web.

I hate the weekends.. never anything to do.. always just a long string of depression.

VorTeX's Quote of the Moment
"Pain is inevitable. Suffering is a choice." - I forget who

It's that time again.. it's time to clean off the news page and start piling up a fresh batch of insane rantings from Lord Bishop and myself. Of course you can catch all of the wonderful February memories in the archives.. we wouldn't want you to miss any of that stuff.. now would we? :)

Well.. the UBB has been a bit active lately.. so more of you oughta come on in and see what's up :P

I'm wondering why so many of my friends are depressed.. hell even my ex-girlfriend was depressed.. do I have something that draws me to such people? Sometimes I ponder the idea that it's my fault.. but that doesn't last long cuz I know I'm not that powerful of a person.. and life's the only thing that can crush a person's emotions like that. I wonder all this because I'm in a semi-depressed state lately and it scares me to think I could be just one false step away from some awful abyss. Oh well.. as it is I've finally resolved myself to the process of getting on with my life.. so I should really start doing it in a week or two as usual. :/

Snipe Hunt is dangerously close to completion.. I'm trying to round up the people & resources for playtesting right now.. if you're interested in playtesting/hosting/anything else.. please please please e-mail me. I guess that's it..

VorTeX's Quote of the Moment
"Asking questions is far preferable to hoping to stumble over the answers."