In the game industry, Gold Master is the CD you send to the publisher that will be used to print all the other CD's. We sent the offline, single-player Uru gold master disc to Ubisoft today. Now we wait to hear if it's approved. It's been a crazy month or more of very long days and very long weeks. Bug fixes, last minute features, final arguments, etc. Those late-night checkin emails can be loads of fun...So, without further adieu, I bring you:

Musings Overheard on the Way to Gold Master

"Made the human brain rewind the idle behavior when it resumes."

"The proper fix would require creating a black hole inside the bucket which would turn Teledahn inside-out and stretch the avatar until he was the width of a human hair."

"Defensive scripting was a bit too defensive."

"Another critical fix to [stuff] that is completely going away tomorrow."

"If the other linking books were working they might crash as well."