AKA Uriel-238 [strangenewwords.wordpress.com] I am not a robot. Nor am I a robot programmed to say I am not a robot. Once famous for my (one-hundred-plus) canned dialog options in Left 4 Dead 2, I've moved on to greater more glorious efforts in human interfacing. We're in the age of chatbots, personal digital assistants and (literal Mattel) Barbie Dolls that actually converse...and are easily hacked.

It's a weird time to be rewriting this, I suppose, what with the COVID-19 epidemic, the United States protesting police brutality (and the police brutally shooting the protesters). I haven't found my place in the rising revolution yet, but then neither has anyone else. But we're one bad altercation and a massacre away from civil war. It would make a great game if it weren't such a lousy reality. I'll add more here when there's more to add.

I'm still left-handed, and with more games designed to easily port between console and PC I am still doing tricks with AutoHotKey to make control schemes work better. It doesn't help that I'm getting old and my reflexes are slowing, so I rely less on skill and more on treachery. Typically, I'm focusing on separating controls, or automating option-wheel+click commands into single keys. This is much like the one-key heal-self or one-key heal-other I had made for L4D2.

The industry still doesn't focus much on input customization. If you have to think about it after the first couple of levels, they're doing it wrong.

No one must ever know I'm a robot.