Joe's WT-LORD  News and Events Letter     

NEWS ARCHIVES ARE HERE

 

Monday, March 14, 2005 04:10 PM

 

Hi WT-LORD Fans and Players ...

I finally have some news for people out there.
Regardless of what you've been told I have really been
working about 16 to 18 hours a day for the last
2 1/2 months. The bad news is that I don't get paid extra
for the overtime. That's the bad thing about being paid
a salary.

 

Good News is that new additions to the Trailer House
are in progress at this time.

 

Fixed a major problem in the Backyard of the Trailer House.
The Grill is now hot and ready to bar-b-que ... oh yeah!

 

YES ... finally the Aliens are invading the Trailer and
trying to genetically re-engineer it's Trailer Trash
occupants. It might be good or bad depending
a variety of things if you meet up with them.

 

The Baywatch bunch are also taking up residence at
The Trailer House .... David Hasslehoff and Alexandra Paul
have already been spotted near the hot tub in the backyard!
Pleasure and Fun can't be to far away now huh? ....

 

Life is good and all Trailer Trash shall REJOICE!


Until we meet again,

Swig another Margarita my brethren!

 

 

HINT HINT HINT:
 

Q: Why won't the "key" in the Trailer House open doors?
Is the IGM broke or what??

A: Okay people, one last time. You need to take your
keys to the sink and wash them ... you found them on the
Trailer House floor and they are dirty with nasty goo on
them. I'd be they would even glow under a black light
and you all know what that means .... they were all probably
EX-MOTEL KEYS .... YUCK......

 

Many times I've been asked about this acronym
in "Joseph's Revenge" ...

The hint: D**** D**** D*** D*** C****

The answer: David Ducks Does Dazy Crazy ...

Just kidding ... it's "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap"

 

 



20 QUESTIONS:

The questions this time will be asked by Joseph Watson and answered by
Allan Benjamin aka "YAMA" from his igloo near Buffalo, New York!
That's right people, he's a "Yorkie" .... yeah ... but read the interview
below and you'll find out AB is a good guy!

 

 

 

1. Q: How did you become involved in the programming of WT-LORD?

A: (Allan Benjamin): I kind of fell into it :-). Joe Marcelletti and I were dabbling in
wcCODE and had made a few common apps (CB verifiers, registries, etc) and
we were playing LORD one day and on a whim decided to give Seth a call and
see if he'd let us give it a try.

*** I take he did and you did and hence forth we all did ... JW ***

 

2. Q: What Character name/'s do you use when Playing WT-LORD?

A: (Allan Benjamin): I always play as "Yama", my alias since the first time I played LORD on
CastleBBS in Northern NJ. The names Sonix or Yama are protected (hehe) so
if you see either of those names, it is Joe M. or I respectively.

*** Are you guys buddies with THE DOJO CLAN? JW .... ***

 

3. Q: Which IGM is your favorite and why?

A: (Allan Benjamin): Our Town is one of my favorites. It's a classic and adds a subtle
dimension to the game (I almost habitually visit it when a game has it
installed). Another was the Dark Swamp, an IGM my wife and I put together,
but it never went public.
 

 

4. Q: How much time do you spend online? and doing what?

A: (Allan Benjamin): Too much, like most people :-). More than half of it is due to work.
The rest is research, play, boredom, curiosity and outright addiction.

 

 

5. Q: What is your favorite food?

A: (Allan Benjamin): It's a tie between Tex-Mex and Thai. I tend to graze on Thai when I'm
overseas since I have yet to find a good place here in the 'states.

 

 

6. Q: What do you do for a real job and do you like it?

A: (Allan Benjamin): I'm a (ok, let's see what the business card says today) Six Sigma
Technology Applications Specialist. Titles mean nothing; I'm a programmer
for IBM/Lotus systems and the webmaster for several B2B websites.

I truly love my job and I feel like I accomplish a lot.
 

 

7. Q: Where do you live?

A: (Allan Benjamin): In the snowy wastes of Western NY about 10 miles outside of Buffalo.


 

 

8: Q: Do you possess the source code to WT-LORD?  If so, can you fix some
of the bugs in the game?

A: (Allan Benjamin): I do not possess the source code in its entirety. Unfortunately I left
IceRage prematurely (around release 2.4) and all I possess is some printed
copies on yellowing paper sitting in a filing cabinet somewhere.

Given the proper motivation and resources (time, mainly), I'd restart the
project - rekindle it (client server maybe? Something modern with the same
feeling).

 

 

9: Q: What's your educational background?

A: (Allan Benjamin): I'm a statisical drop-out. I hold a GED and am working on my degree in
Computer Science in between work and family. I study a lot on my own aside
from school. There's a lot to know.
 

 

10. Q: What's your favorite Movie?

A: (Allan Benjamin): Star Wars: A New Hope
 

 

 

11. Q: To what level did Mark Bappe contribute to the programming of
WT-LORD?

 

A: (Allan Benjamin): Mark gave us a lot of useful critique and shared his experiences with
us. He was an asset to our development initiative for WT-LORD.
 

 

12. Q: Are you a Pro Wrestling Fan?

A: (Allan Benjamin): No. Never touched the stuff. Too much like a soap opera.
Needs more of the other gender. then I'd watch

*** I think it's about 90% near naked women now ... JW ***


 

13. Q: Do you drink? If so, what's your favorite drink?

A: (Allan Benjamin): I occasionally will have a Corona or a Margarita, but I don't drink
much. At parties I usually am the designated bartender.
 

 

 

14. Q: Who do you consider to be the "Hottest Babe" in the world? We would
also like to see a picture of hopefully her....

 

A: (Allan Benjamin): KIRSTEN DUNST . but if my wife asks, it's her :-)
 

Actress Kirsten Dunst

*** Kirsten looks like a girl in the WWE ... oh yeah! ... JW ***

 

*** Below are some of my personal choices ... JW ***

 

Grace Park from Battlestar Galactica Amanda Swisten - Actress, Model and Hot Babe! Angelina Jolie - Every Man's Fantasy Babe! Singer Deborah Gibson - Now Playboy Model

Torri Higginson - Stargate Atlantis - Dr. Weir Rachel Luttrell - Teyla on Stargate Atlantis Gillian Anderson - The X-Files Goddess Katie Lohmann - Playboy Playmate and Actress Tricia Helfer - the HOT SEXUAL CYLON "Number 6" on Battlestar Galactica

My girls ... clockwise from top left: Grace Park, Amanda Swisten, Angelina Jolie
Debbie Gibson, Tricia Helfer, Katie Lohmann, Gillian Anderson, Rachel Luttrell and Torri Higginson.

Each are "AWESOME" in every way .... so says Big Daddy X!

 

15. Q: How old are you?

A: (Allan Benjamin): XXVI, adding another "I" in August.

 


 

16. Q: If you the world was ending today,
what would be your last "HOORAY"?

A: (Allan Benjamin): I'd see how far up I can run my Corporate Amex in one day (and I'd
invite all my friends to help)
 

 

17. Q: What's your all-time favorite Music Group?

A: (Allan Benjamin):The Tea Party
A Canadian band; very Zepplin-esque with a Mideastern undertone.
http://www.teaparty.com (sorry for the plug, but they rock)
 

 

18. Q: What's a day in your life like?

A: (Allan Benjamin): There's some of the usual monotony, but not without the entropy and
chaos. With work, wife and kids it tends gets interesting.

Can't be too bad, I get up every morning and do it again :-)

 

 

 

19. Q: If you could find out the secret to any section
of any of my IGMS ... what would it be?

 

A: (Allan Benjamin): Not sure.
But I'd like to know how you keep coming out with IGMs for WT-LORD. It
takes a lot of motivation to develop for such an "aged" game.

*** My take is, "If I don't do it, the game with surely DIE ... not cool!" .. JW ***

 

20. Q: What's your marriage status?

A: (Allan Benjamin): Happily married to a girl I met on a BBS. We've known each other for 10
years and have been married for seven.

 

 

BONUS QUESTION:

Q: Tell us your thoughts on UFOs and Bigfoot ...
 

A: (Allan Benjamin): A: Bigfoot: a crock. If you wanna see bigfoot, hang around a Payless for a
while. One is bound to walk in.

VS.
WILL THE REAL BIGFOOT PLEASE STAND UP!

UFOs: I've seen some things in the sky along with my family and friends
that defy explanation. One of my friends is ex-Airforce and the other's
hobby is meteorology.
Both could not explain some of the things we've seen.

So I guess you could say that I'm quite open to the idea.

 

Allan, I'd like to thank you for your open answers to our
questions this month. It's been nice interviewing you and
thanks a bunch for volunteering for the interview.

 

Other players wishing to be interviewed should contact me!

NEXT MONTH: ..... NO ONE YET! Get er' done people!


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