Today, Patrick asks, who’s the most awesomest company you can work for in your field? Which company would be the equivalent of playing for the Montreal Canadiens in the 70s? Which would be like playing for them now?

I thought about it, and one of the first that sprang to mind was BioWare. There’s a company that in a bitch of an industry conditions-wise, manages to crank out top-notch games on their own terms, whilst succeeding in being a recognized leader in the area of quality of life. Of course, being in Edmonton, they could only ever hope to be the Oilers, not the Canadiens, but hey.

However, as you may know, BioWare was bought a couple of weeks ago by EA, arguably one of the most infamous games companies for quality of life issues. To some developers, this is like Luke joining forces with Vader. Yesterday Jonathan, a BioWare stockholder, received papers to sign related to the deal. We joked about his stopping the 860M$ deal by failing to return the signed documents on time, and thus becoming a grass-roots hero of game developers everywhere. We wondered how much of a loss he would be willing to take to nix the symbolism-heavy deal.

But no, BioWare will be absorbed into EA, thus motivating the question, if you define awesome by good conditions and quality products, who’s the awesomest NOW?

This blog’s not dead. I’m not at a loss for content, or words. I’m not over the whole blogging thing. Frankly I’ve never been more under it.

Thing is, there’s been more interesting stuff happening lately than pretty much anything I’ve written about in the past few years. Not just good interesting, either. Bad, sad, difficult interesting too, and that’s often when I feel like blogging about it the most, but unfortunately I really can’t. Not for a little while yet. But it’s also light-at-the-end-of-tunnel-exhilaration interesting as well.

Of course, there’s been the usual everyday stuff to blog about as well, but if I blog about Comet’s Scottish Halloween dress whilst ignoring the real stuff, I feel I’m really just making small talk. And I hate small talk.

But I miss writing, and cutting myself entirely off from the online community in order to avoid possibly having to skirt some issues, well, that’s overkill. So there you have it. I can’t talk about everything that’s going on, but I will eventually, and hopefully it’ll make for a good story.

In the meantime, not-so-small talk on other stuff.