User blog:MC Scared of Bees/It's been...

...six weeks since I looked at, um, this site? Hrmf. No, no, the more I try to avoid it, the farther that sentence gets from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69cR9J-V-Qg. SAD FACE

I can't find the exact quote at the moment, but there is a saying about how certain people will spend time writing a program to perform a repetitive task, even if it would take longer to write the program than it would have taken to have done the task by hand.

Upside: I now have a fairly robust (I hope) toolchain pieced together, which takes a raw infodump and spits out wikitext. Whee.

Downsides: I now have to wrap my head around the particular Infobox formats I want for items, monsters, crafting, and so on. Additionally, somewhere (actually, two somewheres) along the way, I lose non-ASCII text. So, while I can tell you [about the Harb], "The grass which a mysterious smell makes. There is HP recovery effect.", I will not be able to tell you "不思議なにおいのする草. HP回復効果あり. ". And no, I'm not about to copy-and-paste the Japanese text ~500 times, sorry.