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DM of the Rings Remastered LXXXIV: Keeping Score
Wednesday Action Log 8-14-24
This week I’ve finally picked up Crypt of the NecroDancer.
I’m not a very big fan of rhythm games but I do enjoy a good Roguelike. I’ve only gotten to zone 3 and I can’t play too much at a time or my hand will cramp. I’m also kind of tempted to get the Hatsune Miku DLC but I should probably play a bit more before doing that.
I also started playing Alice: Madness Returns. I don’t know why I didn’t play it before, I’ve been aware of the game for a while and I’m quite fond of the Alice in Wonderland aesthetic, also the horror mixed in is really cool. Rhe game did need a few text file changes to get a frame rate above 30 but after that I’ve had no problems. Also the physics of Alice’s hair are quite impressive for 2011.
Anyway, what are you guys up to?
Finished!
In case you missed the very last line of last week’s post, I was able to get Star Wars: The Old Republic running on my Linux laptop. Despite knowing that the graphics architecture in the laptop is actually not fully supported in the kernel any longer, this still gave me a lot of hope moving forward. The first reason is because the driver implementation is not necessarily rigidly separated. That is, many of the driver-enabled features of a chip made using GCN 5 are going to be more similar to the subsequent architecture than the oldest versions of the older architecture. That is part of the reason I was able to do things with the laptop in gaming that I couldn’t do with my older GCN 1 cards. The second reason is the specific reason I was able to take the game from non-running to running; something I had seen reference to a few times but didn’t *fully* understand: I installed a custom “Proton” layer for use by Steam. I talked about what Proton is last week. There are community-supported custom versions that allow Proton to be more compatible with the average Linux installation on your home computer, rather than being designed specifically for SteamOS (and/or the Steam Deck.) The next morning I tried installing MANY games that are either favorites or just seemed interesting, and was able to get every single one to start up and play. Having conquered this last challenge, I started *seriously* looking for the one thing I needed to finish an up-to-date, fully-functioning computer: a video card.
Continue reading ⟩⟩ “Finished!”
DM of the Rings LXXXIII: Ladder Game
Wednesday Action Log 8-7-24
This week I’m playing Dome Keeper: a little Roguelike with mining and defending your dome from shadow creatures. I’m having fun with the game and its simple but engaging gameplay loop. There isn’t a lot of variety imposed by the game between runs, it mostly comes from what dome and gadget you decide to bring with you. There are also assignments you can do, but they mostly consist of resources being rarer but rocks are easier to break or delivering 200 iron in 30 minutes. So far my favorite gadgets have been the Droneyard and the Drilling Rig but I should probably experiment with a few more different gadgets than I have been.
I’m also still playing Helldivers 2 I don’t have a lot to say. It’s a good game and it’s just updated and the new Terminid enemy is mean to me, and I don’t appreciate being crushed by it.
So what are you guys doing?
Step By Step
Gonna be a bit “train-of-thought” today. OK. *More* train-of-thought than usual. At least as I start writing. I’m still on the Linux project. I have learned how to do many things, and even recently learned that I have been largely wasting my time getting games to run on my PC. The laptop is still doing great…it just gets better and better. I have completed converting all of my external drives to EXT4 from NTFS, with all but 2.5 TB of files transferred back to their customary locations. Part of that involved starting a PC build to accommodate the upgraded hardware that is the only way to solve the gaming problem. And as I write I am testing once more an install of Star Wars: The Old Republic on my laptop, as I have been unable to find a known, definitive reason to explain why it hasn’t worked yet. Other than it’s an old game with a clunky design, and my laptop is based on one of the *least* supported Ryzen integrated architectures.
Continue reading ⟩⟩ “Step By Step”
DM of the Rings Remastered LXXXII: Have Fireball, Will Travel
Wizards: Work smarter, not harder.
Fighters: Not smarter, hit harder.
Rogues: Lie smarter, steal hardware.
Bards: Sing harder, get- ow! oh geeze! Fine, I’ll stop singing! Quit hitting me already!
Continue reading ⟩⟩ “DM of the Rings Remastered LXXXII: Have Fireball, Will Travel”
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