This week I think I’m finally running out of steam with Rimworld. At this point I’m just selling Flake and collecting Vanometric power cells without any goals in mind.
On the other hand I did end up getting Helldivers 2. The over the top theming is fun and the game seems to be surprisingly well optimized, I also didn’t expect to like the Stratagem system but having a quick puzzle in the midst of combat really adds to the tension.
Anyway, so what are you guys doing this week.
Over the past week, I uninstalled World of Warcraft from my laptop, as I had proven everything I needed to regarding running WoW on Linux. I then spent the entire rest of the week trying to get Star Wars: The Old Republic running without ever achieving final success. SWTOR seems to be one of those things that either works immediately without problems or with very minor launch instruction additions…or it doesn’t work at all. I have increasingly run into things that “just work fine” on Linux until I try them, when I discover that the truth is “just works fine” comes with a ****load of caveats and assumptions. And Linux community-sourced support can literally tell you ANYTHING you would ever want to know about every possible problem you might ever have; at the expense of not ever being able to address the literal question you asked in a way that frames a useful experience going forward. I liken it to asking “how do I make a souffle?” and everyone answering “well, first I need you to go learn French or you won’t actually understand what’s going on or the instructions I would give you” or, unfortunately, the standard “why would you want to do THAT?”. Also, every discussion of a support issue WILL DEVOLVE into two separate arguments between two people trying to “help” about whether either is making the correct assumptions before attempting to provide and answer. Regardless, I erased my Windows installation and installed Linux on my main computer, this computer, last night.
Oh, and World of Warcraft released the newest expansion and broke some major game mechanics for two days.
Continue reading ⟩⟩ “Interesting Times”
This week has been uneventful. I’m still playing Rimworld, and later today I have a session of Call of Cthulhu.
Maybe if I get some money together I’ll buy Helldivers 2.
So what is everyone else doing this week?
It almost seems like a year has passed since last week; most of it in the past few days. This will be short one, and I mean it this time. The laptop is still running at 100% on Manjaro Linux. The biggest thing I learned this week is, when looking for a program, use the packages available in the AUR archive first. These seem to be more likely to have everything needed for an Arch Linux-based install set up already. It’s not an issue with everything, but I have found a couple of programs that wouldn’t work using the source package but did work using the AUR package.
Continue reading ⟩⟩ “So…what a week…”
This week I’m still playing Rimworld.
Right now my life consists of just playing Rimworld with the occasional game of Call of Cthulhu mixed in.
I did get the Royalty DLC before the summer sale ended. I haven’t gotten to in-depth yet, but I’m really enjoying the quest variety, and the psychic stuff is pretty cool.
What’s going on with everyone else?
A look back at one of my favorite games. The gameplay was stellar, but the underlying story was clumsy and oddly constructed.
Bethesda felt the need to jam a morality system into Fallout 3, and they blew it. Good and evil make no sense and the moral compass points sideways.
I scoured the Steam database to figure out what words were the most commonly used in game titles.
The Thieves Guild quest in Skyrim is a vortex of disjointed plot-holes, contrivances, and nonsense.
A programming project where I set out to make a gigantic and complex world from simple data.
There's a new graphics API in town. What does that mean, and why do we need it?
There are two major schools of thought about how you should write software. Here's what they are and why people argue about it.
What is this Vulkan stuff? A graphics engine? A game engine? A new flavor of breakfast cereal? And how is it supposed to make PC games better?
A look back at Star Trek, from the Original Series to the Abrams Reboot.
What does it mean when a program crashes, and why does it happen?
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