T w e n t y S i d e d
Sometimes initiative is a little odd.
– Shamus Wednesday Mar 28, 2007
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DM of the Rings Remastered LXXXI: Let’s Get Rolling
Wednesday Action Log 7-24-24
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?
So…what a 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.
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DM of the Rings Remastered LXXX: Strange Bedfellows
Wednesday Action Log 7-17-24
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?
Linux: So Tantalizingly Close to Prime Time…
As promised last week, I will be talking about the Linux Switchover Project. And that’s literally the first time I have used that phrase, but I guess it’s accurate. The past week has been full of trials, tribulations, cursing, depression, and few successes. Most importantly, the laptop *is still running Linux*, and is doing more things *now* than it was a week ago. In fact, it has been running the same distribution and flavor since…Monday, I think. I probably could have been running the distribution and flavor I started with if had known then what I know now. I think that’s where I will start; with what I have learned that affects some underlying assumptions and rules.
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DM of the Rings Remastered LXXIX: AD&D and ADD
From The Archives:
The Gameplay is the Story
Some advice to game developers on how to stop ruining good stories with bad cutscenes.
Best. Plot Twist. Ever.
Few people remember BioWare's Jade Empire, but it had a unique setting and a really well-executed plot twist.
Good to be the King?
Which would you rather be: A king in the middle ages, or a lower-income laborer in the 21st century?
The Game That Ruined Me
Be careful what you learn with your muscle-memory, because it will be very hard to un-learn it.
Resident Evil 4
Who is this imbecile and why is he wandering around Europe unsupervised?
Trashing the Heap
What does it mean when a program crashes, and why does it happen?
This is Why We Can’t Have Short Criticism
Here's how this site grew from short essays to novel-length quasi-analytical retrospectives.
Object-Disoriented Programming
C++ is a wonderful language for making horrible code.
Mass Effect 3 Ending Deconstruction
Did you dislike the ending to the Mass Effect trilogy? Here's my list of where it failed logically, thematically, and tonally.
Secret of Good Secrets
Sometimes in-game secrets are fun and sometimes they're lame. Here's why.