T w e n t y S i d e d
I had a different post drafted for this week about the Sims 4 live mode and how broken it is. But instead another migraine. I’d power through but looking at screens is making me throw up. Next week less pain, more complaining.
Wednesday Action Log 4-3-24
This week I’m playing Graveyard Keeper. I don’t have a lot to say about it, I don’t like how blatant some of the references are, and I’m having fun working my way up the tech tree. I also finished Wind Waker.
What are you guys playing?
ADHD on my mind
I have undiagnosed ADHD. Pretty sure I had it as a kid, but I was raised by parents and in a community in which such an idea was originally eschewed because that was considered a mental illness, and normal people don’t get mental illnesses. By the time I was a young adult, there was grudging acceptance that SOME kinds of mental affectations, disorders, or behaviors COULD occur, but probably you could avoid them by raising your kids right and generally not indulging the seven deadly sins. And boy is that a topic for another time. As the diagnosing of ADHD in children increased from the late 1980’s into the 2000’s; it became a political issue. Those who believed themselves to be “normal, traditional Americans” came to believe ADHD diagnosis were “crutches” used by parents and teachers to avoid doing their job. I’m sure you all have seen some variation on the meme “There’s no such thing as ADHD. If you had a gun to your head, you would study.”
No. I would be dead, asshole. It doesn’t work like that, and people refuse to learn. But I was RAISED believing it was all BS, so problems I had related to ADHD were clearly moral or intellectual failings on either my parents or myself, and my parents were pretty damned clear it wasn’t THEIR fault. That I carried the lessons learned from this into parenting myself is another long discussion, but for the matter at hand, as usual, it means I couldn’t write what I wanted to write this week. Thank God it wasn’t depression-related this time, as I would be in bed right now or stuffing food into my face instead of writing…which I DO really want to do. So we’re gonna talk about other things this week.
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DM of the Rings remastered LXV: Gross Misallocation of Resources
By Peter T Parker
Posted Sunday Mar 31, 2024
Filed under: DM of the Rings Remaster, Random
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Sims 4 Overthinking: It’s Trash
The headache has passed for the most part, and now we may return to working on the apartment.
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Wednesday Action Log 3-27-24
This week has been eventful.
I’ve played more Wind Waker and I believe I’m near the end of the game; I’ve gotten almost all of the heart pieces and treasure charts. I probably would have finished by now but my cat is a menace and I got to learn that my GPU wasn’t aquatic. I hope that my new graphics card is waterproof and that no other parts of my computer becomes SpongeBob’s new neighbor.
On a better note I also played Teardown, I’m absolutely delighted with it, I thought I would get bored with the puzzles, but just about the time I’m getting sick of one mission type it changes things up with a new location or goal, it was also surprisingly fun realizing that instead of going around everything you can just remove it with anything from your sledgehammer to just a chunk of a wall. Also the game is beautiful, the lighting is great and it’s extremely fun to watch objects made of voxels crumble.
The Menace in question. (Her name is Betty Blasphemy)
SWTOR: Rix’larril’an of the Ascendancy 2.04 – Crazy Train
Brengle says we will have to override the security for the MOST-top-secret-labratory at three different consoles that have the proper clearance. The first is in the busy warehouse we passed a few minutes ago, the second is at the heavily-guarded power station next to the warehouse, and the third is at a lookout station next to the power station. Disabling those systems will give us access to a building in the first courtyard next to the goal of our search for Duchess Sarnova’s missing men.
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From The Archives:
The Best of 2016
My picks for what was important, awesome, or worth talking about in 2016.
The Death of Half-Life
Valve still hasn't admitted it, but the Half-Life franchise is dead. So what made these games so popular anyway?
Playstation 3
What was the problem with the Playstation 3 hardware and why did Sony build it that way?
Project Octant
A programming project where I set out to make a Minecraft-style world so I can experiment with Octree data.
DM of the Rings
Both a celebration and an evisceration of tabletop roleplaying games, by twisting the Lord of the Rings films into a D&D game.
Black Desert Online
This Korean title would be the greatest MMO ever made if not for the horrendous monetization system. And the embarrassing translation. And the terrible progression. And the developer's general apathy towards its western audience.
Video Compression Gone Wrong
How does image compression work, and why does it create those ugly spots all over some videos and not others?
Dead Island
A stream-of-gameplay review of Dead Island. This game is a cavalcade of bugs and bad design choices.
Gamers Aren’t Toxic
This is a horrible narrative that undermines the hobby through crass stereotypes. The hobby is vast, gamers come from all walks of life, and you shouldn't judge ANY group by its worst members.
Was it a Hack?
A big chunk of the internet went down in October of 2016. What happened? Was it a hack?