T w e n t y S i d e d
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?
Wednesday Action Log 7-24-24
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
Wednesday Action Log 7-10-24
This week I’ve been playing Call of Cthulhu with my friend group. It’s going pretty well, I’ve managed to not go insane or receive any major injuries. The only time I’ve actually gotten injured was from another player that missed a shot so badly that I got hit in the arm.
I also by chance happened to stumble upon the Necronomicon. Luckily I didn’t try to read it because the player that did try to read it went through the nine layers of Hell. Amazingly he managed to escape with only amnesia, a fear of the dark, and just barely avoiding permanent insanity.
Other than that I’m still playing Rimworld, but now I have the Ideology DLC. I didn’t realize until I got the DLC that it contained a bunch of features that allow me to play the way I kept trying to play, e.g., trying to live underground, collecting as many bionic parts as possible, having a group of bandits that don’t get really sad the moment a prisoner dies. I haven’t even gotten to experiment too much due to the fact that making a religion from scratch takes a while.
So anyway, what are you guys doing this week?
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