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?
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.
Continue reading ⟩⟩ “ADHD on my mind”
The headache has passed for the most part, and now we may return to working on the apartment.
Continue reading ⟩⟩ “Sims 4 Overthinking: It’s Trash”
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.
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.
Continue reading ⟩⟩ “SWTOR: Rix’larril’an of the Ascendancy 2.04 – Crazy Train”
In the comments of the previous strip, I said, “In hindsight, the ideal thing would have been to cast Aragorn as a dumb, distracted stoner. He spends about half of the movie blinking very, very slowly. I can come up with a shot of him looking baked or mouth-open stoopid in just about any scene. I should make a “I am so high” montage out of all these shots.“
The amount of screen time he spends in a vacant stare or a prolonged blink is sort of alarming. I’ve come to think of him as Stareagorn.
Continue reading ⟩⟩ “DM of the Rings Remastered LXIV: A Shocking Revelation”
People were so worried about the boring gameplay of The Old Republic they overlooked just how boring and amateur the art is.
What does it mean when a program crashes, and why does it happen?
Here is a 13 part series where I talk about programming games, programming languages, and programming problems.
Since we're rebooting everything, MASH will probably come up eventually. Here are some casting suggestions.
C++ is a wonderful language for making horrible code.
Be careful what you learn with your muscle-memory, because it will be very hard to un-learn it.
Even allegedly smart people can make life-changing blunders that seem very, very obvious in retrospect.
I scoured the Steam database to figure out what words were the most commonly used in game titles.
An unhinged rant where I maybe slightly over-reacted to the water torture of Souls evangelism.
Here's how this site grew from short essays to novel-length quasi-analytical retrospectives.
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