This week I am mortified to find I have forgotten to schedule this post. When I am not making an oops, I am playing the new Phasmaphobia update, which may account for my forgetting to do anything else. It’s still pretty buggy, but with 66% more equipment it’s a lot of stuff to explore. It’s neat.
What are you guys up to?
This will probably be a short update. I’ve done some re-configuring and reassessing of goals. Plus, my WiiU SD card spontaneously de-formatted itself (surely the fact that I was non-stop transferring Wii games 25GB at a time for three days straight had NOTHING to do with it). I had all my 8-16bit games on the SD card, so at this very moment I’m working on re-doing those systems through RetroArch for WiiU, which will hopefully allow me to transfer all the ROMS to the hard drive instead of keeping them on the SD Card. You guys should have the answer by the time I get to the end of this week’s article.
Continue reading ⟩⟩ “An Experiment in Retrogaming – Oops, Reassessments, and Future Plans”
I’m taking Thursday off, so no comic on Friday. Enjoy your holiday.
– Shamus, Wednesday Nov 22, 2006
Continue reading ⟩⟩ “DM of the Rings Remaster XXXIII: Stuffinged”
The year is 2018. Logan has graduated high-school and taking a gap year to work at his parents’ bookshop before going off to college. David applied for a job at the BookNook despite the fact they never actually advertised a job was available. They don’t have the funds or need for an employee, so they turn him down but invite him to still come hang out with Logan while he’s working.
The boys are disappointed. Logan reacts in a way that is still a little over-blown compared to someone a little older and wiser, but nothing unmanageable. He’s 18, and ‘the worst thing that’s ever happened to him’ remains a fairly mild list of things. His grandmother’s death was when he was too little to truly understand and be affected by it, and otherwise he’s got it pretty good. At one point in his mid-teens, he announced that something was the worst thing that ever happened to him. If you asked him now what it was, he wouldn’t even be able to tell you, and would be embarrassed he’d said it, but Logan saying it had made his parents beam with pride despite themselves. Not at him, necessarily, but the fact that something so minor was the worst. The phrase was a hormonal teenager having a moment of runaway emotions, but the win was there. Logan didn’t have anything worse to compare it to.
Continue reading ⟩⟩ “Sims 4 Overthinking: Flow Charts”
This week I am waiting impatiently for the Phasmophobia update. I’m still playing Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord but it’s nothing interesting, it’s just biding my time till I get get my hands on the cool new equipment they’re teasing for Phasmaphobia: Ascension.
What are you guys up to?
A big part of my “experiment” in retrogaming has been purely technical: just to see what I could do; even see what I could get away with. But that goal was meant to serve the idea of simplicity and aesthetics. Ideally, I would be able to play everything, up to a reasonable point, on one system. When that proved impossible, you add a system. And moving on, you only add complexity if absolutely necessary. I didn’t want to just set up an emulation PC, either. While that could, arguably, reduce the number of systems needed, it adds in a level of difficulty in control and integration that a console doesn’t have. That is, a PC isn’t really designed for simple, straightforward control on a TV; consoles are. And yes, there are MANY caveats, and many arguments to be made for how to mitigate this, and many opinions that are going to differ about how much of a problem, or even whether it *IS* a problem…but please accept that for me, this is not the solution I’m looking for.
Another major component of the experiment is to get away from my computer. I have spent a significant portion of my life in front of a computer screen, and I’m trying to find ways to reduce that time. Certainly you could argue that moving away from the computer screen to sit in front of a television screen isn’t much of an improvement, but I have learned that the key element to breaking any behavior-related addiction, or even just a behavior that is negatively affecting your life, is to change your routine.
Continue reading ⟩⟩ “An Experiment in Retrogaming: Coming To Terms”
– Shamus, Monday Nov 20, 2006
Continue reading ⟩⟩ “DM of the Rings Remaster XXXII: Fire Safety”
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