This week has been just Deep Rock Galactic.
It’s just a good game. I thought I would have more to say, but I still have some effects from being sick so brain no work. After I’m done writing this I am going to try R.E.P.O. which as far as I can tell is like Lethal Company, but with more physics.
What’s everyone else doing this week?
I have ordered new glasses! That probably shouldn’t be such an accomplishment but I was raised in a very rural area and usually had to travel quite a bit to achieve a glasses prescription and a new pair of frames and lenses. Beyond that I was raised in a frugal, cash-strapped but not-really-poor household, so everything was typically pushed as far as it could go. While finances could probably have sorted out a new pair of glasses, which I’ve needed for a while, before now; *other* things just kept taking priority whether they should have or not. Honestly my new prescription is only slightly different from the previous one dated around 2020. However I should also share that I’m not currently wearing my current prescription. The glasses I got in that prescription were poorly-made and uncomfortable and the lenses got damaged early on. The prior glasses were the same prescription, but I was insistent on getting a style that didn’t support my prescription and just couldn’t be worn all day…they were just too small. That was my fault. So mostly for the past three years I’ve been wearing some glasses from *two* prescriptions ago, that also happen to be very sturdy. Sure, I have trouble focusing on small print and have to adjust where the glasses sit on my nose to see things (this prompted two experiments in bifocal transition lens that did not work; they gave me a headache), but I can drive safely. Or at least, that’s what I tell people. Hopefully this will help with my “hunching” problem at the computer, too.
Continue reading ⟩⟩ “Final Fantasy 1 (part 004)”
This week I’ve ended up playing a bit of solo Deep Rock Galactic.
Just some good old space dwarves mining, and shooting bugs.
I’m also killing time until Infinity Nikki updates.
What’s everyone else playing this week?
The next Final Fantasy 1 Pixel Remaster session, below the fold:
Continue reading ⟩⟩ “Final Fantasy 1 (part 003)”
I had a weird week. Even as I wrote this I heard a bang that sounded *exactly* like a box of chicken strips falling to the ground because an overactive cat knocked it over. All week has been like that. We don’t even have boxes of chicken strips in the house very often, and this one was especially-well-protected…but the cat just tried to pull the box of chicken strips out from under the bottles of cleaner weighing it down. I was, believe it or not, actually well myself this past week but ended up driving people to doctor appointments, or picking up meds, or driving people to other appointments, or installing someone’s multifunction printer that is used almost entirely for printing from an Apple iPad, and other things I’m probably not even remembering right now. Oh, and picking up a car from a mechanic and working on another one; neither of those was hard. I have been trying to stay out of my office when I don’t need to be in here, and while that’s helping a lot of things I’m not sure it’s been good for my productivity on computer-related issues. The jury is still out on that issue.
Infinity Nikki has been added to Steam as a “Coming Soon” title, however it is still listed as using kernel-level anticheat, ACE. Just adding a title to Steam doesn’t automatically overcome the issues kernel-level anticheat introduces for Linux users, but I noticed Steam Deck support is still listed as “unknown” so I’ve chosen to believe Valve is possibly going to introduce a work-around…and there is a decent chance this will eventually find its way to Linux.
I have been catching up on Foxmaster‘s “self-aware” Lara Croft, as I noticed he upgraded to the remastered editions (the “official” remasters) somewhere around Tomb Raider III. Foxmaster is almost done with III at this point, and I believe he has already posted some “shorts” footage from IV. I still recommend these videos, although Foxmaster did stop providing updates on the game-playing routine. The bloopers reel he does for every level still gives some insights into the iterative processes needed, but honestly getting Lara through any given level is as much a matter of luck as it is scripting polish. The Lara Croft “commentary” is still created the same way as initially outlined, with the updates I’ve already talked about to increase the speed of level generation. Again, the bloopers reels provide some insight into the various ways commentary can go on any given playthrough. Occasionally the output included in the bloopers is better than the produced video. Foxmaster usually points this out as regrettable. As far as I can tell he tries very hard to make the produced video be the product of a single actual playthrough to maintain consistency…and this means sometimes better results are left on the cutting-room floor, so to speak.
Incidentally, while I’ve been a big fan of Brother laser printers for personal use (multifunction or otherwise), I will point out that the process for getting a new one going is *not* currently as good as HP’s or Canon’s. IMO, of course; that is based on how my own mind works and others may interpret the instructions differently. It took a few tries to get started, but did work in the end. On an unrelated note, I will also need to setup a new iPad soon. This is purely because the old one is a 32GB model that needs its entire memory cleaned out in order to install the latest (as of a year ago, I’m guessing) update.
I’ll be adding another post tomorrow when I’ve had some time to sit and relax for a while. Sorry about the split post; hope everyone had a great weekend!
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