This week I’m still playing Deep Rock Galactic.
I’ve started playing it with my sibling, so now since we don’t have Bosco, it’s just both of us scrambling to get the high up minerals and falling a lot. Despite that, it’s quite a lot fun with another person.
I also Finally got around to beating the last boss in Cult of the Lamb.
What going on with everyone else?
I made it half-way through the current Galactic Season in Star Wars The Old Republic this week. I was thinking it’s only been a month since it started, but after checking some dates it’s actually been…about six weeks. Pretty sure I’m on track to finish Season 8 in about the same time as Season 7. I *have* been a bit lucky having at least two weeks in the last three giving enough objectives that I can do with pick-up groups or alone to finish the weekly objective counter. There is one short daily that is the same every time: get 25,000 Conquest Points (simple). The weekly list is seven items, of which I can usually do five without taking extra steps. This past week had four World Bosses. The lowest level-bosses can be two-personed, and some claim they have or at least seen someone solo them. I’ve been part of groups of four and six that beat these World Bosses with no particular problem; so while *I* probably couldn’t do with less I’m sure it’s possible. Since I typically don’t group and I’m not a member of a guild, I usually just camp the World Boss until another group shows up and then I join in. Occasionally enough players playing solo arrive over time to enable taking out a world boss. (I have rarely tried objectives that are PvP-adjacant, and this method can work, too. Like attacking the guards of the enemy faction’s base, etc.)
I have also, for the record, just about had it with my nearest Sonic (the fast food drive-in, just to be clear). I don’t know if they all get ingredients from the same source; some franchises have more control over this then others. But our nearest, local one changed all their chicken products for cheaper, lower-quality options a couple of years ago. This took them from the “decent” realm of fast-food chicken strips and patties to the “yucky” tier. They started implementing their “Smash” burgers several months ago, which I find inferior to their previous burgers. Their “Groovy” fries are of lower quality than the previous offering. And the other night I ordered one of their “toaster” burgers and was thoroughly unimpressed with the tastelessness. I just don’t see a point to eating there any more. Half the ordering screens are damaged and/or removed. I was made aware that someone “somehow” rammed into the side of the building recently, as there is a new hole about pickup-bumper height (makes sense for this region). I somehow doubt it was an accident.
Continue reading ⟩⟩ “Final Fantasy 1 (part 008) – Earth Crystal and What’s Next”
This week I’ve been playing more Cult of the Lamb.
Still going well. My favorite follower so far has been this little bunny guy who just writes poetry as one of his traits, he doesn’t build or worship, just poetry.
I’m pretty far into the game now with the fourth area cleared, and probably kill last boss, assuming that there’s not some extra final boss like in Enter the Gungeon.
I’m also still playing Deep Rock Galactic. The easter event started the other day so now I get to hunt down robot bunnies that inevitably got lost by the cargo ship.
What’s every one else playing this week?
We’re approaching my one-year anniversary with using Linux full time. I’ll probably write a bit more about it then, but I did help a family member get started over the last few weeks. Because they had concerns about certain games not working, the first attempt was adding a Manjaro Linux partition to an existing Windows 11 install. (A recent Windows update had introduced regular freezing issues on their almost-new Asus 2024 TUF Gaming laptop, which was a major instigator of the switch to Linux.) While office apps and some games worked, we quickly found out that gaming installs were weakest on a dual-boot system…or at least on a dual-boot system that didn’t use Linux as the first and primary partition. I.e. if you just shrink the Windows partition and add Linux, a lot of games won’t work. So we wrote down the Bitlocker number for the system and played with installing several different distributions on a full wipe of the hard drive. Drauger was an early favorite but we were scared off by how little support there was; same with Nobara. To be fair, Nobara says right on the webpage “this probably won’t work. Just so you know.” Endeavor was the first to receive a full-partition, and only after that (I only briefly looked at it last year) did we discover that Endeavor is really meant to be “run” through the command line. Which is fine, and I have no doubt works great; but isn’t what we were looking for in a Windows replacement. The eventual and current solution was an afterthought originally: Bazzite. The only extra steps we’ve had to take so far is to add Glorious Eggroll’s custom proton implementation, which fixed one game’s problem with freezing at the first cut-scene. (The game has some lag problems but it’s a recent game with no thought given to Linux implementation, so that doesn’t surprise me.) Most things have worked with default settings. Soon we will experiment with Virtualbox and a Windows Vista installation to facilitate the playing of an old Windows game for which you can’t even get installs at the moment. If we could get the install files I suspect it would work under WINE with no problems, but at the moment all there is is a “as-is pre-installed” copy. Incidentally, my spellchecker wants me to correct “pre-installed” to “pee-installed.” Which it says is a real phrase. I don’t believe that.
Continue reading ⟩⟩ “Final Fantasy 1 (part 007) – The Vampire Problem”
This week I’ve finally played Cult Of The Lamb.
I’ve been meaning to play this for the last two years, but for some reason I never got around to it. I’ve only played for about two hours but so far it feels kind of like if Hades and Moonlighter got squished into a cute little cult game. It’s cute and I’m having fun. maybe someday I’ll get around to playing Hollow Knight.
I’m sorry I don’t write more about the games I play, it’s just that putting my thoughts into text is not my forte.
Anyway, what’s everyone else doing this week
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