This week I’ve played some Balatro.
I just beat black stakes difficulty, and I’m still trying to unlock some jokers.
I also got into playing a bit of Rainbow Six Siege. It’s just me, trying to play as trapper, even when I’m an on attack.
The only other thing I’ve done is play a few random Itch.io horror games. Nothing standout that I can remember but still good fun.
What’s everyone else doing this week?
UPDATE 08/04 Monday night: Twenty Sided is now on the latest version of WordPress. There are more updates to do, but as I’ve mentioned, we’re taking it slow and careful. Everything looks ok SO FAR, but please let us know if you see something not working.
Starting Monday the website will begin a series of updates. Many minor things have already been done, but some very important upgrades still need to be made. As of right now, the most likely thing to break at some point is the existing theme. Nothing fundamental that we know of, and we expect the theme to be fixable. Or in the worst case, we may have to use a temporary theme until the Twenty Sided design can be fixed. Of course, there could be things we’re not aware of. Some things are well-documented, or at least some version was well-documented. Shamus talked about some of his work directly on the website, but in many cases things were changed after the last time he discussed them.
I want to assure everyone that IN THE WORST CASE OUTCOME, the *ENTIRE* website is backed up. And another backup will be made before changes are applied. And yes, copies of the backups are being kept off-site. But even upgrading things as carefully as we can, something might break. We’re trying to plan for that. There are a few different methods of recovery that will get the website right back to where it was, *with* the upgrades done. I just can’t promise from where we are it’ll be five minutes off-line a couple of times and then everything will be done. I’m not expecting that. It *could* happen; I’m just not counting on it.
Just to let everyone know, in conjunction with some of the recent problems, we’re going to make another push to recover some of the admin functions and address the errors and slowdowns. At this point, nothing should happen that would affect viewership. It was mentioned a year or so ago that work was needed, and we were able to fix problems at that point. But some things have still needed to be addressed and we’re going to try to…put everything in one pen so that *can* happen.
Anything that comes up that could affect site availability; we will let you know in advance. Sorry about the recent problems, we still don’t know *for sure* what the problem was, but things seem to be running ok at the moment.
UPDATE: Backups have been made and several plug-ins brought up to date. There are still some significant updates coming that we will warn everyone of. If you see something not working, please let us know.
This week I’ve once again not had much time to game.
Just a little Balatro, and Rimworld, but no time for anything interesting.
How’s things for everyone else?
This week I basically didn’t have time to play anything for more than an hour or two. But I did play a few different games.
I played maybe two hours of Rimworld. I just had time for basic management, but nothing significant.
I also played a bit of R.E.P.O. and Phasmophobia. Just a bit of good old multiplayer horror.
And finally, I played some Payday 2. It’s a good game.
Anyway, apparently I never have as many words to say about games then I think I will. so this might be filler because I feel bad that my posts are so short.
Also what are you guys doing.
So…yeah, I saw Superman this week. Conversations and observations about that movie and its implications inspired today’s thoughts. But first, an update on my PC. I swapped out the power supply to see if that was the problem. My old PC’s power supply was new enough to have all the right connections, and as far as I knew was 100% OK. Sure, it’s been sitting in a dusty garage for a year, but I blew it out and wiped it off, so I wasn’t all that worried. Swapping out the power supplies on the new case turned out to be a bigger deal than I expected. I ended up having to disassemble the 3 1/2″ drive cage to get access to the modular power jacks on the power supply. And to even get it in, honestly. After re-connecting everything, the power up failed. I was getting power; the fans would turn for a second or two, then it would shut down. I checked everything again, hit the power button, and something popped. No smoke or smell; could have just been a breaker. But the computer wouldn’t boot at all, whereas previously it would start; it just wouldn’t stay on. So right now the plan is to replace the motherboard and the power supply. I keep wanting to just build everything into my old case, a 90-degree Silverstone Raven RV03. BUT that case takes a half dozen fans just to maintain proper airflow (it’s huge) and all of them need replacing. As a reminder, most of that computer was built around 2010. The new Phanteks case isn’t as easy to work with but can be cooled with only a few fans. Although I do have some concerns about the CPU cooler. I’ve always been a big believer in setting up a case for one-intake-multiple exhaust, with the intake on the bottom. The Silverstone is built for this, but of course you could just reverse-mount the fans if you really wanted. The Phanteks case that came with this computer seems to have all the fans but one *pulling in* air. This is problematic in a dusty area. Beyond that the CPU cooler is one of those that has a heat transfer/capture plate or box on the CPU that runs to a case fan/radiator combo mounted on the back of the case. But the radiator is mounted to the outside with the fan on the inside. Now, my experience says that the fan should pull air through the radiator, which means that setup is pulling air into the case as well. In fact, there doesn’t seem to *be* an exhaust fan…*everything* is pulling air into the case. The front fans, the bottom fan, the case fan, the top fan…all pull air into the case. The top and bottom fans have external filters. The front fans don’t, and of course the radiator doesn’t (so it gets clogged with dirt, too). Any heat generated seems to be meant to be exhausted passively through various vents and holes. Not a fan. This is complicating my decision.
Continue reading ⟩⟩ “Superman and New Beginnings”
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