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DM of the Rings Remastered LXXX: Strange Bedfellows
Wednesday Action Log 7-17-24
This week I’m still playing Rimworld.
Right now my life consists of just playing Rimworld with the occasional game of Call of Cthulhu mixed in.
I did get the Royalty DLC before the summer sale ended. I haven’t gotten to in-depth yet, but I’m really enjoying the quest variety, and the psychic stuff is pretty cool.
What’s going on with everyone else?
Linux: So Tantalizingly Close to Prime Time…
As promised last week, I will be talking about the Linux Switchover Project. And that’s literally the first time I have used that phrase, but I guess it’s accurate. The past week has been full of trials, tribulations, cursing, depression, and few successes. Most importantly, the laptop *is still running Linux*, and is doing more things *now* than it was a week ago. In fact, it has been running the same distribution and flavor since…Monday, I think. I probably could have been running the distribution and flavor I started with if had known then what I know now. I think that’s where I will start; with what I have learned that affects some underlying assumptions and rules.
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DM of the Rings Remastered LXXIX: AD&D and ADD
Wednesday Action Log 7-10-24
This week I’ve been playing Call of Cthulhu with my friend group. It’s going pretty well, I’ve managed to not go insane or receive any major injuries. The only time I’ve actually gotten injured was from another player that missed a shot so badly that I got hit in the arm.
I also by chance happened to stumble upon the Necronomicon. Luckily I didn’t try to read it because the player that did try to read it went through the nine layers of Hell. Amazingly he managed to escape with only amnesia, a fear of the dark, and just barely avoiding permanent insanity.
Other than that I’m still playing Rimworld, but now I have the Ideology DLC. I didn’t realize until I got the DLC that it contained a bunch of features that allow me to play the way I kept trying to play, e.g., trying to live underground, collecting as many bionic parts as possible, having a group of bandits that don’t get really sad the moment a prisoner dies. I haven’t even gotten to experiment too much due to the fact that making a religion from scratch takes a while.
So anyway, what are you guys doing this week?
Controversial? Opinion on WoW; and has the time come to switch to Linux?
I already mentioned I finished Galactic Season 6 in Star Wars: The Old Republic, and finished the storylines in the World of Warcraft expansions The Burning Crusade and Warlords of Draenor. This past week I worked on completing Burning Crusade Reputation grinds and achievements and also finally did the ending raid in Warlords of Draenor (which is the ACTUAL end of the expansion storyline.) I also tried starting multiple different characters in Wrath of the Lich King, which led to some interesting conclusions and a new, unexpected character. Lastly, given news from Microsoft-land, I decided the time had come to start moving to Linux. To that end, my actual IMPORTANT laptop, as opposed to the ones I have laying around for experiments and spares, is now running Garuda Linux. I will use that to test certain things that I would RATHER not lose. I’m not actually all that concerned about getting software to run at this point, but I do have one piece of hardware that isn’t even supported on WINDOWS anymore. I have come across ONE page that references specifically how to install and operate that device on Arch-Linux (of which Garuda is a distribution), and I will attempt that soon.
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DM of the Rings LXXVIII: Think of the Children
From The Archives:
Push the Button!
Scenes from Half-Life 2:Episode 2, showing Gordon Freeman being a jerk.
Object-Disoriented Programming
C++ is a wonderful language for making horrible code.
Overthinking Zombies
Let's ruin everyone's fun by listing all the ways in which zombies can't work, couldn't happen, and don't make sense.
Could Have Been Great
Here are four games that could have been much better with just a little more work.
Fixing Match 3
For one of the most popular casual games in existence, Match 3 is actually really broken. Until one developer fixed it.
Spec Ops: The Line
A videogame that judges its audience, criticizes its genre, and hates its premise. How did this thing get made?
Philosophy of Moderation
The comments on most sites are a sewer of hate, because we're moderating with the wrong goals in mind.
The Best of 2015
My picks for what was important, awesome, or worth talking about in 2015.
Silver Sable Sucks
This version of Silver Sable is poorly designed, horribly written, and placed in the game for all the wrong reasons.
What Does a Robot Want?
No, self-aware robots aren't going to turn on us, Skynet-style. Not unless we designed them to.