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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:
Final Fantasy X
A game about the ghost of an underwater football player who travels through time to save the world from a tick that controls kaiju satan. Really.
This Scene Breaks a Character
Small changes to the animations can have a huge impact on how the audience interprets a scene.
This Game is Too Videogame-y
What's wrong with a game being "too videogameish"?
Raytracing
Raytracing is coming. Slowly. Eventually. What is it and what will it mean for game development?
Another PC Golden Age?
Is it real? Is PC gaming returning to its former glory? Sort of. It's complicated.
Overused Words in Game Titles
I scoured the Steam database to figure out what words were the most commonly used in game titles.
Spec Ops: The Line
A videogame that judges its audience, criticizes its genre, and hates its premise. How did this thing get made?
Zenimax vs. Facebook
This series explores the troubled history of VR and the strange lawsuit between Zenimax publishing and Facebook.
What is Vulkan?
There's a new graphics API in town. What does that mean, and why do we need it?
Grand Theft Auto Retrospective
This series began as a cheap little 2D overhead game and grew into the most profitable entertainment product ever made. I have a love / hate relationship with the series.