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Author Archives: Ian
Let’s Play Max Payne: Episode 1
Hey everyone! I recorded a Let’s Play for Max Payne. At least the first episode of one. The game is super-melodramatic, to a ridiculous degree, so you get to experience a lot of painful (or funny, depending) writing in this … Continue reading
Posted in Let's Play, Video Games
Tagged letsplay, maxpayne, video games
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It’s March, I’ve Got Goals
It’s March! WHO LET THIS HAPPEN??? Slightly more seriously, I thought it would be good to set myself some goals for this month. After all, I have a whole “Month To-do” section in my bullet journal and everything! Therefore, it … Continue reading
Posted in Personal
Tagged accountability, biking, books, dungeonsanddragons, jobhunt, learning, monthgoals, personal, programming, technology
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Thinking Out Loud: Patreon Alternative Edition
This post is mostly just me thinking about loud about how building a Patreon alternative would worth. BUCKLE UP, BUDDIES. Patreon has issues for a lot of people because it’s really geared for large creators, especially Youtubers. This is fine! … Continue reading
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Tagged money, patreon, programming, technology, thinking out loud
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Vampyr (2018) Review
Vampyr A Beautiful Mess Platform Played On: PC Developer: DONTNOD Publisher: Focus Home Entertainment Year Released: 2018 Vampyr wants to be a lot of things. An action-RPG with branching combat styles. A deep story game with important moral choices that … Continue reading
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Updates: Miscellaneous
Hey everyone, it’s been a minute! Life continues to proceed at a pace of about one second per second, with the usual margin of error accounting for the variability of reality. So, without any regard to order, life updates from … Continue reading
Posted in Personal, Pets, Technology, Video Games
Tagged books, cell phones, lizards, technology, video games, writing
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Oh No Phones
Well, this sucks. My reliable Blackberry KeyONE had a new issue within the last few days, where it shut down and then got started in a reboot loop. It would barely boot, get to the Blackberry logo, and then reboot, … Continue reading
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Tagged dumbphones, phones, repair, shit breaking, smartphones, technology
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None Power With Left Anxiety
I’m writing this in the middle of the third power outage we’ve had at my apartment this year. Because maybe the power will come back as soon as I complain about it.
Emacs Resources
The other day (by which I mean like three weeks ago), I asked for advice on learning emacs over on Mastodon. I got a bunch of really nice results, and wanted to put them all in one place both so … Continue reading
Updates Most Foul
It’s been a while since I posted, so I wanted to just give a general smattering of life updates. For extra fun, this post is being written on my “brand new” Alphasmart Neo 2, the very latest in early-2000s technology.
Posted in Books, Infosec, Personal, Video Games, Writing
Tagged audiobooks, biking, books, cleaning, ianlearnsinfosec, jobhunt, reading, weightlifting
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Wonka (2022)
There’s a tweet joke that has stayed bouncing around in my brain for months now, about a gritty re-imagining of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory: laughing imaging a gritty Wonka movie just called “Willy” and the trailer is Ryan … Continue reading