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 one.
It’s currently up on Youtube and I’m working on getting it up over on Peertube as well. Hope you enjoy it!
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 must be something I should do. My bullet journal would never lie to me.
Bullet Journal: We have always been at war with Eastasia.
Me: Hush, you.
So, some goals, in no particular order:
That looks like a lot! So I’m going to leave it there, because someday I’m going to learn to not overload myself. This might be overloading, it might not, but it’s better than going “and also I’m going to take over the moon, and solve world hunger, and, and.” Progress!
Still, a “nice to have” goal would be finishing the Python book I’ve been very slowly working my way through, Python Crash Course. I really want to learn Django (the web framework) so I can see about building a backend for the Patreon alternative I was thinking about the other day.
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! But it leaves a lot of people out in the cold who have smaller fanbases, work in fields that don’t release output as consistently (hi, novel authors!), etc. Patreon is also redonkulously squeamish about adult content, making it difficult to discover (by unlisting the page) at best, which totally hoses another huge set of creatives.
There are a couple of alternatives out there, but they have their own issues. Liberapay, for example, doesn’t allow for locked posts due to the nature of being a nonprofit. Drip is apparently foundering right now, and no one’s really sure how that’s going to turn out.
So here’s the thoughts I’ve got so far on building an alternative: Continue reading
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 affect the fates of everyone in London. A functioning, non-buggy game. And it clearly tries its best, and to its credit, it mostly succeeds. Emphasis on mostly.
You play as Dr. Jonathan Reid, just returned from serving as a doctor for the British Army in France during World War I. Things are going to be rad. You’re going to go home, see your family, and study some medicine.
You wake up in a mass grave, stumble out, and drain the blood out of the first person you see. Things kind of go downhill from there. Continue reading
Succulent friends!
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 the past few weeks:
And that’s it for now, I think! What have you all been up to? If you leave a comment, I gain +10 life points, and if I get 100 of those I can get some awesome stickers.
Shit like this makes me miss landlines. They were reliable, dangnabit! Source
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, get to the logo, and so on and so forth. Not ideal. I eventually managed to get it to boot up all the way by pressing all four buttons at once in some sort of combination force-reboot and 1994 SNES cheat code, and wrote it off as a random thing that happens sometimes with phones. They hit a bug, they get confused, you force reboot it in a way that gets it to dump whatever was bugging out of memory, and off you go.
This is called hubris, friends. Continue reading
Hard to take a good selfie when the power’s out. Also this captured the mood pretty honestly.
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. Continue reading
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 I don’t lose them and so maybe someone else will get use out of them someday.
Thanks so much to everyone who contributed! Maybe someday I’ll get the hang of this thing. 😀
Sources:
1. https://pleroma.site/objects/f4bb937b-4e96-49a4-8889-d7c92a1a6a0e (Since that link doesn’t seem to work, here’s a link to Matthew’s account page, instead: https://pleroma.site/users/starbreaker)
2. https://icosahedron.website/@zge/101425106538741872
3. https://mastodon.social/@hs0ucy/101426312714263030
4. https://mastodon.technology/@metatron/101429681547673958
5. https://ruby.social/@dekkzz78/101431102023523206
I had this cocktail, which I have forgotten the name of, and it was pretty good!
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. Continue reading
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 Gosling solemnly sucking a lollipop in an empty factory while “Hurt” plays. this would easily make $1.2 billion worldwide btw
— Assassin Pitbull Leonidas (@ByYourLogic) June 9, 2018
Inspired by this tweet, I came up with the following plot summary of my take on the idea, a somber, tragic movie called “Wonka,” starring Steven Buscemi. I hope some of you enjoy this rambling bonkersness as much as I enjoyed writing it. Please note this is a super-rough draft, so sorry for any typos or incoherentness. This is also why the children don’t have casting.
Steve Buscemi plays Willy Wonka in a film set 20 years after the initial tour of the factory, also its final day of operation. After the series of industrial accidents that resulted in traumatized children, initially conceived of as part of a “goodness of heart” test, Wonka felt he could no longer operate his factory, it having nearly destroyed the very children he wanted to serve and entertain. Continue reading