efaardvark

Twitch has been leaked. All of it. Sounds like Amazon was totally owned on this one… https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/the-entirety-of-twitch-has-reportedly-been-leaked/

Finally got a bigger shadowbox for my pins. Things were getting quite a bit crowded in the old one. (That would be the little one above the big one in the pic.) Now I just need to find space for the new one. The old one fit on my bookshelf like a large picture frame. The new one is going to need a few sq ft of wall somewhere. On the plus side I now have a tiny bit more room for actual books. Forgot to post this the other day too. Not exactly a new acquisition though. More a rediscovered item.. an old navy jacket from my grandfather’s CB days.

Bingeing 翠星のガルガンティア (Suisei no Gargantia) today as I pay bills and do laundry. Exciting life, ne? Watched it before but I still love that end theme, 空と君メッセージ.

If it is sci-fi then I’d recommend things like Ghost in the Shell or Planetes. If you don’t mind older stuff then you might want to go digging for things like Wings of Honnêamise or Patlabor or Moonlight Mile. I’d also consider stuff like Knights of Sidonia to be decent SF. (Don’t go for the dub on that last however. The original intro alone is worth it.) I’m more into the “hard” end of the spectrum when it comes to my science fiction however. YMMV…

I don't have the game but from what I gather you need the pen but also the favorite food for the animal. I seem to recall a lets-play where the player was feeding boars with some type of berries, but I'm pretty sure it is different for every animal. Once they're grown into adults there was a kind of weird (to me) trick to get the animals out of the pen by putting them in the player inventory, then from there placing them into the world. There was also a mention of using shadespiced food to enhance the animals' abilities but apparently that's hard to get so the guy wasn't doing that and I don't really know how that works. Sorry, there's probably a wiki or something on it somewhere that explains it all better but I'm too lazy to go look it up. hth..

Got hooked on this by the youtube algorithm. It's an SF short named "ATROPA". Pretty good, and I'm picky about my SF.

$141 looks to be the current MSRP for the bundle deal of the game + all DLC but I keep an eye out for the occasional Steam sales. Patient gamers can sometimes get 50% or more off. Is there such a thing as a patient gamer?

Two things.. first is an item I found at the company store. They haven't had much stock and have been keeping reduced hours since the covid thing started but I managed to find them open and this t-shirt on the rack Thursday.. The other item is a new "Pangolin" from System76. I've been needing a new laptop to replace my 2013-vintage MB Air and they just recently got some more stock in so I bought myself a birthday present. Yes, I'm going to do something about that desktop wallpaper. It just came Thursday & I haven't yet got a round tuit. (Not that I dislike Pop!_OS so far but we can do better.)

That's one I've had my eye on for a while. It is nominally Windows-only but the protondb says it is "gold" so it should be playable just fine on my linux system(s). Except that the anti-cheat borks multiplayer on public servers that have it enabled which for me removes a lot of the attraction. Probably for the best as I wouldn't have much time for it anyway. It is kind of expensive too .. well over $100US if you go for all the DLC. ($150 for the "complete" edition from the Steam store! )

UPS delivered my pangolin today!! So of course the first thing I had to test on it was Kerbal Space Program. Unfortunately I didn't have much time to play but this laptop is definitely a keeper. My old MacBook Air struggled even in the VAB and actual game play was more like a slideshow. Even to get that much the fans came on full-speed and the machine got so hot I was honestly afraid to run it that way for more than a few minutes. This new one stays (almost) silent, gave me frame rates mostly in the 30s and 40s, often higher, and doesn't get nearly so warm. The one problem is the speakers. They're on the bottom so they sound like . Speaker placement and acoustics on laptops (even my old MBA) is always problematic so this was not unexpected and definitely not a show-stopper, but I can already tell that I'll be using a headset or earbuds a lot with this one for sure. No problems so far getting everything downloaded and configured. The linux distro is of course System76's Ubuntu-derived Pop!_OS, which was pre-installed and so recent as to not even need any updating or patches. Even the gfx driver was already installed. (Ryzen 5700U APU using the open-source AMDGPU driver so really no surprise there.) Setting up the basics like email took about 5 minutes. Steam was another 90 seconds from the "Pop Shop" software installer. Ditto for discord and a couple other must-haves. Downloading KSP via Steam took a few minutes just due to the size of the DL but everything installed smoothly and quickly and I was gaming within 10 minutes of opening the box. So nice when things work as expected. This weekend I hope to have enough time to try a few more games. If so then Minecraft and Valheim are next for sure. Maybe I'll even finally fire up the Subnautica that's been sitting untouched in my Steam library since I bought it months ago.

Usagi Drow - About a sub-sect of Spider Queen worshipers with a Furry bent.

Got the 2nd season of The Witcher on the to-watch list.

I don't think it could be my main computer but it certainly is intriguing. As a portable gaming system it looks awesome. My last portable is/was an old(!) NIntendo 3DS & I've thought of replacing it with a switch several times but never pulled the trigger. If I had more time for games I would probably get a Steam Deck at this point but I just don't. (I have 2 games sitting untouched in my steam library that I've been trying to find time to play for several months now as it is. ) I have a coworker who just bought an M1 Air and loves it. He almost got me to buy one too as an upgrade to my old MB Air. They're nice systems but I've kind of moved away from Apple since I bought my MBA. When I set up my current desktop - an AMD 2700X-based "PC" system - I put linux on it so I decided my next laptop needs to be linux as well. I've always been a unix guy anyway. (Or at least since the '90s when Commodore went out of business.)

Anyone here tried Amazon's New World (beta) yet?

Went back today and it turns out I lied. You can buy one! Or at least order one anyway. So I did. I hope this works out. The last time I bought a new laptop was my old 2013-vintage MacBook Air so I'm looking forward to having something a bit more modern to work with.

Looks like System76's "pangolin" laptop has been updated. It now has either a 6/12 core Ryzen 5 5500U or an 8/16 core Ryzen 7 5700U mobile APU in place of the "old" 4000-series CPUs. And a bump in the base price from $900 (iirc) to $1200 unfortunately. (Not that it matters since you still can't buy one anyway.) I think the keyboard might have been updated as well. I didn't save the old specs and I'm too lazy to go dig in the archive but I don't recall it being multicolor.