I'm having complicated feelings about #Raft .

Playing through the quest has been a very mixed time. For a game that is ostensibly open world survival, all of the story islands are truly puzzle platformers. I'm a fan of puzzle platformers! But I feel like the designs have been very uneven, with some areas a joy to play, while others are an unintuitive slog.

That said, I'm two scenes away from beating the last level, and it's... ridiculous? In the next-to-last scene, you have to build a stairwell out of crates in a small arena while three hyenas attack you and a madman wings cherry bombs at your head.

And, in normal mode (which I'm playing), you lose 2/3rds of your stuff whenever you die, and the save history is completely non-functional - you can't go back to a previous save and try again.

Naturally, I died very quickly, and lost some very important equipment.

So, I sat on it for a few days to determine whether I should give up or power through - where powering through meant another 10-20 hours working on upgrades and better equipment.

Which is what I decided to do.

But a key piece of equipment is healing salve, which requires eggs, which requires chickens (cluckers, in game)

Which is why I now have a poultry pen on my raft, populated by the first chicken of my set

Named: Motherclucker 🐔

The Multi-Raft Architecture

https://ikristina.github.io/blog/multi-raft-architecture

#distributed-systems #Raft #consensus #architecture #cockroachDB #Redpanda #YugabyteDB #TiKV

Runtime Choices in Distributed Systems

https://ikristina.github.io/blog/runtime-choices-in-distributed-systems

#distributed-systems #go #rust #performance #concurrency #garbageCollector #Raft #cockroachDB #Redpanda #TiKV

Had a great weekend for gaming!

- #GamerKid and I *finally* beat the main progression in This Means Warp! (On easy mode, but that still counts - it had been kicking our butts up until yesterday!)
- I also completed Tangaroa in #Raft ! This was honestly my favorite island so far - intuitive but challenging, and an outstanding moment in the game's world-building. Two more islands to go!

And of course, some other great sessions with both kids playing #Minecraft and #BoomerangFu .

Now - time to plan next weekend's activities 😀

#ThisMeansWarp

Le #14mars, 16h30 place Jean-Jaurès, soyons nombreux.ses dans la rue pour dire non au racisme, non aux fascistes, non aux violences d'état, pour réaffirmer notre solidarité commune !

Nous ne voulons plus laisser ce pouvoir nous réduire à la misère et la précarité, nous détruire et nous diviser, ouvrir la voie au fascisme.

Nous décidons de nous unir, de résister, de riposter, et de construire la solidarité comme moyen et comme objectif.

#Tours #raft #antifascisme #antiracisme #manifestation

😆 🐔

https://chickenonaraft.com/

#chicken #raft #music