Bad jokes, poor fashion sense. Dabbler in many things infosec because of shiny thing syndrome. Twitch streamer occasionally.
SOC puppet, meat popsicle, HAM radio newb licensed AE.
Transfemme, queer, polyam, kind of a thing.
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Well, hell. RIP.
Soulframe dropped Founders this past week, and I finally bit and did the work to get it running on Linux.
I say 'did the work' like I did more than grab the .msi, add it to steam as a non-steam game, and set it to use proton 10 to run. That was literally all it took. (Same process applies on the Steam Deck, though logging in is a huge pain in the ass on that. Onscreen keyboards suck for password input.)
Bearing in mind, it's based on Warframe in terms of engine and all, it's an alpha of an alpha - but it's a very playable alpha. (More playable than another game still in alpha - looking at you, store citizen!) There's definitely a lot that's still rough, a lot of content still to add. Honestly, it's a lot of fun!
The hardest part of the game so far has been finding information - stuff is evolving at such a pace that it's very easy to find yourself working off of outdated information. For example, weapons were using a buff system called motes and I found myself getting frustrated because I couldn't figure out how to equip them...
...only to learn I couldn't use motes because they got rid of that in update 11, I think it was, a few months ago. (For reference, we're on 12 now.) The info hadn't been updated with a 'disregard, we're doing this now.'
Buyer beware, I guess!
I should restart that TTRPG session idea per day thing.
Fun creative exercise, and I'd like to think at least someone used an idea or two from it. 🤔
There's a fair few things I miss from the D&D 3.5e days (probably why I still have a soft spot in my heart for #PF2e), but something I miss from the larger series in general: The little books.
3.5e had kind of a dizzying array of almost zine-like mini books that would add subclasses, prestige classes (I miss prestige classes, too ;.;), etc etc etc. Wizards has kinda been coming back to these in the form of smaller releases on Beyond (Astarion's Book of Hungers, and Lorwyn are the most recent examples), but something tells me I'll never see these books at the LGS - and honestly, that's a shame. Another one of those 'we're not leaving the LGS in the lurch, but we're def leaving them in the lurch.'
Games like #Mothership are almost entirely zine based, though, and they definitely scratch that itch for me, but even so.
Every time I see a new "Microsoft just..." Post I feel all the more justified in having pulled the plug on the entire debacle.
The shit has invaded VS Code, which is *Extremely Unfortunate* but you can somewhat get around that.
Pro tip: When using Obsidian or similar that saves each note as its own separate file, do not name those notes with an asterisk in the name.
Obsidian will happily attempt to name the file that.
It will make the app's sync solution, at the very least, decidedly upset.
I pulled out my old floppy drive today. Mentioned it before, saying I thought it might be vintage 2009.
Nope!
Vintage 2004. It still works. Pretty sure it's USB 1? That said, the most it's ever going to transfer is 1.44mb, and it's not like it's going to write at USB 3 speeds.
And yes. It still works. Score one for backwards compatibility.
Natasha 🇪🇺