Imprisonment for simply saying something that in no sane world would be considered a crime.
I had to play Wolfenstein 3D with the little wafer speaker on the motherboard.
I haven't played The Outer Worlds, but the screenshots look to me like just a regular old sci-fi game (not necessarily a bad thing though).
But Outer Wilds actually impressed me. If you plan to play it, don't watch any gameplay videos. Go into it with zero expectations.
Oh, I also just got my new Framework laptop 16 yesterday, so that's cool.
Probably have Lyme disease, but I got my antibiotics and no noticeable symptoms aside from the huge red area around the tick bite, so I'm doing fine.
I kinda miss doing those relatively simple physics probems like finding how far something goes based on velocity and shit.
Top of my list of things to not do is visit Qatar.
This is my answer as well. It sucks that I can only work on my game on weekends and holidays while the rest of my life is wasted on boring business bullshit that nobody cares about.
I sometimes start an email with "apologies for the delay" and just continue as normal.
My boss is pushing the AI stuff pretty hard lately. I just want to write my own code.
I was browsing the list of games last night. There are so many that you can just scroll for hours.
I just got a bill for a Wayfair credit card that was issued by Citi bank that I did not apply for. I never even shopped on that website.
I tried contacting both Citi bank and Wayfair, but since I don't have the full account number, I couldn't get past Citi's automated phone menu.
Wayfair's phone system was a fucking nightmare getting transferred to various departments, but eventually transferred me to a foreign call center where they insisted that they needed my social security number and birth date to file a report, but I'm not giving them that.
The best thing is that the scammer managed to get a higher credit limit than I was able to get on my own card.
After I showed her one of the bird videos, she now eagerly waits while I turn on the tablet in the morning and she watches me open Youtube and pick a video.
Sometimes she accidentally closes the video, or opens the comments and then I need to step in to make sure she doesn't post any offensive comments.
She's clearly having fun, running around in circles, chewing sticks, and finding and eating cat poop. And I don't want to discourage her from having fun when I take her outside (except for the cat poop thing -- that needs to stop).
But she seems to have the idea that jumping up and biting my wrists or my ankles is a fun game that we both enjoy, and she seems to be getting more agressive about it. !
Let me preface this one by saying that the blame for this is entirely on me and my carelessness when shopping online. I did not get scammed. I was just being stupid.
Several times.
So I recently bought a synthesizer to connect to my MIDI controller (an 88 key keyboard with some knobs and blinking lights and shit).
I saw that this new device has a 3.5mm MIDI port while I only had the classic 5-pin kind. No problem, I'll buy an adapter.
The adapter arrives, and I discover that the one I bought has the female 5-pin connector and won't plug into the keyboard. Well, crap.
Buy another adapter. Made sure the 5-pin side was male.
Oops. Turns out that the 3.5mm MIDI cables come in type A or type B, and I chose poorly.
So I search for "midi type a to b converter" and without thinking at all, I bought a converter that has two female connectors. Fuck me.
At this point, a sane person would've just cut the first two adapters and soldered the correct ends together, but fuck it, I'm in too deep now. I gotta get a 3.5mm MIDI cable with two male ends to complete this daisy-chain of madness and find out how long it takes for me to get bored and find another hobby.
I'm tired of hearing about popular games. Are there any games you played and were surprised by how little attention it got? A game you really enjoyed, but was only reviewed by five people?
I have an app that I released a couple years ago (plus another legacy app that I maintain for one of my company's clients). My game has a long-ish title, but it was fine until some asshat at Google decides that 33 characters is too long. On top of that, every time I'm forced to update the target SDK, I need to spend several hours figuring out a bunch of new build errors. This is not how I wanted to spend my vacation time.
Spotted this one on some scrap metal. It dropped its food for a moment, but then picked it up again.
