Peter Drake, he/him, LFHCfS 🔥 @peterdrake@social.cleverlibre.org

Finished Dungeons of Dreadrock, an exquisite indy mobile dungeon puzzler. The sort of game that makes you feel clever.

#VideoGames #Android

Halloween costume idea #247.

Oregon Health Authority says Multnomah County's COVID transmission level is high:

https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/oregon.health.authority.covid.19/viz/OregonCOVID-19PublicHealthIndicators/Risk

The CDC says it's low:

https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/oregon.health.authority.covid.19/viz/OregonCOVID-19PublicHealthIndicators/Risk

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Well, we tried Nebulous: Fleet Command and found it perhaps too realistic and not cinematic for our tastes. Too much watching readouts and icons and not enough seat-of-the-pants decision making. Is there deep strategy to be had? Maybe, but the UI simultaneously provides too much and not enough information; I found myself wondering, "Why is this system, which is listed on my ship, not in the menu of actions I can take?" I can't plan a soccer game if I can't figure out how to operate my legs.

Next time we'll try Homeworld multiplayer.

#VideoGames #SpaceCombat

Oregon landscape crispiness status:

'I'll go,' said Hornblower. He could not trust Jones or the marines. He could trust no one but himself. He seized the reel of quick match and squeezed through the shattered door. There were timbered steps under his feet, but he expected that and so did not fall down them. He crouched under the roof and felt his way down. There was a landing and a turn, and then more steps, much darker, and then his outstretched hands touched a hanging curtain of serge. He thrust this aside and stepped cautiously beyond it. Here it was utterly black. He was in the magazine. He was in the area where the ammunition party would wear list slippers, because nailed shoes might cause a spark to ignite the gunpowder. He felt cautiously about him; one hand touched a wall of cartridges, serge cylinders ready filled, and the other hand touched the harsh outline of a cask. Those were the powder-barrels--his hand involuntarily withdrew itself, as though it had touched a snake. No time for that sort of idiocy, he was surrounded by violent death.

He drew his cutlass, snarling in the darkness with the intensity of his emotion. Twice he stabbed into the wall of cartridges, and his ears were rewarded by the whispering sound of a cascade of powder-grains pouring out through the gashes he had made. He must have a firm anchorage for the fuse; and he stooped and sank the blade of the cutlass into another cartridge. He unravelled a length of quick match and wound a bight firmly round the hilt, and he buried the end in the pile of powder-grains on the floor; an unnecessarily careful measure, perhaps, when a single spark would set off the explosion. Unreeling the quick match behind him, carefully, very carefully, lest he jerk the cutlass loose, he made his way out past the curtain again, and up the steps, up into the growing light, round the corner. The light through the broken door was dazzling, and he blinked as he came out crouching through it, still unreeling the quick match.

Halfway through Dungeons of Dreadrock, a satisfying dungeon puzzler.

#VideoGames #android

I suppose I could straighten my hair and go as a Chris Pine meme for Halloween.

A variable is a thing that varies.

For a computer scientist, it varies over time (including multiple runs of a program).

For a statistician, it varies over a population.

For a mathematician, it varies over possible universes.

#pdx #portland #voting

I need to find a new #Android #podcast app. The default Google app commits the unforgivable sin of occasionally just throwing out all information on which episodes I've already listened to.

"Or, hear me out, you could just stay in bed all day." #Violet #dogsofmastodon

It looks to be a good year for Fire Arts. There were close to 50 people there tonight. They're very excited, and we've only DESCRIBED actual fire to them.

#FireArts #FireDance #fire #dance

Dipping my toes into Nebulous: Fleet Command. This looks like the sort of game that will take some time to master the controls, but be satisfying when I reach that level. The atmosphere is good -- feels like you're commanding military spacecraft. The tutorials are clean so far.

#NebulousFleetCommand #VideoGames #SpaceCombat