Trinsec @Qoto @trinsec@social.cleverlibre.org

Been busy in RimWorld experimenting with some mods. Like.. mechanical walls that spring up if you toggle it... I've made it 3 rows. Row 1 and 3 are up. Pawn in the middle row.. then raise it to see what'd happen.

I was disappointed. There was a puff of smoke and they ended up outside the walls and continued on their merry way. 😋

Note to self: Not a viable tactic to kill enemy pawns. Would've been hilarious otherwise.

Wish they'd also hop off in a puff of smoke when a ceiling collapses on top of them. 😛
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Aaaahhh, darn. The cat didn't make it. That last sentence would do it, yeah. :P
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I wonder if today is technically a zombie day because of all those resurrections?

Happy Zombie Jesus Day!

I've tried out some Space Station 14 with a buddy. It was interesting, it kinda had a MUSH vibe. Join a server, take on a role and then join the station. The game still felt a bit rough around the edges. Since we were new, we joined a fairly empty server.

Because I was an utter noob, a guy there was so kind to give me a tour and teach me how to use some of the machines. Now I know how to cook (cheeseburger and pizza), grow tomatoes in hydroponics lab, see what engineering looks like, a morgue, had a ride in the garbage disposal system, and uh.. an all around overwhelming bunch of information for me, lol. I probably should read the manual at some point. The controls aren't very intuitive at times.

I played as a lizard, which was hilarious when talking in-character, all those extra 'ssss'. Ekssstra sssssssss. 😋 When talking OOC, it was all normal again. Nice detail.

So it looks like this game is played in 'sessions', or shifts?, and in this case that took around 3 hours. Something in the end message about all zombies beaten, no infestations.. not that I ever saw any though. Just saw some mentions of anomalies over the comms. So I'm not really sure yet about the end goals and all that.

But for today I've seen enough. I've got information overload so I'll probably just go back to playing RimWorld now. SS14 is a multiplayer game (and you can host your own server) where you can play with like 100 people, so I can imagine it is a lot of fun when you and a fair amount of friends jump into the game and work together on this station. It's all free and opensource too!

https://spacestation14.io
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Yesterday I added 11 mods, today the count is so far on 9 added. Might be more incoming. 😅 Thankfully adding mods is almost painless. It's still an interruption in gameplay though.
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Finally hooked the Deck to the dock from job, and gave it a cabled connection. Streaming from the Deck to my laptop is way more snappy now.
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I'm slowly getting into RimWorld again. Wait, no, not slowly. Dived deep into it last night. Slowly adding mods one by one though.
Some mods have already been integrated into core RimWorld (last time I played was during B18, so quite a long time ago, about 5 years I think?), so that's nice.

Already have had a colonist breakdown, she went completely insane as to dig up corpses and parade them around. I'm sure I'm going to witness even weirder events. 😋

Oh yeah, want to make the game really exciting? Definitely open up any Ancient Dangers you encounter! At least I did manage to save the cat!
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This is a good thread about ChatGPT, AI, and how one should not blindingly believe their results.

Trying to figure out what we need to open up this Blue-Bot and probably need to replace the accu there. We have to buy a very specific screwdriver. Handyman just ordered it, so it's waiting for that now. I suspect we need to replace accus on all 6. Still cheaper than ordering brand new Blue-Bots. Educative hardware is always overpriced.

There are so many more things that need maintenance besides this, like our narrowcasting system. We gotta move on from DVI to HDMI already. Replacing TVs is at the moment iffy as I don't know of many modern TVs with DVI.

Our Tovertafel will soon (in a few weeks) have an internet connection as well, so that we can _finally_ use that stuff after all this time. The principal asked us if we could make a little party out of this when we finally have everything set up and running. Yay. 😋

Plenty of stuff to do, but everything takes a long time before it gets done. It's just very annoying.
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RimWorld is just as annoying as Skyrim in that you're going to spend hours figuring out which mods you do want to have installed. 😋
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I'm having a little bit too much fun trying to see what games I can stream from Deck to laptop.

RimWorld works, with a lower resolution but still fullscreen. I'll have to connect the Deck to a cabled dock sometime then the slightly laggy feeling might even go away. Keyboard shortcuts are available, which is a huge plus with this game.

LEGO The Incredibles worked perfectly fine via streaming. I could even use my own game controller at the laptop. Played this game for a few hours, and the Deck got a bit warm. Not overheating or anything, just very warm.

Backgammon Blitz I had to resort to controller as the mouse clicks didn't get registered very well for some reason. And the controller directions to select the pieces made absolutely no sense, heh. I still won that session with a gammon though. :P
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