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Cake day: July 5th, 2023

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  • I’ve never played it on anything else so it’s hard to judge.

    Only got it a month ago, and have only beaten the basic game once so far, though I’ve made what feel to me giant bases.

    Haven’t noticed any slow down aside from when autosave is happening. Haven’t made the kind of monstrosities I’ve seen on youtube so I don’t know where the limits are.

    As someone who has wanted to play it for ages I’m having a great time with it.

    Reminds me of Kerbal Space Program on PS4, the controls are very complex for a controller, but they did a great job using multiple button shift functions to map a hell of a lot to the inputs available.



  • I used to call it the Zelda machine, but now that factorio is on Switch, I guess that isnt quite true any more.

    I go between PS4 and a switch pro control often, and it’s not that they all use the letters / symbols for different buttons, it’s that Xbox and Sony agree what button position is used for what as default, enter, back, etc.

    Nintendo breaks that symmetry, and put the enter button on A, so when I go to watch a movie on playstation I’m constantly exiting the menu because that position is O, the back button for Playstation.




  • Somehow I had missed that Bannerlord has come to consoles, been waiting for this one a long time.

    Sequels often disappoint, but so far this one strikes a great balance between keeping what made the original fun, incorporating new ideas, and adding a ton of quality of life features that fix what made the original a bit frustrating.

    Obviously porting this kind of game to a controller is a huge task, and over all they did a good job. Some of the map and menu navigation is a bit clunky, but in almost every way it’s better than warband.

    Looking forward to never being able to finish this one either.


  • My cat was 16 or so years old and in good health, though pretty under weight, when we brought in a 6 week old kitten.

    Having been a loner all her life, she wasn’t so happy to have the kitten around, but left her be. My only concern was the kitten was so small she might kill her.

    By 18 months, the kitten was larger than my senior cat, but had been put in her place so many times they mostly left each other alone.

    Occasionally they’d scrap a bit, but that was just the kitten wanting to play and the old one hissing and swatting her away. Honestly, I think it gave her some needed excercise to be chased around a bit and stalked.

    I made sure they each had their own food, water, and litter box, and there never was any real issue.

    They both had their spots, the kitten up top of the cat tree, and the old lady in her bed. I think so long as they have enough room to get away from each other it will be fine. They never became friends, but they learned to live and let live well enough. It even reached the point they could both sit with me on the couch and not fight.

    Had to put the older cat down a few weeks ago, and as sad as that was, it was very nice to have the kitten at home so the house didn’t feel so empty.


  • I get it from my father. He was one of the smartest people I’ve ever known, but if you asked him anything, you better have a lot of free time cause it is going back to first principles.

    I know his reasoning was that he wanted me to learn how to understand and find the answer, not just be given it, and now I’m guilty of the same thing.

    I don’t do it at work, or at least I try not to, as they are paying me for the solution not a dissertation, but if friends or family ask for tech support, they are getting the whole explanation while I solve the problem.

    I guess another part of it is that like me, he really didn’t have anyone to talk tech to other than his family, and really just enjoyed the time being able to share things he was knowledgeable about.


  • I use three at the office, and two at home.

    In both setups the laptop is my keyboard and small screen, above it is a 34 inch 21/9 aspect ratio curved display. At the office I also have a standard monitor off to the side.

    The large screen is my primary work space, with various code editors, UI dev tools, web browser, reference docs, and terminal windows.

    The laptop screen has email, all my short cuts, and a virtual version of the UI I’m working on because it is also a touch screen.

    When I have the third screen I use it for teams, a few system monitoring tools, and youtube for music.

    I used dual side by side monitors for years, but found that having the split in the center meant I was always sitting with my neck turned, and this lead to a lot of pain and headaches. Having them top / bottom is a lot more comfortable and my large screen is high enough I now sit up straight.

    A curved screen at the right distance also means a lot less eye strain.




  • So, the first 30 minutes go like this. Find the stuff to make and craft the knife, scanner, fins, air tanks, and building tool.

    You can eat kelp and make bleach>water w salt and coral to stay alive, though it’s a LOT of kelp.

    Then head straight to southern island to scan the multipurpose room, indoor and outdoor grow beds, and grab lantern fruit and marble mellons.

    You can then build a base and grow all the food you will ever need. I stock up on a ton of bleach and make water as needed, though the food also restores some hydration.

    I usually have this done before the Aurora explodes.

    Once you have the cyclops you can plant in there as well. Three lantern fruit trees per base is all the food you will need in the game, and marble melons have a lot of water.

    The only thing you miss out on really is the emergency air bladder, as that requires a fish. To make up for it I carry a second air tank when diving deep or exploring wrecks. I also build outdoor grow beds w brain corals in strategic places as emergency air supplies.

    Honestly, I started it as a lark, and found it so enjoyable because I never get distracted chasing down and catching fish.