09/05/2017
Both Android and Ubuntu received official updates today 🙂 Made a clean install of Ubuntu 17.04, everything works well out of the box. Then there’s the compulsory: 17 Things To Do After Installing Ubuntu 17.04 Was surprised at the size of the Android security patch at over 300 MB to version 7.1.2! All was well until a week later my phone bricked; I pulled it out of my pocket and…
27/03/2017
Horizon Zero Dawn is a PS4-exclusive action role playing game developed by Guerrilla Games, creators of the Killzone franchise. As Horizon Zero Dawn’s main protagonist Aloy, a skilled hunter, explore a vibrant and lush world inhabited by mysterious mechanized creatures. Embark on an emotional journey to unravel mysteries of tribal societies, ancient artifacts and advanced technologies that will determine the fate of this planet, and of life itself Metacritic: Horizon…
27/03/2017
The fastest way to learn guitar is now better than ever. Join over three million people who have learned to play guitar with the award-winning Rocksmith® method. Plug any real guitar or bass with a 1/4 inch jack directly into your PC or Mac and you’ll learn to play in just 60 days. With Rocksmith you can learn everything from single notes to chords and advanced techniques, all at your…
27/03/2017
Summary: Taking place a few years into the future, Ghost Recon Wildlands empowers players to lead a team of Ghosts, a four-player U.S. Elite Special Operations unit, on a covert mission to destroy the Santa Blanca drug cartel, an underworld force and growing global threat within Ubisoft’s imagining of a beautiful, yet dangerous Bolivia. With hundreds of villages and well-known landmarks, local legends and various factions and regions, players venture…
07/03/2017
Awesome EFF’s Let’s Encrypt is pre-installed on the DigitalOcean droplet I’ve setup, A rating for the gamer-geek-news.com domain 🙂 https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=gamer-geek-news.com Update: still working on the DNS, A rating for this one though 🙂 https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=www.gamer-geek-news.com
07/03/2017
Been busy with games (Nioh) and Raspberyy Pi projects, and post deets when I have the opportunity, but currently my mission is moving 🙂 I’ve been with this host for sometime, with no issues, actully awesome customer service, but feel it’s time to play elsewhere. Currently testing DigitalOcean, although have also contemplated Google Cloud and Amazon. I’ve created a droplet on a LAMP stack with WordPress installed, I may look…
19/01/2017
No posts lately as I heard that the Thargoids have arrived in Elite:Dangerous last Friday 🙂 How has this caused my hiatus? I rushed out and picked up a new graphics card (Radeon RX 480) and a 256 Gig Samsung SSD so I could play the game with ease. That’s when the trouble began! I found I couldn’t migrate Win7 easily off a partition on a 2TB HD to the…
06/01/2017
Yesterday I did something that I’ve been considering for a while; I burned my installation of Ubuntu and installed Debian. I’ve been a long time fan of Ubuntu, since before the Unity days, I stuck with the Canonical distro through the Amazon debacle, and the community as been awesome and supportive over the years, and I have loyalty to them. Although yesterday the KDE plasma installation started having issues, as ever with…
02/01/2017
Things I’m playing with over the Xmas NY break 🙂 installed KDE desktop, not sure why I haven’t tried it before, although I did try Mate a few weeks ago that I can’t get to work correctly excited about season 2 of Street Fighter V I’ve reinstalled it on the PS4, and I’m more frustrated and annoyed by Capcom’s servers than ever repetatively the server connection keeps dropping, the only…
I find the challenges The Last Guardian a refreshing challenge; they’re not awarded for just playing, you have to play the game to its full to be awarded. This is a great break from just being in a game, or putting in hours, getting awarded with a trophy. I won’t be awarded many trophies on this play through , although I am enjoying the giant beast and child interaction, so reminiscent…
24/12/2016
Merry Xmas! Our boy is still a little young to geek out at xmas, although last night visiting friends he picked up a controller and gave Minecraft a bash… not bad for one 20 months old 🙂 I’m still finishing off FFxv have picked up Overwatch again looking to actually rank for the first time in season 3 re-installed Witcher 3 to finish off after FF currently downloading the update…
28/11/2016
There’s a lot of running around The style if FF all the way, the interactions seamless It feels like a MMORPG in that you can easily walk into side quests It’s all about the team Switching of weapons and items is quick and easy Need I say the FMW is cinema quality The characters are likeable The time of the environment is more Fallout than Fallout I’m binge watching Entourage…
19/11/2016
For less than $30 I’m currently downloading Blood Bowl 2 and PaRappa The Rapper 2🙂
19/11/2016
I’ve ditched Dishonoured 2, it was too close to the original, without the novelty, and still as linear. I’ve picked up Watch Dogs 2 in the hope it was better than its predecessor; and I’m sadly disappointed for a simple reason… The driving FFS this is from the guys who made the original, and following, Driver series. Back when Grand Theft Auto was trying to break into 3D, Driver was…
19/11/2016
https://youtu.be/vL6Qdem_kKg Best documentary I think I’ve watched, in a sad gamer way, from a game I’ve never known, although I understand the players drive and ambition… not saying I’m skilled or committed enough to achieve what these guys did, but I appreciate their casus belli
11/11/2016
I’ve been working my way through Trevor Stephens well written and informative Kaggle Titanic tutorial for R. Competition Description The sinking of the RMS Titanic is one of the most infamous shipwrecks in history. On April 15, 1912, during her maiden voyage, the Titanic sank after colliding with an iceberg, killing 1502 out of 2224 passengers and crew. This sensational tragedy shocked the international community and led to better safety…
11/11/2016
I’m 2 hours into Dishonored 2 [It pains me to spell the title without a u :)] on the PS4, I decided to play with Emily on my first play through, and I’m enjoying the experience. I went through the original xbox360 Dishonored with minimal kills and achieved the none chaotic ending; not sure of how I’ll play this campaign; but I usually go for peaceful when possible. I stayed…
18/10/2016
I received my EFF member tshirt, together with membership card and bumper sticker 🙂 I’ve got back into GTAV, just before the announcement of Red Dead Redemption 2! Been playing a little of one of the free games for October on PSN network Transformers: Devastation, although was very tempted to pick up the original Resident Evil HD remake. I’ve been working on Machine Learning models in R and Python, playing…
23/09/2016
There was a new update today for PS4 Street Fighter V, Version 1.06; thought I’d boot up the game and blow the dust off of my fightstick… really wish I hadn’t 🙁 I couldn’t finish a simple 10 rounds with Ibuki without being disconnected from the server. I really want to like this game, but it seems such an unstable server build from Capcom. Looking forward to when my boy…
23/09/2016
Today I picked up Mirror’s Edge Catalyst, for the PS4, as a belated Father’s Day gift; awesome choice son 🙂 I’m only through the intro mission, but I like the authentic feel, and the open city aspect… although I can see how challenges, as in the original, could be frustrating; as the times allowed for completion leave little, to no room, for error. Looking forward to getting familiar with Faith…