23/04/2018
After nearly 5 weeks of playing Elite Dangerous, over the course of over 3 years, CMDR BadKitty has finally made it to Elite status 🙂 During this time I had an epiphany that the game was such a time sink that I picked up playing guitar, and we had Player 3 join our family; that has curbed my play time quite a bit, no loss to the joy he brings…
07/04/2018
For pretty much the entire month of March Elite Dangerous is the only game I’ve been playing, and I’ve had heaps of fun 🙂 Also picked up a new Logitech G610, my first mechanical keyboard! I’ve always refused to pay out for a decent keyboard in the past; but thought now as I can touch type (ish) & I’ve resisted upgrading my existing box, why not treat myself 🙂 Loving…
01/03/2018
I finally got around to installing Arch on Virtual Box, I followed this guide from addictivetips that was simple… although the updates seemed to take an age. First impressions are that I like it, I’m impressed with the bare simplicity, maybe even enough to try it as a primary OS. One thing that I did take back to Ubuntu was the KDE Plasma Desktop. I’m not fully sure what I…
01/03/2018
I can’t get to Chapter One I started playing the new Elite: Dangerous DLC yesterday Beyond – Chapter One… after I spent a couple of hours setting up my controls. In the end, not for the first time, I plugged in a PlayStation 4 joypad. This time though Windows 10 and Steam identified the pad, rather than having to use a third party piece of software… who iirc I’d contributed…
I came across a link to Etcher, a tool to easily burn ISO’s to USB drives, available for Windows, Linux, and MacOS Here’s a link to a more detailed OMG Ubuntu article, described by them as: The app is described as “a powerful OS image flasher built with web technologies to ensure flashing an SDCard or USB drive is pleasant and safe experience. It protects you from accidentally writing to…
23/02/2018
w00t Blanka has arrived, he’s more awesome than ever, and I’m up to the 9th Colossus! Edit: Now off to find the 10th 🙂 9th was my favourite so far; the journey to it was cool and a little different, with more steps to taking down the Colossi… although once I’d reached the weak spot it was an easy take down
Thought I would post this story of how Windows 10 locked out shared partition in Ubuntu, and how I sorted it. Hope I don’t require this again [yeah right], but hope it might be useful to others. Fix, or TL:DR, first, story below 🙂 solution In Windows 10 I ran chkdsk at the advice of users on the Ubuntu irc when selected it Windows claimed there was an error on…
14/02/2018
So excited, Blanka is coming; release date 20th Feb! I’ve just earned enough FM from playing through survival with each character; it seems like the records are wiped each season, which makes more opportunity to make in game currency. Stoked I don’t have to shell out any cash top play my favourite main from SFiv 🙂 “In SFV: AE, Blanka is living peacefully with his mother, and has adapted well…
01/02/2018
If Trico eats barrels; what does ‘the boy’ consume?
Playing a variety of games from my back catalogue; although I’ve wanted to pick up Doom and Persona 5, I’m resisting for just now. So what has been taking up my time… When games are more of an experience As Shadow of the Colossus is due out in the next week I thought I’d make a concerted effort to finish The Last Guardian Not sure why I stopped playing… actually…
18/12/2017
#FFxv Chocobo ranch trip pic.twitter.com/JZEHKfoJ7j — Gamer Geek (@GamerGeekNews) 14 December 2017 Game log Sticking to my pledge that I must finish a game before i pick up a new one, I planned on making a concerted effort to finish FFXV I entered the final chapter, after completing the 2 available DLC’s, and had my arse handed to me! Scarpered back to the open world to level up and do…
30/09/2017
So excited, I managed to reserve a Mini SNES, should have it tomorrow 🙂 Looking forward to introducing the boy to all of the classics I loved as a kid, and from what I’ve read (Reddit.com/MiniSNES) Nintendo left it open to load ROMS onto it, as with the mini NES… so many games to play! I’ve been having on and off issues wit h my PC… well mainly off issues…
03/09/2017
Yesterday I fucked up… a little I’ve been playing with a Python script to re-arrange the films in my movie directory; it moves everything of a selected file type from directory and sub-directory to a selected directory. Useful eh? Thought I might use it to group all of my photos too. Last night I ran it on a drives root directory for all *.txt files. Let me rephrase that, I…
24/07/2017
I got thinking after my last post of why I chose Unity, and could Python be an option as a language to build games? I have much more need for Python on a daily basis… although I’m currently limited to ver 2.7 at work, I do use it for the current Feed2Twitter Raspberry Pi setup. So for the past few days I’ve been digging around searching for material and tutorials…
I’ve a couple of ideas for simple games, and after doing a little research decided on giving Unity a try as a platform, and C# as a language. I was reluctant at first as I found I could only get it to work on Windows… in hindsight I could have probably used a Virtual Box, or even Wine, but there’s still time to change. Python was my first choice, although…
17/07/2017
I’m a huge fan of this game! Perhaps the deciding factor why I picked up a PS3 was to play the last remastered version. The locations and bosses are recognisable in the video below, it looks honest to the original. Will I pick it up? Shit yeah Will it go on a pile with the other unfinished titles?
15/07/2017
A must see for any Street Fighter fans, a great summary of the characters back story, much better than the original live action movie… less said about that the better 🙂 https://youtu.be/Pc8AiMZ9pNc
15/07/2017
An intro to crontab with some interesting examples: blog.davidsingleton.org
13/07/2017
I downloaded Sleeping Dogs for the PS4, 10 bucks for an awesome GotY title. Think I actually prefer the shooting / combat mechanics to GTAV Still haven’t given The Z a test drive I’ve been playing with one of my Raspberry Pi’s; have an headless installation of Raspian running: Jessie Lite. Currently setup a twitter feed (GamerGeekNews) from some of my favourite sites and am looking for other ideas. Here’re…
My Dark Souls 3 journey continued over a few sessions failed fighting Yhorm many times… as with any From boss, decided to have a look around worked through the Profaned Capital, and managed to collect Elonora and the Court Sorcerer’s Staff was killed while freeing Karla, so no dark sorcery for me on this play through, so I spent a pale tongue focusing on Str over Int only fighting Yhorm after I…