12/09/2019
I’ve just finished the beautiful compelling story of Detroit Become Human, that was free on the PSN a month or so back… wow it got me right in the feels at the end. I enjoyed the concept of Heavy Rain, but lost my save before I finished it and never went back. Beyond: Two Souls felt more of a feature film format, the pace, character variation, and plot was pretty…
08/09/2019
Not sure why it has taken me quite this long, think it as I use a VPN on my Linux box, but I’ve finally been motivated by a twitter post to drop Pi-Hole onto a Raspberry Pi π I'm glad I was told about @The_Pi_Hole this week. Very easy to setup to cleanup the traffic on the whole local network. My #raspberrypi loves it π pic.twitter.com/EgX6pr5SrM — Luc Juggery (@lucjuggery)…
03/09/2019
For years having a ssl certificate on your site was beyond the scope of simple sites, due to the cost of certs. This removes a layer of privacy, and I’ve tried many times, with a variety of methods and tools, to give Gamer-Geek-News the secure green lock, with limited success. I find DNS settings to be somewhat of a dark art, and my path to a solution when dealing with…
02/09/2019
Just finished watching Good Omens; and as much as I’ve enjoyed it I realised my greatest joy was that for all these years since I read the novel I’ve been pronouncing Aziraphale correctly π
04/08/2019
I’ve been back to Blighty for July to see whΔnau, except for catching up with old friends for a gamer night my only digital fix has been DOTA Underlords. Then to postpone my gaming and gym training even more I injured my right trigger finger Monday Tuesday π Geek highlight of my trip was picking up a few old toys: Sony MiniDisk player original GameBoy (couldn’t find my GB Advance)…
26/06/2019
"We are in the golden age of insights. Uses and benefits of tools are not widely understood. Secondary data is viral. Harmful insights are easy and valuable insights are hard. But is insights a leadership function or a support function?" @InsightsMRX CEO launches #next2019 pic.twitter.com/mf5yUFCYOl — Arundati Dandapani (@itadnura) June 13, 2019 A couple of presentations on online fraud and declining sample quality, had set the tone for blockchain in…
22/06/2019
Today I discovered a new genre of game… and I’m hooked. DOTA Underlords DOTA Underlords is now available to play for free on Steam as Early Access; and from what I understand there will be no charge going forward, only for aesthetic additions. Dota Underlords is a new stand-alone game that pits you against seven opponents in a battle of wits that will have you building, combining, and leveling-up a…
22/06/2019
w00t I don’t expect to exceed 5.0M impressions in 28 days in the near future, as this period was over the E3 Expo event. However I have been trying a few more strategies to increase my follower count, currently sitting at just over 10.5k, with 777K tweets since I started this account 8 years ago in June 2011 Thanks to all who follow this account: GamerGeekNews
15/06/2019
Tl;Dr Super Mega Space Blaster Special fun pick up and play shmup available on Steam for less than a dollar that also runs on Linux. I’ve paid heaps more for games I’ve played less. A compulsive fun title. Super Mega Space Blaster Special is a modern take on the retro arcade space shooter. It is a fast-paced frantic blast of a shoot βem up (shmup) with bullet hell elements. Played…
04/06/2019
Nothing of significance, but cool Twitter numbers 3.3 Million organic impressions in 28 days My first 200 Thousand day of organic impressions in a single day and I’m stoked to now have 10 Thousand followers Thank you to each of you for suffering my stream of consciousness
04/06/2019
The latest Pratchett, and Gaiman, TV adaptation – Good Omens Good Omens, the genius of Pratchett’s with the twist of Gaiman, a collaboration made in heaven & hell. I find it hard to believe this was released in 1990, I’d been reading and collecting Pratchett novels before then, and this was my first intro to Gaiman So now 29 years later we finally have this high budget adaptation of the…
World Health Organization now classifify me, and, and I’m sure many others, as having a ‘gaming disorder’. TechRadar: World Health Organization officially classifies ‘gaming disorder’ as an illness βimpaired control over gaming […], increasing priority given to gaming to the extent that gaming takes precedence over other life interests and daily activities, and continuation or escalation of gaming despite the occurrence of negative consequences.β Wait until the WHO look at…
27/05/2019
No more mini bosses defeated today, but two new Sekiro prosthetic tools Where to find Mist Raven in Sekiro Hirata Estate – Bamboo Thicket Slope Idol You’ll find the Mist Raven’s Feathers inside a hidden temple. To access it, go up from the idol, grapple left and drop into a body of water. Swim past the bridge and then grapple to a branch. You’ll pick up an item and can…
26/05/2019
I finally felt brave enough to load back up Sekiro π I’d left it where I didn’t want to face the Lady Butterfly, and the Blazing Bull was wiping me out in seconds. My reluctance was due to me grinding to unlock skills, but I through Sen and Xp to the wind and bit the bullet. After I’d overcome my fear I got into my stride; running through levels like…
24/05/2019
So something rather strange, although positive, has occurred this week; my Raspberry Pi hosted Python scripts are still sending out around 550 tweets each day, but the tweets are now receiving twice the number of twitter impressions π As you can see from the chart, impressions have approximately doubled, from ~100 to ~200 thousand each day. This increases the last 28 days to 2.5 million organic impressions! I work with…
23/05/2019
I picked this up What Remains of Edith Finch as one of the monthly games on the PlayStation Network for the PS4, and it’s been sat on my nav bar downloaded for a while. After reading a post on r/patientgamers the other day selling the story I thought I’d give it a try. I found it profound to say the least, but a fabulous medium to tell a story. I…
09/05/2019
EIGHT DRAGONS is an old-school side-scrolling fighting game that takes the classic beat-’em-up action from the eighties and pushes the gameplay and story to a whole new level! There are two ways to play EIGHT DRAGONS – first as a straightforward arcade game. Put your team together, choose your characters and kick ass from one end of Scumville to the other, leaving no bad guy standing in your quest to…
07/05/2019
Tweets from my Twitter account @GamerGeekNews have earned more than 2 Million impressions in the last 28 days π Not bad for a few Python scripts hosted on a Raspberry Pi.
05/05/2019
Great news from openai regarding their GPT-2 model, they’ve released their 345M parameter version π GPT-2 Interim Update, May 2019 Weβre implementing two mechanisms to responsibly publish GPT-2 and hopefully future releases: staged release and partnership-based sharing. Weβre now releasing a larger 345M version of GPT-2 as a next step in staged release, and are sharing the 762M and 1.5B versions with partners in the AI and security communities who…
25/04/2019
Recently read that Chromium still has callbacks to Google, and here I was naively thinking that it was secure Still not sure if Brave makes these callbacks, but that’s tomorrows question π Been using and enjoying @brave from launch on #Android and #linux Recently found that chromium makes call backs to Google, is this removed from Brave?#security — Gamer Geek (@GamerGeekNews) April 25, 2019 So all I keep Chromium about…
