27/11/2019
5 hours or so ago my Twitter account was suspended 🙁 Usually it gives me a prompt to enter my phone number… but not today! I have been suspended a couple of times lately due to re-tweets of ‘how to stream some sporting event for free’; if this is the case again I’ll have to look into how I can prevent my bot from sharing those in the future. Let’s…
I’ve curated my Twitter feed to keep me up to date with my interests, and I’m stoked that other people enjoy the same things that I do & decide to follow my feed too. I cover a variety of technology, data science, and gaming interests… things that I like. Now before I drop make this point don’t get me wrong; I love animals. I’ve been a vegetarian, sometimes vegan, for…
01/11/2019
My Raspberry Pi Python Twitter bot stopped posting last night. After I had strong words with it, and told it to pick up its game I deleted the cache database file and let it rebuild the history. This is something that I really need to fix, as my PiHole shows that my bot has made approx 191,383 calls to the twitter api in the last 24 hours… touch wood I’m…
07/10/2019
Hellfire is a 1989 scrolling #shmup by Toaplan,initially released in #arcades then ported to the #MegaDrive and the #PCEngine CD-ROM². One of the best #shmups on #Genesis,with slick graphics and sound this good looking blaster oozes playability👍🏻#MegaDriveMonday #MegaDriveMini pic.twitter.com/du8Q9e0Zt4 — G.I. Deon (@GidionV) October 7, 2019 @GidionV has not only an extensive enviable retro collection, but encyclopedic knowledge of #SHMUP history. He often shares forgotten gems that I don’t have…
06/10/2019
I stumbled across this awesome cool site that allows you to play retro ROMS without leaving the page so here’s a game I have fond memories of, and I still buzz over the game principle and level creation. More on what I think of it later, here it is for you to play first, may I present The New Zealand Story, MegaDrive version
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 🙂 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 🙂 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…
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
11/12/2018
Thanks to Tim Holt (aka @Kiwi_Mariner) for passing on a link showing that my Twitter account had made a cameo appearance and #TC18, the international Tableau Conference. I’ve a Python bot sat on a Raspberry Pi tweeting and re-tweeting about topics I’m interested in, Tableau being one of them. Check out the feed @GamerGeekNews
21/10/2018
I received heads up this morning from a friendly Twitter user (@adrianhungate) that my site was down and they were generously offering help to restore. Rebooting the Ubuntu VPS brought it back on-line; but why did it occur? My Duck Duck Fu turned up this useful, if not a little dated gem: Error establishing a database connection (WordPress) grep xmlrpc /var/log/apache2/access.log This showed evidence of several brute-force amplification attacks, which…
23/09/2018
I’ve been following the talented 8bitboutique [@scg8bit] on Twitter for the past few months, and I’ve been encouraging him to share more about his history and motivations… today it’s my pleasure to share this story that’s as inspiring as his artwork. First, I’ve been dying to ask, why sharpies? Sharpies are awesome! Through doing this I’ve become a bit of a stationary geek, and I have some really expensive pens!…
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
15/09/2016
I’ve just become aware of Google Cloud; off to migrate a web site and see how it behaves. Can I host python bots on there too? The again I’ve ordered a Raspberry Pi 3 B+ today 🙂 Must reconfigure my orig Pi with this tutorial: tor router
07/09/2016
I understand Search Engine Optimisation, although I don’t claim to have a clue what is happening with the Google search algorithm; and thus this question? Why does this site [www.gamer-geek-news.com] get presented on the first page of Bing, DuckDuckGo, and StartPage, when searching for ‘Gamer Geek’; but not Google? Found an answer Why do I get different results with StartPage than Google? Last modified on 16 August 2016 02:45 AM…
03/04/2015
This is the top rated comment on the Amazon Appstore, its a real life example of the South Park Terrance and Philip game! The Truth About “Game of War – Fire Age” …Expressly Designed To Addict People And Get Their Money February 11, 2015 by trapeze “Woo Hoo! Check Out My Website!” You want the truth about this game? You got it. Here is the full, unvarnished truth about “Game…
02/11/2014
The Internet Archive Now Lets You Play 900+ Classic Arcade Games In Your Browser Retro fans need this link: Internet Arcade A great source of all the classics, and so much easier than downloading each MAME ROM 🙂 The Internet Arcade is a web-based library of arcade (coin-operated) video games from the 1970s through to the 1990s, emulated in JSMAME, part of the JSMESS software package. Containing hundreds of games…
27/07/2014
The coolest original content on YouTube, ever: Alpha – Street Fighter Assassin’s Fist (link updated 20200731) As a fan of the game series, and one who appreciates martial arts, this rocks! 12 episodes of live action Street Fighter 🙂 Written and directed by Joey Ansah (who also plays the role of Akuma), Assassin’s Fist focuses on the early days of Street Fighter mainstays Ryu and Ken. Though perhaps not intentional,…