04/01/2019
My darling wife gifted me this amazing little piece of Android based kit: nvidia shield NVIDIA SHIELD TV is the essential streaming media player for the modern living room. Thousands of apps. Thousands of games. The most 4K entertainment. And the Google Assistant built in. It’s awesome for streaming media via Netflix, Kodi, et al, and recently released high spec games (with many for free!)… but what I wanted it…
04/01/2019
As one PS4 AAA title ends with a Western sunset, another with an eclipsed sun In the past couple of weeks I’ve finished the latest AAA title in my collection: Red Dead Redemption 2; and today one that I never thought I’d complete: Dark Souls 3 Both were fun, amazing artistic achievements, but so different. I probably put in as many hours on both games, one I started in November…
While playing Red Dead Redemption 2 Online on the PS4 I entered the stable in Saint Dennis looking to see how viable an equine upgrade was, to find to my shock and glee that the Red Chestnut Arabian horse was free! Not wanting to part with Nag, my starting racehorse [for some strange reason beyond my comprehension?] I shelled over $100 in game dollars to free up another stable, and…
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
29/11/2018
I lost the network indicator from the Ubuntu Budgie top panel; frustrating as I couldn’t update vpn settings. Finally got around to finding a solution today as I’ve got tired of sub-optimal speed nodes: github:Restore budgie-panel to defaults\ from the terminal enter: dconf reset -f /com/solus-project/budgie-panel/ nohup budgie-panel –reset –replace&
29/11/2018
Finally Red Dead Redemption 2 Online has launched on the PS4, and I’m in to it, even though I’m only 66% through the Story mode. One mission in, 4 player game, 2 went rogue from the start… reminiscent of GTAV Online, hope I can find a posse Just played a couple of multiplayer vs games… it’s chaos much like GTAV; not sure this game mode is for me, but let’s…
Red Dead Redemption 2 on the PS4 has been taking up nearly all of my game time, with brief breaks of Overwatch to qualify for season 13. I’ve a couple of great tips to make life easier that I’ll post soon, but for now here’s a tip for a Challenge that has been alluding me. RDR2 Challenge Horseman 4 While mounted, drag a victim for 3300 feet using your Lasso…
#RDR2 #DoubleRainbow sometimes It's the little things pic.twitter.com/6lkulgPluS — Gamer Geek (@GamerGeekNews) October 27, 2018 Read Dead Redemption 2 has been out for a week and I’m sure you’ve heard how awesome it is. I write more on what I think of it at a later date, but for now here’s a list of tips that I recommend anyone reads before they begin the game. Many of them you will…
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…
20/10/2018
Here’s a useful url with destructions of how to upgarde to Ubuntu 18.10: linuxbabe Important bit: <code>do-release-upgrade</code>
18/10/2018
Over the years I’ve been keeping these notes of what I’m playing… or sometimes playing with, the site has been hosted in a couple of different hosts. One went out of business; well the owner stopped communicating even though he’s took payment, so shifted my digital assets to another host. They were great over the years, thanks to the support team for answering my daft questions, and keeping the site…
10/10/2018
I read a tweet this week that placed a huge smile on my face 🙂@snowconesolid was celebrating with his family and friends for the release of his latest game Giraffe Town: “Take control of a giraffe who has had enough of being held back in life by his weird feet as you slide your way through the town in a courageous pursuit of love.” As soon as I took a…
10/10/2018
Was going to pick up Spider-Man for the PS4 at the weekend, that or Assassin’s Creed Origins, but thought I’d save my cash & pick up Red Dead Redemption 2 in a couple of weeks, a game I know I’ll put time into and get my monies worth… although not happy about the pre-order content bonus, fuck Rockstar for that. I have been playing Persona 5; completed the first palace,…
29/09/2018
I tried upgrading Ubuntu to the 18.10 Beta Friday night, all seemed to go well except for when I tried to reboot the desktop wouldn’t load. Tired of looking for a solution I tried installing Manjaro from an iso I have as a working Virtual Box, but each time I tried from a USB I was told corrupt / incomplete file, WTF! So I downloaded it again, check the hash,…
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!…
09/09/2018
I knew I’d heard of searching Google from the terminal before, but I try to use Duck Duck Go whenever possible, banging Start Page then Google if DDG doesn’t give me what I need; which is getting less frequent So a search result yesterday returned this awesome useful terminal function DDGR Github with details and destructions found here: https://github.com/jarun/ddgr Features Fast and clean (no ads, stray URLs or clutter), custom…
09/09/2018
I found this simple guide to update the linux kernel, as I’d tried UKUU with no success, as it couldn’t for some reason write to a temp folder Article here: nixCraft: How to install the latest/stable version of Linux kernel on Ubuntu Linux using apt-get Reference of mainline kernels to download from: http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/ & here’s the code I used download kernel debs wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.18.7/linux-headers-4.18.7-041807_4.18.7-041807.201809090930_all.deb wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.18.7/linux-headers-4.18.7-041807-generic_4.18.7-041807.201809090930_amd64.deb wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.18.7/linux-modules-4.18.7-041807-generic_4.18.7-041807.201809090930_amd64.deb wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.18.7/linux-image-unsigned-4.18.7-041807-generic_4.18.7-041807.201809090930_amd64.deb…
26/08/2018
Over the past week I’ve battled through The Old Hunters DLC, and have enjoyed it more than I expected, and thankfully the final foe is finished 🙂 This has been my issue with Bloodborne, and the rest of the Souls series; I put the game down, only to consider it too tough to come back to for casual play. Only to pick them back up and drool over the quality…
03/08/2018
Over the past 2 days I’ve ticked off Colossi 11 to 16, then had the pleasure of watching the end story and the credits roll, and see how Shadow of the Colossus is the spiritual predecessor to Ico. Never have I taken as many screenshots… except maybe Final Fantasy XV. Only this time I didn’t want to share them on Twitter as I was scared of spoiling the game for…
16/07/2018
w00t Horizon Zero Dawn complete, and what a journey 🙂 I’m a little split on how I feel, perhaps one of the best open World games I’ve had the privilege to play, certainly ranks up there with Skyrim and Ocarina of Time. Deep story, thoughtful various characters, detailed graphics, quality character acting, intuitive combat, and the farming didn’t feel like a grind. After ~70 hours of game play I was…
