geek threads

08/07/2015

wish I had more time to play, although enjoying the other aspects of life 🙂 Loving Batman: Arkham Knight, the city is vast, the bat mobile is awesome, and the plot dark & trippy. Just had a quick intro to Styx: Master of Shadows.. fantastic free title from PS4 Play, I’ve paid much more for worse, although cautious the plot could be too 2 dimensional, but it takes me back…

I’ve been a fan of batman since my teen days, and have enjoyed each of the new video game series, so was stoked to pick up Batman Arkham Knight on the PS4. I wasn’t happy about seeing the ‘season pack’ for sale for ~$70! Guess the Call of Duty business model is working? First impressions Frame rate seems a little too fast, the moment in combat is somewhat lost Batmobile…

Race the Sun

16/05/2015

I succumbed to a 14 day PlayStation Plus offer, Race the Sun is my first few game to try. You are a solar craft. The sun is your death timer. Hurtle towards the sunset at breakneck speed in a futile race against time. Delay the inevitable by catching energy boosts which reverse the setting sun – if only for a moment. Race The Sun is inspired by arcade games of…

One of the great features of the PS4 is the new Joypad, it’s more ergonomic, and the touch pad is a work of design genius. So I was stoked to find out it could be used on the PC by following this simple guide from Make Use Of – how to use the ps4 controller on your mac or pc Now I can ditch my old Hori xbox pad for…

Bloodborne’s difficulty is a refreshing change in platform open world titles, a challenge that I am enjoying after months of Elite:Dangerous. It is not that each individual encounter is hard; far from it, it is quite easy to take down a single foe. Although when this difficulty is compounded by ever enemy that you face, as the ‘save’ points as few and far between, does it become a true challenge.…

With the news of the the next Deus Ex title (Mankind Divided) being 4th Gen (7th?) only, I made the leap and picked up a PS4 this weekend; together with GTAV, and Bloodborne So why a PS4? I’m a long time Sony fanboy, even though I’ve prefered xbox live over the years to the PLaystation offering. Games I wanna play only available on the Playstation Platform: Bloodborne Final Fantasy Street…

Finally made it to Pratchett’s disk, not too bad too wise, but trading my Clipper for a Asp I could have done it in half the jumps. On the way to HIP 74290 I was thinking that my next mission might be to Sagittarius A Star, although after arriving here, and reading that the Ankh Guards (primary occupier [Neutral]) are looking for food and non lethal weapons, I’m tempted to…

I’ve been playing about with some python code, having creating a few (useless) Reddit bots, I might look to publish the code as sure others would like to do similar… although all my code is pretty much plagerised from a variety of different sources 🙂 So I’ve been on another break from Elite:Dangerous. Returning to Siddha I didn’t fancy trading, and the conflict zones nearby have dried up, so I’ve…

I haven’t played Elite for a week, after the ‘Ball Dock Clipper Incident’ In exile from elite I’ve been visiting Arkham in Batman: Arkham Origins, and enjoying the change in genre and gamestyle. Finally beating Deadshot last night, I feel I’ve earned the rights to return to space trucking 🙂 My Clipper currently has a hold capacity of 240 tonnes, but due to my reduced funds, and to cover insurance…

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I’ve just crashed my Clipper with 240 tonnes of gold into a space station, ~ 4 Million credits with insurance gone in the blink of an eye. I love elite: dangerous, but it makes you pay dearly for your mistakes. I need a break, finishing the COD:AW campaign for a change of scene and genre Update: shit story, too much of a wannabe COD:MW [RATING: 2], not looking forward to…

I finished in the top 70% percent in the Federations Battle of Lugh; I didn’t show the greatest commitment to the cause, so quite stoked with the 7 million payout + bonds. Off back to Ross 780 to swap my Vulture for my Asp, and continue ranking up in the Empire, and space trucking 🙂 Change of plan; I’ve put on my explorer space suit, and I’m off to see…

Brothers

21/03/2015

Finally made time to complete this choice title, Brothers: A Tale of two Sons A great story, an emotional roller-coaster, paced to perfection, but as all good games, just long enough. Very nice scaled environments, great character movement, and novel puzzles. Money well spent, will play again… there are achievements outstanding, nice work starbreeze Ah He? [rating: 4]

Here’s a script that has been in my library for a while, don’t know why I haven’t shared it before now, all credit to nearengine 🙂 This does a simple delete on all of our Reddit post history, no double delete like other options redditPurge is a simple script I wrote while learning Python. It destroys your entire Reddit history, letting you start with a clean slate or delete your…