I'm a web developer and I like video games and sci-fi and cartoons and I've watched all of Star Wars and the MCU (more than once). Also Aliens, Predator and Terminator are the trifecta of awesome imo and sometimes I don't go to work so I can play video games instead 😄
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Last Notes npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud And it has a great name, too! npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud Finished Children Of Dune and it was so fun! What an amazing, wild ride it took me on. I found myself thinking about things I'd never thought before on multiple occasions and that is some A+ sci-fi imo. I couldn't wait to pick it up and start reading again each day, but also I didn't want it to end. I can't believe this is the one Villeneuve isn't going to do, it's such a great, fun book! I have a question about the pre-born though, do all their ancestors have to be dead to be in there? Or, for example I was wondering, is Jessica in the twins? And now I'm going to take a short break from all the Duning to read The Bitcoin Standard, which I have also been looking forward to reading. #bookstr #books #reading #Dune #SciFi npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud That's awesome 🤘🏻😄 npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud I'm still reading them, but I always thought it was a little weird that every planet in Dune poops out humans. It's a universe filled exclusively with humans and that sounds like a nightmare. npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud I loved it, too, but it blew my mind how they made the biggest prettiest world ever (at the time) but made your character walk SO FUCKING SLOW 😄 Seriously, so slow npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud I don't get it, and I know what lpt1 means npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud Rewatching Six Feet Under, and also Studio Ghibli npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud Happy new #Daredevil day! #Marvel npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud Okay I got a lot of kind of complicated sorting conditions and prioritizing worked out on the search last night and it's working just how I want it to now, but it still needs that styling I was talking about earlier. So now when you search it'll show any matching recipes at the top of the results as you type, then under that it shows any recipes that contain an ingredient that matches what you're typing (and indicates that's why it's matching) and finally, under the ingredient matches it shows any matching categories like Soup or Seafood or Comfort Food or Spicy (I made a bunch) so you can filter on those, too. Anyway, getting the search working feels like a significant thing done and a nice thing crossed off the To-do list 🤘🏻 #WebDev #WebDevelopment #HTML #CSS #JavaScript npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud My next, next project (after the recipe page and one other small but useful gaming-related page I'm going to make) is all about keeping track of your entire gaming history and I feel this. Some will need the launch year to distinguish, and then there are things like Spider-Man PS4 npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud There are definitely gaps, old man obi wan also didn't recognize 3PO and R2 npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud You aren't, it's made by the same people that made twitter and they still have the same goals, which is to use algorithms to control what you see and deliver ads into your eyeballs. I would say they're making the same mistakes, but they don't consider them mistakes, this is the goal. npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud There's a good chance (as usual) that I don't know what I'm talking about and it's almost certainly easier said than done, but a thought about filtering out all the #AI just occurred to me: Couldn't we just make our repos invite-only, and then only invite humans? Some kind of curated contact list maybe so projects could still be #OpenSource for verified humans, but then only offered to the people on the list. #WebDev #WebDevelopment #programming #git npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud Even researching the developers that submit PR's sounds like a lot. I was planning on making my next project open source because I love the idea of open source, but for all the effort of scrutinizing everything to that level because of AI, and considering the scope of my next project (it's not huge) I'm debating just doing it all myself. And part of me thinks I spent a lot of time and effort to become a developer....at just the wrong time. There must be a better way, right? Like a community of humans that store their repos in a place that isn't riddled with AI, or something npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud I'm pretty sure they're just called planets. Gas giants are the biggest ones, or at least they look the biggest because they have a huge atmosphere, but there is a rocky planet in there somewhere. If anything, the term dwarf planet is confusing because it doesn't have to do with their size as much as the idea that they haven't finished clearing their orbit of other debris yet npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud Clearly things weren't already bad enough for some people, but at least you can always count on Florida to find a way to make things worse npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud That's a pretty good jump scare https://blossom.primal.net/cd001aafeaf42f50d98fbde7b086ef40004665ea88d387b5d9d3570fa7999acf.gif npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud #random thought: I would be interested in #PvP again if someone made a way to turn cheaters bullets into bubbles. #gamer #gamestr #videogames https://blossom.primal.net/a4e896f056f683a16a342f67e26fae9333595d6c8fd09816a9e86d24c98803ac.gif npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud Got the images on the index page optimized down from however many megabytes the images are that come out of my wife's iPhone to double-digit kilobytes and implemented lazy loading with Cloudinary and they still look great 🤘🏻 I haven't actually counted, but she has maybe ~200 recipes total and I was considering adding pagination but I think this will suffice really for the life of the site. Anyway that seems good enough to me and that is another thing checked off the To-do list #WebDev #WebDevelopment #HTML #CSS #JavaScript npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud It totally does! Someone posted this on here, I've been playing in my moments of downtime https://voxjong.com/ npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud We used to call that backhoe syndrome #oooops npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud https://blossom.primal.net/3e52c47cbc1822f2c90feb9d7afb10b5d0d22d355d1d18659250f937182bfe1e.jpg https://blossom.primal.net/79c46eb7cb411cbe79b02fc3cb694cd0798dcb24e49a6a5f82b92d7fbc1c47b1.jpg npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud I talked to Strelok last night in #Stalker2 and, more importantly, I heard what he was saying to me: These fascists gotta go, man! The Zone is full of them and I am happy to oblige 🤘🏻 #gamer #gamestr #videogames npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud Offsetting by 50% can help with tiling npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud I just bought The Bitcoin Standard with cash 😂 I'm excited to read it though, I would like to learn more about #bitcoin and someone here said I should read it https://blossom.primal.net/6137e56117d8fe73030d8c555c9e98302bce5f258280e749a804024cb9ce551f.jpg npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud Haha, I am a PC gamer at heart, too, and I just realized I can plug my mouse and keyboard into my PS5. I have it set up at my gaming PC desk at the moment and all in all it's a lot like playing on PC 🤘🏻 npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud Yeah I think that's that's Moore's Law, probably 😁 npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud Just got this on Wisp and it's kinda gross, please make it say, well, anything else really 😬 https://blossom.primal.net/a15eefe0219245e9494c45c5935d09b61437e257fd91fa221636f0b419b18e58.png npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud This is not an attack on you and I am a fan of actual privacy. A Faraday bag sounds cool but to me it seems, idk, temporary and not very useful really. If someone is trying to track you they're going to know where you are as soon as you open the bag. And you can't use the phone while it's in the bag so I don't see how that would be better than just turning the phone off. npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud Got the Like buttons disabled if you're not logged in, and added a little tooltip on hover. Also made it so clicking on a disabled Like button takes you to the Login page, then redirects you back to the recipe you were just trying to Like once you're logged in and automatically Likes said Like ♥️🤘🏻 #WebDev #WebDevelopment #HTML #CSS #JavaScript https://blossom.primal.net/73dbfc79a65d69475ded44fa8adf818347403635e9600f402666ba0646b3f7c5.png npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud I have my next few games planned out and I'm allowing myself to take my time with them. I signed up for gamepass when it first came out and it was great for a while but I found myself playing (and abruptly stopping playing) games in the order that someone wanted me to play (and stop playing) them in. And now that I got that out of my system I'm back to just playing the games that I want to play, I have the next few mapped out. I was waiting for #Stalker2 for a long time and I'm finishing up my first playthrough now and I can't say enough about it, it's so incredible. It's just an amazing example of #videogames imo, I haven't enjoyed just getting caught up in a game this much in a long time and I probably will end up running through it again. Anyway, up next is Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 because I do love a good #RPG and some people are saying it's pretty good. And by some I mean everyone. Then it's Indiana Jones and the Great Circle because I am also an Indiana Jones fan and this game looks pretty good After that I just bought #Avowed on #PS5. Been waiting a while for this one, too, but I'm going to wait a little longer to actually play it because I have to space out the RPG's 😄 And speaking of RPG's, I recently started a couch co-op run of Baldur's Gate 3 with my youngest daughter and it's been so fun playing with her so far! She's busily finishing her bachelor's degree right now and only comes home periodically to eat yummy food and take naps. We spent probably an hour in the character creator 🤘🏻😍 She knows literally nothing about this game but said she likes bashing stuff and I said, well, a barbarian is pretty good at that or a paladin or even a fighter. She made a Tiefling barbarian that looks cool as hell and I made a Half-orc monk. We've been playing split screen and I've more or less just been following her lead. She's been controlling (skipping) most of the dialog, deciding who comes and goes in our party and controlling the combat of the entire party excepty character. And she's GOOD AT IT!!!! 😄 It's always been fun playing games with her because she gets it, she's checking out everyone's ability wheel and seeing what they can do, and then raining fire 🔥 on our enemies haha. She runs in with the tanks and indeed starts bashing stuff, and is using the ranged/magic/other characters perfectly and it's awesome 😄 All I have to do is run in and punch stuff. And she told Astarion to piss off on first contact which I thought was hilarious 😂 She was like "No! Get out of here! You're weird!". Didn't trust that guy. And then we found him again a few minutes later and he was like walking down the path all dejected and she walked up and made friends with him again so he's in our camp after all. npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud Whelp I'm sold, do you know where I can get Wisp? Not seeing it on the play store. My first nostr client was Amethyst and I still use it. I see all of the users and all of the hashtags I've followed in my feed there. And I like it, but I've gotten in the habit of force closing it every time I quit using it because otherwise it consistently keeps streaming things from my feed even like an hour later if I don't. More recently I've been trying Primal and I like it, too. It feels polished and nice to use, but I don't see any of the many hashtags that I followed on Amethyst. I re-followed a bunch of them on Primal but so far I've just kinda been client-hopping between those two. npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud I was going to work on the website last night but then I started watching Die Hard 2 instead and went to bed npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud The best one is arguably the one you liked the best. I enjoyed the first one and still fire it up from time to time. I haven't beaten it in decades, but I still like playing it sometimes. So I guess for me the original one is the best one. I also enjoyed the sequel, Castlevania 2: Simon's Quest. It was a bit different, it had slightly branching paths through the map so you could choose where you wanted to go where the first one was very much linear. And it had 100% more dialog than the first one. And Castlevania 4 was also pretty great imo. It's basically what they would today call a remaster of the original with the same levels and same enemies, but with better graphics. npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud Alright got some styling to do before I show any pictures, but I totally got the search working 🤘🏻 npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud You know, I've played the original Half-Life and HL2 and the episodes repeatedly. The first one prompted me to buy and then install a new video card and arguably launched my career in IT. But I've only played Opposing Force and Blue Shift once. Kinda wish I would've known about that day that everyone played npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud You know, I'm in the "which distro should I use?" phase of switching to Linux. And I have used Linux before, I have a careers' worth of experience in IT mostly as a system administrator. And I've played around with Debian and Ubuntu at home before, but it's been a while. npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud Never made an Undo button before last night and never really thought about how they work tbh. But it makes sense that if you want to be able to undo something you've deleted you'll need to save the thing you're trying to delete somewhere, at least for a little while. Turns out that somewhere is called localStorage! Or at least can be localStorage. Anyway, so now, when she clicks the Delete Recipe button on a recipe, that click actually saves a copy of the entire recipe object including the image into localStorage and then pops the delete confirmation modal. Clicking the Delete button on the modal submits the form and actually deletes the recipe from the database. And I added an Undo button on the "Recipe deleted!" success alert that re-adds the recipe from localStorage in case she gets that far on accident, and then it clears localStorage. I wasn't sure where to put the Undo button really, but I think it makes sense in the alert since it's the thing that pops up on the screen the moment she clicks Delete for real. And it's a dismissable alert that won't disappear on its own on a timer or anything, so it'll just be there if she needs it until she navigates away. #WebDev #WebDevelopment #HTML #CSS #JavaScript https://blossom.primal.net/08d5f5d36350ffde07a015857e4a7e8fb1399d7ace4cbac61a05b57e785c5d8f.jpg https://blossom.primal.net/7dad89d36d9779d80b14dbff2394e3cca56c2ead1e7f0430839f9548396081a0.jpg npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud Okay, got a delete recipe confirmation in there and an undo button in case she deletes one on accident npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud Just saw a sticker on someone's car that said "I ♥️ milfs" and that seems a bit redundant npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud I love this idea, I have a lot of de-googling to do and I've wondered about which email people use npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud Got Like buttons added to each recipe on the index page, got them appropriately boinging and incremented their z-index by 1 so they're clickable above the rest of the clickable recipe. Also made the link for seeing the ones you've Liked actually work by adding a query string called "liked" that filters the index page. Pretty happy with how they turned out overall and that's another thing checked off the To-do list 🤘🏻 #WebDev #WebDevelopment #HTML #CSS #JavaScript https://blossom.primal.net/e9c320ed792651e8c240505dc2adbd88899a9341bf10d6ba6e555f8bd8e6403d.mp4 npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud It's not about making the coolest thing ever, it's about practice making videogames. It's been a while but here are the 2 game-a-week games I actually made if you're interested. And they're both food-related 🤷🏻♂️ I managed to get controller support into Fruity Pebbles Asteroids so the ship turns nice and smooth, but it only ever shoots to the right because making videogames is hard 😄 https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B5HbT9TSmVEsdlBSdjNHbjhGQXc?resourcekey=0-zGjSj-bhz2TGC8TrnncIQg npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud I know it probably sounds crazy and not really realistic, but what if we just asked people not to use AI? There must be a way. Maybe let people rate each other's work, open source the code and the work ethics of the contributors. Like filtering the noise on social media. npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud Do you know about the Electoral College? He didn't get the most votes this time or the last time. I certainly didn't vote for him. npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud Right, I was thinking the same thing. I like zap.stream but I couldn't figure out how to get it to work from my PlayStation npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud So cool looking npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud Picking up where I left off earlier and heading deeper into the labs under Ahroprom #Stalker2 #videogames #gamer #gamestr #streaming #PS5 https://www.youtube.com/live/CoqJICCkasc npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud Alright I'm gonna nerd for a sec For the first time in #Stalker2 I just got a suit upgraded enough so that I now have a lead-lined slot for artifacts which means the slot itself can take the maximum amount of radiation that artifacts can give off which means I can finally use the Legendary artifact I found called Hypercube without dying 😄🤘🏻 Even I don't know what it does, but the description says it has potential applications in space navigation. And there are those weird warp things you can jump into in this one, I wonder if anything special would happen if I jumped through one while wearing it 🤔 Anyway, onward! #videogames #gamer #gamestr #streaming #PS5 https://www.youtube.com/live/La416wM1C0k npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud Added a little UX polish: a way for her to be able to remove any of the ingredients, seasonings or steps of instructions she's added (the little red X's) before she submits the final form in case of typos, or if she just wants to #GettingThere #WebDev #WebDevelopment https://blossom.primal.net/f8bd4c6ee37e78f5dc17372ee3e23243d9ecca5cd67c7bda361de4da4be3fdf2.png npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud I took the advice of the guys at Vlambeer and did a couple game-a-week games and I think it does help. The idea is that you only spend a week working on it, and then move on. It prevents the perfectionism that I would otherwise slather all over it. I made Ribeye Pong and Fruity Pebbles Asteroids and with both of them I started on a Monday and quit working on them the following Sunday at midnight npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud Alright there's validation complete! 😅 It turned out to be a little more complicated than just "Do the inputs have values?" because the form itself for adding recipes became more involved as I went. It now builds a full-on preview for her with bullet lists as she types, and she can add multiple ingredients, seasonings and steps of instructions before submitting the final form. So validation really became more about "Has she added at least one of everything yet?" than "Do the inputs have values?" All in all it was a bit more involved than I was expecting, but it works exactly how I want it to work now and I'm happy with the flow of adding a recipe. Plus with the validation buttoned up there's nothing left she'll be able to do to generate an actual Express error 🤘🏻 #WebDev #WebDevelopment #HTML #CSS #JavaScript npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud So normal npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud There probably is ~something~ out there, but even the smallest stars still exert a massive amount of gravity. They might be harder to spot, there is a lot of empty space to sort through, but maybe we could still see the effects of their gravity in the planets and things that are orbiting them? I was just thinking about rogue planets the other day, the one that have somehow broken free from the pull of gravity in the star systems that they came from and are now just flinging through space on their own. They wouldn't be orbiting anything so they wouldn't really have a measurable year, I wonder if they'd still be spinning on their axis? And it would probably be dark out a lot. Either way it would be a crazy place to live 😄 npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud Half-Life came with a level editor called the Hammer, or at least it used to, so if you had Half-Life you could start making maps for it, which I did. I made a bunch of maps for that and for Counter-Strike when it was still a HL mod back in the day, loved playing with level editors npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud #Stalker2 with mouse and keyboard let's goooo!!!! Starting with a story mission and then I'm gonna go wherever The Zone wind blows me #Videogames #gamer #gamestr #streaming #PS5 https://www.youtube.com/live/PNA8b8qvtMU npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud The screens you see when you die in #Stalker2 are also somehow amazing, and for some reason I especially like the ones that say "Torn apart by mutants" 😄 A bunch of these little bastards swarmed the area right after I finished another fight and was already almost dead. Gotta keep an eye on that health meter, I did not expect them to be the thing that killed me https://blossom.primal.net/03884a7cb395aa028803045ef678e49f89d67902576d80c6328d0ba73a95a5a0.jpg npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud No idea why it took 86 hours of playing #Stalker2 for it to occur to me to try plugging a mouse and keyboard into my #PS5, but I'm so glad it works! I don't mind using controllers, especially for 3rd person games, but I am a #PC gamer at heart and I do prefer using my actual reflexes to aim in first-person games. Mouse and keyboard ftw with no fussing, I am going to be playing this way the rest of the time. #Videogames #gamer #gamestr npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud Sounds a lot like Iowa npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud Alright responsibilities done for the day, time to play! I'm running off to parts unknown in #Stalker2, just got a new suit, some night vision v2 goggles and I'm trying out a new rare artifact I found called Devil's Mushroom. #Videogames #gamer #gamestr #streaming #PS5 https://www.youtube.com/live/peMhipFKeGg npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud Well after lots and lots of playing I finally found something I don't like about #Stalker2! Accidentally pressed the button to move the entire contents of my stash box into my inventory which immediately made me ridiculously overburdened. And there's no "undo", but you can easily move everything (including the original contents of your inventory) back into the stash box by clicking the Move Everything button again. But if you want things back the way they were, your only option at that point is to move everything back one item at a time. I especially enjoyed moving all my 1000's of rounds of spare ammo back 30 rounds at a time. #Videogames #gamer #gamestr npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud You can do it, but wasn't late 90's HTML when everything was still left-justified? 😁 npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud Yah, agree. All attempts to bring Metroid into 3D have been kinda 😕 imo npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud Ctrl+Shift+V npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud I grabbed my 10 year old Nvidia GTX Titan X that had been overheating for some reason this morning and ended up taking it apart, taking THIS MANY screws out of it, cleaning everything, putting on some fresh thermal paste and putting it all back together, all on a whim. And at some point during all of that I wondered who even does this with their spare time? On the bright side, so far so good 🤘🏻 #Videogames https://blossom.primal.net/3056828bc6e729959b5008b5ae46a13c02e76ae2e5e70818638852b4fa40c24d.jpg https://blossom.primal.net/31f94810fcbb8d64ff68be760789d17152c26e1bf8b8c2635405e49170f9e8e6.jpg https://blossom.primal.net/9231b58abc080f01e381eeb0bf3f10066958340673de8713be16a0b7c899041a.jpg npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud That's awesome, thanks for sharing npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud Ouch, but it kinda sounds like it's the cat that's a pain npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud https://youtu.be/fCrhDamN82k?si=dHWLoZmPIrTCVRdu npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud In the morning, CST npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud Also did that pluralization thing again 😄 npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud okay I'm happy with the look and boing of the Like button #WebDev #WebDevelopment #HTML #CSS #JavaScript https://blossom.primal.net/f15041f86b0ebb9b63da70be58e33ebef56292e3be457368bef092c8770f1783.mp4 npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud The solution? Only check it once! npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud And without a great deal more thought, #Stalker2 take me where thee may! #gamer #gamestr #videogames #streaming #PS5 https://www.youtube.com/live/-pCt0DSSJcE npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud Remember when they used to put an "s" at the end in parentheses when they weren't sure if there was going to be more than one of something or not, like code(s) or ticket(s) or whatever? Not good enough for this chap! That's been bugging me since I was a kid and I fixed it on my wife's recipe page. If she chooses 1 cup, for example, it'll say 1 cup. But if she chooses 2 cups it'll say 2 cups (plural) automatically. And the same for the rest of the units of measure (teaspoon, tablespoon etc), if any of them have an amount > 1 they get pluralized. Also spent some time today adding the rest of the new recipe details to the show page, laying things out so it looks nice and finishing up the styling. And that is the show page 99% done and 2 more things checked off the To-do list 🤘🏻 The only thing left on the show page is to finish fixing the Like button, which is functional but just kind of jammed in there at the moment. #WebDev #WebDevelopment https://blossom.primal.net/893324c187a539f32a044a255e3b8ac307558ec3a51cb178fb39bd6459d22cf0.png npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud This sounds so awesome, but I keep getting a message about it being the wrong rom for Zelda even though it's the one I've always used 😕 npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud Me too, I always kinda wanted to go with it and host a super-long game of Civ on the biggest map there is with the understanding that one or two moves per day is fine and we'll be playing this game together for months. But I could never find anyone that wanted to join such a venture. npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud Once I finish the page for my wife's recipes I'm going right into my next project which I already have well on its way. Most of the styling and layout is done, it looks nice but it's not incredibly complicated. It's also already responsive, the database is saving what I want it to save and I have authentication and authorization already working. What's left to do is the core functionality of it and I'd like to make it my first #OpenSource project, but I've never ran one of those before and I could use some advice. And I don't want to host it on GitHub because Microsoft, is there a good alternative that still uses #git? Also don't want to use VS Code anymore for the same reason. I guess I could use Sublime but I've never used it to make a whole project before. What do #Linux people use? #WebDev #WebDevelopment #FrontEnd #BackEnd #FullStack #HTML #CSS #JavaScript npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud Seems like you're doing pretty good so far, thanks for sharing npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud AGP was the shiiiit https://blossom.primal.net/79f6d95a581751b1ea7e86e6bdffe0b2b39aab8805faf6ad8e4b3ee9be2e7935.jpg https://blossom.primal.net/79f6d95a581751b1ea7e86e6bdffe0b2b39aab8805faf6ad8e4b3ee9be2e7935.jpg npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud 🔳🖼️🤺 npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud "Even more styling OCD" is one of my favorites npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud Someone pawned mine while I was at work back in the 90's, sadly, but now I have a mini that I loaded up with every game I ever played plus a few that looks great! And I do enjoy playing them with the original controllers npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud That was a good read, thanks for posting! I'm a fan, but I never really played a Prime game. I really only played the first 2, and by first 2 I mean the first 2 as they occurred chronologically (for me, anyway), Metroid and Super Metroid. I've also played but haven't beaten Fusion, Other M and Dread. But even from my mostly-removed perspective and from the trailers and stuff that I've seen, Prime 4 didn't look all that much like a Metroid game to me npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud It somehow reminds me of something I might've seen in a Shel Silverstein book as a kid npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud I think he wants to pull up Netflix or whatever on his phone and then cast it to the laptop. I'd be interested in the Linux version of a Chromecast, too npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud Hey while we're at it, I almost forgot I also found out recently that if you put the windows up and down incessantly like a 3 year-old would do, it eventually locks out the window controls for about a minute 😁 Someone at Honda accounted for this, in 2012 Honda Civics, anyway 😂 npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud I'm gonna go with probably not, and I'm also gonna go with you're not wrong. I have family members that I haven't talked to in a while because of their love for that guy, but I do occasionally wonder how they feel about him now npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud I've been driving this same car for a while and I just now this very moment found out (on accident) that if you double click Resume for the cruise control it sets the cruise, and now my brain is wondering why I need the Set button https://blossom.primal.net/3ae79f25530c097347fa4025287045dc5b8fd3bf472aef61f6d60e2ad136610e.jpg npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud I've turned off the hovers but it came back after an update npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud My fingers reek like #weed for some reason. Oh well, it's probly a coincidence! And you may have guessed it's time for even more #Stalker2! It's a wild world out there in The Zone, remember those enemies I was talking about earlier called Burers that can throw things at you with their minds? One of them added insult to injury earlier. Not only did it rip my gun out of my hands and toss it somewhere, but then as I was scrambling around looking for it on the ground I started getting shot and turned around just in time to see that it was shooting me with my own floating gun that it was pointing at me with its mind and, a moment later, killed me with it 😂 https://y.yarn.co/17d8488d-61c9-4601-99d5-12d814b5cbb3_text.gif #gamer #gamestr #videogames #streaming #PS5 https://www.youtube.com/live/yCqRcrrRkM4 npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud Okay, there's adding steps of Instructions buttoned up, and with that the form for adding recipes is complete! That feels like a pretty significant milestone, the hard work is done, the recipe model is complete and adding recipes has a pretty good flow. Now I just have to make everything look pretty on the Show and Edit pages and my first actual web page will be almost done 🤘🏻 #WebDev #WebDevelopment npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud That looks awesome 😄🤘🏻 and they even made a poster!! I love them, too! I always thought of them as like a bouncing baby brother of Counter-Strike which I played a tremendous amount of back when it was still a mod for Half-Life. Got one of my most proud achievements in the first one, but still haven't quite gotten it in L4D2 https://blossom.primal.net/a6d4b1dc9d1c6fcf2c39ea380561dc7e10359e94d8ea5ac231a38c8d694e4c09.jpg npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud I hate the woods! 😠 That is a pretty good entry for the best co-op game of all time, and I might agree with you. I have an L4D hat that I still wear (and get comments on) and a T-shirt with a medpack on the back that sadly no one has ever commented on but maybe because people only see it as I'm walking away 🤔 I hate vans! 😠 But there are some pretty great co-op games out there, I also had a blast playing the original Gears of War with a friend and playing PixelJunk Shooter with my daughter npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud My wife and I were pulling into the Walmart parking lot recently, there was an ambulance there with its lights going and the EMT's were moving someone from their car to the ambulance on a stretcher as we pulled up. Found out later that a woman shot herself in the hip (in the ass, really) on accident that day. Her gun went off as she was getting out of her car that also had her 3 kids and her husband in it because she put a bullet in the chamber and had left the safety off. And that's how they normally walk around with them, ready to fire at a moments notice (or go off on accident). Life in America, I guess npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud They have a heightened center of gravity in that area of the bridge, and where they're going they don't need to sit npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud Oh! Did not know! /shuttingup npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud Yes they are! npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud That's a very clever and timely reply, but Bill doesn't run Microsoft anymore. npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud Noooo I haven't switched yet! I have used Debian and Ubuntu before, and I know that sudo is the Linux version of Run As Administrator, but it's been a while.... I'm in the middle of making a couple web pages and I've been using VS Code as my editor and I've been keeping my repos in GitHub, both Microsoft products 😬 I am planning to make the leap, tho npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud Depends on what kind of games you like. I really enjoyed the first Gears of War, one of the most fun couch co-op games imo and they just recently released the remaster called Gears of War: Reloaded for PS5. Stardew Valley is an entirely more peaceful game that now supports local co-op. And for some more lighthearted goofy fun we also enjoyed the the Overcooked games and one called Moving Out