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Yep! 😀
I usually go west since there are a lot fewer people 😛
In terms of quality, I think the East coast has better quality personally. 🙂
The one I went to the other day had interesting facilities. They hadn’t yet rebuilt it from the hurricane a few months ago so the facilities were still in the marshlands, upside down. Pretty hard to use them 😛
As a result, the beach was empty of buildings! Was quite nice 🙂
Yay! 😀 Sometimes get similar things when I need to work with Microsoft’s software (including Windows). After almost 40 years, you’d think they’d have it figured out by now!
I miss hidden secrets in games where you had to perform a very specific set of tasks in order to unlock them. For example: in Super Smash Brothers Melee, you had to finish the adventure course with a certain digit on the clock to unlock Luigi. In Dungeon Siege, you had to have a specific weapon at a certain point in the game to unlock the chicken room. Those were a lot of fun!
🙁 Sometimes, keeping the old sites around is still useful as people may prefer the specific interface and it helps keep things familiar. They may also have features that the other product may not have.
Yeah, I’d much rather deal with ads than a paywall myself, especially for a site I will not use often (if it’s used regularly then it’s a bit of a different story depending on the additional features available). In that case, paying a subscription doesn’t make a whole lot of sense 😛
Had something fun come in yesterday: https://boingboing.net/2023/12/18/if-you-have-testes-should-you-ejaculate-more-often-yes-yes-you-should.html
Picked up Hogwarts Legacy a few weeks ago and it’s pretty fun. Combat leaves a little to be desires but the lively game world more than makes up for the game’s various flaws. 🙂
Yep, Boing Boing is pretty good about giving attribution! Been a favorite blog of mine for close to twenty years now. 🙂
And check out the retro about page 😀
Yep, it’s come a long way from what I’ve read. Playing without mods for now, I may install them later on. 🙂
The visuals are pretty stunning without mods and the game runs pretty well on my hardware. Water does tend to cause the fans to rev up, maybe because of the physics code?
The best part is the game world, though, as I mentioned. In the castle itself, suits of armor spontaneously break into fights, the portraits do fun stuff, ghosts cause mischief…. All over the game world, there are tons of things to interact with. You can skip stones down by the lake, cause the watering cans to fly about, and more. Always gives me a smile!
They did kind of miss the boat on equipment, though. It’s simply a numbers game without special properties (other than visual) and the chests are levelled so it’s something to keep in mind. It would have been nice to at least have different properties for each wand type that you can collect.
I’m waiting to do more exploring until I unlock brooms or mounts to make traveling much easier. 🙂
I feel like the world could use a coordinated international garbage strike to help create awareness regarding excessive waste
Nope. Used to follow their RSS feed but it doesn’t look like they have that anymore? May need to sign up for the newsletter then 🙂 Biggest worry with Mailchimp would be if someone gained access to their database and got you on more spam lists. Not exactly an ideal situation 😛
That gives me an idea for floating brooms for a theme park ride. Will post it in that thread when I get time!
But, yeah, I like that idea! Would be a big hit with the kids and us nerds 😛
May get a new mouse soon. The mechanical switch seems to be putting too much pressure on the joint in my index finger so I’m thinking of getting one with an optical switch to make it a bit more comfortable. Didn’t used to have this problem so it sounds like my joints may be aging at a faster rate than expected :/ Technology has changed a lot in recent years!
Once used a trackball back in the nineties, do remember that, like the touchpad it required absolutely not one speck of grease or sweat in the works or it was back to cleaning. Did like it for a while before it started to wear out, as did the touchpad, with the consequence of losing precision in movement. Which was enough to want to move back to standard gear. 🙂
Scans anything? What about huntsman spiders, which are common visitors to homes in this neighbourhood. Beautiful spiders worthy of a replica.
If the library system software was open source, it would probably be updated regularly. else there’s always a cost in maintaining proprietary code.They also have mice with a thumb trackball, giving you a combination. Would be pretty cool in games!
I don’t do well with touchpads. My fingers are so rough that they wear off the coating in a month making them very difficult to use thereafter 😛
Yep! Spiders would also be a good fit! Lots of potential uses for such a device! Could even do beetles! They’d be a lot of fun!
Yeah, they use Overdrive/libby and Adobe Digital Editions. Not exactly a good combination 🙁 Though, they work great when they work. 😛
I’ll give it another day or so before I start combing Project Gutenberg again for public domain books. Going to miss reading science fiction, though
Oh, didn’t mean they didn’t have any just that I already read it all! 😛
Looks like Kobo may have changed their terms so that free public-domain works are no longer in the eBook store. Fortunately, the Kobo devices allow one to easily sideload files just like a USB drive so I’ll probably do that if the library access doesn’t come back soon. Being without books is driving me crazy! 😛
Huh, cool. Haven’t seen those kinds of films in years. Followed the links and here’s a good article on a lot of it
And we’re making headway! At the very least, the results will be greatly beneficial in hunting out life elsewhere. Had quite a few articles come in over the last couple of weeks! Going to need to sort through them! Just haven’t had the opportunity 😛
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