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Wanted to watch Colossus: The Forbin Project but it’s yet another one that’s not available on streaming. 🙁 Going to have to add it to the disc list! Looks like I can get Gattaca on disc or streaming so I’ll add that to the watchlist. Been wanting to catch it for twenty years 🙂

Finished up Goldfinger and Thunderball. Will keep going!

Yeah, there’s nothing on the Fallout page either about it. Weird. It’s clearly heavily inspired by Fallout so I wonder why nobody tends to mention it? Definitely don’t need a Silo video game: we have Fallout 😛

Still need to watch the Fallout TV series. Can’t see Silo as that’s on Apple tv+ over here 🙁

Yep, middle of winter but it’s been a…[Read more]

I know CMake has a VS plugin that integrates it with Visual Studio. Not sure about Meson about I’ll definitely take a look.

The first order of business would be to simply see if it works, making the minimal code changes necessary to do so. After that, things can be freshened up a bit, maybe with a can of Febreze.

Other than the license, what…[Read more]

Quite possibly. I know I had installed some bits of VS over here when I first set things up, will need to look at it to see which parts. Never been good with VS, though. CMake may be a good option. In the last few years, I’ve been wanting to play around with Meson some. It’s a newer build configuration utility that the GNOME project has been…[Read more]

There’s also the getline function: https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/string/basic_string/getline

Forgot about it but it reads console input into a string until the end of the line instead of skipping the delimiters like the other operator. Similar functions exist for files as well 🙂

Cool! Will need to go through it sometime 🙂

Code doesn’t seem well documented, though. It’s also missing a build recipe so would be a bit difficult to build. Interesting that it uses a lesser known image library. Why not a more common one, I wonder?

Yep, they’ve got a lot of goodies available! Bit surprised they haven’t gotten the license for Das Boot with it being so iconic

But it’s also about hope! Sad but it gives us hope that one day we can fix things. Really needs to be taught in schools. We watched it when it first came out but never discussed it, which was a bit of a missed…[Read more]

The first quarter of book two deals with the back story of the Vaults. Yep, I’m just using Fallout terms for sanity’s sake. Anyways! Back story: still Fallout. 😛

Whelp. The charging port on my ancient phone but the dust this morning. It no longer detects a connected cable. Tried it with two different chargers without success. May be fixable but it’s probably not worth the effort of finding the part from a reputable seller. Guess I’ll prepare for the funeral! Was replacing it with the tablet anyways 🙂

So I started reading the Silo series. No idea how I came across it, honestly. The writing is pretty good but the world building leaves a lot to be desired as it’s pretty much a carbon copy of Fallout’s lore. In the first book, they make a big deal of the mystery surrounding the Vault (the author calls them Silos) but the big reveal falls flat…[Read more]

We used to get it more often than we do now. When I was back in high school, we’d usually get it once a year even if the flakes never made it to the ground.

Nope! That’s okay! I’ve got blankets and boxes to cover them with 🙂

Still haven’t decided what to do for my birthday yet. I’ll get it figured out 😛

Watched WALL-E again the other day. Got it on disc now so I can watch it anytime I want! 😀

And, speaking of, the folks over at Criterion are starting to pump out 4k discs of classics. Interestingly, their shop doesn’t have a list of all films currently in print other than the 4k shop so you need to apply a filter to the master list. Bit of an…[Read more]

Cool!

On our side of the pond, we have WonderWorks

Haven’t been in years and I wish I was able to. It was a lot of fun!

So we have one weather outlet predicting snow for my birthday here. None of the others have gone that far yet but we’ll see. Just supposed to be flurries but I’ll take what I can get!

Thanks, will snag it! 🙂

I’d play it in German but not only am I rusty, I doubt I’d really understand enough for it to make sense. 😛

Handy for engineering, though!

So the US government just gave AT&T the go ahead to start shutting down copper phone lines in favor of wireless. This is a huge mistake as wireless is a lot more susceptible to interference. Indeed, you can’t even use it in certain buildings. Without the copper backup, I see this as creating more issues than it solves.

We do have Festivus! Which is also my dad’s birthday 😛

Yep, waste is a big issue. I’ve been using ecofriendly trimmings myself (reusable bags for gifts, durable decorations that’ll stand the test of time, etc)but I’ve been having a hard time convincing others. 🙁

Yeah, Santa may morph into something else. Not sure what!

Thanks! You, too!

With how accessible information is these days, I suspect the Santa Claus myth will die out soon if it hasn’t already. It’s much easier for children to access information now, especially with the pervasiveness of smartphones, so they’re going to figure it out much sooner than in the past.

Finished Return of the Space Wizard yesterday, also known as Return of the Jedi, so that completes the pre-Disney films. May or may not watch the Disney ones as, canonically, the main story is supposed to end after Episode VI with the GE in disarray. That’s where the EU comes in (which Disney nullified): it’s supposed to fill in the gaps during…[Read more]

Doesn’t sound like a fun experience. I don’t know why I’d want a headache as a recreational activity 😛

Had that happen before a couple of months ago. Was in the middle of cooking a dish and a power outage occurs! Lasted a few minutes so I had to adjust the cooking. Was a bit annoying 😛

Should be doing alright. I’ve got one from my grandmother…[Read more]