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Weird, the timestamp of the most recent post in the forum index is broken: it pegs it at five months instead of a few weeks.
Anyways! So I got to thinking that it would be fun to actually fly on a broom. Perfectly doable but also rather dangerous for a variety of reasons. Inside a giant cylinder, you’d put the broom with a metal core. The cylinder itself would consist of a current running through it, creating a magnetic field on the interior. So kind of like maglev or an MRI but the current, like maglev, would move in a single direction to pull the broom forward. A cylinder would allow it to float in all directions, such as what happens when you drop a magnetic bearing down a pipe. The person would sit on the broom and would even be able to steer it, assuming they don’t have any metal on their person. Don’t want their clothes being ripped off on the ride! Or worse!
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!
Decided to pivot a bit and use a deck similar to what I use online. Didn’t look at it carefully before I ordered it, though, so it’s a bit haphazard meaning I’ll probably need to tweak it some later. Its strategy is a bit of a mishmash instead of being steady (too many Tuners from the looks of it) but we’ll see how it goes before I sit down and work on fixing it. Had trouble finding much regarding a modern deck for Blackwings so I mostly just picked one. They’re still popular and viable but decklists for them don’t seem to be popular, other than for the Edison format, which is kind of strange.
Figure it’s better than struggling to fix up my other somewhat crummy decks that’ll never be truly up to snuff for modern play. At least Blackwings can be updated!
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Just realized I probably could have taken an Edison deck and updated it with modern cards. Whelp, too late to worry about it now! 😛 Based on my figuring, I should be able to make it more viable with about 4 card changes though 🙂
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
🙁 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. 🙂
Update performed. Doesn’t look like anything broke, including the customizations, but it did add extra CSS we may want to change. I’ll know better when I get back to my 4k monitor due to how group forums work (they kind of work like an iframe but without the actual external embedding and the theming is rather difficult to override (I haven’t been able to find a good way of doing it for everything)) 🙂
