Now that we have prepared for The New War, we take a break from Warframe to give a new-to-me-at-the-time mod, Hideous Destructor. Who knew that this would become one of my favorite ways to play Doom, possibly any FPS game of recent memory?

Not only have I been swallowed up by its depth of complexity, enthralled by its ability to immerse me in its world, and enrapture me in the way it overhauls the vanilla game's systems, it opened me to a community of players and other modders who I would soon find myself among, clowning on the tyrant and it's masses.

https://youtu.be/xm0ykH9pS0E

#Gaming #VideoGames #Streaming #LetsPlay #LiveStream #Twitch #TwitchStreamer #SmallStreamer #Doom #BoomerShooters #RetroGaming #HideousDestructor #HDest

this might be a hot take but the Unix philosophy leads to software that is unusable for non-technical people because instead of running one program which comes with a sane default configuration you have to install and configure an entire fragmented ecosystem of programs and then maintain that ecosystem over time

Draculo is now streaming!! Come and join the fun!!!

Doom: Hideous Destructor Co-op !!

#retro #gaming #foss #linux #games #streaming #videogames #owncast

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list of RPGs that kas thinks are good:

• World of Warcraft (by playing it Objectively Wrong™)
• OSRS (despite Jagex’s best efforts)
• Skyrim / New Vegas / Fallout 3 (after heavily modding them)
• Dark Souls 1 (I have an intense love-hate relationship)
• Disco Elysium (I admire it from a distance)
• VtM: Bloodlines (without any caveats for some reason??)

the autistic urge to select all of these games on my desktop and then press enter

I think that the reason magic in fantasy is so language-focused (spell scrolls, spellbooks, magical symbols, ofuda, etc.) is because a lot of our cultural concepts of magic come from a time when literacy rates were very low, and the concept of “someone can draw the state of their mind onto a piece of paper or a stone tablet, and others can interpret those magical symbols and gain that same state of mind” was incredibly foreign and possibly even frightening

and then of course those in power really liked that they were the only ones who could interpret the magic thought-symbols, and as the literacy rate went up they tried to maintain this type of control by learning dead languages like Latin and writing only in those. which is why, for example, the Catholic church relied/relies so heavily on Latin (because the common people can’t understand it - only those who are chosen by the Catholic hierarchy can)

also of course it was in the nobles’ best interests to maintain and expand the culture of “writing is magical and sacred”

Patreon just told me to “get the app for a better experience” on desktop

I’m sorry but there is absolutely nothing you can do to convince me that a shitty phone app on a shitty tiny touchscreen is better than my actual desktop computer with a mouse and keyboard

I got nerd sniped by Trickster so hard that I am actually considering adding a macro preprocessing system to my Trickster language DSL

so that instead of me hand-writing spells in my Trickster DSL and then hand-transcribing them into spellcircles, there would be a preprocessing layer that would then spit out a lower-level version of my DSL code for me to hand-transcribe

i hate that i can’t use the root word of anything as its own word in english and have it make sense. if i get into a car cident, i want to change surance, pair my car, and celerate way

Element’s UI is so bad for replying to long-form messages that I literally just copy the message I’m replying to into Neovim instead and then paste it back into Element, because any time you scroll up or down in Element you might as well be going straight to Narnia

don't refer to me using my honorifics, refer to me using my horrorifics

Nearly 20 years old, LEGO NXT is now running #MicroPython! 😀

LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 (2013) is still the first priority, but we're pulling along NXT (2006) as we go. Much of it is is already working.

Thanks @schodet @danderson and many others.

#retrocomputing #ewaste

"So, solar panels and LEDs are basically the same--"
"what??"
"They're like speakers and microphones--"
"WHAT!!"