Here I try to log shows, music and other things I enjoyed!
March 2026
I've been playing Warhammer: Return of Reckoning again. A private server for an ancient MMO all about fighting eachother in the Wrhammer Fantasy world. I play for a week or 2 maybe once every year or 2. I like a lot of things in the game, minus like half of the players. Big pvp battles, sieging keeps and goofy warhammer! What's not to love!
I got it running on my Linux Mint without too much issue, although sometimes you do gotta restart the launcher once or twice before it goes "Oh yeah, I'm supposed to make contact and log you in."
I finally got around to leveling my healer to the max normal level. I still wanna change her name later on. Right now it's Shanaa Blightrotten, but I wanna rename her to like Nurgelette or something cute.
I'm watching videos on someone who keeps little contained eco systems and documents all the growth and changes in them. I think something like this would be fun to do, but I don't really have the space to set up large glass boxes. Maybe I can use something closer to mason jars?
February 2026
Every so often I go back and replay the first Deus Ex. I change the resolution, I untag the Pistol skill and get Lockpicking, Multitool and Computing skills, I spawn and turn around and look at the skyline.
I chuckle and say to myself "Limitation of the engine"
Deus Ex was a very strange game to me when I first played it decades ago. While I completely missed the missing twin towers in the NYC skyline and didn't think about the implications of the statue of liberty being decapitated; I was very interested by what it was saying. In between complaining about how none of my shots connected, meeting the first rebel leader and just hearing him talk about consolidation got me invested.
Together with JC Denton I made a bizarre journey through various conspiracy theories. Some are given an explanation by Deus Ex, some are just driven to it's "logical" conclusion. The stereotypical Gray's are real, but they don't come from space. The Illuminati is real, but it's been dying for a long time. There is a man-made virus propagated by the same people who sell the cure. And so much more tucked away in the details. I recommend anyone to grab a copy, get Kenies launcher and rebind your controls. You can follow a guide if you want, no real person is gonna blame you for save scumming a passcode here or there either. But talk to people, every computer is a chance to learn something weird about what's going on in the year 2052!
A while ago I came across a channel that builds a lot of goofy, sometimes dangerous machines and other contraptions. Uwo's Lab. I'm watching the stream where he showcases hobbies from viewers.
I do love this one!
Grass Kitty Fan is really good, too!
I'm wondering if I should see Iron Lung and to take a friend who sometimes has markiplier on the background. I heard good things!