How the goonie birds spent the weekend.
Next time I buy pillows, I think I’m going to put an old one in that corner, with how much Corky likes it for his nappy spot during the day.
After 20 years of service, the Space Station flies into an uncertain future
I’m curious what the future holds. A long time ago, I felt that planning to run the ISS for such a short period was disappointing compared to the costs. You could say that I’m still inclined to believe it should remain, whether that’s systematically replacing things or building anew.
Personally, I’m impressed that humanity has managed to pull off the International part in International Space Station so well. Certainly, it’s been a better outlook than our ancestors had. Hmm, I wonder how many people built bomb shelters back in the ‘60s….lol.
The Dark Pictures Anthology: Little Hope
When encountering it on Xbox, I found the first entry in The Dark Pictures Anthology: Man of Medan a superb adventure game. Enough so that after finishing it: I pre-ordered the second entry on the spot. I can understand why they targeted Halloween weekend as the launch for The Dark Pictures Anthology: Little Hope. The game has a rather gruesome opening prologue before meeting up with the survivors of the bus wreck. It’s content is kind of ideal for Halloween, and I’ve been looking forward to it all month.
My Halloween plans pretty much were eat cake, and play Xbox. ‘Cuz even I need a day off once in a while, lol.
Early on Little Hope feels like things are a bit less heavy on the Quick Time Events (QTEs), given the shift from holy crap, pirates! Over to demons that go bump in the night as the main threat to your lives. Didn’t expect the twist at the end to make such crystal sense of everything that happened, but it was well executed. Whether intentional, or just my own attitude, it made the feeling of having had enough of the demons confronting the characters, and opting for more a aggressive approach: seem rather appropriate to the story. How it impacts the significance of characters surviving, well, made me feel a little less bad about missing a QTE and losing one on the way to the house. Some aspects of the gameplay may take advantages of people who paid attention in Man of Medan, or just be ready to oopsie you the same way over; it’s hard to tell.
Sounds like there are plans for a third game in The Dark Pictures Anthology: House of Ashes. I’ll probably be nabbing that when it comes out. Definitely a very fun game series.
Pretty sure that Willow’s reaction here is “Did someone say food?”
The 1985 movie Clue only has one real, viable ending — and it isn’t the ‘good’ one
While I think that’s a pretty clever concept for a fourth ending, I think I rather like the traditional third ending. Both because it amuses me greatly, and because it makes the most sense of a farcical situation.
The week in pictures
Aside from the general busy level and workalcoholism, I think this largely sums things up.
Test of new socks: AWESOME. I’ve put off buying new socks for so long that it feels like clouds instead of boots. Also willow doesn’t understand why she doesn’t get a post-walk treat before I take my boots off, and after.
Pretty sure she demands pretzel sticks.
Misty wanting attention.
Willow wondering why Misty gets the crane service and the chair.
Sometimes: I am a dog chair.
Willow reminding me that her pretzel stick bribes are required for midnight snackage.
The kind of looks I get when getting dressed for work.
It’s amazing Willow didn’t dive on the plate faster than I could take the picture, lol.
Wasn’t sure if leftover brussels sprouts and alfredo sauce was a great idea. Combined with meatballs, it certainly is!
Willow wishes a poor meatball would roll off the table, on the floor, or just straight into her mouth.
Yes, Willow, I know you wants treats.
Sometimes you’ve just gotta splurge 🙂
Pretty sure the dogs are smarter than I am when it comes to how to spend an afternoon.
Best part of chili mac is definitely eating chili mac.
Comfort level: over 9000!
Baldur’s Gate 3 devs built a testing AI. Then, they tried to defeat it.
That is kind of neat, and likely worth the effort as it grows more capabilities for abusing the game.
Television, novels, and comics tell us one day the super cool A.I. will be super smart, and may or may not try to kill us all. Personally, I think the future looks more like a series of special purpose constructs aimed to help us with specific tasks. That’s the super-cool A.I. I’m looking forward to, because I’m probably going to be dead decades or centuries before we see anything like Cortana or Jarvis, lol.
“Willow, do you really need a pretzel that badly?”
Picture of the dogs looking at me like I’ve got cucumbers coming out of my ears, omitted to protect the guilty
Next-gen games on Xbox Series X look fine but feel amazing
This kind of summarizes why I don’t really care about playing games in 4k, but am very interested in the Series X
Fuck it, I’m having a cookie; the current o’clock after a long tiring day.