Results tagged “games” from Pumanchu

When your Karma is negative, everyone's out to get you (aren't they anyways?). You misperceive things. You have bounties on your head. Your injuries are more serious than you realize. But, you get more cool powers, allies, toys, and attributes. It kinda rounds out.

Playing video games and ignoring your family will earn you serious Negative Karma.

CloisterMagic Is the name of my first Dwarf Fortress. I just took a bunch of screens with the very cool 3dwarf utility. I suppose I should take some ascii screens at some point as well.

To the Apple ][ and linux lover in me, Dwarf Fortress is like The Sims meets Lord of the Rings (just the dwarves). So, I'm pretty much hooked. It took me right off of Team Fortress 2.

The funniest part, is that if I were playing TF2, I think Cpu would understand and consent every so often. But Dwarf Fortress keeps me at the computer late and has so little polish, I think it's earning me negative karma.

I left my steam account logged in, and found a couple of chat windows open when I got home. MyFormerCoWorkers were looking for some tips.

Man, it's nice to keep up with them. And it's nice to be respected with regards to a specialty, even if it is the anal utf-8 encoding of localized text from an Excel .xls file into the game-specific data format.

Miss you dudes, and good luck with your project and encodings!

According to recent keyword activity, I am in the top 10 links for searches on gurps meerkat manor.

What blows my mind more than the kind of pencil and paper RPG experience one would have playing meerkats in Meerkat Manor with the GURPS system, is that I would find that fun.

It turns out, at sweet home Chicago, things are a little too toasty for the Shuttle XPC, and when playing Team Fortress 2, system becomes unstable. Dang. Thanks to the Killing news list, discovered and ordered a quiet Zalman copper VGA cooler. Should arrive soon.

Drawback is, without the sexy Nvidia 7900 GT installed, TF2 can't run and silently crashes on level load. This turns out to be the onboard video's complete lack of Pixel Shaders v3.0. Unhandled of course.

I love McDonalds' Monopoly promotion.

Ah, hell. How do I love thee? Let me enumerate (python range?) the ways:

• Rebuilding the 3dsmax OLE interface functions I depended on at my last job. From hell's heart, I stab at thee, Maxscript.
• Using python unittest to verify my library of poorly written utility functions and classes.
• Using eclipse and PyDev with an actual seat of PyDevExtensions to remove errors and warnings and debug classes.
• Author a scons data build.

The real trick is that this is pretty much solo, although slightly steered. Besides the python module writing, it's all stuff I've done already, so it can drag at times. But today was full of the promise of having almost all the pieces together; python interpreter importing the win32com.client calling the 3dsmax ole object's exposed functions, the scons scanner for the animation file enumerating the deps. Just short a couple of builders and scripts. Almost there ...

Dang. Cpu arranged to baby-sit for a co-op member's 7-year-old. That went pretty well, except for the part where he knocked my SEGA Dreamcast onto the top of the Shuttle XPC. Guess where the SexyWesternDigitalRaptor lives? Right on top. It stopped working almost instantly, failing to find a bootable disc.

This week, I've been writing python as a base for an automated GUI testing infrastructure. Admittedly, still research and almost through that phase. I'm just turning the corner into productive.

This is because I've discovered python ctypes.

Stranger than the movie itself, while watching the ending credits, noticed that Britt Daniel did the music. I immediately say to Cpu that it has to be Katie's brother of Spoon fame. Cpu doubts for a second, but there can't be more than one Britt. And the music seems to fit, although to my chagrin, I haven't listend to any Spoon besides the tape Katie gave us in 1997. We used to work with Katie when ILivedInBeijing. We think to ourselves, neat.