Managed to strain the entirety of my lower back, might recover to a good enough state tomorrow. Currently playing KCD I and MW5 alongside BATTLETECH - overall a pretty great experience, but KCD is crazy jank in terms of combat.

Yet Another Gah Dang Mech adds so many missing mechs from the previous games that my total database jumped from about 640 to over 2000. It's still quite jank, most of the mechs arrive with fully upgraded weapons and some parts need texturing, but it's on a very good path to being complete. Fun.

this Hunchback is certified Periphery peak

Yes, the J. Edgar flipped over and yes, that is the game cranked to max. MW5 unfortunately just does not look good even with stuff added on top of it. But the feeling of a big mech is always great

Also why the hell do I keep getting recommended porn accounts. I've got well over 100 tags in the filter at this point and they keep appearing, like I might just have to just go all-in on content filtering at this point

Gotta get back to MW5 as Chaos Reign is out, but due to how many mods got updated and the small tweaks I made to my modlist, I had to start over. Currently in 3019 with my first heavy mech (Orion) and I gotta say, the Orion does not fit what I need it to do, but it does the job fine so far.

am I the only one who doesn't want Rean in an enormous print size? I get usually posters are relatively large but I'm used to A4 and this is like, just over the limit for me where I have to look for bigger frames also eighty bucks, it's a nice print, but that and shipping and customs...maybe later.

CK3 has such beautiful artwork, shame it's a Paradox title

So...I have actually written down that entire thing on Medium. medium.com/@hablmet/my-... In case you wanna have a long read and try to understand my insane thought process. Took me about four hours to commit everything from memory, so I'd appreciate it if you gave it a read. Hopefully enjoyable.

My Very Much Flawed Look at All the Trails Games and Ranking Them

I’m sure that I will think of a better title while I am writing this down, definitely. Trails, for those who do not know, is actually a…

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Don't know where to write down my very very long post about ranking the Trails games I've played - been thinking about Medium but does someone have an alternative?

Not apologizing for this tierlist, it's peak Horizon has its good moments but waiting till the remaining 15-20% for them is kinda crazy

So...Horizon finished at 69 hours. Yes, at hard through the entire run. I think I'm gonna get a lot of people upset, but this is my lowest ranked Trails game on my list now. Congratulations to Falcom for making me not interested in a story at all

Starting to sour pretty fast on Horizon as it is my third time I got softlocked in a battle. I gotta give congrats to Falcom - using the speedup that's been in the games since forever breaks the game if someone uses an order And yes, it was in the middle of a long boss fight

My library finally came in clutch as I am working on exercises for the students for tomorrow's classes. Neat

so, Horizon...uhhh still need more time with it. It's shaping to be better than Daybreak II and a considerable bit better than Reverie. Rean is still absolutely fucking busted though idk how they do it. Congrats Falcom I broke the game's back on Hard within 20 minutes of getting him

how to piss off a trails fan

Played Horizon for eight hours yesterday now that I am an MA graduate but today it's mechwarrior time

Got state exams this week, might have time for Horizon afterwards to de-stress. We'll see.

So Kai boots up flawlessly thru Lutris, just needed to set the runner to Proton-GE and it runs without a hitch. Running it almost completely maxed, haven't seen a frame drop yet. Very good optimization in this regard. On the other hand I'm kinda questioning this, but sure, a codex is good.

So far been hearing decent opinions on Beyond the Horizon, so here's hoping it'll be a bit better than Daybreak II. That game had its problems in writing and we kinda know how Falcom performs when there's a lot of characters. I'll reserve judgment for later.

Downloading Trails Beyond the Horizon, using the GOG version since I know the GOG installers are the easiest to work with on Linux. We'll see if I make any progress in...about two and half hours, maybe three. Since I've played a ton of Trails, I'll try playing on Hard at first.

Also read the second book of the year so far. First was Wind and Truth by Sanderson, today I finished Quicksilver by Callie Hart. Definitely kinda interesting, so I bought the second book.

That being said the "go live" button might be used on my end. My OBS install is fully set up on my end and ready to go.

So, horror image, but I repaired my phone today. The part on the left is a 3.5mm jack, on the right is the Type-C connector. Both utterly ratted out. This phone is turning 6 this year, so yeah. The @ifixit.com iOpener kit was thankfully a godsend, managed to get it all done under an hour.

So far I'm quite enjoying Nobara though Linux seems to have this one small quirk with Starsector, where I cannot map any keys from the number row to a keybind, yet the default set keys from the number row from 5 onwards work just fine. It's the only game doing this 🤔

so uh, I have done stuff my Linux escapades are worth like twenty posts, but the reason I've been away is because I assembled my own proper desktop for the first time ever (and got a B580 for a nice price), but I'm also running Nobara now.

Open bluesky after a while, see the CTO woefully fuck up the entire torment nexus analogy Another day another dollar type beat

Me and my rotten luck means the chair I've been wanting to buy in November is on discount...now so here's hoping Black Friday makes it around that price again next month. Guh

Been thinking about how to treat myself with my first paycheck in November and I'm honestly just thinking I'll probably order a small commission on Rean or Van honestly because fun things are fun.

Well, I'm going to work for the first time in years tomorrow...it's an actual work contract too. Estimate is that I'll probably be there till February, so even if it's just a couple months, I think it's a decent chunk of change.