LazerFX

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[–] LazerFX 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

And now I'm both sad, and happy.

Sad, because only now has your stuff appeared in my feed, despite following you.

Happy, because I now get a few bonus posts to go back, enjoy and upvote.

Thanks, as always, for sharing!

[–] LazerFX 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

That's enough to put me off it. It's quite a common routine - get something out enough until the engagement falls off, then produce another game that's similar (So you can use the same underlying engine) but different enough, maybe slightly change the name of the studio enough so that it still matches the actual underlying company but isn't initially obvious, and then release a new one. Some scummy companies go through three or four cycles before disbanding a company and setting up afresh....

[–] LazerFX 3 points 4 days ago

It needs a big, red stripe. And possibly a beard... and a smaller jet that can be called Boy.

[–] LazerFX 2 points 5 days ago

I got screwed over with the motherboard, as it had to go back because of bimetallic contracts in the SATA ports that could wear out and stop it working so there was a big recall of all the boards... Was an amazing system though and if I hadn't seen the computer I'm currently running for an absolute steal, I'd probably still be running it with a 3060 as a pretty potent machine still.

Of course, then I'd never have the experience of just HOW FAST NVME IS! :⁠-⁠D

[–] LazerFX 5 points 5 days ago (3 children)

I had an i5-2500k from when they came out (I think 2011? Around that era) until 2020 - overclocked to 4.5Ghz, ran solid the whole time. Upgraded graphics card, drives, memory, etc. but that was incremental as needed. Now on an i7-10700k. The other PC has been sat on the side and may become my daughters or wife's at some point.

Get what you need, and incremental upgrades work.

[–] LazerFX 1 points 2 weeks ago

If you've a second Baba is You, I'd love that, if not no worries, and possibly if you'd offer a second chance, then 7 Grand Steps: What Ancients Begat is something I've had on wishlist but have never actually committed to a few times.

[–] LazerFX 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I've got to make it alliterative - The bare bottomed bridge beefer.

I have no idea why I just posted that, but it made me giggle.

[–] LazerFX 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Hell yes! I grew up with that (In the UK), it was one of the first books I read (And series I watched) in the 80's/90's... introducing my daughter now to them.

12 Trials is still something I quote to my wife at times... "You are a wild boar, a wild boar" :D

[–] LazerFX 1 points 1 month ago

CHUG! CHUG! CHUG! GLUG! GLUG! GLUG!

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!

[–] LazerFX 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

After the turn of the century,
In the clear blue skies over Germany,
Came a roar and a thunder men had never heard, Like the screamin' sound of a big war bird...

Up in the sky, a man in a plane,
Baron von Richtofen was his name,
Eighty men tried, and eighty men died,
Now, they're buried together on the country side...

In the nick of time, a hero arose,
A funny lookin' dog with a big black nose,
He flew in to the sky to seek revenge,
But the Baron shot him down...

[–] LazerFX 7 points 1 month ago

That's certainly a Horn of Plenty...

[–] LazerFX 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah, there was something special about the communities that built up around these games...

 

So I'm looking for a new client, specifically mobile, that's FOSS, easy to use, allows for browsing communities on other instances easily (not just searching for instances, but actually viewing the list of instances, etc).

I'm a dev, so happy to put some legwork into it myself. So my question is - technically, is the UI tied to being run on an instance "directly", or could it be detached, electron- or atom-ified and put into an app?

I can do the work, but before starting I'd like to know :⁠-⁠)

 

I love this concept and think it really has legs as a fantastic RPG idea...

My comment on the original post: It takes the *humanity *out of *alien/foreign/different *races. If done properly, you can easily conceptualise different views of the world. Something like the sort of thing John Scalzi has done with his works - let’s work through how a different viewpoint actually works and then work out where the jagged edges are - all of a sudden, the different races are fighting with each other because they see the world diferently and don’t communicate properly so they assume all of the others think the same way (because they can’t concieve of anythign else without looking that far into it) and boom you’ve got a realistic world with in-built fracture lines…

 

So I'm looking to build my own CM4-based NAS appliance. I figure that I've got the time to build it, and it'll be cheaper, more powerful and more capable than an off-the-shelf appliance (such as a QNAP or Synology device).

I'm looking to use it for self-hosting, probably 2 - 4 SSD's to run it (Happy to spend the money on the drives, as I can spread that out over time)... will likely start with a relatively cheap 2tib 2.5" SSD like the Crucial BX500 and scale up as I go...

I'd like a relatively neat box - something like the Argon EON. I'd like to use the CM4 because it's got the PCI-E so you can use a relatively full-speed ACPI interface to the SATA ports, which rules out the Argon EON (Except, possibly, as a donor case). I don't have a 3D Printer, but I'd be happy to purchase a printed model from a makers group or similar. I'm happy to actually build up a unit (setting up fans, etc.) but I've no soldering experience whatsoever.

Software-wise, I've already got a RPI4 which I've been playing around with... Seems pretty good, and I had pi-hole running on it for a while (until SD card unreliability took it down).

Does anyone have any experience with a build like this? Any advice on what cases to use, what hats for the PCIE-to-SATA work best? Anything at all, really, that you'd advise?

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