Lord Bowlich @lordbowlich@hackers.town

#introductions

Hello World 2.0!

New account. Same screaming into the void.

Be nice if when I closed the lid on my Mac, vagrant/vbox would just be suspended instead of just totally unresponsive until I kill the process and restart it.

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/373461/open-less-scrolled-to-the-end

less +F, less +F, less +F.

I've googled this page probably once a week and I still can't remember that it's +F to go to the end and tail the log file.

/me slaps QA's hands.

Just because we let you click the merge button doesn't mean you should.

Time to go revert some things.

Got Night is Short, Walk on Girl on BD this weekend.

There are very few films that I watched two nights in a row. This is one of them.

Masaaki has yet to punt on any of his projects.

The animation is brilliantly stylistic. The world amazingly alive. I've spent years trying to find a movie that perfectly captures the feeling of night life. The transitions from evening partying into the long dark of the early morning.

One of those days crammed with meetings.

I want to dive deep into some dev tasks, but knowing that I'll just get called away as soon as I've got my head wrapped around anything makes me reluctant to get started on anything too involving...

http://mythlands-erce.blogspot.com/2019/07/alternate-oerths-mythic-greyhawk.html

All those old S&S style illustrations brings up so many feels. Which I had the time and access to a group for roleplaying.

Nothing local going on, and online RPGs just don't have the same kind of social camaraderie.

I think as games have gone into the 3D/realism route it seems like they have a very real problem of not making every world feel like the end times of the human species.

Like the Elder Scrolls games? The townsfolks to monsters ratio just implies that humanity is a couple more dragon encounters into extinction.

A more abstract style seems to make world feel more alive. Like I never thought of 2D Final Fantasy worlds as desolate. They seemed bustling because I always saw the overworld and maps as an abstraction of a much larger active world.

Coworkers continuing their campaign to "standardize" us on PHPStorm to which I reply: emacs, vim or gtfo*.

* okay, I'll take nano as well, or really any answer that works on a headless server.

If I wanted to develop with a monolithic closed-source monolithic blob ecosystem I would've just went into .Net development on Windows instead of learning the Unix toolchain.

Looking for the where the cat is hiding while clincking glass bottles on my fingers.

Come out to plaaaay....