Category Archives: My Rants

I whine…a lot.

Would ya look at that?

So last post (Software nostalgia; towards the end), I talked about Freebar that is written in VB6 (which is long dead), VB6 not installing on Windows 7 so I couldn’t open the Freebar project and the free alternative to VB6 being dead, so I couldn’t try to remake Freebar using the old code base.

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Software nostalgia

First:

I’m a bit late, but Merry Christmas and Happy new year. (he says, almost in February)

Now…

You want to know what piece of software I suddenly feel nostalgic for?
No?
What do I care.

The Office shortcut bar.

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It should be considered false advertisement

So, I needed a new mouse since the scroll wheel died on my 6€ made in China, 50% off special (so it was 3€); to be honest the wheel died long ago, it’s just that I’m in the mood to play with 3D modelling again and having no scroll wheel is shitty.
Anyway…

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Some bugs squashed

Since today I had an unusual amount of patience to play with, I decided to fix some quirks the site had (mostly related to the theme)

1- in the left menu it would be hard to sometimes click because the font changed to something slightly smaller on hover. It was changing to italic and bold (which doesn’t quite work), removed italic and kept bold.

2- on the archives the more tag was getting parsed by my smilie plugin due to the “…” and a “)”. Removed that smilie as I didn’t use it.

3- talking about smilies, today (I rarely read stuff months after I write it) I noticed they were being strangely resized to extra tiny (16px x 16px) and I had no inkling of an idea why, turns out it was due to wordpress’ emoji support code that was resizing all emojis and smilies to 1em.

4- some broken links fixed. There might be still some around, I’ll fix them if/when I find them.

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The old, the older and the new

This is just a little rant about text editors/word processors.
Which is kinda strange as most of my writing/note taking is done with pen and paper, but as of late I’ve been doing pen and paper in parallel with digital. (took me long enough; honestly I simply dislike the idea, that’s why I haven’t adopted it for the last 17 years)
But much like with stationery, I have a bit of a thing for text editors and word processors.

So, let’s start this useless rant.

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Gate: Jieitai Kanochi nite, Kaku Tatakaeri

Again, an aimless rant.

In my opinion, a solid 8/10.
Have to give them (a lot of) credit for being able to milk an entire season with nearly no semblance of a overarching plot. Looking forward to season 2.

And it still was fun. Despite being the weirdest fan service anime ever that doesn’t feel like one.

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Zankyou no Terror

Short rambling post as usual, not a proper review or anything.

Also, Spoilers!!! 100% Spoiler, I pretty much just write the plot of the whole thing.

As usual I’m always late on anime, so I’m going to talk about anime from 2014. (could be worse…)
No ground-breaking opinion or insight, I just feel like writing a bit, it’s strangely cathartic.

Pretty decent anime.

7/10 at least

Since I haven’t paid much attention to anime in the last 3-4 years, I’m impervious to hype (which Zankyou no Terror had lots of)

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So today…

…having nothing better to do, I finally downloaded Ren’Py and started playing around with it.

The downloading part I’ve done some…10 times by now.

But I never actually started putting something together.

Yesterday before going to sleep I spent an hour or so writing a bit (as I love to, although I rarely do it nowadays); some ideas, basic premise, a bit of dialogue.
A basic layout of the endings (3 good, 1 neutral, 4 bad).

Today I grabbed some sounds for the scene I wrote, mocked a background and went at it with Ren’Py…

So I guess I’m making a VN now. Yay, me!

Another project to end up in the garbage bin in two or three months. Because I haven’t had any of those in the last years.

Or will I finish this one?

Who knows…

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Quick post: The Forest

Am I the only one who, while playing The Forest, every now and then just as he grabs two logs goes:

You’re Ahnold Schwarzenegger on steroids in…The Forest!

Why?

Because of this obviously:

*imagine there’s a youtube video here*

There isn’t because FOX goes overkill and issues a world ban on their content on youtube it seems.

Even a 40 second clip of Commando (1985, with Arnold Schwarzenegger) is a threat to their plan of world domination, or their meagre profits…or something.
If you’ve watched that film, you know fully well the clip I’m referring to as it’s the only scene that involves Arnold carrying a log, if you haven’t watched it, it’s Arnold carrying a log on his shoulder…much like the main char in The Forest, except the The Forest char does two logs at a time. Hence “Ahnold on steroids”.

But isn’t “Ahnold on steroids” just the normal Arnold?
I almost confuse myself.

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Suddenly…many survival games.

Really, out of nowhere there’s a wave of survival games (some more realistic and complex, others a bit less complex, but survival games nonetheless)

That I can recall right now:

  • The long dark
  • The forest
  • Stranded deep

And there are probably more, I just haven’t come across them.

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