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Computer Woes: Part 2038.7
This happened some months ago, but since I was in a writing hiatus in the last half of 2019 due to eye surgery I’m only writing/posting it now.
“So, what broke this time?”, I hear all of you asking.
My precious…
My faithful…
And stupidly old…
Monitor.
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I’m gonna do it!
I’ve promised a few times along the years that I would start posting reviews of random junk.
I will and I have proof.
A couple of days ago I opened Inkscape and did something I hadn’t done in years: a bit of vectorial work.
I’m still around
I haven’t posted anything in months.
And no one cares.
I guess I’m too self-centred to not have a site/blog, yet not self-centred enough to post every little bit of crap that passes my mind.
So, I guess I’ll give a bit of an update and a small insight into my personal life.
While my motherboard was blown
So, as I mentioned here , my motherboard blew up in January and in the meantime I’ve been using an old laptop that I got free off a friend a couple of years ago.
Hey, it was either going to some musty drawer or straight to the dumpster and I like typing on laptops, so…I feel like I did the right thing.
As I said the thing is about 10 years old. And the battery lasts about 10 minutes.
Breaking the silence.
Yeah, you know, luck and all that.
My main computer motherboard blew…again.
Thing died in January and I’ve been using a 10 year old laptop since. (with a Pentium T2080, I had to upgrade it, will post something about that probably)
It’s the little details
…that always get you.
So, since I changed to a non-free webhost I’ve been doing a little housekeeping on the site (for example, moving WEBMs hosted elsewhere to the server).
Another thing on my recent urge to write.
I previously posted about a rare urge to write that I had. This post is a short continuation.
Another thing I did during that urge was, while re-reading old (2010-2011) project ideas, come up with a solution for one of them.
It was a survival horror game (what else could it be?) and I was stuck on what the nature of the danger was, monsters (as 99.9% of survival horrors)? demons? people? aliens? the mummy? nosferatu? a dog in a tutu? (I guess all of those could be classified as monsters one way or another, but that’s besides the point)
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Sudden urge to write
So a few days ago I had a sudden urge to write (and a decent creative mood). Rare thing.
Typed some 9001 words (oh look, another overused Dragon Ball Z joke) on the computer and wrote 6 A5 pages by hand (that unfortunately don’t have an easy way to do word count) in 2 days, which for me is a shitload of writing.
Strangely, none were for the five posts that I still have in my wordpress drafts that have sat there for over a month.
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Deadly anomalies, dangerous mutants, anarchists and bandits…
So, some 3 years ago, I posted that I was playing S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl and said I was going to play Clear Sky and Call of Pripyat next.
This was 3 years ago.
Still haven’t played them.
I mean, I started playing CS but got bored.
And of course along the way I found the mod Call of Chernobyl where I can just go and be a Loner on a map with all the locations of the game.
Retro style, part…the end
So, my travel into 80s geek LARPing has come to an end last month.
Finally, was getting tired of listening to audio books.
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