Made some good progress in Control! I gained a couple new abilities, fought a lot of Hiss, died a bunch of times… it was fun! I can now produce a shield at will and control weak enemies to do my bidding. It was another one of those games that looks superb on a big screen! Like being in control of a movie, that would be named Control in this case. 😛
Started off the evening by plopping down in front of the couch to play a little bit of Hard Reset Redux. It looks glorious on a 4K TV! Plus it’s been awhile since I played a classic-ish FPS. Hard Reset Redux has a Serious Sam meets Cyberpunk kind of feel to it.
As fun as it was though; Methinks I’ll play a different game, or maybe even attempt to finish one. 😛
My adventures in trying to figure out why I can’t get the TF2 servers up and running on AlmaLinux have felt akin to running through a maze of infinite walls, but I may have possibly found the problem. So far it looks like it might be due to a newer libcurl library. I’m going to pirate the libraries from my CentOS7 install for a little experimentation. That’s something I’ll have to save for next week… I’m in need of a break. I haven’t played anything, or done any animation… I might have to pick a game out after work tomorrow to chillax.
Nothing much to write… been banging my head against the VM to get the TF2 servers to run. I seem to be missing something; all of the required dependencies have been installed. I even combed the bash terminal for the old CentOS7 vm for clues, and it’s basically a mirror of what I have for the new setup.
This one might take awhile…
I started on the final VM containing TF2 and both Left 4 Dead’s, it’s about 95% complete. I still need to finish setting it up, opening up the ports, etc. In between setup points I did make time to export some audio for an upcoming project! One I’d like to return to after getting everything else taken care of.
With only about half an hour to kill, it only made sense to go on a punching spree to finish off the evening on a proper tone. It had been awhile since I’ve checked in on Kiryu and pals, and it took me a moment to remember where I last left off. Games like these are difficult to put down… fortunately (or unfortunately, depending on how you wanna look at it) I had my ass handed to me in a boss fight, ending my brief spree of punching all of da him’s.
Yutram and I revisited the GMod Sandbox server this evening; we found some new maps to explore! We went to a couple islands and resorts, traveled down rainbow road, and ended up at Mother Base. It was quite the adventure!
In the pursuit of doing what no one has asked for – I’ve taken it upon myself to look for maps to add both Quake III Arena Servers, that will be another rainy day project though… along with making a shoutcast server that I can conjure up at will for DJing.
After a long week of work I just haaaaad to break down and lost myself once more in the world of NieR Replicant. I completed a few sidequests, found a few more, and got my ass beaten by a giant shade to the point of putting the controller down and saying “fuck it”.
I’ll probably shelve it for now. I wanted to pick something else out from my library tomorrow, or possibly focus on my digital empire. :v
Yutram was kind enough to help me test out the new GMod server. We partied so hard in the caves of Dear Esther that we crashed the server. Stayed a little longer than expected, but it was fun to work and play a bit at the same time…
I think I like our version of the metaverse better than Fuckerberg’s. 😛
Finally got the GMods up and running! There are still a few server side tweaks that I’ll need to do, but the server is stable and ready to go! The TF2’s and L4D’s will be next on the list, and then I’ll finally be able to say au revoir to CentOS for good. It was a great OS while it lasted, too bad Streams came along and fucked it up.