Too tired to post, etc… will try harder tomorrow.
Open Thread!
Meanwhile… On My Corner Of The Interwebz
I got the Quake III Arena Servers up and running last night, and tonight I spun up VM for the GMod Servers. I pretty much have everything in place other than the server files; I’ll work on transferring them over and setting it all up the rest of the way. If I don’t get stuck in dependency hell I should have both GMod’s up and running tomorrow evening under Alma. The old VM for GMod was at 95% on disk space. I took out GMod Cinema to make room, and also expanded for potential future servers. I’ve been thinking one of these weekends I’d like to see what other Gamemodes GMod has to offer; perhaps even gather some Slackers together to do some science!
Obligatory Chuckie Kitten Post
In other news: Stewie and Morty haven’t murdered Chuckie yet, despite his many attempts at annoying them. He continues to be a little fireball around the house, and has taken a habit of joining me in the bathroom whenever I brush my teeth:
Much like his Uncle Morty, Chuckie is not afraid of water.If I leave the sink on long enough he’ll start playing around in it. He’ll even use the sink as his little charging pad. It’ll be interesting to see what happens once he’s old enough to adventure outdoors, especially during the rainy seasons. His Uncle has no qualms about playing in the rain.
Pressing Forward, Laying Backwards
Did more server work this evening. I made a backup of the current gameserver files, and got Samba up and running under AlmaLinux to perform the file transfer. It was fun trying to remember how it all worked — I haven’t setup a Samba share in an eternity. One of the problems with setting up a Linux server is that once you have it deployed it remains reliable (when configured properly) enough that when it comes time to upgrade or switch OS’s it’s fun trying to remember what to setup, what to give permissions to, etc.
Tomorrow’s goal will be to boot the Quake III Servers. It’ll give me a potential excuse to shoot some shit, and old school! Shit… that means I’m gonna have to mod Quake to run in 4K! XD
And So It Begins
I’ve started work on a new VM today! I’ve only setup a blank AlmaLinux install so far, but the building blocks are there for me to continue another day, hopefully tomorrow. I don’t have much else to write, as that was most of my evening. I’d like to get started on transferring files over to start the Quake 3 Servers, then I can focus on the Gmod and L4D VM’s.
Returning To Another Fantasy
The planets aligned in such a way that Yutram and I were able to play a game together! We settled on Borderlands 2, as we remembered we were playing the Tiny Tina’s Assault On Dragon Keep DLC being a barrel o’ laughs. Other than a glitch with one of the boss battles tonight we not only had a good time, but finished it! Well, the main storyline in the DLC anyway… there are still some sidequests to finish/pick up. My only other complaint about the DLC would probably be the credits, they felt longer than the actual content.
Saturday Night Open Thread
Just a couple nights ago I did a 4K recording test of NieR Replicant, all the while doing a private livestream of it to a couple friends just to see if I could make my computer explode. I’m quite happy to say that the magic smoke didn’t escape! I’ve really been hooked on this game, even played a bit more tonight! I’m thinking I’ll try and take a break from it this weekend, maybe play something else in my ever expanding library. I’ll pretty much have the place to myself tomorrow, that might mean taking over the couch to do some big screen playtime!
Work & Play
Did a little bit of work and a little bit of play tonight. I’ve been doing my best to complete at least one scene in SFM per night, and tonight I decided to play a little more NieR Replicant to end the evening. It gave me an excuse to break in the monitor a little more. 🙂
I talked about the game a little at work today with one of my work buds. He’s only played the northern console version, which is actually the same game, but with Papa NieR as the protagonist saving his daughter, instead of Brother NieR trying to save his younger sister.
Both games are pretty much the same, with only the lead character being the only main difference (and a slight change of dialogue). Replicant was originally exclusive to Japan, and Gestalt was marketed towards the Japanese XBox 360 (which wasn’t very popular in Japan) and was known as the main protagonist to the rest of the western world. This game has a really interesting history.