“Holy shit looks like that son of a bitch @elonmusk really saved democracy as a casual side quest between playing Diablo 4 and sending rockets to Mars.”
— wassielawyerFallout 76 quick take
No mods.
No NPCs.
No companions.
No pause button.
No offline play.
No save/restore.
No console.
No game at all when they decide to shut down the servers.
Update
Thinking about it a little more, I think there’s going to be a much bigger problem than any of the above: nerfs.
Even if it’s not just a gankfest of foul-mouthed randos, the simple fact that it emphasizes PVP is going to produce frequent “game balance” updates that force you to change your play-style whenever someone comes up with a min-maxed buildout that lets them roflstomp your painstakingly-crafted homestead.
Clearly, the only way to play is in carefully-curated groups of
like-minded friends, so of course I expect them to make that hard to
do, and default to dumping you into public sewers servers.
3D Cheesecake 4
The power went out at home (~4,000 people affected…) while I was prepping this set, so no names for now.
[Update: filled in most of the first half; annoyed that Google just returns “girl” for the first one…]
Momo Lisa
When Momoko Tsugunaga joined Hello!Project, it’s hard to say whether they assigned her the role of “batshit-crazy one”, or simply recognized the part she was born to play.
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Still, when she lets her hair down, I have no complaints.
This... is wrong tool; never use this.
This was more a challenge than a solution to some need:
#!/bin/bash
while read l && read n <&3 ; do
echo $n "$l"
done 3< <(hexdump -v -e '/4 "%u\n"' < /dev/urandom) |
sort -n | cut -d' ' -f2-
exit 0
And, yes, B5 is now on Amazon Prime, and I just watched “War Without End”.
Get Swoke!
My parents are on a stuff-eliminating binge as part of their move into a new place, resulting in a number of rather surprising packages arriving at my house. Clearly I come by my packrat ways honestly.
This never-used gem turns a 14-inch wok into a tea smoker. The company still exists and still sells woks, but Google suggests that I may be the only one in the world with an honest-to-gosh Swoke Kit.
I’m pretty sure the included wood chips and tea leaves have lost their flavor since 1983, though. 😜
Headline News
“Microsoft saves sinking ship; passengers leap to their deaths.”
3D Cheesecake 3
Once again into the NAS, selecting items of interest from a random subset of the “hc” folder! I’ll fill in more names later, but if you want to play along at home, read this entry in Chrome, right-click, and select “Search Google for Image”.
No, this collection does not include the sleek smiley cutie from the Makudonarudo song, Meu Ninomiya. Shame about that, but her gravure portfolio is rather slim. One of her movies has been subtitled and made available on Amazon Prime Video, though.
