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Status Updates posted by bluejay
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So a miscommunication led to me acquiring a Voodoo Banshee for free. What should I do with it?
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The Banshee is not a bad card. It is essentially a voodoo2 missing a texturing unit. And, it does not take advantage of the AGP bus. But, it holds its own and still does a fairly decent job with Glide games. And, the 2D portion of the card used for other normal computer things is actually quite good. It is by default compatible with BeOS which is why its used in my machine (dual booting BeOS and Windows 98)
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I still have some games I play on it and I still like to mess around with media on it. Soundplay is still the only MP3 player that I know of that allows you to adjust the speed of a song while playing and even reverse it. You can listen to those Pink Floyd hidden messages without spinning the vinyl backward...lol. It was a pretty powerful OS for its time.
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After some alcohol and a good shower my Mac Classic II is back in business... apart from the hard drive and the floppy eject motor and seemingly the speaker. This might take some work, yeah.
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I've been go re-playing Zelda 1 on my FDS and have just made it past level 5. I remember thoroughly disliking this game when I first played it, but it’s proving to be more and more enjoyable as I purge the desire to just beat this game and be done with it and simply start mindlessly exploring it.
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Been learning French lately, and I can indeed confirm that French is the most French language I’ve ever dealt with.
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The original save battery in my Zelda 1 cart finally passed away today. It outlived its expiration date by a whopping 34 years.
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Perhaps, but in the opposite way from what you're thinking. Your calculator battery probably lasted many years because the battery was quite literally not being used when the calculator was off. The save battery is however perpetually wired to the save RAM circuitry so that, you know, it can keep the data alive. I'm thinking that maybe Nintendo could have wired it up so that it doesn't consume battery juice when the system is on (and therefore can keep the RAM chips alive by itself), but even so, it would mean that frequent use would extend the battery's life, not shorten it.
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I’ve read All Quiet on the Western Front from beginning to end the past 3 days. Certainly a depressing piece of literature. I’m genuinely curious how this could possibly have been adapted into a good movie.
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Congrats. I've never read it. It is often regarded as the finest piece of anti-war literature ever written. I think they must have been working on the recent Netflix movie before the war in Ukraine and Germany's new increased spending on defense, but I find that the release of the film is particularly well timed.
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This is a bit of a long story, but I’ve ended up in a situation where I need to produce a 5 page essay on France, a 2 page essay about my future, and two book reports, 5 pages each. This is gonna be a major pain in the arse.
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Thanks for the great (and also sneaky) advice, folks. I have nearly two months to get it all done, so I’ll work my way through all of it through winter break. I have a French friend whom I can consult should I feel it necessary to do so. ChatGPT is totally capable of speaking Korean, but it simply can’t generate enough text to be helpful in any significant way.
Regarding the book reports, the two books need to be selected from a list of 20, my favorite two being All Quiet on the Western Front and Lord of the Flies. I’ll have to read them whenever I find the time, although I’m not yet entirely sure if I’d be able to generate five pages’ worth of text out of either.
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I wonder where this is gonna be posted.
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I started playing Spirit Tracks a few days ago on my Wii U. I like the music, the fact that it’s a direct sequel to Wind Waker and Phantom Hourglass, and having a Zelda that possessed shit with me instead of some generic fairy. Immediately became one of my favorite Zeldas (the character, not the game) I’ve met in the series.
The game is one of the easiest Zeldas I’ve played so far (not sure how much more difficult it’s gonna get as I progress, but it’s far easier than some other games in the series that are complicated from the get-go) and the touch controls can take a while to get used to. Oh, and playing on the Wii U is more than a little annoying, as the gamepad is a tad heavy to hold in one hand and use the stylus with the other, and it’s difficult to try to watch what’s happening in both your gamepad and the TV in scenes that utilizes both of them.
All in all, despite being really easy, everything else (minus the graphics) sort of make up for it. Particularly if you’ve played WW and PH you’ll recognize characters or mentions of characters that you’ve met in those games.
So yeah, here’s my 13 years too late quick review of this game.
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TIL Walter Rohrl, the German rally driver who famously raced for Lancia and Audi in the Group B era, raced at Le Mans in 1981 in a Porsche 944 LM and finished first in class.
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Been watching some Olympic short track skating the past few days. Exciting sport ruined by biased judging and naughtiness of Chinese so called “Olympians”. The men’s 1500m finals (lacking any Chinese athletes) were really exciting, though. Hooray to all athletes who had to put up with China’s bullshit and still performed fantastically.
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Well, I did it. I beat Sonic 2. Fine, I played on my Switch and used savestates, but whatever. Maybe I'll try to beat it on my actual Genesis sometime later.
Meanwhile, I've started Sonic Mania. Really digging the remixed tunes.
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Second attempt at Sonic 2 brought me to Metropolis Zone Act 2. For fun, I decided to try it on my Nintendo Switch, and thanks to better controls
and savestatesI managed to get to Sky Chase when I decided I’d had enough for the day. Looks like I’ll be beating this game tomorrow!-
Wait until you see the final stage. No rings lol. Metropolis Zone has some awesome music, though. You're making me want to play this game again! Drop dash on Switch Sonic 1 and 2 is amazing, by the way. After Mania, I keep forgetting that drop dash didn't exist aside from in the Sonic 3 beta before it got cut, and I am very glad that they put it in Sonic 1 and 2 on Switch.
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I played Sonic 2 seriously for the first time today. I went as far as Mystic Cave Zone Act 2 until I ran out of lives and the one continue. Damn, how am I gonna beat this without saves?
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You know how the game's physics engine works? If you don't, take a look into it, as the way it works is really cool. Sonic's gameplay, in Sonic 1, 2, CD, 3&K, and Mania, is extremely heavily reliant on the physics engine, which was something perhaps revolutionary at the time in a home console game. Sonic is defined by slopes, and these are the most important parts of the level design, as they are what affect your jump height to a massive degree. With enough speed, which you get from practice, and an upwards slope, you can jump insanely high and far. This is how you master Sonic. Speed is your reward for being good, not something that is or should be given to the player without earning it, and this is why the 2D games have a relatively high skill ceiling for platformers.
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I was reminded today that if Martin Luther King and Anne Frank were still alive today, they’d both be 93. Turns out the past is more recent that I thought.
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I’ve been dabbling with Kerbal Space Program recently. Nice game if you want to rip your head off trying to be a rocket scientist. I’ve so far managed to land a few kerbals on the moon and bring them back, but I can’t do it consistently nor do much more than that. Still, it’s definitely something to check out if you like tinkering with… anything.
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I played with it as well a while back. Fun game, but the time it would take to really figure it out was just more than I have available.
Then I turned it into, "build the least spaceworthy ship possible and see how long your Kerbals last." The goal isn't to necessarily have it just blow up, but to fail in novel ways and with as great a casualty count as possible. Bonus points if it actually makes it into space for a time.
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Building spaceplanes now. I’ve managed to reach orbit then drop back down, but I don’t have fuel to go any further. Plane is heavy enough as is. I have no idea how people build interplanetary planes.
In response to your challenge, I built a satellite covered in an ungodly amount of small solid fuel boosters and put it in orbit. I made a rocket with a crew of about 10 kerbals and put it in orbit, making sure the two have intersecting orbits. I sped the game up until the two finally collided. It took way too much time and effort, but I think it’s a pretty spectacular way to kill a dozen kerbies.
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Spent the first day of winter break reading Ready Player Two from beginning to end. It's probably the worst of his three novels. Instead of Ready Player One's epic adventure going through various phases of twists and turns, Two is just one big phase that drags on and on and on. Two had 2/3 the pages of One but had a tenth of its content. What should have been major characters only get like 2 pages' worth of content on them, and the book's idea itself isn't what I'd call novel. I liked the ending though, but it was really predictable. The few subtle references I caught ("Don't spend it all in one place" and Norton the warden) were kind of fun too.
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27 years ago today, my grandfather (dad’s side) passed away in a car accident. He was in his late 40s and my dad was 21. My dad, well, he isn’t the nicest person in the world, but I respect him for what he managed to accomplish in his life after losing his father at such a young age.
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Installed Debian and KDE on a spare laptop. I'm actually liking it so much that I'm considering using this on my main laptop too.
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