woops i forgot these days we do blogaust, and i'm supposed to blog daily. well i'm only a week behind lol
the puppybook 2000 nears total completion. at this point i really am just fiddling around trying to get it to run vintage mac games inside a rom, which is kind of as expected, way harder than anything else i had to do!! the mac version of a zip program, stuffit, underwent some serious code changes between version 4.0 and 6.0 and so if you have say, a game file zipped in 6.0 and you try to open it in the vintage 4.0.... you see where im going w this!! so while i got /some/ classics to run (carmen sandiego, Puppy Love) others i'm chomping at the bit for (scarab of rah, caper in the castro) are for now beyond my reach. but all the basic stuff you need on a travel pc is there. even if it maxes at 2gb ram, it's still really quite capable of just about everything except gaming and browsing the modern web. i didnt even realize how bloated the modern web interface was, yeesh.
of course right as the puppybook is complete, the ssd on alph's pc dies. i've offered my hdd and even offered to get a dif OS onto it but hes kind of just decided no, not today. and like, fair. i feel like someone's PC is like their medicine cabinet or their underwere drawer - you really shouldnt be fiddling around in there unless you've been granted express permission, the contents are private and personal. BUT... i think hes gonna need to try linux soon too.
work at the ymca is wrapping up as the kids finish summer and move up to kintergarden. my company doesnt have a contract w the school, so i'll have to say g'bye to all the little babies ive got to know over the summer. breaks my heart but they're all local! maybe we'll meet again someday! before i know it they'll be in middleschool. but... the lack of structure and purpose (working w kids def makes me feel like im helping out the community) just kinda punts me into default depression. and especially now i'm sort of wrapping up work on puppybook, i'm casting around for something to keep my passion ignited so i can retain function. rough!!
painting a little, drawing a little, taking care of house & kitties a lot. i managed to revive quite a few of my plants that were nigh dead when i was away helping fam in alabama. it's nice to see them flower again.
omg okay so this is whats really stuck in my craw tho???? some dude, okay, much like yours truly, has a MUD. and he's been running it for 20years, and he has like 5 die hards, and he's looking to revitalize it. for SOME REASON he thought a great idea was to slop it up with AI?????? like, i understand that desire to have easy content and easy updates and easy moderation because updates draw in players. but holy hell bro its a text based mmorpg you're fighting an uphill battle i dont think updates will save it. anyway so it went as predicted - the ai slopped the game, wrecked things, players get into fights w enemies that arent there and cant use their items etc so the few die-hards are miserable and gonna quit. but the thing that really floors me about it all, the thing that really blows me away, the thing that boggles my mind and makes me wonder what i did wrong that /i/ dont have stacks of fat cash to burn... he spent $8000 usd doing this slop job ruining his classic game with ai. 8k?!??? i mean JESUS if youre gonna spend that much you could actually hire an advertisement firm that could work with you to revitalize interest, you didnt need to mutate your beloved game into a shambling zombie and drive everyone off for 8k if you wanted to close it either!! anyway it's wild and i can't stop thinking about it. if i had that cash to burn on sabrous... wow, i would NOT have to worry about much i can tell you that.
its the deca-nual rug doctoring of the bedroom this weekend. ren keeps poking in to investigate my progress, and i think she's on the fence with the smell and not totally thrilled i made the floor damp. but humans are always doing things that make no sense to her, she accepts it with grace at her age.
i am behind on ask kyos and sticker club both but playing catch-up. i feel kind of burnt out artistically but i think it may just be that i truly struggle to compose art when theres another person in the house my mind is tangentally aware of at all times. the fight with the unlawful removal of alph's position at usps drags on. the wheels of justice do not turn quickly unless you're rich, that's the american way.
maybe i'll finish some paintings this week. and maybe i'll even write an entry tomorrow.
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the puppybook 2000 nears total completion. at this point i really am just fiddling around trying to get it to run vintage mac games inside a rom, which is kind of as expected, way harder than anything else i had to do!! the mac version of a zip program, stuffit, underwent some serious code changes between version 4.0 and 6.0 and so if you have say, a game file zipped in 6.0 and you try to open it in the vintage 4.0.... you see where im going w this!! so while i got /some/ classics to run (carmen sandiego, Puppy Love) others i'm chomping at the bit for (scarab of rah, caper in the castro) are for now beyond my reach. but all the basic stuff you need on a travel pc is there. even if it maxes at 2gb ram, it's still really quite capable of just about everything except gaming and browsing the modern web. i didnt even realize how bloated the modern web interface was, yeesh.
of course right as the puppybook is complete, the ssd on alph's pc dies. i've offered my hdd and even offered to get a dif OS onto it but hes kind of just decided no, not today. and like, fair. i feel like someone's PC is like their medicine cabinet or their underwere drawer - you really shouldnt be fiddling around in there unless you've been granted express permission, the contents are private and personal. BUT... i think hes gonna need to try linux soon too.
work at the ymca is wrapping up as the kids finish summer and move up to kintergarden. my company doesnt have a contract w the school, so i'll have to say g'bye to all the little babies ive got to know over the summer. breaks my heart but they're all local! maybe we'll meet again someday! before i know it they'll be in middleschool. but... the lack of structure and purpose (working w kids def makes me feel like im helping out the community) just kinda punts me into default depression. and especially now i'm sort of wrapping up work on puppybook, i'm casting around for something to keep my passion ignited so i can retain function. rough!!
painting a little, drawing a little, taking care of house & kitties a lot. i managed to revive quite a few of my plants that were nigh dead when i was away helping fam in alabama. it's nice to see them flower again.
omg okay so this is whats really stuck in my craw tho???? some dude, okay, much like yours truly, has a MUD. and he's been running it for 20years, and he has like 5 die hards, and he's looking to revitalize it. for SOME REASON he thought a great idea was to slop it up with AI?????? like, i understand that desire to have easy content and easy updates and easy moderation because updates draw in players. but holy hell bro its a text based mmorpg you're fighting an uphill battle i dont think updates will save it. anyway so it went as predicted - the ai slopped the game, wrecked things, players get into fights w enemies that arent there and cant use their items etc so the few die-hards are miserable and gonna quit. but the thing that really floors me about it all, the thing that really blows me away, the thing that boggles my mind and makes me wonder what i did wrong that /i/ dont have stacks of fat cash to burn... he spent $8000 usd doing this slop job ruining his classic game with ai. 8k?!??? i mean JESUS if youre gonna spend that much you could actually hire an advertisement firm that could work with you to revitalize interest, you didnt need to mutate your beloved game into a shambling zombie and drive everyone off for 8k if you wanted to close it either!! anyway it's wild and i can't stop thinking about it. if i had that cash to burn on sabrous... wow, i would NOT have to worry about much i can tell you that.
its the deca-nual rug doctoring of the bedroom this weekend. ren keeps poking in to investigate my progress, and i think she's on the fence with the smell and not totally thrilled i made the floor damp. but humans are always doing things that make no sense to her, she accepts it with grace at her age.
i am behind on ask kyos and sticker club both but playing catch-up. i feel kind of burnt out artistically but i think it may just be that i truly struggle to compose art when theres another person in the house my mind is tangentally aware of at all times. the fight with the unlawful removal of alph's position at usps drags on. the wheels of justice do not turn quickly unless you're rich, that's the american way.
maybe i'll finish some paintings this week. and maybe i'll even write an entry tomorrow.
