caranmegil

caranmegil, 1 month ago to 3goodthings

@3goodthings

1. Making settings for Risus: The Anything RPG (and it's fairly snappy for me at the moment, but they're not too complicated yet)
2. 🍵
3. Quality family time

caranmegil, 1 month ago to 3goodthings

@3goodthings #3GoodThings

1. wonderful weather
2. all the allergy medication to keep me enjoying the wonderful weather
3. a good salad with extra virgin olive oil

atomicpoet, 1 month ago to random

She is still the best Catwoman.

caranmegil, 1 month ago to Christianity

holy cow! @lisamelton has boosted my post on what the pastor of my church had the audiacity to say about giving others basic and advanced human compassion. i'm glad because it really needs to have reach, signaling that liberal positions in #Christianity are not only allowed, but the norm given how the founder of the religion acted.

caranmegil, 1 month ago to random

A few old, white people walked out of church today when the pastor said we need to help the poor and welcome with open arms LGBTQIA people. Those who remained clapped and cheered

caranmegil, 1 month ago to 3goodthings

@3goodthings #3GoodThings

1. 🍵
2. 🌶️ sauces
3. good music to listen to while consuming the above

caranmegil, 1 month ago to random

Right-wing mindset: "Quick! We can't raise enough money. Polls are saying people think we're out of touch. Let's to the right thing by voting against anything people want!"

Jaden3, 1 month ago to random

What yall most embarrassing moment?
Me shit I accidentally posted a dick pic on da family group chat 😱😱
Like 4 seconds later my sister. JADEN WHAT TF !!! DELETE NOW !!!!
🤣🤣
shit ion dat bitch straight up and delete 💯
Close 💯💯💯 phew 😌
Istg I paranoid bout checking group chats bf posting now no fk cap !!!

TonyStark, 1 month ago to random

Elections matter. It is vital that we have pro-equality, pro-rights elected officials at every level of government in every state. Thank you, Laura Kelly.

To anyone in Kansas: reach out to your state representatives and senators to tell them to sustain the veto.

Gov. Laura Kelly vetoes ban on gender-identity health care, abortion coercion and survey bills • Kansas Reflector:
https://kansasreflector.com/2024/04/12/gov-laura-kelly-vetoes-ban-on-gender-identity-health-care-abortion-coercion-and-survey-bills/

Jaden3, 1 month ago to random

Had a long ass chat with my gramma last nite. She said ' Jaden you will never find happiness because all you do is plan for the next thing, always looking for something new and better. Just sit back and enjoy what you got'.
Think she may have a point??????
What yall think 🤔

caranmegil, 2 months ago to 3goodthings

@3goodthings

1. Spent some quality time with the kids.
2. Prepped my Dragon Dice to be given away to those who need them more than I do.
3. Got renders for this dice game I'm making today and moving money around to pay for the physicals.

TonyStark, 2 months ago to random

So great to see. Making taxpayers finance stadiums like this is the worst. Like the absolute worst.

“The People Took on the Billionaires, The People Won": Kansas City Rejects Billionaire Stadium Tax in Historic Victory – Kansas City Defender
https://kansascitydefender.com/politics/kansas-city-rejects-billionaire-stadium-tax/

dansup, 2 months ago to random

Like if I'm not in the mood for coding, I'll just play GTA5 or go party.

Yeah, I have the reputation in our friend group as the one to always turn down invites, but like, none of them are building an open source, federated IG alternative.

They just think i'm a nerd, and I'm okay with that.

I wish I was this dedicated when I was younger, I lived a wild life until my mid 20's (and still sometimes on weekends).

Fedi dev nerd life > Living wild

stux, 2 months ago to random

I’m the only one in this stadium right now, and I’m not even kidding

caranmegil, 2 months ago to random

let me tell you...today is a struggle to do work, but i'm doing it.

atomicpoet, 2 months ago to random

Released in 2019, Blood: Fresh Supply is a remake of the 1997 first person shooter (FPS) Blood. I have previously reviewed the original Blood, but unfortunately, I can’t find my original post. I might as well review the remake made by Nightdive Studios – since I cannot praise Blood enough.

Nevertheless, let me repeat what I’ve said quite often: Blood is one of the greatest boomer shooters ever made. When people talk about Build engine games, they often speak about the Holy Trinity:

1. Duke Nukem 3D
2. Shadow Warrior
3. Blood

Of the Holy Trinity, Blood is probably the least well-known. Yet, I think it might be my favourite.

Everything about this game is right: the action, the characters, the level design. But more importantly, it lives up to its name. For an FPS to call itself “Blood”, that’s practically a promise. And damn! Is there ever blood!

Believe it or not, there’s actually a decent story here. You are Caleb, a gunslinger who falls in love with a woman who happens to be a worshipper of the evil god Tchernobog. Sucking you into her cult, you eventually become one of the four Chosen. Then one day, Tchernobog kills all the Chosen. Well, some years later, you’re resurrected for unknown reasons – and you are out for revenge!

Let’s now talk about the best thing about this remake: the controls. The original Blood used an old school, primarily keyboard-driven method of controls. That means arrow keys instead of WASD. Sure, you could configure those controls, and I have, but it’s nice that I don’t have to do it. And to that end, mouse look works well too. This remake brings modern controls to Blood – by default – and it’s amazing.

In terms of graphics, Blood is everything I wanted in a modern remake. That means preserving all the nuances of the Build engine – even though it’s now redone in the newer Kex engine. You see, even though the Build engine is old, it’s still amazing. So amazing that new boomer shooters are still made with it today. It’s so integral to the experience of Blood that I don’t think Blood can be Blood without looking like the Build engine.

However, what I definitely want is to play this game in 1920x1200 resolution, making the most of my widescreen monitor. I’ll happily take those extra pixels and maximize them for all they’re worth.

In terms of sound, nothing has changed. And it really shouldn’t. The ambience is excellent. The occasional voice-acting is over the top especially when Caleb says quips like, “I’m going to paint the town red!” In terms of soundtrack, it’s suitably creepy. This is 90s sound design at its best.

If there’s a small quibble, it’s that Nightdive didn’t give this game as much effort as some of their other profile remakes. For example, the recent Star Wars: Dark Forces remake got controller input. It would have been nice to have that as an option with Blood: Fresh Supply.

Almost any modern PC can run this remake of Blood. You need a 2Ghz single core CPU, 1GB of RAM, 256MB of VRAM, and 1GB of space. While this game is only available natively on Windows, people have been known to get it to work with Linux via Proton if you switch the renderer to Vulkan. That said, support for Steam Deck is still unsupported.

Blood: Fresh Supply is a PC exclusive. It has never been released on console or mobile platforms. It surprises me that this game, neither back in the 90s or now, has remained a PC exclusive since Blood is so highly regarded.

This game has no micro-transactions nor DLC.

Monolith Productions developed Blood, and believe it or not, this is the first game they ever made. They later produced a sequel called Blood II: The Chosen. Afterwards, they made F.E.A.R., Gotham City Imposters, and Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor.

On Steam, Blood: Fresh supply has a 95% positive rating based on 5,235 reviews, while on GOG.com has a 4.4/5 verified owners rating. Most people agree that this is one of the greatest 90s boomer shooters ever. And while it does not get as much attention as Duke Nukem 3-D or Shadow Warrior, it is every bit as good as both of them. All three games are called the “Holy Trinity” for a reason. A few detractors say this game is too hard.

I disagree about this game being too hard. You can adjust difficulty, and the lowest level of difficulty is not too challenging – why not play this game on easy mode? There’s no shame in doing that. And if you can’t deal with easy mode, you should either not play first person shooters at all or learn to get good at them.

On both Steam and GOG.com, Blood: Fresh Supply sells for C$11.49. However, GOG.com is currently offering a C$66% discount, which means this game can be purchased there for C$3.89.

I definitely recommend Blood: Fresh Supply. Actually, if you like first person shooters at all – even slightly – I urge you to play this game. This truly is one of PC gaming’s great exclusive games, something you’ll never be able to experience anywhere else.

Blood: Fresh Supply screenshot (RTX 3080 Ti)
Blood: Fresh Supply screenshot (RTX 3080 Ti)
Blood: Fresh Supply screenshot (RTX 3080 Ti)

caranmegil, 2 months ago to tea

@tea made some pretty impressive strawberry infused black tea from Davidson's. Maybe my standards are low, but it's quite tasty enough for the kids

TonyStark, 2 months ago to Arizona

#Arizona
#Florida
#Illinois
#Kansas
#Ohio

Voters in these states have primary elections today. Please go vote if you live in one of these states and haven’t voted yet. #PrimaryElections #USpol #Vote

VOTE411:
http://www.vote411.org/

caranmegil, 2 months ago to random

i remember one of the reasons i gave to my wife for why i was even on facebook back in the day was to keep in touch with certain creatives and family. however, now the luster of fb has worn off with my family and they are back to communicating via voice calls again or setting up in person meetings via text messages, i can't justify it. even to keep in touch with creatives. they're more and more coming to the fediverse.

caranmegil, 2 months ago to random

the guppe instance https://sencha.house/ is up and running for now. this is an experiment in whether or not i can keep something like this running. feel free to use it...i know i will!

Jaden3, 2 months ago to HipHop

Hey yall imma looking fo mo folks to fuck with on this app with similar interests 🙏🏿
#hiphop #sciencefiction #music
Shit i can't think of anymore 😕
Hit me up yall I follow yall ass back frfr.
Love Jaden xxx ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

thomas, 2 months ago to Metal

When I went to school and prepared for my final exams, Insomnium lead me the way to Melodic Deathmetal!

https://song.link/s/6148ae94oQjm7kDBodKKB5

#metal #melodicDeathmetal

stux, 3 months ago to random

“The planet is my toilet” — #Washy

He just doesn’t care