Woke up to snow outside today, but inside the summer's #gardening adventure is still paying off with a steady stream of #ChiliPeppers.
Not sure to what extent I'll want to dry them, freeze them, or use them fresh, but it'll be interesting to see how long our #sriracha#ChiliSauce that fermented for two and a half weeks is going to last us.
@jedimb whew...we're trying to break the record for latest first frost here. Doesn't look like any snow possible here until early Nov, I guess it's all hanging out in N. Europe for now.
Got these gay cuties in the mail today. (Side note: Swedish customs fees suck.)
Looking forward to reading #KissItGoodbye again at some point in the future, but for the time being I'll just be happy to have the collection on the shelf. I already have some books to read for the first time...
@LadyMarth01 Spinnerette is also... uneven. And as it went on, it seemed like the author lost interest in providing good characterization for the leads so he could focus more on his significantly straighter White Heron stories.
(I'm fine suspending disbelief for Slice of Life, though.)
The Sea in You, meanwhile, is a lovely mermaid love story, and Sleepless Domain is a still ongoing magical girl story. Can't recommend them enough.
I'm reading Facing the Sun, but don't have anything on paper.
I wish I didn't have problems suspending my disbelief for Slice of Life, because I quite like the characters and art. It's just little things bothering me, really. Hasn't stopped me from reading it, though. 😅
After playing some of the #QuakeII 64 port over the last couple of days, I decided I wanted to implement some nice, flexible ceiling switches in #GZDoom.
A handful of hours later, this is the result. (I'll post a couple of screenshots of the custom actor's user variables in a reply to this toot.)
Started learning #Blender about a week and a half ago because I was curious about how useful it would be to make #Doom / #GZDoom stuff.
Using it create HUD portrait sprites doesn't seem particularly viable, but I might get into sculpting at some point in the future.
For now, though, I'll be doing regular old modeling to create 3D objects. Like this treasure chest, so I can get rid of the janky edits of stolen sprites I used earlier.
Decompiled some #ACS from a 2004 #Doom map yesterday, in an attempt to help a fellow mapper improve a script that fakes a rotating ceiling fan.
On the one hand, I learned the basics of how to use #Python, but on the other... the decompiled #code was such a complex, unreadable mess that it was practically useless.
After watching Dan Floyd playing #ChronoTrigger on #PlayFrame recently, I of course feel like abandoning what I'm already playing and distracting myself with that instead.
Well, I think I can save it for summer, but I was curious enough to start it up and check on my old #NintendoDS#NDS saves on my modded #3DS.
Aside from the one finished "regular ending" save, apparently I had two barely played NG+ saves where I went with a #DoctorWho theme for the character names.
@jedimb that's very fair. I just found out about the remaster of Cross and I'm about to jump in, but if I could somehow add to it by playing Trigger again first, I would
It's the sequel thread, and this time I'll do it right!
I'll reply to this thread every time I "finish" playing a video game this year. That could mean getting to the end of the story it tells, or just getting to a point where I think I've experienced what the game has to offer me.
By "doing it right" I mean that I won't forget about the part where I don't actually have to play to what would be considered the end of the game.
I've been playing the game on and off. Started the playthrough in 2020, I think. Significantly more difficult to play on the Switch than PC, but the GameCube controller helped.
Let me just start with admitting that I used a hex editor on my save file to boost my health to... many times the normal value... so I could actually defeat the final boss.
That said, with some perseverance I did manage to deal with all the other difficult boss battles scattered throughout the game.
It's an absolutely lovely #Metroidvania about a cool girl who has traveled to a living castle to break a curse that killed her parents.