zalasur

zalasur, 3 months ago to DwarfFortress

So guess who has two thumbs and forgot to hit "record" on the Dwarf Fortress stream yesterday?

It's do-over time! We'll pick up half-way through the year as our fort gets a foothold in an Elven region. Setting out in a mirthful rocky wasteland, can we fend off the Unicorns and two-humped camels long enough to establish a thriving fort?

https://video.surazal.net/w/9HhmDj1WqnkgTzvXKsVKka

#DwarfFortress #PeerTube #Stream #Streaming

zalasur, 3 months ago to random

A weird thing about social media was that it kinda showed me that there are an remarkable number of people out there who really do exist and who know like 30 of the same people I do.

...and I've never met them once in my entire life.

Who are these shadow people who walk around out there???

zalasur, 3 months ago to random

Me on my Ubuntu laptop: Wow, Linux support for Bluetooth devices sucks ass.

My on my Windows PC: Wow, Windows support for Bluetooth devices sucks ass.

It's like, how are things just this bad?

zalasur, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to random

Ugh, you ever see a post that is meant to give advice but the advice is very bad and you just want to yell at the person?

Plain HTML purists are bad at that. "Don't bother writing your web app in React, write it in plain HTML instead!"

I'm a big fan of KISS, but listen. Anything written in plain HTML is not an app. It's a document. To have even the most basic interactivity in the form of a POST request you need a minimum of a backend server platform to process it.

zalasur, 3 months ago to DwarfFortress

#DwarfFortress: "The Mythical Dimension", Episode 2: We've established our fort and are preparing for the first migration wave and also the first trade caravan.

We need to mine out some stone so we can create trade goods and more furniture. Then we can dig deeper. No, deeper. Keep going.

Wait, that's too deep.

https://video.surazal.net/w/9HhmDj1WqnkgTzvXKsVKka

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zalasur, 4 months ago to random

You know, here's something that's always kinda bugged me as a web developer. It is the year 2024 and still the primary function of every commercial website in existence is to get you to sign up to their email subscriptions.

Email.

Subscriptions.

Like, why did they even bother with the website in the first place?

zalasur, 4 months ago to random

So I think I might take another stab at Krastorio 248K in the near future. 🤔

zalasur, 4 months ago to random

Carol & The End of The World

You should watch this.

It is good.

zalasur, 4 months ago to random

So I think Discord is doing a thing now where it's monitoring conversations in channels and sending notifications with the topic being discussed.

I was just sent a phone notification not because I was tagged in anything, but because some people were talking in chat and I got a summary of the conversation. I strongly suspect generative AI was involved.

zalasur, 4 months ago to random

I has the sads. Last day of vacation today. I have to do laundry.

On the upside, I just opened a fresh bag of coffee. Columbia Excelso. Medium roast. Smells really thick, almost like a dark roast. Can't wait to try it.

zalasur, 4 months ago to random

Uh

I'm starting to see weird ads on Facebook. Pro-Zionist, heavily religious type stuff.

Here's an example. It's not even the strangest one I've seen today.

zalasur, 4 months ago to fediverse

It's Friday! Must be time for another vacation stream!

This morning I will be doing the extra boring work of redesigning my fleet and stations to perform more specialized work. My space stations don't really need big guns anymore and my destroyers can probably ditch the hangar bays.

We're also preparing for war as we continue filling up the colonies in our own space to expand our empire.

Come join the fun!

https://video.surazal.net/stats/videos/468caefc-abf6-4427-9d66-85cd4ac3946b

#DistantWorlds2
#PeerTube
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#Streaming

zalasur, 4 months ago to fediverse

Our Technocratic Empire is growing! Can we keep our edge through the mid-game as we expand into our sector?

https://video.surazal.net/w/9HhmDj1WqnkgTzvXKsVKka

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#Streaming

zalasur, 4 months ago to mastodon

If you're wondering if #Mastodon has "made it" yet, I just saw a meme posted to facebook from one of my non-techie friends that originated from here.

zalasur, 4 months ago to fediverse

A Tuesday Sneaky Stream? What is this madness? Oh yeah, I'm on vacation, that's what.

Anyways, I'm going ot have another go at my Distant Worlds 2 run, but this time I'm disabling the XL mod. It's not that it's a bad mod (it's quite excellent, in fact), but it is an opinionated mod and I don't necessarily agree with all of the opinions.

I do have some mods enabled (repeatable race techs and a galaxy nod).

Come watch!

https://video.surazal.net/w/9HhmDj1WqnkgTzvXKsVKka

#DistantWorlds2
#PeerTube
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#Streaming

zalasur, 4 months ago to random

I was just thinking to myself, hey wait didn't Prodigy have another hit single that wasn't "Firestarter"?

Ah right, "Breathe". I had forgotten about that one. And it's another absolute banger, as the kids say.

If I had a conversation between my 47 year-old self and my 23 year-old self, and I said that my musical tastes had evolved to the point where I was only now starting to get into Prodigy, my younger self would likely find that both a little awesome and confusing at the same time 😅

zalasur, 4 months ago to fediverse

We're still streaming? Yup!

https://video.surazal.net/w/9HhmDj1WqnkgTzvXKsVKka

#DistantWorlds2
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#Streaming

zalasur, 4 months ago to fediverse

SNEAKY STREAM! Last night I did a short Distant Worlds 2 stream and realized about an hour into the game I had made a critical error, so I'll start over from the first save game. I didn't get too deep into the play-through, fortunately.

So today it's do-over time!

Today we're playing with the XL mod which rearranges the tech tree and expands the late game. I'll be focusing on learning mid-game warfare tactics in this run.

https://video.surazal.net/w/9HhmDj1WqnkgTzvXKsVKka

#DistantWorlds2
#PeerTube
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#Streaming

zalasur, 4 months ago to fediverse

Saturday Surprise Stream! Distant Worlds 2 (XL mod): Learning Warfare Tactics

I've got much better handle on the early game, but now I need to figure out how to more effectively wage war in the mid-game. Our enemies are crafty and tenacious.

I'm playing with the XL mod which modifies the tech tree to make the game more expansive.

https://video.surazal.net/w/9HhmDj1WqnkgTzvXKsVKka

#DistantWorlds2 #PeerTube #Stream #Streaming

zalasur, 4 months ago to random

I got new interwebs today. I'm upgraded to gigabit for the first time, which will be kind of fun. Download all the things?

My gaming machine is hooked up to my internal network via powerline adapter so I'm not going to see huge gains there (I'm effectively capped at 40 Mbit upstairs but that's plenty fast for my purposes). However my upload speeds are definitely faster now. I don't think that will have a huge impact on my streaming as the bottleneck there is server-side.

But hey! Better tubes!

zalasur, 4 months ago to fediverse

A big thanks to @FediVideo I added several hosts to my #PeerTube instance's following list.

If you don't know what that means, it's so that when you go to https://video.surazal.net/ you can see the federated peertube network that I curate personally to make sure nothing too weird pops up in there. The more hosts I federate with, the more videos you see when you go to "Recently Added" or "Trending".

It's like having a miniature youtube in a box. 😁

zalasur, 4 months ago to random

I want to take aside the people who think 80 column layout rules should be enforced by the typescript linter and ask them, "What is wrong with you? Did your parents not love you enough?"

For any computer manufactured after 1986, 120 column works just fine. The theory that 80 columns forces developers to "write cleaner code" isn't working. It's making the code harder to read and maintain.

zalasur, 4 months ago to random

I'm genuinely curious to know just how many cursed monkey's paws Gary Busey has burned through to remain alive to this very day.

I mean, seriously. Does he have a closet is his house that when you open it, the spent monkey paws just come tumbling out onto the floor in a pile or something??

zalasur, 4 months ago to random

Looks like I need to move away from Authy. I still need it for work but using it for personal 2FA seems like a losing proposition. #enshittfication

zalasur, 4 months ago to Minecraft

Streaming with #Minecraft on Jimorian's Chill Server. Impromptu stream!

https://video.surazal.net/w/pEcQhTnVBgYMQGhT3pYcLE

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