Re: Reminders of Disconnection

Aww, thanks. I hope that what has been keeping you busy is at least interesting.

Reminders of Disconnection

Whenever I need to go do something involving LinkedIn, it gives me such an unpleasant feeling.

On one level, there is the disingenuous feeling of how people's comments are structured, being unnaturally excited about trivialities for the purposes of [...]

Days like these

The day after a night out is always strange, for me. First of all, there is the practically-guaranteed hangover. After pain-killers, that is mostly just feeling hungry and tired all day, though.

Beyond that, however, is just a strangely intense [...]

Re: Feeling out of shape

I think that is part of why I like those "survival" sort of games: They fill some interest to create and build physical things.

Went to Dundas to help my Dad with some yard work and light landscaping, yesterday. It was a long day of physical labour but we got a lot done. In the picture, we were cleaning, moving, and re-levelling those path stones while also working out a [...]

Re: Nasri in Toronto

Was he involved in writing this one?

Shades of Humanity

I had a strange dream, last night. Strange in just how pleasant it was. I woke to wondering what is different in my mind to create that.

After all, I rarely remember dreams and they are usually more "neutrally confusing", as opposed to anything [...]

Re: Constantly re-thinking motion in OctoberProject

Uggh, I _thought_ I had completed all the bigger changes but I realized, in my last-minute play-testing, that slower creatures are still having issues with the recent movement changes.

This means that I need to make a more thorough change to the AI [...]

Re: Constantly re-thinking motion in OctoberProject

Well, not sure what I would call a "proper release" but the first in the "pre-release series" will probably be out tomorrow (just want to make a few small changes - the bigger changes completed today). The demo10 release (from a few weeks ago) is [...]

Re: Crazy Weather

Did you not even get the heavy rain in your area? I know that my parents had some flooding in their homes, down around Hamilton.

Crazy Weather

Today's rainfall was definitely heavier than I have seen in a very long time. It actually managed to cause flooding on the ground floor of my building and knocked out power to the area for about 2.5 hours (so I now know my UPS can power my E-Mail [...]

Re: New Draft - 1869023667

Sounds like a good kind of get-together, and good to hear you are managing to all maintain those plans.

In my adult life, I have only ever lived in towers, and they always had no-BBQ rules which I always assumed were related to fire hazards, or [...]

Provoking the Void

I think it was this past winter when I came to the realization that the status quo of my life cannot continue for much longer. I remember thinking that it would need some kind of infusion of meaning in order to persist beyond another year.

Well... [...]

Singular Morality

A worrisome trend I have been noticing for a couple of years now is the idea that humanity will eventually find a truly universal moral code (or already has).

This worries me since that isn't the first time people have thought that... and those [...]

Re: New Draft - 1869023667

Wow, it sounds like things have been busy in your life, and not a very pleasant sort of busy. I hope that you are generally doing well outside of this handful of frustrating situations.

I hope that Saturday is ok as that does sound like it would [...]

Here's to 157 years of Confederation

We don't appreciate the old things which last that much, these days, so it is nice to see the fireworks across the horizon when we elevate our moods to celebrate the signing of the British North America Act of 1867.

Looking into the history of it, [...]

Tarot and the nature of relating to characters in stories

A good friend from my days in Ottawa had an interest in doing Tarot card readings. I told her that I didn't understand the appeal in it since I don't believe in anything supernatural. To this day, her answer sticks with me and I have repeated it [...]

Illusions of Humanity and the Reminders of Fear

Since it has been warmer, I have been trying to get out of the apartment, both for exercise but also in search of a sense of "humanization". However, I have been having some difficulties with the latter.

Today, I was again reminded that the only [...]

Re: Out of the fog...

Good to hear that the medication is helping your mental focus, that much.

It is interesting that you mentioned dehydration since that is the first thing I wondered about when you mentioned unstable blood pressure. I don't know how often those [...]

The failed sage

For some time now, I have been atop my mountain. Despite being some distance from the world, its sounds still permeate the place and break my fragile concentration. I too quickly succumb to its distractions, even though they are merely the [...]

What you recognize as a Canadian under Americanized global culture

I heard that a game called "The Long Dark" is good in the genre of open-world survival, which I am quite into, these days. Looking it up, it has a Linux version of Steam so I decided to watch a video from a content creator I like (Pr1vate Lime) [...]

Oddly uninspired

Really haven't been feeling up to much, the past week or so, and I am not sure why. Nothing is unusually off, aside from some small things, so everything should be fine.

I have even been getting out for 1-2 hour walks, most of the past several [...]

Management and Madness

I find it strange and unsettling how more and more of our society is becoming "managed". This takes a few forms.

An obvious one is related to basic human interaction, and this one is has been noticed by others, too. This is using things like [...]

Re: Mobility Devices

It definitely does sound like the walker would give you better mobility than any kind of wheelchair, motorized or manual. As long as you can make it work, it at least seems like a good idea (no dependency on ramps or weather conditions).

Slow work, new game, and new boots

Work on the next milestone for OctoberProject is slow-going since I keep second-guessing whether I am approaching this the right way (a common problem). I _think_ I am approaching this in a reasonable way, but I will need to mostly complete the [...]