I just saw a thread at RPGnet about an Amazon MMO, which very briefly had me excited. But sadly, it's Amazon the company making an MMO, not an MMO where you play a murderous Scythian horse nomad lady ( Read more... )

Lottery's up to $400 million so I bought a ticket. Worth a shot, right? Back when I was homeless I dreamed about winning the lottery a lot, as I saw it the only way I'd ever get off the street. And of course I thought of what I'd do with all the leftover millions after my own needs were seen to. Buy John and Mel a new mold-free house, pay off Liv ( Read more... )

UPDATE 1122 Dec 28: a Facebook friend had a spare home test kit she dropped off for me. It's positive ( Read more... )

My goal for yesterday, my oh so foolishly optimistic goal, was to overclock my CPU (something I'd always intended to do, it's why I chose the CPU I did) and then check out the results in DCS using fpsVR. Well, I did finally get that done, the overclocking and basic stress tests at 11pm last night, and the DCS tests today (result: CPU is looking ( Read more... )

Mel, the wife of my lifelong best friend John and a pretty cool person herself, has come down with COVID despite both of them and (I think?) both their kids being vaccinated.

Fuck.

My snide comment at the beginning of the previous post was wrong. "Metaverse" is a buzzword in VR circles, among industry professionals at least, and has been since at least 2018. And it's basically a vision for the VR future of the internet that sounds pretty much EXACTLY like the Net from Cyberpunk 2013 (pub. 1988) or the Matrix from Shadowrun ( ( Read more... )

My inner cyberpunk fan is back on her bullshit, for some reason, and would really like something to watch.

There's, like, Orphan Black (watched it) and Dark Angel (watched it) and... that's pretty much it for live action TV, isn't it.

After all the trouble I've had, something finally went right. I plugged the Jetseat in, followed the (short and simple) setup instructions, and it actually worked. Right out of the box. Imagine that! Hey Buttkicker, yeah, I'm looking at you, you worthless $200 paperweight ( Read more... )

I hate Windows 10  SO. MUCH. I know Windows 10 is to blame for my audio problems―problems, plural―because all of the multiple audio devices that don't work on my flight computer work just fine on my crusty old Win7 refurbished laptop. Or my $50 burner phone. If only I'd bought my Buttkicker Gamer2 to enhance tinny music on my phone instead of, y' ( Read more... )

Today is the tenth anniversary of my first livejournal post. Lot of stuff under the bridge since then. And yet it's only a quarter of my gaming life. I don't remember the exact date, but it was 1981 when 8 year old me saw the D&D display by the door at the Little Professor Bookstore in Worthington Square, and asked Dad to buy me the B/X edition ( Read more... )