I did important work for FOE and the other roguelikes. I've worked out several options for playing without a number pad. The number pad of a full keyboard is used to input directional commands. What if your keyboard doesn't have a number pad? There are ways to play without it. One option is a laptop's numpad which often overlays the standard ( Read more... )

Fun for the whole family.

Each canister has a distinct unidentified name in each game. Names are randomly generated. Names contain 2-5 sound units randomly selected from the following ( Read more... )

A small but valuable addition ( Read more... )

It's kind of amazing that we've gone from March weather in April to July weather in June with barely a spring in between. It's so freaking muggy. On a windless, hot, humid day, a haze of human byproducts will hang over a large city like this. An oppressive brown blanket of unbreathable air. At least we had a thunderstorm this evening to kind of ( Read more... )

My day is about to evaporate so I'll just record this here over my cereal ( Read more... )

Why didn't anyone ever tell me that horses are good swimmers?! Apparently trainers even throw horses in pools for strength training. But then again, as far as I know most of you are no more country than I am, and I'm certain that none of you are in a position to own horses for the helluvit, so maybe it's something that hasn't come up and you don't ( Read more... )

Dear goddesses, I damn near had an aneurysm when the game went to overtime. But the Canucks finally beat the Blackhawks. Damn ( Read more... )

I modified the names of the goddesses yet again. I decided to stop tip-toeing toward the gerunds and go all-out adjectival. Thus:

Big Lawlsy, the Great Fairy of the Sea
Snickerin, the Great Fairy of the Woods
Chortlin, the Great Fairy of the Fields
Kneeslappin, the Great Fairy of the Hills
Sidesplittin, the Great Fairy of the Mountains ( Read more... )

I'm on day 5 of a flu. I think I got it from my uncle's dog(s) on Friday. I don't know if dogs can transmit to bipeds like myself, though. In any case it's prevented me from doing any work on anything. There's too much stuff escaping my respiratory tract all the time. Today's a relative improvement because I haven't had chills at any point. I still ( Read more... )

A quick note for my records: I've started the food item catalogue for FOE by adapting the food catalogue for SouthLab. This is really just a formalization of what I started by referring to food items in the locations, NPCs and quests document. I've developed many foods so far, including many turnovers. I also decided to replace boring old loaves of ( Read more... )