Convinced the team to go to a nice winery for a tour and lunch because why not? There is every possibility we could actually do something there so you could say it’s justified. They were impressed at the very least

These days you can buy a game and it doesn’t even come with a disc. Or it might, but it’s just the licence for the game and you still need internet to actually download it.

I’m thinking of switching my big PC over from Mint to Bazzite. I just haven’t been happy with Mint’s performance on some games, but the laptop has worked well.

I also like the extra WINE options I get between Lutris, Heroic, the WINE GUI launcher, and a few others. I’ve spent some time on MyAbandonWare and I’ve been able to get some of the oldest and most unsupported games working on there

For a while I’ve felt like I’d rather fuck around with plugging my laptop into the TV and dealing with the audio issues that can crop up than ever turn on a console.

This was reinforced a while ago when my girlfriend broke out her old disney infinity stuff for the kids. She had to sign in to her PlayStation account just to play local coop, which then forced a bunch of system and game updates. Truly a terrible experience.

Aside from the audio devices being annoying, the laptop needs to fully turn on before it will detect any other audio devices, Bazzite has Just Worked and I’ve been really enjoying it

I get cash out after trivia because it’s in a small town where an ATM is actually conveniently down the main street. I’ve decided $130 is a good amount to get out because it gives you four twenties and a fifty.

$180 would also be good for similar reasons. Those flat amounts that just give you fifties are too annoying because it’s still too big an amount to break on smaller things and when I’m getting close to spending $50 I would probably lean towards using my card anyway

To scoop the coffee of course

I hope it went well. You can always be a solo team, but have your name ready as it’s the first thing they’ll ask and few are prepared

Back to Trivia today. I was going to start earlier but had to sort out some family medical stuff. I swung by to drop off the gear and it looks like the numbers are going up. It will be interesting to see what the crowd is like today

I’ve had that happen. The picture card that doubles your mult at the first face card, and the hanging chad that retriggers your first card. You’re just stacking mults feeling like a god and then you get to the boss blind that debuffs face cards and the whole thing falls apart

And how you’ll level up hands and chop up your deck to the point it doesn’t even feel based on poker anymore. Then you throw a whole run because you feel like you should be playing the originally higher scoring hands when really pairs and high cards are the way to go

I feel like the closest I can explain my current social media strategy is like when you happen into a pair centric build in Balatro. A pair scores higher than a full house and it kind of pisses you off it works that way because it’s so stupid

A guitar from somewhere like big w wouldn’t be worth it. You’d be better off getting the cheapest guitar from an actual music store or a second hand beginner’s guitar from an actual music brand

A late nap meant a late night then an early morning from a kid really going through it. Today is going to be a tough one

I heard Fedora has some arrangement with Microsoft as well. I think you can install it on BIOS locked computers as well. Handy to know if you’re ever in this situation again

I was this close to going for a bike ride, then I heard the bedroom door slowly open. One of the kids woke up and no one else is up to watch him.

I want to try do more normal bike rides when I can and not just ride the ebike to work a few days a week

That’s an awesome cake. I hope everything goes well

It’s just full of sounds burnt into my brain. Some of the all time classic sounds in games

The sound design on some old games is so good. Rare knew you’d be collecting things hundreds of times over in Banjo Kazooie so they made the sound of everything so good. They’d only have space for one sound for each item so it needs to be good

Yeah, the only place I’ve really heard about it in Vic is from the Instagram stories of someone in Perth that went to these rallies

I’ve been struggling with the homepage of the website for ages. I only just found out there’s a template that overrides the homepage for some reason. At least I can edit that template, but it means I can’t just build another homepage in the background and switch them out when I feel like it. I’m going to see if it’s possible to deactivate it in the template