Malcador

I raged at the injuries due to head hits. Trying HoMM 3 again, I suck at it.

Finished the military campaign in CivCity Rome. Game has a brutal bug where people will not work, have to restart the game after playing with settings - rather hilarious bug and finally remembered why I stopped playing this in back 2007 or so. Some of the music from Caesar 3 was a nice touch, the devs worked at Impression before. I do like that you can be offensive, have to wipe out some barbarian camps to make things easier. The combat is clunky and rather annoying as the enemy AI suicide charges a lot, wish there was a way to predict which vector they'll hit you from too. Other than that, was a fun game, I like that for the most part you can get away without sufficient housing (more games need to model homelessness in a dystopic sort of way).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISajeWJ3Cts Gary , Indiana looks rough.

Still before Star Citizen

Nice, Sarex. Started my day at 0853 today, 0859 some genius rebooted the most critical server and didn't know you have to reinitialize the drives so entire system crashes. Somehow it's due to me telling another employee that I restarted a service and the guy then related that I rebooted the server. I work with people dumber than me, I didn't think that possible.

Who knew it was that easy

A lot of snuff fetishists in the US, I guess.

Almost finished the Twilight of the Clans novels. These books are not all that enjoyable, I still get a kick of the Japanese stuff though. Also Mike Pondsmith made a cameo in the novels, found that funny, he's some intel officer and they made a point of reminding us he's black.

Finished Whirlight, ~20 hours for me. GOG says 11h is expected, so I guess I suck. Fun game, the time travel story is well done, the protagonists are fun enough. World is a bit thin on characters though, the puzzles are decent, the confusion I had on what to do is lessened as the story narrows at the end. They sure like Monkey Island references, I am sure I missed Murray somwhere. Good use of $20 to get this.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/obituaries/margaret-hamilton-dead.html Margaret Hamilton died on Sep 30

Whirlight - No Time to Trip Not too bad an adventure game, the design seems to think you'll use the walkthrough because it presents you with a bevy of tasks, and little to no clue what order they should flow in or much of the way of giving you leads, or at least I found. Having to go give mushrooms to a squirrel on the edge of the map to get a TV to give to a hobo is pretty damn random - I don't see how they'd expect us to come to that conclusion Other than that, the story is interesting, and the characters and jokes are decent.

Not when we did it for our dachshund. Only bought him a couple months, which sucks. Still miss that dog. Yeah my company's doing weekly deployments, because...**** your weekend time off I guess. Wouldn't be an issue if it weren't geniuses removing servers from the network or blocking IPs that we need.

https://www.wsj.com/opinion/ukraine-f-16-maintenance-delays-russia-sabena-engineering-85ca626a https://archive.ph/mv0Ir#selection-929.0-929.257 Of course the US jet is the "best defense", bit remarkable they're laid up that long though.

Sorry to hear that Sarex

The dramatics about Blizzard forcing name changes for edgelords or removing them from the WoW Forever beta is something else. I wonder when the first person invoked human rights or the US constitution with regards to online moderation.