Just learned that you can make metal press tools with 3D prints. Even just PLA+ works pretty well.

I stamped these in 22 gauge steel with a 20 ton press and the dies looked fine afterwards. The dies are about 3mm deep and the pressing came out just under 3mm. Looks surprisingly professional for my tooling.

Retro achievements. https://retroachievements.org/

Now, I don’t think seeking all the achievements is the best way to experience a game in most cases, especially if you’re playing it the first time. But games I’ve already played, maybe multiple times? RA adds goals which often make me aware of content or possibility within games I’m already familiar! Also, retro games run on modest hardware.

I’m currently trying to “master” Solar Jetman, an NES game I’ve always loved. The achievements have made me appreciate the game even more. I was like “wow, there’s more to appreciate in this game than I imagined.”

Video games. I got back into gaming and honestly my depression and anxiety have gone down. I been playing Boltgun 2 lately and despite how vicious the game is, it honestly does make me feel better.

Not intentionally trying to be a doomer. I guess I was just answering the question, but… nothing.

I’m not really doing anything with my life. I don’t even have time to play video games, at least not for any meaningful amount of time. I’ll squeeze in a few runs of Balatro on my phone whenever I have some downtime, but that’s about it.

And now that I’ve actually thought about this for a little while, I realize I really do need to find something to do that interests me outside of family, the kids, and work.

My God, I wasn’t trying to be introspective. Thank you. Thank you so much.

I’ve been working on my skeleton animatronic. I’ve wanted to do this for years, so I finally am. I have the design pretty well locked down. Printer filament ordered, parts trickling in as deliveries arrive from around the world.

I got the Bottango Solar board to drive the servos. Eyes pan and tilt, jaw jaws, head tilts and swivels, plus two hands that open and close and one arm that extends.

Trying to beat Turing Complete (I’m on the last two levels), and designing a parametric speaker stand for my coworker in FreeCAD.

I’m learning how to drive stick shift cause I already bought an old Jeep LJ. The adrenaline rush from surviving a trip from point A to point B with minimal stalling is nice.

January 2024 was pretty tough for me. I began writing music again and roped in the old band to make a new record. Been channeling my frustration into that, which is its own frustration.

But the record is almost done. Will be posting it here for everyone when it’s finished.

Been happy as a punk rock clam moving from lurker to contributor on the fediverse so far as I’m migrating from YouTube to punktube.

Also my kid has been into breath of the wild and I just get a kick out of watching her play. That game was fun.

Resident Evil 4, 5, 6, & 4 remake

I used to avoid the franchise like the plague because I really don’t like horror. But after playing the action focus games & watching some lore videos, I’ve been quite interested. However, I wouldn’t interact with the fanbase or play any of the horror stuff. I’ll just enjoy it on my own terms

I’ve been enjoying as much time with my friends as possible, offering support emotionally and such. Playing games like Far Far West.

Lately, I haven’t done anything fun besides reading tons of yaoi manga and wondering why the hell my life can’t be like that.

My comouter is broken, so I’m playing bloons monkey city on my phone and watching my friend play deltarune

I’ve been playing a board game Re;Act - The Arts of War. It’s a 1v1 asymmetrical game where you play as magical artists and try to punch the other artist 3 times. The game is focused around making a stack of reactions back and forth as players try to respond to each others actions. The characters are very unique and you can actually play the game for free on the developer’s website.

been working on a mod manager for the steam frame since mo2 just enough of a pain to get running that it motivated me. working out overrides for the vfs now so files don’t get clobbered, then gonna implement mod order for bethesda games and fomod support

technically it’ll work on any linux machine (no windows support, the vfs relies too heavily on linux), but it’s meant to be easy to use in vr rather than compete with mo2 and vortex on features.

still gonna get mo2 working, though. i can’t let it win. mo2-lint claims it installs an aarch64 version on ARM machines but the frame doesn’t seem to like it.

I like using AI to make save editors and to improve my games. When I have better local AI models and hardware, I will have an assortment of old games recompiled, and QOL’ed. If I get enough money, maybe buy some of the niche IP and re-release ancient content onto Steam and GOG.

While the AI is at work, I am replaying some games that don’t need much VRAM to run. Hopefully, I will get some GPU upgrades so that I can play the more hardware intensive games I haven’t tried yet, without stepping on my AI’s toes.

Current games being played is AstLibra and Unsighted.

If you enjoy the oldschool Ys games and also liked Muramasa: The Demon Blade, I recommend AstLibra. Unsighted is more a mashup of Majora’s Mask and Dark Souls, with a time loop. NPCs die out over time, then when the protagonist expires from running out of anima, the loop begins again.