This week, I didn’t really feel like writing, as I have been busy with other endeavors. Specifically, I spent a fair amount of time doing family stuff over Thanksgiving week, but also watching the New Eden Open (my version of watching football), as the final weekend looms ahead. I’ve also been considering reactivating my EVE Online account, as internet spaceships always have a draw for me.
All posts by The Plaid Mentat
It’s Too Dang Slow
As I mentioned in my previous post, I’ve been working on my mosaic program again, and in trying to implement a feature that I was really excited about, I’ve discovered it to be lacking in one primary element – speed. I’m going to describe the issue here, in the hopes that I may be able to tease out a new mechanism that might be at least fast enough.
Strategize All The Things
Some time ago, I wrote a program to generate image mosaics from Magic: The Gathering cards. I eventually got it to a point where I could generate reasonably nice mosaics, but there were a number of places in the code where it became impossible for me to do more interesting things with my solvers. So I recently set out to do a complete code cleanup, to make it easier to do some of those things.
Excited About Role Playing Again
While I was listening to Gamerstable this week, they mentioned the Werewolf: the Apocalypse 20th Anniversary Edition kickstarter. This really got me excited about role-playing again, as I remember “the good old days” of the World of Darkness, and having time to get together with friends and play a good, solid, storytelling game.
Pet Rocks
Since I had the day off today, I took the chance to do some painting. Specifically, I wanted to take a stab painting my shifting stones and sentry stone (since it looks fairly similar). Pictures after the jump.
Reaper – Not What I Expected
While Jessa was away in New Zealand, I decided to watch Reaper. When I initially watched the pilot episode, the show came off as “So dumb it’s funny, with SciFi elements”. While that is certainly part of the fun of the show, I found that I kept watching it due to rather clever writing and interesting plot elements. It was clear to me fairly early on, that this show actually had decent writers.
Not sure that I have a whole lot more to say, except that it was fun.
Guild Wars – Skill Combinations
One of the first things that I noticed while playing Guild Wars 2 was the significantly smaller number of possible skill combinations available as a character. To get an idea of the order of mangitude in the differences, I fired up excel and put together some simple equations:
Guild Wars 2 – Now that it’s live
As I mentioned in my previous post, I’ve been playing quite a bit of Guild Wars 2. I’m still pretty early in the game at this point, but I wanted to put together a post about some of the things that I’ve liked, and some of the things that seem a bit off, from the content that I’ve experienced.
Back to Blogging
I’ve taken a hiatus on my blog for the past few weeks, so that I could get moved in to the new house, and get settled in (unpacking some things). To be honest, I haven’t really made the time as much as I could have, but I’m ready to get back into it.
House Update #17
Last Tuesday Jessa and I had the final walkthrough on our house where we got to go through everything and check to make sure it was up to spec. I took pictures but couldn’t travel back in time to post them on Monday, so you get your house pictures today!