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The name's Steele, John Steele
4 years ago
Well, it's been a few months since my last update. While I haven't done much with my writing, I did have a small Eureka moment a little while back that put a thing or two in prospective. Keep an eye out for a journal on that topic in the next couple weeks.
In terms of pastimes, I've been playing a few video games. One of the YouTubers that I follow was given early access to Evil Genius 2 (hence the journal title). While I can't run it on my system of choice, my primary workhorse is able to run the original, which I purchased from GOG several years back. Inspired by the (short) let's play, I dug out said original and have put a few hours into it. As the name implies, you take on the titular role of an evil genius and enact your nefarious plan to take over the world. One of the key milestones in the game is moving from your first island to your second island, and I recently reached that milestone in my play. I actually had to restart this playthrough at the second objective, as a bug lead me to stall out part-way through said objective.
In addition to Evil Genius, I also made a couple other game purchases recently. The first was Factorio, which I had parked on my GOG and Steam wishlists for a fair amount of time. I finally decided to splurge on it as there was a piece of sandbox design work that I wanted to do with it. I've also started a playthrough with an eye towards a couple accomplishments, though I haven't put as much time into that. The second game is entitled 'While true: learn()'. The ostentatious goal of the game is to learn how to communicate with your cat, but the developers also are trying to teach the player about the basics of AI and neural networks.
Finally, I've got a couple free to play games that are tablet focused that I've played for a couple years. Both are interesting enough to keep my attention, but not overly pushy with the monetization to the point where I'd likely be driven off.
In terms of pastimes, I've been playing a few video games. One of the YouTubers that I follow was given early access to Evil Genius 2 (hence the journal title). While I can't run it on my system of choice, my primary workhorse is able to run the original, which I purchased from GOG several years back. Inspired by the (short) let's play, I dug out said original and have put a few hours into it. As the name implies, you take on the titular role of an evil genius and enact your nefarious plan to take over the world. One of the key milestones in the game is moving from your first island to your second island, and I recently reached that milestone in my play. I actually had to restart this playthrough at the second objective, as a bug lead me to stall out part-way through said objective.
In addition to Evil Genius, I also made a couple other game purchases recently. The first was Factorio, which I had parked on my GOG and Steam wishlists for a fair amount of time. I finally decided to splurge on it as there was a piece of sandbox design work that I wanted to do with it. I've also started a playthrough with an eye towards a couple accomplishments, though I haven't put as much time into that. The second game is entitled 'While true: learn()'. The ostentatious goal of the game is to learn how to communicate with your cat, but the developers also are trying to teach the player about the basics of AI and neural networks.
Finally, I've got a couple free to play games that are tablet focused that I've played for a couple years. Both are interesting enough to keep my attention, but not overly pushy with the monetization to the point where I'd likely be driven off.
