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playing some more Oblivion (PC, 2006) tonight over at https://twitch.tv/andreaen. This session: they don't know I'm the gray fox.

playing more Oblivion (PC, 2006) tonight over at https://twitch.tv/andreaen. This session: finishing the Thieves' Guild questline (I hope).

played Q3 CPMA duel with some old friends tonight for the first time in years. wasn't expecting to, went in pretty cold, had a blast.

Quake multiplayer is still super fun. Better when you don't take it too seriously.

I'm back to Oblivion (PC, 2006) today at https://twitch.tv/andreaen. This session: looking for valuable treasure, likely getting sidetracked.

I'm playing some more Oblivion (PC, 2006) today over at https://twitch.tv/andreaen. This session: training up a few skills and maybe continuing the main quest.

Saw Cosmopolis (2012, dir. David Cronenberg) tonight. First watch.

Repulsive, exhausting, alienating. Like being assaulted by intrusive thoughts. Has some of the strange dreamy nature of eXistenZ. Full of great performances, Robert Pattinson in particular.

What was it Gibson wrote in Neuromancer Count Zero... "the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human". I'm sure there's a better reference or quote to reach for but that's the one that came to mind ~10 minutes in.

Very stylized dialog, a lot of killer quotable lines. I'll have to read some Don DeLillo 'cause this is great.

picking up Oblivion (PC, 2006) again today at https://twitch.tv/andreaen. This session: thieves guild quests, attempting to skill up.

been meaning to write an article about running Xwax on ARM-based SBCs (in my case the Raspberry Pi 400) but turns out there's very little to talk about. You compile the program on your target device, plug in a class-compliant USB interface, then run the program with the right options. Not very complicated if you're comfortable with the console & building software on Unix-like systems.

Should still probably document the steps but it's tough to work up the energy for it.

I'm back to Oblivion (PC, 2006) today over at https://twitch.tv/andreaen. This session: more guild quests, wandering the countryside. Ordinary Oblivion things.

fixed a pair of headphones today. had to clean up and re-solder a couple connections, easy work.

the real problem was the disintegrating open-cell plastic foam inside the headphone shells. absolute nightmare to remove & clean up after.

playing more Oblivion (PC, 2006) this afternoon over at https://twitch.tv/andreaen. This session: broke in Cyrodiil again, trying to make money.

back to Oblivion (PC, 2006) today over at https://twitch.tv/andreaen. This session: more guild quests, more main quest. In the early-mid game now.

I'm picking up Oblivion (PC, 2006) again today over at https://twitch.tv/andreaen. This session: more thieves guild quests & getting into trouble.

been watching an unusual number of movies lately & feel like I'm on a good run. I keep finding stuff I like.

Just watched In The Cut (2003) for the first time after hearing it mentioned in passing & really enjoyed it.

I'm working my way through a Shadowrun SNES randomizer seed this morning over at https://twitch.tv/andreaen.

continuing Oblivion (PC, 2006) today over at https://twitch.tv/andreaen. This session: more thieves guild missions & carefully navigating the dangerous roads.

finally found the right incantation to correctly predict teleporter exit angles in the client-side portion of my Quake mod. No more single frame of the wrong view angle when exiting a tele.

I swear that bug has been bothering me for years now.

I'm starting a game of modded Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (PC, 2006) today over at https://twitch.tv/andreaen. Will the mods behave with each other? How many crashes will there be?

I'm finally free of Baldur's Gate. Took around 295 hours to do BG1 and BG2 plus their expansions according to twitch tracker.

I had to drop difficulty from "normal" to "easy" for about 6 different fights. I managed to do Watcher's Keep on "normal" though. (I think, anyway. I don't remember changing difficulty for that anything in that dungeon.)

I'm attempting to finish out Baldur's Gate II Throne of Bhaal (Enhanced Edition, PC, 2000/2013) tonight over at https://twitch.tv/andreaen. I have half of chapter 9 left then on to 10 (some of which I'll likely play on easy or "story" mode because I'm pretty over the game at this point).

suddenly remembered this today & needed to hear it.

Famous west coast acid breaks, played to death by a lot of people (I for sure heard it first in a Chemical Brothers mix). Holds up really well, still makes me move.

I'm starting chapter 9 in Baldur's Gate II Throne of Bhaal (Enhanced Edition, PC, 2000/2013) tonight over at https://twitch.tv/andreaen. Not much left before I can close the book on BG2 (I hope).