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Cake day: June 8th, 2023

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  • my reader mode icon has disappeared on two of my machines. i’m sure it’s something in my settings that’s propagated to both of them. i got tired of typing about:reader?url= in front of addresses and ended up using the “Toggle Reader Mode” extension. It has the nice side effect of working on some pages that reader mode didn’t work on before.

    can’t wait for them to start injecting ads into reader mode or to outright reject toggling the mode if some kind of advertising meta tag is present.





  • It’s been generally fun but I am really bad at this kind of game so I end up lagging too far behind where the story wants me to be, so enemies teleport seemingly out of nowhere. I also can’t seem to identify where the alarms are, which makes it even worse. That’s a me problem, though.

    If you like story driven FPS games with good art, it’ll probably scratch the itch for you. It’s not as much as an interactive movie as the games from the era of quicktime events but there is a little bit of linear play to it. Overall it’s pretty standard fare. I read a review that was something like “It’s not a great FPS game but it’s a great Killzone game” and I think that tracks.





  • well maybe not silliest but the funniest automation backfire i have. the silly part is the name.

    i had an automation that called “MLG PRO” that would adjust all my living room lighting to green and purple and play a goofy THX-like sound when i woke up the xbox. what i didn’t realize is that the xbox updated itself nightly.

    i happen to sleep in the living room as well. a couple of nights after i had set up the automation i was woken up by colorful lights and the custom sound at like 2am. i was certain the aliens had finally come to take me away. what a confusing way to wake up…







  • Started out trying to play F.E.A.R. platinum edition and Tomb Raider GOTY edition. I just don’t like story games… TR is far more story heavy than F.E.A.R. but both have plenty of cut scenes. I also feel like maybe TR was created during the peak of quick time events because the first half hour was just mash some button repeatedly to win the movie (the game uses the word “mash”, that’s not just me). I ended up playing Dead Cells and Gradius V instead. I suppose I just like more arcadey style games.

    I finally finished downloading all the digital games I had for the PS4 that had single player content and disable the network connection in order to prepare for an eventual jailbreak, so maybe I’ll play DOOM 2016 this week. Never did finish it.




  • I’ve been back on COD Mobile this week. I’m just doing F2P. They had a collaboration with Gundam so that drew me back in. The Gundam TDM mode is really nice.

    Contrasting that: I got SmokePatch set up with PES 2021 (on Linux!). I moved from EA FC to eFootball when it became too much like a slot machine. while the 30th anniversary stuff in eFootball looks cool, it’s turning into a slot machine as well. SmokePatch doesn’t have any mtx, it has great community addons, and it retained Master League. Enjoying the immersion of my favorite team, their stadium, and commentary in my preferred language.

    If I get a little more free time, I’ll finish the last three chapters of Fire Emblem Warriors. I just worry that my team isn’t leveled up enough yet, so I might have to do some stories in History Mode first.