Mass Effect 3 (2012)
Review | 2022.02.04
My Mass Effect Legendary Edition playthrough has come to a close. Since it's wordy and spoilery, I'll put it last.
Usual fun stuff on the homefront: kickbacks, brunches, and testing the quality of sea walls.
Random? Yes. But it'll help me remember/reference it later and perhaps someone on the internets will find it helpful.
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Storypost | 2022.01.24
This one is all about plateaus and precipices. And other things.
Global security and politics are a bit out of scope here, but I ran into some interesting stuff during nap time reading. News headlines at the moment are all about Russia potentially reprising its 2014 Crimea invasion with another attack on Ukraine.
Infopost | 2022.01.15
Jan 1's covid spike looked bad, but case rates have just kept going. As such, here's a long post that covers fractals, autoencoders, style transfer, and some vidya.
Storypost | 2021.12.19
So other than progressing plot and content, I don't expect to have much to add to my initial take on Far Cry. Well, except a surprise visit from Danny-f'in-Trejo.
Yep, Trejo appears as himself, preparing to open a taco shop in Yara. He needs Dani's help to keep the corrupt Yaran FDA from stealing his delicious taco recipe. It's a solid 20 minutes of shooting and laughing. At the end of it you get Danny's sweet motorcycle with a minigun sidecar.
Other stuff:
Review | 2021.12.13
Another variant, another Far Cry, another Cowboy Bebop, another L4D, another Nioh, another Mass Effect. Oh yeah, and I mentioned all of them last month. (What I'm saying is my post title is totally on point.)
Initial discussion here, I finished the series and was pretty happy with it until the finale.
Review | 2021.11.27
Rewind 19 months:
Omicron seems to be taking off worldwide and while we have some idea of what to do with pandemics now, if this variant resists vaccines we could be in pretty bad shape. If the markets are any indicator, people are worried that this will break our already stretched finances/medical staff/supply chains/public calm.
So let's escape all that and talk about streaming, books, video games, and fish.
Storypost | 2021.10.10
Posting has been somewhat hamstrung. For one, I've upgraded my phone and camera hardware. The other blocker has been an overhaul of my photo preprocessor.
At long last I upgraded from the D700 (c. 2007) to the D850 (c. 2017). While I just bought a new hard drive, I'm not sure my storage is ready for 100mb tifs, 20mb jpgs, and 50mb raws. I think I'll be modifying my photo process to store jpgs below full res and going back to raws for anything non-web.