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A screenshot taken in Cyberpunk 2077 on the Xbox. It's a city street at night at ground level, looking across a pedestrian crossing towards a bunch of tall buildings rising up in the background, high contrast and lots of neon signs everywhere, and it's pretty much what you think of when you hear the term "cyberpunk".

Another screenshot, similar aesthetic as the first with some tall buildings in the background, but this feels decidedly dingier and much lower-rent. It's looking down into a set of shops below street level, with a big blue neon "HOTEL" sign in the middle and a bunch of cables crisscrossing the space above it, and there are some red Chinese-style lanterns hanging from the eaves of a building at the right.

Man, they've certainly done a fantastic job with the art direction for Cyberpunk 2077! Absolutely top-notch cyberpunk aesthetic right here. I'm very early-on in the game so I imagine it gets even better.

Posted on 2 October 2024, 21:28

A screenshot of my Cyberpunk 2077 character. She's a Black woman with purple hair pulled up behind her head and the sides shaved, a bunch of piercings, and she's standing there with her arms crossed and a slight smirk on her face. In the background is an empty street curving away to the left.

Having forgotten about Cyberpunk 2077, and also having forgotten how to play it, I decided to start a new character and maybe actually play more than a couple of hours this time.

Unfortunately the lack of being able to use a Southpaw control scheme means I'm absolutely ATROCIOUS at aiming at anything, so I'm playing on easy difficulty and will be primarily leaning on not actually shooting at stuff for this playthrough, hopefully it's not too frustrating — I have an extremely low tolerance for frustration at video games these days. (I can swap the control sticks around at the Xbox controller level, but that fucks things up in a bunch of other ways like navigating through menus, so I'm going to just have to see how it goes. For the love of $DEITY, game devs, JUST LET ME REMAP CONTROLS!)

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Posted on 30 September 2024, 21:54

A screenshot of the iOS Fitness app, showing I did 4221kJ, 79 exercise minutes, 19 standing hours, and 12,251 steps for a total of 10.51km.

I have never done NINETEEN standing hours before. 🫠

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Posted on 25 August 2024, 22:37

A screenshot of the iOS Alarms app with an alarm set for 4:50am.

@yayKM's mum is visiting for two weeks and her plane gets in at arse o'clock tomorrow morning, so our alarms are set so we can go pick her up from the airport. 😫 This is going to be a shock.

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Posted on 24 August 2024, 21:23

A screenshot from Dark Forces with the updated graphics, looking at a fairly stereotypical Imperial-looking room and control panel with lots knobs and blinkenlights. It's obviously not a current-gen game but the textures are crisp and sharp.

The exact same shot as before, but using the original software rendering. It's 4:3 ratio instead of 16:9, and the graphics are GLORIOUSLY pixellated.

Oh my god they remastered the original Dark Forces, AND it's available on Xbox!

I remember we got the demo of it on a disc full of demos that came with our Power Mac 6200/75 in 1995 (I was 12 at the time), I played the HELL out of that first level and I absolutely begged my parents to buy the full game for me for Christmas. I can still vividly remember sitting in my pyjamas at the computer first thing on Christmas morning after we'd opened our presents, full of excitement when I started the second level. Even now the music brings me back to that.

They've done an absolute bang-up job with the remaster, the controls are fully customisable (which is amazing for me because I can't play FPSes without the Southpaw control scheme, but then I need to remap other buttons to compensate and it's a whole thing), and my favourite part is they've done the same thing as Bungie did with the Halo 1 remaster: you can toggle between the new updated graphics and the original rendering!

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Posted on 6 July 2024, 20:48

A screenshot of my current desktop setup, with the music notation for Bad Moon Rising on the left, and Logic Pro showing separate tracks for the parts of Bad Moon Rising plus another for my actual bass guitar on the right.

Okay THIS is cool as hell: one of the features Apple added with the latest Logic Pro update is the ability to split an audio file into its constituent parts (vocals, drums, bass, and "other"), and the guy who did my bass guitar course actually wrote out a bunch of bass lines for a selection of 50 songs of various genres, and one of the ones included is Credence Clearwater Revival's "Bad Moon Rising". That song is actually in my iTunes library so I dropped it into Logic Pro, had it analyse the tempo so the metronome would match, then ran it through the splitter and muted the bass track. So now I'm actually playing my bass along for reals to the song! 🤘🏻

(The keen-eyed among you may note that the tempo according to Logic Pro is actually twice what it should be, I think the 8th-note hi-hats throw the calculations off but it doesn't really matter.)

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Posted on 12 June 2024, 21:12

A screenshot from Starfield of an abandoned lab, the lighting is very moody, it's dark red emergency lighting towards the left and more brighter greener light at the right, there are chairs sitting away from their desks like people left in a rush, and a bunch of notes and papers scattered on both the desks and the floor. On one wall is a whiteboard with a bunch of drawings on it.

I started a new game of Starfield because the big update came out recently and I'd completely lost track of what I was doing in my last game (I don't think I've played it since last October) and man, I'd forgotten how GOOD the environmental design is in this. Everything feels properly lived-in no matter where you are, there are great little details and bits and bobs everywhere. It really feels like somewhere that would exist for real, rather than your stereotypical clean sleek sci-fi minimalism.

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Posted on 20 May 2024, 22:06

A screenshot of a Grafana dashboard showing a gauge panel with the air quality index at 3 (it ranges from 1-5, 1 being good and 5 being very bad), and two spark graphs showing the equivalent CO2 (currently 761 parts per million) and the total volatile organic compounds readings (currently 258 parts per billion).

My ESP32 hacking has continued and I've updated my code to support the ScioSense ENS160 indoor air quality sensor! It measures eCO2, total volatile organic compounds, and gives an air quality index value based on those two readings.

Given that you can daisy-chain I2C devices to connect more than one to a single board, I also changed how my sensor reader repo works and now you can specify multiple sensors and it'll read from all of them and send each reading to a different MQTT topic. So now we have the BME280 temperature/humidity sensor AND the ENS160 air quality sensor hooked up to the ESP32 in the lounge room, and of course I've added a section on my Grafana dashboard to display the data. 😁

My next stop is to bodge together some wiring so I can use the outdoor (nice STEMMA QT connector) BME280 sensor on the same board as the outdoor (standard pins, not I2C) PMS5003 air quality sensor, and not have to have two separate ESP32s for the both of them.

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Posted on 27 April 2024, 21:59

A screenshot from my Grafana dashboard showing two "gauge" type panels, one for the dew point and one for the atmospheric pressure.

I did a bunch more hacking on my ESP32 sensor reader code today, deployed the new BME280 into "production" outside, and got my Grafana dashboards updated! And I was able to do it completely successfully without needing to actually plug the ESP32s into my computer to update anything, the remote-updating code worked a treat.

The new sensor is remarkably close to what the Bureau of Meteorology is reporting: the sensor says it's 17.5˚C, 95% humidity, dew point of 16.6˚C and atmospheric pressure of 1017hPa, versus the BoM that says the temperature is 17.8˚C, 94% humidity, dew point of 16.8˚C, and atmospheric pressure of 1019hPa.

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Posted on 5 April 2024, 21:50

A screenshot of my Dwarf Barbarian. She has the standard broad shoulders and stockiness that fantasy dwarves typically have, with dark brown skin, brown eyes, and a solid black line of tattoo over her lower lip and down her chin. Her hair is grey/white dreadlocks that are pulled back into a ponytail. Strapped to her back is a two-handed axe that's almost as tall as she is.

I'm still playing my Warlock, but I decided I wanted to start a new character and really just get up close and hit things, so I've made a Dwarf Barbarian. 😁 I cranked the "Maturity" slider up to about half way, so she's a grizzled veteran who has Seen Things.

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Posted on 20 January 2024, 17:07