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Starting with the last bit, I didn't actually manage to spend any time on Damband yesterday. Instead, I spent the day working on prepping for a work meeting, and then put up some new curtain rods. Afterward, instead of working on Damband, I followed my wife's lead and pulled out my current paint by number project.
The piece I'm working on is one of four in the 'Into the Land of Fantasy' set by Schipper (the best of the various paint by number brands). The four paintings contain fantasy creatures in bottles - a dragon, a fairy, a mermaid and a gnome. I've already done the first two, and I'm working on the mermaid. For anyone interested, there's a picture of my progress so far.
Schipper - The Mermaid (192 kB)
At the rate I'm going, I'm hoping to get this one done in another week or two. I just need to find the time. (For the record, my wife is also working on a Schipper painting. It's a tri-panel ocean themed one. Color-wise, it reminds me a little bit like something you'd see on a Lisa Frank binder.)
Now, to Diablo Immortal. For anyone who knows me, my 3 favorite game genres are ARPGs, roguelikes and idle games. I guess I really like random loot and seeing numbers go up. I've spent thousands of hours over the years playing Diablo/II/III, Path of Exile, Torchlight, Angband, ToME, and many other games in the genres. Because of that, I wanted Diablo Immortal to be good - but I knew deep down they'd monetize it to unreasonable levels, and they did. Between the Boon of Plenty, the Empowered Battle Pass, the Prodigy's Path, the outright 'buy this gem for $150 in 3 transactions' collection in the shop, combined with all of the standard mobile trappings (the grind, the FOMO, the dark patterns everywhere), I just gave up and uninstalled it. Not that it will make any difference since DI will make Blizzard a ton of money - it just won't be from me. Maybe playing a little Angband will put me in the mood to work on my own game...
I also spent a little time working on a Python script to generate an Atom feed for my gemlog. I'd really just like to be able to auto-index my updates after I rsync them. It's not done yet, but I'm getting there.
My workflow for my capsule is pretty straightforward - I have a Linode nanode that hosts both my Gemini server and my Gopher server, and I write my work locally and rsync it to the server. I figure it beats self-hosting on my own network. Longer term, I'd like to figure out a way to keep my Gopher and Gemini sites in sync - probably a script that can update my gophermap(s) with an adequate representation of the Gemini content. Since I'm a fan of retrocomputers, I'd like to have my content accessible in at least one way that older computers can use.
