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3D printers used to be finicky, rickety hobby kits that required a second hobby just to keep them running. My first machine, a RepRap Darwin derived RepMan, arrived as a box of laser-cut acrylic pieces and threaded rods. The only instructions were a PDF of 3D renders. I had to build the hot-end by hand, measuring the resistance of nichrome wire, wrapping it around a brass tube with Kapton tape, and encasing it in barbecue cement. We sliced files using an early, parameter-dense abomination called Slic3r, and printed exclusively in ABS simply because HDPE was worse.

I quite enjoy some of the recent detective like adventure games that have come out in recent years, things like Return of the Obra dinn, Case of the Golden Idol, Rise of the Golden Idol, The Roottrees are dead. This game Incident at Galley house is another of these.

A few years back when IO Interactive makers of the excellent murder puzzle simulator games from the Hitman series announced they had gotten their hand on the 007 license ... to kill / make video games it seemed like a good match to their skill sets. They've spent the past 30 years perfecting their immersive sim heavy assassination games of stealth and subterfuge a key element of the bond films.

Bungie announced today they are ceasing development on Destiny 2 and this June's update will be the last content for the game.
The writings been on the wall for a while now with plummeting player numbers (although still better than marathon:D) I've not played since the odd starwars themed update and most of the people who used to cover the game moved to arc raiders or some other live service.

Bit of a shame but I guess given the 768 million dollar impairment and the layoffs gutting the teams there it was not doing well for sony.

I really enjoyed the first two subnautic games. Beyond Zero wasn't quite as good but still had some fun survival base building goodness and extensions to the base game.

So Subnautic 2 has been on my radar (or should that be sonar?) for a while. Of course the whole krafton ceo using AI to attempt to cheat the creators out of the 250mil they promised them when acquiring the studio contingent on them releasing Subnautic 2 into early access before a certain date (Maybe some sales number requirments too I forget) Is a really wacky side story to this games release.

I saw this linked on Hackaday Train your own LLM from scratch and curious I gave it a go.

Ai it's everywhere these days and more and more our corporate overlords are saying it will replace anyone and everyone who does anything creative or technical or in some case legal (which ironically is usually illegal).

More and more pressure to "explore the tools" and "come up with agentic work flows" and "put Instagram style duck face filters on all games"

So this week so I could at least say I'd installed the tools and played with them should that become a mandatory rather than heavily advised requirement.

8 weeks go go

The bike is nominally prepared, though as yet un-tested, due to inclement weather. To convert the gravel bike to a fast-tourer I have;

It's an old saying that is definitely quite true. Often times you setup something in a bodged way with the intention to do it properly or revisit it later and just never get round to it. Inertia of having a functional if not ideal solution easily lets you put off doing more to change or improve things.

This will be the year of the extension, almost certainly.