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Post by flowerbug on Apr 14, 2021 16:18:47 GMT -5
that particular video is unavailable, but i found others that showed the play of it. i've never been that good at those type of games. another game of the arcade type that i did enjoy was the Star Wars game that had lines (perhaps ray tracing?) in various colors and you had to fight the ships that were around the Death Star and then if you got through them you could fly down the chute and aim for air shaft. i did manage that enough times, but it was still fun. on the Win98 machine i liked Railroad Tycoon and that got me into some years of simulation games like simutrans etc. on the Amiga there was a fun game i can't even remember the name of but you were basically god and could build up land and get your followers to do things and such, but i never really had that much time to play it so i never really figured it out. Bards Tale was another game on the Amiga that i liked but again, i never had much time to play so i didn't get into it. i see it is available now but i'm not going off onto that tangent this time of the year. games are more for winter time when i don't have so many gardens to keep after.  i'm familiar with older games, but not any of the new ones. i've never played WOW or many others. i did get into playing Battle for Wesnoth for some months one winter, i do really like the turn based kinds of games where i can be distracted and not lose. i also got into the USoA Civil War simulations and turn based strategy games. and other games similar to Squad Leader. once i went off to college i didn't do too much gaming as before but after many years we had a small group of people playing role playing type games and that was a fun way to blow off steam.
rogue and rog-o-matic i've done way too much with, so much so that i hardly touch them any more. if you like playing around with C they are a good way to learn some strange things.
anyways, if someone really wants us to go talk in another thread we can... weather here is colder and i was told to stay indoors today so i'm listening to the boss for a change. |
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Post by xdrix on Apr 14, 2021 16:47:16 GMT -5
I hzve modified thr title, ist not a problem now! |
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Post by flowerbug on Apr 14, 2021 19:01:22 GMT -5
I hzve modified thr title, ist not a problem now!
haha! there's no miscellaneous or random ramblings division. i did look...
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Post by reed on Apr 14, 2021 19:35:31 GMT -5
Other than those few arcade games I mentioned only SrarCraft ever held any interest for me. The real time play, not taking turns, up to six people or just one and up to five different computer opponents make it great fun. If a person likes chess as I do, they most likely would like StarCraft. Multiple players can play as allies or in a free for all. Only drawback for me, since it happens in real time is if my opponent is also decent at strategy but faster on the keyboard, I am at a disadvantage. The game is or was a national obsession in S Korea, they had televised championships. I met up with a few Koreans on Battle.net, they were damned hard to beat.
*It's not quite to the level of chess as a brain challenge but you do get to blow stuff up.
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Post by flowerbug on Apr 15, 2021 8:09:54 GMT -5
there used to be these games that were played on the t.v. screen itself hooked up by some wires to the back of the t.v. we had those it had four games in in pong, hockey, something like racket ball and i can't remember the other. that was some old stuff. pre-computer for me. my first computer game exposure was playing Star Trek on a teletype that was hooked into a local community college computer via an accoustic coupler (phone cradle). Space Invaders and arcade games of that kind came along about 5yrs later it seemed. i had no computer experience at all beyond that but a math teacher noticed how i was solving problems and told me that i would probably do very well in computer science (and he was right), but i really stunk at theory... dyslexia in math formula comprehension (and reading music and many other things) really makes a huge difference when you are trying to do things at an advanced level/pace and you can't comprehend what you are seeing very well. ah well, i did get half way through the masters degree before i gave up (and later on i did find out that i could have finished it but i was burned out on taking more course work by that point and needed to buckle down and get out of debt and have some savings and investments for the long haul starting up). it is interesting what paths you tread and those that you might have tread. my topics of interest for the masters degree were things like knowledge theory, neural networks, AI and all the stuff that has just become so very popular the past 5yrs or so, but it was more to deal with the history and philosophy of AI and science and how to look at scientific theories and evaluate them. i didn't actually get very far on those aspects though. still fun. |
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Post by xdrix on Apr 15, 2021 17:47:51 GMT -5
I understand you. The studys are sometimes very difficults with a dys disabilitie.
My studys are sciences of the industrial engineer (bac +2).
We did technical draw,electricity,automatisme,network,resistivity of materiels and pneumatic.
The studys after the bac required a lot of work.
With the dysgraphia i copy the board sometimes too slowly.
Tomorrow 1°C the morning and 10°C the afternoon with sunshine and cold wind of nord or nord east.
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Post by flowerbug on Apr 17, 2021 8:16:07 GMT -5
below freezing overnight, warm enough later in the day to work outside. pretty much perfect spring gardening weather for getting projects done before planting starts up. will likely wait another week before putting the first peas in. depends upon how many frost nights are in the forecast.
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Post by xdrix on Apr 17, 2021 12:58:14 GMT -5
I think its the end of the freez period but the wind of NNE stay cold the day.
Tomorow, 5°C 41°F the morning and 13°C 55,4°F the afternoon.
Fortunately the sunshine is more hot than the air.
I will soon sow the beans.
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Post by xdrix on Apr 20, 2021 2:13:06 GMT -5
Fog this morning. 1°C 33,8°F. And 17°C 62,6°F this afternoon.
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Post by flowerbug on Apr 22, 2021 5:57:02 GMT -5
hard frost last night and the days not getting very warm, but then warming up a bit more starting again tomorrow and into next week for the daytime temps finally getting back into the 25C range. still the overnight lows are forecast to be near frost again for most of this week until next Tuesday.
looking at the grass today with all the frost on it i'm glad i held off on planting peas even if they can survive some cold i don't think they'd have liked this hard of a frost much.
what is interesting about this frost is that the weather site says the dewpoint is -8C, but the temperature is -3C, windchill -8C, so in our little dell here it got colder than the weather station picked up or something. ah well...
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Post by reed on Apr 22, 2021 8:39:37 GMT -5
Weather reports are never exactly correct for all the little individual microclimate conditions. We had a light freeze two night ago along with 3-4 inches of wet snow. Didn't do much if any damage from the temperature but a lot of things were smashed down a little by the heavy snow. A couple branches on one of the woman's tree peonies were broken also some on on the hydrangeas. When the sky cleared and the wind died down last evening I was afraid of a harder freeze last night but just a very little light frost. Supposed to be warming back up into the 70s in next few days. Time to plant stuff!
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Post by xdrix on Apr 22, 2021 13:15:54 GMT -5
7°C 44,6°F this morning and 15°C 59°F this afternoon with a great sunshine.
No freez announced but the nexts nights will be cold, up to 2°C 35,6°F.
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Post by walt on Apr 25, 2021 13:39:33 GMT -5
Finally last frost of the season. I won't miss them.
This last winter was exceptionally mild, except one week that was terrible. Plumbing froze. Worse, my citrus were in the basement and most of them were killed. Bummer. My 3 most important ones, for breeding, did survive, as did a few F2 seedlings of US 852 (mandarin x Ponciris).
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Post by xdrix on Apr 26, 2021 16:21:04 GMT -5
Our winter was globaly sweet but one weeks up to -11°C but the sweetness is back again very fast upvto 20°C at the end of february and 25°C at the end of march.This precocious heat has wake the trees too early.It will not a great year for the fruits. More snow than the lasts years.Globaly a winter between extrem sweetness and extrem cold.The most dangerous was the freez at the start of april when the trees flowered.
Incrasse of the temperature,
Today 3°C 37,4°F this morning and 18°C 64,4°F the afternoon.Great sunshine. A few gust of wind of north east.The wind is dry!
We will have a new period with the sirocco wind with sand cloud.
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Post by flowerbug on Apr 27, 2021 16:19:11 GMT -5
hopefully we'll get some rains the next few days. been a bit too dry. frost overnight in the forecast at least once this week and rumors of the week after too. still too early to plant any warm weather crops. peas, yes, some of those can go in now.
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