---------------------------------------------------------------- A few days later, a few new things! I decided I'd put more sections up so I could write about more stuff. Airsoft is back, I'll better-track the projects I pick up and write personal AARs for events I go to. Games is there, I don't actually have anything on it at the moment but things I enjoy or repairs should get some writing. There's also the basic About Me again. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Yet more developments when it comes to the airsoft stuff, I do have a leadership position for Snowblind! Is that good? I dunno, I hope it's good. So far I'm mostly grouped with guys I know, someone new who seems quite cool is there too, so I'm pretty confident that it's going to just be a good time. My parts to fix up the RPK-74M finally arrive today, like six days of delay later, so thank you NW PA weather! Just kidding, I don't like it very much. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Having a Famicom on my desk again has been quite the fun thing, I always forget how much enjoyment these little systems can bring in such a tiny footprint. A while back, I had the amazing idea that I should figure out an amount of homebrew development. I picked up my 6502 stuff, I followed some tutorials, I made a dead-simple "Hello World" cart of sorts, and then I didn't go on from there. Right now I'm sitting around at work doing a whole load of nothing, it's that time of year when half the shop is dead because contracts are being re-negotiated so most companies are only submitting enough orders to keep themselves running, so maybe it would be a good idea to get back to learning? I dunno. I have some ideas that could work I guess... I also just want more cartridges. They're small, they're pretty cheap, and they're fun. Should I just get a flashcart? Maybe. Will I? eh. I've gotta keep that ZenMarket credit somehow, right? ---------------------------------------------------------------- On the idea of writing, tabletop writing pivoted. I realized that my last setting, while fun to myself and the few others I pitched it to, was just too vast a start. Giving players an island three times the size of iceland with only a hundredth the (known) population just wasn't going to be fun. I need the plot to kick off in a faster manner leading up to the eventual stuff like megadungeons, not doing the arctic exploration leading to said megadungeons first. I rolled the timeline back a year, 1998 is the new start, and while still in the arctic desert the new space should be a lot more fun. I'm currently working on mapping in a sense, I wanted to write a "mission brief" and I thought having some satellite imagery with drawings laid over the top could be a cool add-in. One account registered with the USGS later and I have some spy pics from '64. Ever see 1.14GB image files? I sure haven't but it also sure is cool. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Blog section ----------------------------------------------------------------