Linked List: October 2020
Thursday, 29 October 2020
- Mayor Bones Proudly Presents Ghost Town’s 999th Annual Pumpkin Festival ✶
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A video game about carving pumpkins available for Windows, macOS, and Linux that costs whatever you wish you pay.
Wednesday, 21 October 2020
- The Player of Games ✶
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Just finished reading the second book in Iain M. Bank’s Culture series and the thing I like best about them so far, apart from the names of the sentient space ships, is that they point a mirror at our own society and its failures while simultaneously having an optimistic view of where humanity could go.
Sunday, 18 October 2020
- Weekly Highlights 7 ✶
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Highlights from the past week of streaming:
- Landing on Mount Everest and on Mount Lenin with a Daher TBM 930 in Microsoft Flight Simulator.
- Becoming an Elite billionaire thanks to Xiaoqin, talking to myself while heading back to the bubble, witnessing a traffic mishap comedy in the entrance to a station, landing on Schippah’s carrier by VY Canis Majoris, and making my first system map of an Earth-like world in Elite: Dangerous.
- Meeting a minigunner & a toucan in Ghost Recon Breakpoint.
- Finishing the main story line in AssCreed Odyssey.
- Flowing during Noita 1.0 streams where chatters could vote for what happens.
- Spotting a Paradise Planet by a Coriolis station in No Man’s Sky.
- Supporting xtony_t_x by becoming a subscriber!
- Gifting subs to stream chat regulars Xiaoqin, Schippah, and BatGaz70.
I am travelling the next two weeks so any streams between now and the first week of November will be un-scheduled ones, most likely of Jagged Alliance 2, which is working on my Mac laptop along with OBS 😊
Thanks for dropping by, and see you again soon!
—Simon
Saturday, 10 October 2020
- Weekly Highlights 6 ✶
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Highlights from the past week of streaming:
- Finally getting a Base Subscriber Badge image done. More to come!
- Getting a Guardian Module Blueprint Fragment and disabling turrets on a Monsanto cropper megaship with some help from friends during a long stream in Elite: Dangerous.
- Approaching a Coriolis space station and talking about graphics and Dutch food while playing the original 1984 Elite in a BBC Micro emulator, whose keyboard is an Easter egg in your cockpit.
- Hitting a helicopter with an unguided rocket and capturing one along with a supply crate in Arma Antistasi Virolahti.
- Getting going, a brief tangent thought about the amount of time Homo Sapiens have been around and the need for optimism, exploring a cave while talking about moddable games, utilizing a portable refiner, and almost freezing to death while playing No Man’s Sky.
- Winning a car after spinning the wheel in the GTA Online casino.
Sunday, 4 October 2020
- Weekly Highlights 5 ✶
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Highlights from the past week of streaming:
- Getting my first custom emote okayed by Twitch staff.
- Landing in the Amazon Forest North of Pico Da Neblina, Brazil; Landing on the Summit of Mount Fuji; Nice, France + Suwanosejima, Japan landing challenges; and finding a tree house on a spire near Nagasaki, Japan, in Microsoft Flight Simulator.
- Robot Fight at Night in Generation Zero.
- Making a mistake in Arma 3 Exile.
- Motorcycle accident and summersalt stunt jump in GTA Online.
- Finding Green at M. Gorbachev Station, meeting and chatting with a player in space in space, and giving a present to one of my stream subscribers in Elite: Dangerous.
- Gravitational motion, WASD controls, and first victory vs. Robot R in a stream showing the first ever video game: Spacewar!
- Blowing up am MLRS rocket vehicle during strafing practice with a P-39, P-47, and IL-2 in IL-2 Sturmovik.
- Bad weather at night in planet Microtech and landing and stepping off my Aurora space ship on planet Hurston in Star Citizen.
