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I used to make video game and tech content as a day job, from 2007 to 2020. Now I do QGIS stuff, Ignition SCADA things and water loss reduction shenanigans. I also write books that aren't very good. And I'm trying to make a game about a duck. Also, I run.
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A short history of how I may be responsible for the world going to shit. I was poor - mostly stable world, a few localized wars, life improving for most I receive an old computer from an friend - 9/11 I get a better computer - Iraq invaded I get a job I like - Georgia invaded ... 1/3

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Had a job interview yesterday. Lot of thick accents, including mine. I had trouble understanding why they kept asking me about my carrier. Do I have to switch to a specific data provider? My carrier plans? I'm not sure, whichever's cheapest and has coverage. Oooh, career. I'll se myself out.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

This is Tub and Blue. They simply cannot figure out how to get their tennis ball that fell in the pool. Still 12/10 because they really are trying

submitted 2 days ago • 738 comments

Remembering better times. Frustrating times, but better.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Every time I close LibreOffice, the GeForce overlay pops up wanting to show me the highlights of my epic spreadsheeting. The pop-up is disabled. I'm on the Studio drivers. There's no setting to have it record spreadsheets. And yet.

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Been on a binge of new job interviews lately. Latest one is in cybersecurity, which is a subject I kinda abhor, but I've already been forced to do it for the last 5 years and they mentioned a number for the salary that made me do a double take. It's like, "what if numbers were meaningless" high.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

I told you we’d be back

submitted 6 days ago • 1597 comments

I have nothing but disgust for people who hardcode folder paths un general use gateway scripts.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Know that Greta Thunberg and the other brave folks abroad a UK-flag humanitarian mission were kidnapped by armed Israeli pirates in international waters, abducted into a genocidal nation, forced to watch re-education, & then "deported" from genocide-land despite having been kidnapped into it.

submitted 8 days ago • 5 comments

I like Hitman and IO, but people, stop this. This is a singleplayer game. It was terrible when Ubisoft did it, it's terrible now.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Well, while I was away, looks like the refurbished 5060 Ti got sold, so that narrows my choice back tot he 9060 XT, of which the cheapest version is already gone. Oh well. Guess I'm 1660 Super-ing until OLX comes through.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Yes. You can set people on fire. Which is something more adventure games should allow.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

The preferred reality: EU🇪🇺!

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Before me lies a perilous choice. Do I get a 9060XT 16GB or spend 60$ more and get a 5060Ti 16GB? Or do I forget the whole thing and go back to the Athlon 64 for a year and then come back to the main PC so that It would seem like an upgrade.

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

I really should probably get started on that zombie game I was mentioning in the other place. The Last Days Gone Before of Us sure has a certain ring to it. If I ever manage to upgrade the GPU, I wonder how much asset flipping would take to make something like that.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

This is not a placeholder, you can buy it for 660€. It's 50€ cheaper than a 9070. Roughly 250€ more than it should cost. I hope there will be variants that cost around the 7700XT, which is about 430€. If not, this generation, that was supposed to be "for the masses" has been a gigantic failure.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Gotta say, this has been an absolutely solid run of Doctor Who.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

It's the first #screenshotsaturday since release for Near-Mage! 10% launch discount still on, time to study Magick in Transylvania! 👇

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

Jesus Mecha Death Christ this looks good #near-mage

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

#QGIS enhanced 3D implementation is being crowdfunded at this very moment. If you pledge, you can make QGIS better, make GIS more accessible, and also, you can tell Hexagon to eat a dick. www.lutraconsulting.co.uk/crowdfunding...

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

I've been wondering why I loke working in #QGIS so much. Sure, I liked maps, but there's more to it, there's a flow there. And I couldn't put a finger on it. Then it dawned on me. I've been preparing for this for decades.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

A scris Kasparov de noi 👍 open.substack.com/pub/thenextm...

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Near-Mage is out now on Steam! If you bought the game, please leave a review - it really makes a difference and it means the world to us! ♥

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

I've started giving people at work candy as treats whenever they learn to do something new in QGIS. I don't know if I'm establishing a healthy work relationship like this, but that probably means I should get better candy.

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