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Oh man, my actual favorite game of all time is Descent 1 and 2…

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ed_78HTkRbQ

The proper spiritual successor to that (looking past Descent 3, for reasons), is Overload…

www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQ5RFBo0L_U

The catch with Overload (which was actually developed by the two lead developers of Descent), is that it really will overload your system and push it to the max.

Overload is like 20 years newer than Descent, and I can only get like 3 frames per second on my potato laptop. ☹️

So, with that thought in mind, even though both Descent and Overload are both exactly the same genre of game, they are two decades apart in system requirements…

Take that information however you will, but yeah I’d probably have some sort of toggle option to limit suggestions to similar games to other games released +/- 5 years or so…

In my universe, it would be Tetris > Emlith

www.myabandonware.com/game/emlith-fmf

Also there’s Tetris 2 - The New Blood, but that’s a homebrew game that for whatever reason only runs in the QuickBasic interpreter, it refuses to compile for some reason.

Okay, sounds good to me 👍

Curious though, if I start out with Tetris, what else might your recommendation system lead me to next?

Tetris > Dr. Mario > Bejeweled > Candy Crush …

🤔

Umm, disclaimer, no experience with 3D printing, but…

Could humidity or dust on the print bed perhaps be an issue?

I haven’t been thinking much on gaming over the past week, but you reminded me that a couple weeks ago I started up the old classic for Windows 3.11…

Castle of the Winds

I’ve got it in a savestate in a virtual machine right now. Despite the game looking like it was drawn by a 5 year old and not having any audio whatsoever, it’s actually a pretty good game for 1993 when it was made and released.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BpjbrG4Kv0

Is there any reason you can’t make the model in two separate pieces instead, with the floor and sides as one print, and the roof as another print, to either be glued or clipped together?

I’d think that would avoid the warping problem altogether, plus save wasted filament. Though in all fairness, it would still be nice to learn what’s causing the warping anyways, for sake of future prints…

The explosion incident happened early Tuesday morning. Fuck its been a long week, I should probably get a shower…

His insurance actually is helping, to fix the two vehicles next to it that also got sideburn damage. They won’t be covering his vehicle though, that’s a total loss ☹️

Although I can’t eliminate all possibilities, something really seems very wrong about this, arson seriously suspected.

3 times, still no dice. Maybe we should try some starter fluid…

All jokes aside, every pressurized canister of stuff in the trunk survived, including the can of starter fluid. All evidence so far shows it clearly straight up exploded, under the hood, in front of the firewall, and the fire traveled backwards from there.

Thank goodness nobody was hurt.

The car next to it is the neighbor’s car.

The other neighbor’s car on the other side (not pictured) is also a bit damaged. But at least both their vehicles are still drivable.

Roommate is in a conundrum and stuck on the phone with insurance, friends, family, maintenance people, etc.

Gotta figure out how to get this lump of scrap metal hauled out either today or really soon. My mom loaned me her beater car for the time being…

Aside from Pennywise the clown, honestly I have no idea.

Personally, I’ve never found clowns to be funny nor something to be feared.

Cool beans!

Speaking of, can beer or wine be made with beans? 🤔

I have no idea, obviously it takes time to brew. But whatever you come up with, keep us updated…

Nah, not boiled, we just experimented the good old fashioned daddy don’t give a shit redneck way, with a 5 gallon water jug, plain old bread yeast, sugar, and whatever random fruits or berries he came across on the cheap.

He started with elderberries, then went on to try strawberries, blueberries, watermelon and bananas.

Surprisingly, even though he did things totally redneck style without all the proper equipment, I think around 3/4 of his batches came out alright. Not the finest of wines, but we got drunk on the cheap LOL! 🥂

Random idea we never tried: Technically tomatoes are considered a fruit, what would tomato wine taste like?.. 🤔

We tried brewing watermelon and banana wine before. I forget which one, but one of those didn’t last long before it started turning more vinegary…

But now you perked my interest, SPAM wine?..