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Looking For Quacks In The Pavement

Author: Karel Kerezman

  • Satisfactory: Final Destination Tour Video

    Since the inception of the Final Destination site project in my current solo Satisfactory game, I knew I was going to make “content” out of it. (Sorry, Patrick Willems.) There was always going to be a tour, it was just a question of what format the tour would take. I went back and forth on whether to make it a long post with lots of pictures or just record a tour video and put text bits in it. Both options have merits and downsides, and the internal debate allowed me to put off doing anything for several weeks even after (more-or-less) completing the build.

    Yesterday I woke up and decided, it’s time to record a video. Thus, the following:

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  • My Duck On Stuff: The Archive

    As I’m unlikely to ever treat the site as a working feature anymore, and given that it was a very silly name to begin with, I’ve imported the 98 posts’ worth of material from the My Duck On Stuff site over here for safe keeping. If you’re interested, check out the Ducks On Stuff category, to which I may add entries from time to time.

    That’s one domain fewer to renew every year, if nothing else.

  • Satisfactory: I Lumen-ate

    On Tuesday, the 14th of November, 2023 the 8th major update to Satisfactory arrived in Early Access, after spending months in the Experimental branch to shake out the worst of the bugs… most of them, anyway. We have a few things to talk about with “U8” but today we’re going to focus primarily on the new engine’s support for something called “Lumen” and how that makes an already-pretty game even prettier.

    I took this screenshot within the first two minutes of enabling Lumen while at the Final Destination site. Just a purely random view and it shows off the new lighting so well! Dang this game’s pretty.
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  • Filter – The Algorithm

    I suppose I should say a few words about the other new record I picked up last week:

    Filter’s The Algorithm has a few songs I mostly like (and even “For The Beaten” almost loses me in places) but overall is not my cuppa tea. That’s not to say it’s bad, just not-for-me, not an overall style I like. A bigger fan of the band than I am would probably like it just fine, as it is definitely more-of-that.

    To be fair, nearly every Filter album I’ve heard (other than the nearly-flawless Title Of Record) is like this for me, where I end up with two or three songs in rotation and a whole bunch of “nope, don’t want none of that” tracks. So take this with the grain of salt it probably deserves.

  • Hey, Let’s Meet Up!

    “We’ll go hang out somewhere, indoors, where there’s food. It’ll be great!”

    And here I am, desperate for socialization yet diabetic as hell and guess what, COVID still exists and will still definitely do its best to kill me like it’s killing hundreds every week still yes even now despite what the official organizations are pointedly not telling you, and since keeping a mask on while watching other people eat and stressing constantly about whether my mask’s seal is good enough isn’t one of my favorite pasttimes, I’ll have to pass on that invite, which sucks because I don’t get invited to things hardly ever to begin with and turning down invitations is a great way to make invitations even less frequent.

    Sigh.

  • Duran Duran – Danse Macabre

    Did you know that the Double D boys released a new album a couple weeks ago? I sure didn’t! Luckily, a coworker mentioned it in passing yesterday. That was probably the best part of my entire day, if I’m honest.

    So, how is it? Hmm.

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