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<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8' ?> <rss version='2.0' xmlns:lj='http://www.livejournal.org/rss/lj/1.0/' xmlns:atom10='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom'><channel> <title>The Creature Feature Journal</title> <link>https://ghastlym.dreamwidth.org/</link> <description>The Creature Feature Journal - Dreamwidth Studios</description> <lastBuildDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2025 16:44:00 GMT</lastBuildDate> <generator>LiveJournal / Dreamwidth Studios</generator> <lj:journal>ghastlym</lj:journal> <lj:journaltype>personal</lj:journaltype> <image> <url>https://v2.dreamwidth.org/15742836/4005198</url> <title>The Creature Feature Journal</title> <link>https://ghastlym.dreamwidth.org/</link> <width>100</width> <height>100</height> </image> <item> <guid isPermaLink='true'>https://ghastlym.dreamwidth.org/27648.html</guid> <pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2025 16:44:00 GMT</pubDate> <title>Country Blackout</title> <link>https://ghastlym.dreamwidth.org/27648.html</link> <description>&nbsp;Yesterday was crazy. France, Spain and Portugal suffered an electrical blackout. Nothing worked, no traffic signs, people got stuck in elevators, lack of phone communications and tons of people running thought the supermarket for supplies.<br /><br />I didn&acute;t even noticed what was going on until I got a phone call from my dad how the whole city got shut down and that is how i ended going online by using my phone data to see if there were any news about it. I thought this was just another regular black out, since there has been several of those here lately, but usually there were street wide and lasted from a couple of minutes to an hour.<br /><br />Luckily My Mom was always the one to drill us from the start the importance of keeping extra food and water supplies, as well batteries, flashlights and a radio for situations such as these, so i guess her advice paid off.<br /><br />I also tried to keep myself busy in order to not lose my mind. I guess go thing I had managed to charge my 3DS the other day, so i played a little bit of that Romhack called Pokemon Seagrass. I also took the time to do some chores in the house and even organize my old photo album by transferring my old to a new one. Since this was one was getting a bit musty.<br /><br />And got to finish a book I had been currently reading this past week and played a couple of rounds of uno with my sister. I mean, what else I was going to do? Its not like I couldn't get any work done since that requires internet access. And I might as well save the laptops battery for a movie session at night If the electricity didn&acute;t come back by then. Good thing we had an external hardrive full of movies, uh. And art supplies.<br /><br />Thats the thing most advice for these kinds of emergencies don't tell you. See basic supplies is step one. Step two is having a decent coping mechanism and keep your mind busy so you won&acute;t freak out. Which why having a more analogue source of entertainment that doesn&acute;t need a continuous source of electricity is important. Think boards games, physical books, pens, paper, coloring pencils. that sort of thing.<br /><br />Good thing I&acute;m a bookworm.<br /><br />Ironically, it felt like I was kid again, when I was camping or back before my family or any other relatives had the internet. So it meant I had to come up with ways to keep myself entertained. I guess all those summer days staying at an uncle's house and not doing much except going to the beach and listen to the radio payed off.<br /><br />Speaking of which, I managed to track down one In a&nbsp; drawer. And i&acute;m not kidding when I say this thing is old. Like 90s old and doubles as a cassette recorder. It was from the aiwa brand and somehow it still works. When yall say old tech was made to last you weren&acute;t kidding.<br /><br />So far, we only managed to tune to a single station and got some sporadic updates about the electricity situation alongside some music that helped lighten the mood.<br /><br />That and the Radio DJ joked around about how if things kept up by time he came home, he might have to climb the stairs to the 6th floor and get some needed excercise. But it was at this point we started getting some news that they&acute;ve started to return power to some districts, no words on our yet, thought.<br /><br />It was around at 8pm, I think by that time I already finished cooking dinner (thank god that we had gas) when finally things returned to normal, what a relief.<br /><br />Really thought this was gonna last all night..<br /><br />I&acute;m not gonna lie, despite managed to keep calm and keep it together, I still found the situation kinda scary. There wasn&acute;t a lot of information around, plus there speculations about its origins. Some say it was a cyberattack (but that wasn&acute;t confirmed and no such interference was detected) other say it was due to weird atmospheric vibrations.<br /><br />And while i could live with out tv or a pc just fine,&nbsp; what really worried me was the state of the food on my fridge and my pet fish. (thankfully it was a big enough tank so there werent huge water temperature variations)<br /><br />It also proved how a lot of people aren&acute;t prepared for such events. It felt like nothing was learned from the Covid Pandemic, so this result in some panics and stores running out of items.<br /><br />It also made me reexamine how much or little prepared I am. While I did have most of the stuff needed for an emergency, I will have to make an inventory list, just in case.<br /><br />I hope I don&acute;t have to experience something similar anytime soon. And this does make one not take the small comforts you have for granted.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br type="_moz" /><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=ghastlym&ditemid=27648" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments</description> <comments>https://ghastlym.dreamwidth.org/27648.html</comments> <category>current events</category> <category>weird shit</category> <lj:mood>drained</lj:mood> <lj:security>public</lj:security> <lj:reply-count>0</lj:reply-count></item><item> <guid isPermaLink='true'>https://ghastlym.dreamwidth.org/27484.html</guid> <pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2025 14:36:30 GMT</pubDate> <title>Stroke of Bad Lucky</title> <link>https://ghastlym.dreamwidth.org/27484.html</link> <description>&nbsp;<br /><br />Yesterday was not my day for sure. First i had to deal with another person&acute;s grumpy attitude, then I got my brand new pair of paints stained after sitting on a bench, like just how!<br /> <br />And Then this lady at this cafe got mad at me for the mess that someone else had made before i even got into the bathroom. Like lady i went there it was already a mess like papers on the floor, the toilet wasn&acute;t flushing properly, and I always make sure to be considerate in never make a mess. Why arent you mad at the ones who did it. Oh right, they had already left, of course lets go after the person who is still there.<br /> Chances are business isn't going well for her or some other issues so she decided to take it out on me.<br /><br />Fine, the hot chocolate there is overpriced anyway, so that place is now on my Cafe blacklist. No wonder there wasnt barely anyone there, badly maintained bathrooms, paying more for what the service is worth and an owner with a bad attitude. I know because when I passed by other cafes on my way back there had more people in it.&nbsp;<br /><br />And when I got back home i removed my 3ds from my bag only to fine a small piece of plastic broke off my hinge, it was too serious, just a superficial crack the rest of it works. More of a comestic issue really I ended up glue it and reenforcing it with&nbsp; duck tape. I just have be extra careful how i open it or how i put in the bag next time. And I found out there is a game store that offers repairs ( and even sell old games) if it becomes a problem in the future.<br /><br />I mean I know I had this 3ds for years without issues, its just the timing of it breaking of all times. If feels like a bad thing happening right after the other.<br /><br />I&acute;m not very superstitious but, it kinda felt like I hit with someone&acute;s own bad vibes, and then it got reflect in the form of things just breaking around me. Fuck, I didn&acute;t even wanted to update my Game Review site, because something might break.<br /><br />It&acute;s silly I know, but this day left me in such a bad mood, I ended up just spending the rest of my day playing videogames instead of work, and got to be early just so I can forget this whole day.<br /><br />The only positive thing is that I hate fajitas for lunch and managed to get to the end of Witches and Vampires: Secrets Ashbury and I know can start writting a review.<br /><br />I hope today things willl turn out better<br /><br /><br /><br type="_moz" /><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=ghastlym&ditemid=27484" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments</description> <comments>https://ghastlym.dreamwidth.org/27484.html</comments> <category>thoughts</category> <category>venting</category> <lj:music>Break Stuff - Limp Bizkit</lj:music> <lj:mood>frustrated</lj:mood> <lj:security>public</lj:security> <lj:reply-count>0</lj:reply-count></item><item> <guid isPermaLink='true'>https://ghastlym.dreamwidth.org/27377.html</guid> <pubDate>Fri, 28 Feb 2025 20:17:31 GMT</pubDate> <title>Fish Keeping February And Monthly Recap</title> <link>https://ghastlym.dreamwidth.org/27377.html</link> <description>Feels Like I&acute;m posting on this Journal Monthly Now.<br /><br />So back in the end of January or so I bought new fish to replace some of the ones who have died last year. You know the usual guppies, platys, tetra neon.&nbsp;<br /><br /><br />That is when disaster struck they all got infect by the Ich, or white spot disease, which is a protozoan parasite that feeds on the fish&acute;s skin and takes the form of cysts that look like white spots.<br /><br />After digging around I went to back to the store to buy some medicine for them, I explain my situation to the Lady in the store. Now as it turns out here in Portugal pet stores are allowed to&nbsp; sell ich medication due to regulation. I remember you could still by it like in the 2000s but something must have changed.<br /><br />However, she did give me some advice, she told to increase the temperature up to like 30&ordf;C which is the best way to deal with the ich (with heat), also a spoonful of salt (to add in the direction of filter current), and wait a couple of days till it resolves itself natural. After that maybe decrease the temperature to 27&ordm;C during the winter and then start lowering a degree more or so during the Summer.<br /><br />She told that yes, this is an issue that affect fish mostly during the winter, the changes in temperature causing them stress, so she always makes sure to increase the thermostat slightly to avoid it.<br /><br />And yes it worked. But there were casualties, the guppies didnt survive and I lost a school of drunken noses. All the other made out alright thought, the new platys and tetra neons made it. As well as the older fish like my corrydoras and chinese algae eaters.<br /><br />In the meantime I started to crush a clove of garlic and mixed with their food to help with their immunity. at this point I gonna give up on raising guppies, they seem sooo, fragile despite being pretty and maybe refrain from buying fish during the winter in the near future.<br /><br />As for the rest of the Month? I took up reading during my daily walks, I would just go outside sit on a bench near the beach and read, its an alternative to my habit of picking my phone and scroll on social media. i feel like i need it<br />.<br />Been reading on those two first Witcher books as well the Fifth Elephant, a book I read years ago, but didn&acute;t quite &quot;Get it&quot;. But I started getting into the Discworld series thanks to a fanguide and I&acute;ve gained a better appreciation for it.<br /><br />So far, I managed to transfer half of my wordpress blogposts from 2022 to my new site and I&acute;m considering&nbsp; if i should or not make a separate Bluesky acount just for sharing updates and links of it. SFW of course. Leaving my main one to be as freaky as I want to.&nbsp; Mostly because of the whole be able to use your domain site as a username. Also I want to do something involving the IndieWeb with it.<br /><br />I know I&acute;ve bridged my Mastodon account there, but I feel like it has some limitations, like the preview cards for my site not showing up correctly.<br /><br />Other than that not much has been going on, same old, same old.<br /><br type="_moz" /><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=ghastlym&ditemid=27377" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments</description> <comments>https://ghastlym.dreamwidth.org/27377.html</comments> <category>literature</category> <category>coding:blog</category> <category>animals: fish</category> <lj:music>End of It - Friday Pillots Club</lj:music> <lj:mood>bored</lj:mood> <lj:security>public</lj:security> <lj:reply-count>0</lj:reply-count></item><item> <guid isPermaLink='true'>https://ghastlym.dreamwidth.org/26931.html</guid> <pubDate>Sat, 11 Jan 2025 12:47:47 GMT</pubDate> <title>Reflecting on 2024</title> <link>https://ghastlym.dreamwidth.org/26931.html</link> <description>&nbsp;A bit late in the Month but I always like to writes this kind of post every year. 2024 Has come and go.&nbsp;<br /><br />These past few months were kinda weird werent they? Politically wise we had watched Trump almost get shot, than Kamala Harris came ago and for those few Months everyone had high hopes of getting rid of the orange menace once and for all. Even thought Im not from the US, I too was eager for that cause I was so sick and tired of seeing his stupid face everywhere. Well that didn&acute;t happened.<br />And then there was the news of a New Robin Hood figure called Luigi Mangione, which was kinda fascinating to watch the surrounding discourse.<br /><br />And Jimmy Carter Died shortly before the year has ended.<br /><br />Then we got to see the downfall of twitter, its actual fall this time, although it has been declining for a while with everyone trying to flee to to places mostly to bluesky. I guess whatever happened was really the last straw and everyone was sick and tired of toxic behavior.&nbsp;<br />I tested it myself, its still on growing pains, but it kinda somewhat more tolerable, specially with the moderation tools.<br />However, I did have one user, trying to start shit with me (and failed) because I warned people about him and advised to block him because he is a notorious fandom harasser.<br /><br />Other than that its been kinda chill, I&acute;ve been sharing links to my game reviews there, but Im thinking maybe having a second account just for them while using my main for the most wilder stuff.<br /><br />Culturally wise? I think at this point we are all sick of AI, that stuff has nothing to offer in terms of creativity, and Im sick of watching every site i went decided to do the whole opt-out of Ai which made me hesitate in even sharing my creative stuff. I have to make sure my robots.txt files is updated and even so I pretty sure my writing, my art, my photos have already been fed to a machine with no compensation one way or another.<br />Also we had like creators strikes in the entertainment industry so I hope they get better working conditions.<br /><br />On a more positive Note, I was very suprised at the Agatha All Along Show, I thought it was gonna fail, because as fun as agatha was as a character I did not think she alone could carry a show i was wrong. On a not so positive note, we are now going with the reverse of rainbow washing, where disney decided to cut transgender story lines in two of their cartoon shows. Someone did managed to leak the <a href="http://archive.org/details/na-the-gatekeeper">unaired episode</a> at least.<br /><br />For my personal life, I mean in a previous post i think i remember saying not much went on in my life, I&acute;ve been trying house hunting but its failing. I left worpress to a newer blog host, decided to buy a 3ds battery again, with the one this time lasting much longer.<br />Ive also been trying to reflect on stuff career wise, I&acute;ve been trying to learn how to use that open source QGIS program because i thought i might improve my prospects, but Im still at a loss what to do with my life.<br /><br />Its at this point I dont think i wanna bother with any resolutions, I guess staying alive and continue to work on my website is the only thing i can achieve right now.<br /><br />So Here&acute;s to 2025, lets see what it will bring.<br /><br /><br type="_moz" /><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=ghastlym&ditemid=26931" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments</description> <comments>https://ghastlym.dreamwidth.org/26931.html</comments> <category>current events</category> <category>holidays</category> <lj:mood>calm</lj:mood> <lj:security>public</lj:security> <lj:reply-count>0</lj:reply-count></item><item> <guid isPermaLink='true'>https://ghastlym.dreamwidth.org/26718.html</guid> <pubDate>Thu, 26 Dec 2024 21:55:08 GMT</pubDate> <title>Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year</title> <link>https://ghastlym.dreamwidth.org/26718.html</link> <description>&nbsp;Another Year another Christmas, but not a lot of going on. Thank god because holidays with family isn&acute;t easy, but still I survived, I even helped with christmas dinner.<br /><br />I spent it mostly watching movies, playing co-op videos games with my sister like overcooked, we also started playing Piglet&acute;s Big Game (you knwo the one that people have been comparing to baby&acute;s first silent hill?). We&acute;ve been taking turns with the controller, she would deal with the combat mide, while i would do the exploring and puzzle solving. It was cute.<br /><br />Also I would go out when it got Dark and look at all the pretty lights. There was also a random event on the next town i was visiting, a whole parade of Santas on motorcycles.<br /><br />The funniest part was see the one guy dressed at the grinch complete with sunglasses, followed by another biker with a crazy frog doll with asanta hat at the front ( remember him), and the bikes that looked like a sled was a nice touch.<br /><br />As for presents this years, nothing too fancy, I got the first two witcher books ( which i&acute;ve been wanting to read forever, a new pair of sneakers, a pair of binoculars (perfect for bird watching) and of course some new pants, since my old ones went caput.<br /><br />However, if there is another thing i did different form last year, is that i haven&acute;t bothered giving my personal website a christmas themes as I&acute;ve done in previous years. I decided it was too much work, plus there was always something that seems to be breaking when i return it to normal. Besides I&acute;ve always been more of an halloween person.<br /><br />And before I end I &acute;d like to share my Christmas watchlist:<br /><ul><li>All the King of the Hill Christmas Specials</li><li>That one Christmas Carol Adaptation (you know where Scrooge is a total Gilf)</li><li>That Christmas</li><li>Rare Exports A (a horror Christmas Movie)</li><li>A Very Supernatural Christmas</li><li>Lord Of the Rings The Fellowship of the Ring Extended Version</li><li>Winnie The Pooh and Christmas Too ( which I still have the vhs tape off)</li></ul><br />So that is it for now, and look a couple of days left before next year. This one will be a bit of a doozy.<br /><br />As per tradition here&acute;s another apropriatly themed video:<br /><br /><div class="ljembed" style="text-align: center;"><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/nQLJNCDa4GA?si=66V8oWHTkrE2y-Au" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></div><br /><br type="_moz" /><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=ghastlym&ditemid=26718" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments</description> <comments>https://ghastlym.dreamwidth.org/26718.html</comments> <category>gaming</category> <category>holidays: christmas</category> <category>holidays</category> <category>movies</category> <lj:mood>calm</lj:mood> <lj:security>public</lj:security> <lj:reply-count>0</lj:reply-count></item><item> <guid isPermaLink='true'>https://ghastlym.dreamwidth.org/26380.html</guid> <pubDate>Wed, 20 Nov 2024 23:42:12 GMT</pubDate> <title>Finally Moved my Old Wordpress Blog</title> <link>https://ghastlym.dreamwidth.org/26380.html</link> <description>&nbsp;It took me a while, but I finally finished my old hobby blog, basically made a new one throught the astro static site generator, found a new host. Bought a site domain for the very first time ever, now Im starting the process of moving some of my old posts.<br /><br />Its got most of the bells and whistles, its got an rss feed, i made a now page that updates what i&acute;ve been doing. The one problem I have have is the preview card.&nbsp;<br /><br />You know how when you shared a link it shows a preview card complete with summary and cover? Yeah its only shows my favicon and site description even when im linking my blogposts. I dunno how to fix it.<br /><br />I dunno how long I will stick around with this layout something tells me I might wanna change it in the future.<br /><br />So this is my new adress:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.ghastlymirror.xyz/">https://www.ghastlymirror.xyz/</a><div><div class="gtx-trans-icon">&nbsp;</div></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=ghastlym&ditemid=26380" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments</description> <comments>https://ghastlym.dreamwidth.org/26380.html</comments> <category>coding: blog</category> <lj:security>public</lj:security> <lj:reply-count>0</lj:reply-count></item><item> <guid isPermaLink='true'>https://ghastlym.dreamwidth.org/26291.html</guid> <pubDate>Tue, 05 Nov 2024 23:08:48 GMT</pubDate> <title>Happy Halloween</title> <link>https://ghastlym.dreamwidth.org/26291.html</link> <description>&nbsp;Ok I&acute;m writting this a few days late.&nbsp;<br /><br />I celebrated Halloween the usual like last year. Staying at home and watch some spooky movies.<br /><br />Here&acute;s How my marathon went:<br /><ul><li>Willy&acute;s Wonderland. (a better fnaf adaptation than the official one)</li><li>Maximum Overdrive (so Stephen King was coked up when he made this)</li><li>Agatha All Along ( I was pleasantly suprised, cause I was wondering why would there be an Agatha Harkness show)</li><li>The First three chronological Alien movies ( romulus was fine I guess, but they could&acute;ve done something different)</li><li>Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (it didn&acute;t suck as a sequel at least)</li><li>The Crow (The Ultimate Goth Movie)</li><li>Little Shop of Horrors/ Rocky Horror (makes for a great musical double feature)</li><li>Maxxine (Did not see that one coming, also great 80s vibes)</li></ul><br />Also did a little gaming:<br /><ul><li>Animal Crossing horizons, (only started playing, still it was fun dressing up as a vampire and get all sort of cool items and goodies from jack)</li><li>Witch&acute;s Tale (cute Turn based rpg based on fairy tales, you play as a witch who allies with a vampire to save the world)</li><li>Nightmare Before Christmas: Oogie&acute;s Revenge ( hope to finish playing this, it&acute;s basically a sequel to my favorite movie)</li></ul><br />Now to spooky season 2.0 this december<br type="_moz" /><br type="_moz" /><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=ghastlym&ditemid=26291" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments</description> <comments>https://ghastlym.dreamwidth.org/26291.html</comments> <category>halloween</category> <lj:music>Transcendental Cha Cha - Tom Cardy</lj:music> <lj:mood>creative</lj:mood> <lj:security>public</lj:security> <lj:reply-count>0</lj:reply-count></item><item> <guid isPermaLink='true'>https://ghastlym.dreamwidth.org/26017.html</guid> <pubDate>Thu, 03 Oct 2024 21:24:57 GMT</pubDate> <title>Solving the Battery issue for my 3DS</title> <link>https://ghastlym.dreamwidth.org/26017.html</link> <description>&nbsp;It&acute;s here it&acute;s finally here! The package I ordered for my brand new battery has arrived.<br /><br />It actually was faster than I thought. I really thought I was gonna have to wait till november to get it, and that and I might missed it, either having to wait for the delivery guy to come another day or receive a letter in the mail telling me i have to go to he post office to get it.<br /><br />Nope, the box was small enough it the delivery man was able to put it in the mailbox. Last time I bought a third party battery it came bundle in a much messier and larger package that it needed to be. Because its such a small object<br /><br />And the battery didn&acute;t last as long so that was the last time i&acute;m ordering anything from them.<br /><br />The irony that I got a much better result from ordering from Aliexpress instead of Fnac was not lost on me.<br /><br />it was a bit challenging to unscrew the back cover only to realize I was trying use the wrong screwdriver&nbsp; size. Idiot<br /><br />So now I&acute;m calibrating and testing out the battery to see how long it lasts, it seems to work well. I do hope people were right about Cameron Sino,&nbsp;<br /><br />I really do want my 3DS to actually be a portable console instead of something that I gotta plug all the time, and that I can&acute;t leave turned off with the battery fully charge for more than a day.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=ghastlym&ditemid=26017" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments</description> <comments>https://ghastlym.dreamwidth.org/26017.html</comments> <category>gaming: nintendo</category> <category>gaming: 3ds</category> <lj:mood>accomplished</lj:mood> <lj:security>public</lj:security> <lj:reply-count>0</lj:reply-count></item><item> <guid isPermaLink='true'>https://ghastlym.dreamwidth.org/25635.html</guid> <pubDate>Wed, 18 Sep 2024 18:55:56 GMT</pubDate> <title>Portugal on Fire</title> <link>https://ghastlym.dreamwidth.org/25635.html</link> <description>&nbsp;Imagine just waking up to the smell of burnt wood except there is no fire around. That is how bad the fires here in Portugal have gotten. They been spread several different areas in the country, including in my district. and I can practically smell it here despite it still being far.<br /><br />Can&acute;t even open a window.<br /><br />So bad my town was covered in fog-like smog brought by the wind. I saw the sun it looked red under the smoke, plus no&nbsp; chance of me able to even see the lunar eclipse. Shince it got quickly covered by smoky clouds. And guess what color the moon was? Talk about a literal blood moon. Like a bad omen.<br /><br />Its been two days and i still feel the smell of smoke. My Dad who had to travel to another town for business told me, He saw people going out of their way to wear masks because it was difficult to breath for some..<br /><br />This is some scary shit.<br /><br type="_moz" /><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=ghastlym&ditemid=25635" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments</description> <comments>https://ghastlym.dreamwidth.org/25635.html</comments> <category>current events</category> <lj:mood>anxious</lj:mood> <lj:security>public</lj:security> <lj:reply-count>0</lj:reply-count></item><item> <guid isPermaLink='true'>https://ghastlym.dreamwidth.org/25452.html</guid> <pubDate>Thu, 12 Sep 2024 16:42:00 GMT</pubDate> <title>Hello, is this game working?</title> <link>https://ghastlym.dreamwidth.org/25452.html</link> <description>&nbsp;I cave in and finally decided to order a new battery for my 3DS XL. The i got to replace the original nintendo one? Yeah turns it doesnt hol a lot of charge and part of me wish i should&acute;ve looked up the specs of this thing between ordering, D'oh!<br /><br />My first option&nbsp;was the ifixit store, but it was out of stock, and support told me why they did order them they dont the exact date where they get them due to difficulties on the supply chain. So for all i know i could take Months, so that one went down the drain.<br /><br /><br />For option number two, I did some research and apparently the Cameron Sino ones have been highly recommended when it comes to third party batteries. They even make extended batteries that last ten times longer than the original. the only downside is since the battery is a bit bulkier its requires a specialized backcover (which they provided with the purchase), plus the console will feel a bit heavier<br />But honestly I don&acute;t need that much millage since I normally just play on the 3ds for an hour or two a day. so I just ordered the regular Spr-003 1800mah one.<br />Honestly i just want a battery where i can just leave charged and turn off for more than a day and turn back and still have battery left, so this will suffice.&nbsp;<br /><br />I ordered them although its gonna take a while.<br /><br /><br /><br />I also finally&nbsp; get to play splatoon online on a emulator without a Wii U on the pretendo servers hurray. Part of me was wondering if I would never be able to play it properly, if i would have to go on the hunt for a used console since you need the actual dumped files to enable online play on Cemu.&nbsp;<br /><br />Suprise, suprise I found&nbsp; someone&nbsp; renting out their console and providing the files.&nbsp;<br /><br />He answered all my questions, he even provided a text file with instructions and it worked! It totally worked!<br /><br />Now I&acute;m on Level 4, and aside from the connection issues (cause let&acute;s face it Pretendo is still a project in progress) its pretty much stable. I even found out you could order clothes from other players! Nice.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="https://images2.imgbox.com/30/77/CiPtqfVi_o.jpg" alt="screenshot of splatoon character" width="300" height="313" /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />&nbsp;I could play only the main story mode, but where&acute;s the fun in that?&nbsp; Competitive Multiplayer is the main attraction.&nbsp; How else am I gonna be able to dress up my avatar?</div><br />I know what someone might think about the legality of this. First off Nintendo discontinued the console, and it will be only more expensive and harder to adquire as time moves on. So the whole piracy thing is moot.<br />And second, i still had to get the original files from an actual console, even if its under an Unorthodox way. Nintendo was never gonna get my money anyway.&nbsp;<br />And unless they decide to provide a way for us to play older games online, this how things are gonna be.<br /><br />Do I wish Cemu had a better way to&nbsp; enable online play? Yes, but I understand why, they dont wanna get sued.<br /><br />Fortunately, people will always find a way.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br type="_moz" /><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=ghastlym&ditemid=25452" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments</description> <comments>https://ghastlym.dreamwidth.org/25452.html</comments> <category>gaming: nintendo</category> <category>gaming: splatoon</category> <category>gaming</category> <lj:mood>cheerful</lj:mood> <lj:security>public</lj:security> <lj:reply-count>0</lj:reply-count></item><item> <guid isPermaLink='true'>https://ghastlym.dreamwidth.org/25221.html</guid> <pubDate>Sat, 31 Aug 2024 18:59:52 GMT</pubDate> <title>Cats and Fish</title> <link>https://ghastlym.dreamwidth.org/25221.html</link> <description>&nbsp;Recently I just saw one of my neighbor out on the street in a bathrobe and slippers of all outfits, leaving a dish of cat food for the local feline community in here. Which may explain why Im always seeing a Siamese cat at our building&acute;s door and approaching people.<div>&nbsp;</div><div>So the previous neighbours left with their cat only for said cat to be replaced by... this. ok then.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>And speaking of pets I got a bunch of new fish last weekend to replace those that have past away this past year. I got 3 new tetra neons to keep the school full, four guppies (the male one from a more fancy variety) and some 3 platys. They are looking very cute.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Not to mention the town was having a farm fair, i saw not mich besides some huge ass tractors, plants, and animals, which includes those funky chickens ith crazy hairdoos</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pw/AP1GczO8YpaNxtpAUryyB9kIpuadO7nabDt4W9DG7xD389ULTQ7cXLRhhv2s6I31uoev6bHgmfUws56f0XGWFpwqCsujTMwm_X-zGFz_9Gtz4DMGf6ZNE36t=w2400" alt="a light brown chicken with what looklike a feathered afro" width="500" height="225" /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />Since this is how Im gonna end the last official Month of Summer I might as well just go to the Zoo.</div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=ghastlym&ditemid=25221" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments</description> <comments>https://ghastlym.dreamwidth.org/25221.html</comments> <category>animals: fish</category> <category>animals: birds</category> <lj:mood>calm</lj:mood> <lj:security>public</lj:security> <lj:reply-count>0</lj:reply-count></item><item> <guid isPermaLink='true'>https://ghastlym.dreamwidth.org/24900.html</guid> <pubDate>Tue, 13 Aug 2024 16:49:27 GMT</pubDate> <title>Unrestrained Summer fun, some slugs and a flat tire</title> <link>https://ghastlym.dreamwidth.org/24900.html</link> <description>&nbsp;Almost Got into a car accident the other day, well sort, so here i was on a car ride on the road when we all heard something happening to one of the tires, luckily our designated driver managed to stop safely on the other side of the road.&nbsp;<br />Had to wait for assistance for like an hour, which was enough time for me to watch an entire Witcher episode on my phone. That being said the guy they sent to change the tire, did it in no time.<br /><br />I ended up coming back home really late too.<br /><br />That the only incident I have so far....<br /><br />Lately, i haven&acute;t&acute;t dedicated my much to my personal websites, I promised I would have transferred my old Wordpress blog to a new host before August but never ended doing so, so I decided to skip Blaugust this. To be fair I&acute;ve been feeling kinda lazy, I honesty prefer just hanging out at the beach, reading my favorite book and just do fuck all this summer until September comes.<br /><br />I even managed to finish reading the hobbit and just got start on reading a Bertie Wooster and Jeeves books. I actually have an unread of set of them at home for year, making this the perfect time to get into them.<br /><br />And speaking at the beach, guess what i saw last week? Sea Slugs! Like 7 of them in tidepools, they looked like a bunch of brown algae, not to mention tons and tons of crabs.&nbsp;<br />There were people around trying to capture them in buckets. One dad with his kids asked if I wanted to see him release the crabs back into the pool, which was cool.<br /><br />I kid you&nbsp; not as soon as the crabs were the first thing they did was to quickly bury themselves into the sand, which does explain the mystery of why i see dead crab shells no live ones, they are hiding.<br /><br />Finally, I learned to make gameboy color as gba games work on my 3ds. Now being an older model, the mgba emulator runs terrible in it. But since you can actually run them natively, i ended experimenting with a thing called <a href="http://github.com/profi200/open_agb_firm" class="keychainify-checked">open_agb.firm&nbsp;</a>&nbsp;which allows me to quickly boot those gameboy advance game kinda quickly.&nbsp; &nbsp;My other option that works just as well is running them from the twilight menu + app, specially the gameboy color ones (its doesnt work with agb firm)<br /><br />There are some advantages and vantages, like on firm you can bott them faster and when you&acute;re done just turn off the button. On the other hand they are kinda inconvenient when you wanna switch different games. I gotta constantly turn the console off and on again.<br /><br />I avoid the whole injecting the roms into virtule console, mostly because its an hassle to do this for every single game compared to just loading the roms from your sd card as it is. But they are a bit slower to boot, and the save files are stored in a less convenient place.<br /><br />You know once i get my gaming review blog up an running again, I might revisit these old games as well check some homebrew ones I found <a href="hh.gbdev.io/" class="keychainify-checked">on this site</a><br /><br /><br /><div><div class="gtx-trans-icon">&nbsp;</div></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=ghastlym&ditemid=24900" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments</description> <comments>https://ghastlym.dreamwidth.org/24900.html</comments> <category>travel</category> <category>gaming: nintendo</category> <category>holidays</category> <category>technology</category> <category>gaming</category> <category>nature</category> <category>summer</category> <lj:mood>busy</lj:mood> <lj:security>public</lj:security> <lj:reply-count>0</lj:reply-count></item><item> <guid isPermaLink='true'>https://ghastlym.dreamwidth.org/24735.html</guid> <pubDate>Mon, 15 Jul 2024 14:16:37 GMT</pubDate> <title>Finding wild animals in the area that i´ve never seen before</title> <link>https://ghastlym.dreamwidth.org/24735.html</link> <description>&nbsp;Man this weekend was wild. Last Friday, I saw crows in my local park for the first time, and a wild rabbit. I&acute;ve been visitng this park for years and I&acute;ve never seen one.<br />They must be really elusive because as soon I saw it&nbsp; jumped quickly into the vegetation to never been seen again. Ver cute, very fluffly with a light brown color.<br /><br />I must&acute;ve been having a lucky streak because the next day I saw one again in a different place near the beach, not just one but three. There was place in the rocks they were hidding. But this other little fella was in the sand. then suddently it sprinted like the freaking roade runner as if it has a spring on its feet.<br /><br />I also saw an Occelated lizard, these things are huge compared to the tiny wall lizards. Funny thing it was under this bunch of wooden boards, you know people walk to avoid destroying the sand dunes. There was this foreign guy with a camera looking very focused on the ground, when I got close he got up and smiled at me, I took a peak and there this fella was resting in the sun.<br /><br />Quickly I took a snapshot before it ran off<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pw/AP1GczOe66QAYK2bQ-t_cEOYHgo2L_nE-tylHj3I-4p0DHikSUD7SlcIprEEroKxgjSRreS5RK7PoY8q_1VlN9a6D1Zo44Yez1_4JG60Wzkmn7FSQnG_lTmI=w2400" alt="a huge green lizard" width="500" height="225" /></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=ghastlym&ditemid=24735" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments</description> <comments>https://ghastlym.dreamwidth.org/24735.html</comments> <category>interesting finds</category> <category>animals: reptiles</category> <lj:mood>cheerful</lj:mood> <lj:security>public</lj:security> <lj:reply-count>0</lj:reply-count></item><item> <guid isPermaLink='true'>https://ghastlym.dreamwidth.org/24421.html</guid> <pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2024 11:57:06 GMT</pubDate> <title>A crazy space event just happened last night</title> <link>https://ghastlym.dreamwidth.org/24421.html</link> <description>&nbsp;Like yoooooo, this was nuts.<br /><br />Here I was late at night, a little before midnight, just messing around and watching a youtube video about a zoologist review some legos, when suddenly i saw a green bluish flash lighting up the sky outside my window.<br /><br />It was as if Night turned into day, and there was this rumbling sound. For a moment i though it was lightning. And the seagulls were freaking out, there doing an infernal noise, a large group of them flying in the sky.<br /><br />Short time after I got news that it was a Meteorite, everyone in Portugal and Spain were losing their minds and <a href="http://expresso.pt/sociedade/2024-05-19-um-clarao-de-luz-iluminou-o-pais-de-madrugada-foi-um-meteoro--caiu-como-meteorito--o-que-se-sabe-ate-agora--a65f098e">there was even videos of it</a>, and memes<br /><br />According to the Civil Protection it may have Landed in Serra do Montemuro, Castro Daire, Viseu. No one got hurt or anything.&nbsp;<br /><br />Fun fact, the last meteorite to land in Portugal was in 1998.<br /><br />To think I was upset for missing out on the aurora borealis because it was really cloudy where I lived last weekend, but at least I got see this.<br /><br />Also this is how&nbsp; I found out that the color of meteorite when it enters depends on its chemical composition, WILD. From the greenish color it might be made of magnesium, or I might be wrong.<br /><br /><br type="_moz" /><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=ghastlym&ditemid=24421" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments</description> <comments>https://ghastlym.dreamwidth.org/24421.html</comments> <category>interesting finds</category> <category>weird shit</category> <category>current events</category> <lj:mood>enthralled</lj:mood> <lj:security>public</lj:security> <lj:reply-count>0</lj:reply-count></item><item> <guid isPermaLink='true'>https://ghastlym.dreamwidth.org/24073.html</guid> <pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2024 21:42:52 GMT</pubDate> <title>Sexy Ghouls Everywhere</title> <link>https://ghastlym.dreamwidth.org/24073.html</link> <description>Step Aside Hancock there is a new sexy Fallout Ghoul in this town and his name is&nbsp; Cooper Howard!<br /><br />So, been watching the new Fallout show, still on episode 3, and I gotta say so far they did a pretty good job of it, we&acute;re truly living in the golden era of great videogame adaptations.<br /><br />My fave so far is of course the very very, Handsome cowboy ghoul. I dunno what so attractive about him, his accent? His hat? The fact he&acute;s a Dilf?<br /><br />Whatever it is, he can use me as bait for a giant salamander monster anytime.<br /><br />I&acute;m equally invested on the Lucy x Ghoul ship, I kinda blame the fanart. God I&acute;m kinda behind on the series behind everyone else (I blame them releasing the show on bingewatch mode instead of releasing it weekly), but i&acute;ve jumped on the Ghoulcy ship.<br /><br />Besides shipping the Vault Dweller with a Ghoul is a fine Fallout Player tradition!<br /><br />Speaking of which I caved in and bought Fallout 4 and New Vegas Ultimate Edition on GOG, they were on sale after all. I&acute;m looking foward to try the tale of Two Wastelands Mod.<br /><br /><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/dV_UJWqKoP4?si=02LYN8olswn_1Dy_" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen=""></iframe><br /><br /><br type="_moz" /><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=ghastlym&ditemid=24073" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments</description> <comments>https://ghastlym.dreamwidth.org/24073.html</comments> <category>tv shows: fallout</category> <category>gaming: fallout</category> <category>tv shows</category> <category>gaming</category> <lj:music>I Don´t Want to Set the World on Fire - The Ink Spots</lj:music> <lj:mood>amused</lj:mood> <lj:security>public</lj:security> <lj:reply-count>0</lj:reply-count></item><item> <guid isPermaLink='true'>https://ghastlym.dreamwidth.org/23954.html</guid> <pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2024 20:36:45 GMT</pubDate> <title>End of A Gaming Era</title> <link>https://ghastlym.dreamwidth.org/23954.html</link> <description>Its been two days since Nintendo turned off its 3DS and WiiU servers, and I still haven&acute;t got used to the fact that I no longer can just pop Mario Kart and play online with complete strangers around the world anymore.<br /><br />Let&acute;s hope that the Pretendo Network gets stuff up and running soon. <br /><br />I think I spent a lengthy game session just doing Pokemon Wondertrades, then exploring dreamtowns on Animal Crossing as well as Island tours.<br /><br />But I do regret not having visited other people&acute;s towns in the last day, thought.<br /><br />At least this discord 3ds server I was in was organizing a MKart Community race as one last hurrah. I would have stayed a bit longer till the servers went offline, but I was kinda tired and had to go to bed.<br /><br />What I&acute;m really gonna miss the most is visiting the most bizarre and sometimes creepy AC towns, like remember Aika Village? <br /><br />Well At least they still live <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pSoYOiJWTI" class="keychainify-checked">in youtube videos</a>. Also this happened in the day of an eclipse, what are the odds? If I had to <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wGRK6uFx1k" class="keychainify-checked">summ what it felt Like.....</a><br /><br />RIP, Nintendo servers you will be missed.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=ghastlym&ditemid=23954" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments</description> <comments>https://ghastlym.dreamwidth.org/23954.html</comments> <category>gaming: nintendo</category> <category>gaming</category> <lj:mood>gloomy</lj:mood> <lj:security>public</lj:security> <lj:reply-count>0</lj:reply-count></item><item> <guid isPermaLink='true'>https://ghastlym.dreamwidth.org/23557.html</guid> <pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2024 18:19:25 GMT</pubDate> <title>Watch/Read List For March 2024</title> <link>https://ghastlym.dreamwidth.org/23557.html</link> <description>Out of boredom i decided to write a small list of the current media that&acute;s got me hooked and some of my thoughts on it.<br /><br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">(&nbsp;</b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://ghastlym.dreamwidth.org/23557.html#cutid1">Read more...</a></b><b class="cut-close">&nbsp;)</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br type="_moz" /><br /> <br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=ghastlym&ditemid=23557" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments</description> <comments>https://ghastlym.dreamwidth.org/23557.html</comments> <category>literature</category> <category>tv shows</category> <category>fandom</category> <category>gaming</category> <lj:music>Tainted Love (1964) - Gloria Jones</lj:music> <lj:mood>bored</lj:mood> <lj:security>public</lj:security> <lj:reply-count>0</lj:reply-count></item><item> <guid isPermaLink='true'>https://ghastlym.dreamwidth.org/23532.html</guid> <pubDate>Thu, 15 Feb 2024 17:57:32 GMT</pubDate> <title>Happy valentine´s</title> <link>https://ghastlym.dreamwidth.org/23532.html</link> <description>&nbsp;Which would have been what I would say If I cared. Also its kinda funny since it falls almost during Carnaval season so i end up seeing store fronts with both&nbsp; masks and heart.<br /><br />Speaking of Carnaval this year I didnt bother watching the parades the weather wasn&acute;t great for it.<br /><br />As for Valentine&acute;s well, I spent it by baking brownies with nuts then shared them with family. The recipe works for they were delicious.<br /><br />Also been reading some fanfic of my favorite ships, that&acute;s pretty the only reason I look foward to, those fic writers have been working overtime. Idk if I might share my recommendations here. Perhaps in a different entry with an age restriction.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Let&acute;s see I tried to play Animal Crossing on Gamecube, but I have yet to receive a letter, and its has been almost a month since I logged off so&nbsp; another villager left. i cheated a little and tried to experience groundhog day, which is hilarious. its just Resetti, showing up declaring how long will winter will last and yell Scram!<br /><br /><br />Finally, my new fish seem to get along well.&nbsp; Only one died after a few days, but otherwise everyone is healthy. Not to mention new fish have been born! But i can only see two of them.<br /><br />As for the algae eater verdict, boy do they do a very good job of removing the algae, my filter and glass was covered in this brownish and green algae, and its now clean. Those fish sure a bunch of miracle workers.<br /><br />The only fish that is not doing so well, is one of my platys, the second one to be born there. There seems to be an issue with her swimming bladder, since she is now swimming upside down and has trouble to get to the bottom. I&acute;ve quarantined her and tried to feed her some cooked peas and have her fasting.<br /><br />Could be constipation, could be a bacterial infection, I also ruled out water quality. Let&acute;s hope this works and she gets better.<br /><br /><br /><br type="_moz" /><div><div class="gtx-trans-icon">&nbsp;</div></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=ghastlym&ditemid=23532" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments</description> <comments>https://ghastlym.dreamwidth.org/23532.html</comments> <category>animals: fish</category> <category>hobby</category> <category>gaming: nintendo</category> <category>holidays</category> <lj:mood>calm</lj:mood> <lj:security>public</lj:security> <lj:reply-count>0</lj:reply-count></item><item> <guid isPermaLink='true'>https://ghastlym.dreamwidth.org/23149.html</guid> <pubDate>Wed, 07 Feb 2024 19:38:16 GMT</pubDate> <title>Just Pet Stuff</title> <link>https://ghastlym.dreamwidth.org/23149.html</link> <description>Last week I noticed that some older fish have started to die out and&nbsp; I might need to add some new guppies and platys to the ones who were in the tank for two reasons.<br /><br />One to keep the population genetically healthy, and two, I had more males guppies than females, and more females platys than the male.<br /><br /><br />I went to my store of choice as usually, its a more local store, but the owners seem to know what they&acute;re doing, to the point i was able to get advice on how to deal with this bloom of algae Ive been dealing with as well as some care tips.<br /><br />Besides the guppies and platys, I got some extra tetra neons to replace the dead ones, some cool looking rummy nose tetras, and some algae eater fish, who are able to stuck to the glass, a bit similar to plecos but without the whole growing to a large size issue.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pw/ABLVV84j8d5g-PqKyv6VVjN9YjJxGwJN_WGEu3Gmtip3lDMjXL7-nTB25uTDMK6_wlwhVKvYFb4sdxeNpPJ6IiSUeRu1ZBbFKZkOtkxTWrWwE69qbFJ7zYX7=w2400" alt="a small yellow fish stuck to glass" width="500" height="225" /></div><br />The lady that worked there told be to give less food, maybe feed those algae wafer once a week, and less hours with the light turned on. I hope it works.<br /><br />Also some fun news one of my orchids is flowering again? But way earlier than usual. Just what is going on? Maybe be next to the windows is doing it some good.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pw/ABLVV866lpaN3Nx6-sfLRx564QIKpkV4qSJyx-A4aJnLZnxYjZw2h827FG1c8mKsHDlee_mNIG6v7cgHKQhfAyWKPb6dy8oadfooE2_gSEPoR1CNAo7DpIQc=w2400" alt="a purple orchid" width="500" height="225" /></div><br />One a less positive note, I gotta vent about one of the new neighbors. The last ones were cat owners, so I never had this issue. But&nbsp; this one is a Dog owner and an irresponsible&nbsp; one at that.<br /><br />I was trying to get enter the building, when my neighbour&acute;s Dog tried to chase me and barked at me, growling showing its teeth. I&acute;ve always felt a bit nervous around dogs and this doesnt help matters.<br /><br />Even worse the gall of this woman, she had a untied leash on her hand in front of me and tell me to not run it makes things worse?<br /><br />Lady, you&acute;re the one who has the dog running around, a dog you know very well know has the habit of barking at people and acting in an intimidating manner.&nbsp; But I&acute;m the one who&acute;s has to be careful not to set it off? And she did not bother grabbing the dog by the way and get it to calm down.<br /><br />And Im not the only one who has complaints, this woman has the habit of letting her pet roam around free in front of the building and shit all over the place, specially near the entrance, to the point that another neighbor accidentally stepped on dog poo.<br /><br />So, now I gotta enter through the garage instead of the entrance, because i dont know when the dog will be there. And of course nothing is gonna be done about this.<br /><br />God I hate, irresponsible pet owners, why bother have them at all if not gonna bother to look after them and instead just let them disturb other people.&nbsp;<br /><br />That woman deserves to have someone scoop that shit and leave it at her doorstep just to see how she likes it.<div><div class="gtx-trans-icon">&nbsp;</div></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=ghastlym&ditemid=23149" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments</description> <comments>https://ghastlym.dreamwidth.org/23149.html</comments> <category>animals: fish</category> <category>venting</category> <category>pets</category> <lj:music>Hell´s Greatest Dad - Hazbin Hotel</lj:music> <lj:mood>calm</lj:mood> <lj:security>public</lj:security> <lj:reply-count>0</lj:reply-count></item><item> <guid isPermaLink='true'>https://ghastlym.dreamwidth.org/22918.html</guid> <pubDate>Fri, 26 Jan 2024 16:30:24 GMT</pubDate> <title>Visti to Valença</title> <link>https://ghastlym.dreamwidth.org/22918.html</link> <description>&nbsp;Last weekend went on another trip to spain. Its been several months since I last been.&nbsp;<br /><br />This area i visited had a small park next to a river, it a game field, playgroundd for the kids and a small cafe closed.<br />Also lots of cartoon grafitti and murals for some reason:<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pw/ABLVV86MHPaMVrgWh6AiwQq5tvDD2BigyeUinhFAw9X9ScECSJ0ZVc8Om-XtnBr_KdKECJOiOGEmFnh7mMjpyFJdzC7vZXH__saLTwAQ1Ff4qVWSZQhFBVZl=w2400" width="400" height="889" alt="a mural with video game characters from pokmeon and mario" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pw/ABLVV86StHj9YOY8HfxFbjy2g_RWsATqol2ub76yLrhWumh7Er_O-_kDXHwrwuYSoFKr7yTJQ38QHs5MvyFvdUhh07T2-2kzTSTi3-B7S9JP6wowgYtAF7mG=w2400" alt="a mural with adventure time characters" width="500" height="225" /></div><div style="text-align: left;">&nbsp;</div><br />The fun part is that is has a slide running down a small hill, you could either climb down on foot or simply go down a slide, which as you can guess I could not resist to ride it.<br /><br />Also there were ducks and geese, tons. A small family was even feeding them<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pw/ABLVV84qljraH47DBaKMvkGPWATnrsCzbz0mNHSEOvshWRLchfKZu9oiseOVfpD3GquPz8VcsDqNaEODttFsuywri4FLgdTSbabwXUZDgPfw8X-D1CLNyf-2=w2400" alt="a duck" width="500" /><br /><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pw/ABLVV87fxvZthTycXEJ7GNbH2itqIGh_lpyJ5QESXZsr_gQ_IMq1GOIe6EFpagwBVYWrYskJQo9hO84QOsSScqzLHihEXvkCva-J3JUoRcfKg3sS6tAQr2Ui=w2400" alt="a bunch of geese and ducks being fed by humans" width="500" /></div><div style="text-align: left;">&nbsp;</div><br />And yes were those geese freaking loud.<br /><br />Other birds I saw besides well these, were egrets, specially near culture fields and cormorants. No birds of prey though. I was lucky enough to catch a glimpse of them there in the summer.<br /><br />Finished the rest of trip by eating&nbsp; lunch next to the river, before making the trip home. I did try these kechup flavored chips, sorta regretted adn wondered why didnt I picked the sourcream onion flavored ones instead.<br /><br />Such is life.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=ghastlym&ditemid=22918" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments</description> <comments>https://ghastlym.dreamwidth.org/22918.html</comments> <category>travel</category> <category>animals: birds</category> <lj:mood>bored</lj:mood> <lj:security>public</lj:security> <lj:reply-count>0</lj:reply-count></item><item> <guid isPermaLink='true'>https://ghastlym.dreamwidth.org/22695.html</guid> <pubDate>Sun, 21 Jan 2024 16:33:18 GMT</pubDate> <title>Gaming with Family</title> <link>https://ghastlym.dreamwidth.org/22695.html</link> <description>So I introduced my sister the wonders of Piracy of Modern games. I even&nbsp; introduced her to figtgirl as my favorite place to get games. Yes, I pirate them sometimes so sue me, I bought some as well mostly as bundles from humble bundle or itch.io<br /><br /><br type="_moz" /><div>I was kinda surprised since she wasn&acute;t much of a gamer. I mean she is except she tends to be incredibly pick and prefers to stick to like old windows games on a virtual machine. Games she used to play in our childhoods or she wish she could have access back then.<br /><br />But she saw a video from her favorite channel about the best cozy videos, liked what she saw and asked for my help to get them.<br />The ones she wanted? Power Wash Simulator and Dreamlight Valley.<br /><br />Kinda of shame she didn't asked me for Stardew Valley, as I do have a legitimate copy i bought on gog that I could, and maybe we could go for co-op. Ah well, one of these days.<br /><br />She went nuts for Power Wash, see she likes to clean and organize things, and found the game relaxing. It gets 5 stars from her.<br />As for Dreamligth, Its understandable as she is a big Disney fan, and she grew up pretty playing Disney Interactive Games, having a chill games where she can hang with her faves appealing.<br /><br />This was also the reason why I was kinda disappointed that I was no longer going to be free to play. it would&acute;ve been the perfect game for both to play. Me for the animal crossing style gameplay and her the whole cuteness.&nbsp;<br /><br />Still we kinda played together anyway?&nbsp; I sat next to her and help her create a character. When I said she isnt much of a gamer, she really isn&acute;t, as she it not all that familiar with most modern games.&nbsp;&nbsp;<br />So I helped guide her through the first quests,&nbsp; dig and find some stuff. I guess in a way we kinda did play the game together.<br /><br />Now, I know why they introduced Co-op in Animal crossing, it was kinda fun.<br />Silver lining I find out that in Multiplayer it isn&acute;t a co-op mode but more of a your friend can visit you trade items and show, but you cant do any missions during online so no help from your friends.<br /><br />At this point in the game we finally found all the magic tools,&nbsp; helped goofy and mickey, got a level both the regular and friendship meters, and we are still trying to finish Opening Scrooge McDuck store and opening the Castle.<br /><br />It will be a while before she picks up the game again, but she told she was gonna invited me to play with her again one of these days, as something we could do together.<br /><br />Oh god, now that I have tried the game I wanna continue, i mean I guess I could just install on my pc and create my own character. Maybe I might give her some tips once I figured this out.<br />&nbsp;</div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=ghastlym&ditemid=22695" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments</description> <category>gaming: pc</category> <category>family</category> <category>gaming</category> <category>personal</category> <lj:mood>calm</lj:mood> <lj:security>public</lj:security> <lj:reply-count>0</lj:reply-count></item><item> <guid isPermaLink='true'>https://ghastlym.dreamwidth.org/22474.html</guid> <pubDate>Wed, 17 Jan 2024 20:10:45 GMT</pubDate> <title>Wasting time with Virtual Machines</title> <link>https://ghastlym.dreamwidth.org/22474.html</link> <description>&nbsp;Here i am yet&nbsp; again messing around with virtual machines just to see if i can get some Windows 98 games working.&nbsp;<br /><br />Well it was disaster, first i installed, get a huge headache since it would install properly, so I go and hunt for a patch, it works, then i try to install some drivers, specially scitech.<br /><br />Scitech makes windows stop working, doesnt work well on Virtualbox. So i give up try to use Pcem instead. It works but it stutters so much.<br /><br />Also Virtualbox and VMare are crap when it comes to virtualize 3ds capabilities. Virtualbox used to but then removed that feature in future updates.<br /><br />I was about to give up and hope that gog or even the PC Collection Chamber Blog might have the titles i want for quick installation, but lo and behold a kind show has already created a pre-installation of Windows 98 for PCEM on&nbsp;<a href="http://archive.org/details/pcemwin98se"><span style="font-size: medium;"> the Internet Archive</span></a>&nbsp;<br /><br />It stutters a bit, but nearly as bad when I tried to install myself, I mean it kinda depends on the game, I went through the list of tested games tried one and it works fine.<br /><br />I guess I could try 86box as someone else suggested since its a more uddapted fork for PCEM, but I dunno.<br />Maybe when I have more motivation.<br /><br />As for my foray into Linux, i feel its going to be short lived well for now, maybe I&acute;ll try again once Windows 10 stops getting free updates cause there is now way Im paying for&nbsp; their program. And I dont even like windows 11.<br />I guess the reason why I hesitate to make the leap is because its because I have no guaranty which games will work perfectly.<br />I know there&acute;s wine and proton, and they have console emulator. But when it comes to pirated and cracked games? that is a bit harder.<br /><br />Also even if it legit they might even work. I tried Portal through steam and it wont launch, or maybe Im doing it wrong.<br />Who knows a lot could change in a year maybe things will improve and I&acute;ll stop being such a noob by then.<br /><br />Another reason while my adventure in Linux have been abandoned is that the old laptop where I installed Linux Mint to give a new Life? Stopped working. It wont turn on.<br /><br />At first I thought it was because the installation, but turns out it was still like this even when it was a mostly windows laptop, so I can either blame the battery, or the fact that its really really old (it was bought in 2010).<br /><br />You know what they say, Linux is only free if you dont value your time, I guess the same thing can be said with Windows emulation<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=ghastlym&ditemid=22474" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments</description> <comments>https://ghastlym.dreamwidth.org/22474.html</comments> <category>technology</category> <lj:mood>apathetic</lj:mood> <lj:security>public</lj:security> <lj:reply-count>0</lj:reply-count></item><item> <guid isPermaLink='true'>https://ghastlym.dreamwidth.org/22075.html</guid> <pubDate>Wed, 03 Jan 2024 19:01:14 GMT</pubDate> <title>Its 2024 Already so Happy New Year!</title> <link>https://ghastlym.dreamwidth.org/22075.html</link> <description>&nbsp;Well another year has passed by its time for some reflection.<br />Well I got say I haven&acute;t exactly managed to complete my resolutions but that is life for ya.<br /><br />How I spent my last day of the year was funny mind you, I spend it trying to install Linux, yes Linux (Mint) on this very old laptop i had laying around. Well notebook actually. It did serve me well worked enough for my college essays and maybe some light gaming.&nbsp;<br />I was actually inspired by the news that since windows 10 is about to no longer have support and therefore making a lot of still working pcs obsolete since they cant run windows 11.<br /><br />Rather than get rid of it I decided to give it a new lease in life, installing it was easier than I thought, and thanks to applications like <a href="http://lutris.net/"><span style="font-size: medium;">lutris </span></a>i can run some gog games there, i even managed to run Stardew Valley in it which is very light on old pcs.<br /><br />However, I havent tested it out if will run pirated/cracked games, It is possible, but I hear there&acute;s a specific way to install it otherwise it wont work.<br /><br />The rest of the day was uneventful, I did open up and played a session of Animal Crossing, where there was a New Years event and funny enough used it as a Countdown timer in the background, while I was watching gremlins, which by the way the moment they all start eating at&nbsp; midnight starts around the 40 minutes mark, just for the funsies).<br /><br />And now for the fun part what did I do this year?<br /><ul><li>Learned to Cook</li><li>Learned How to Configure Linux at the last Minute</li><li>Finally Finished All the Library Layouts for My Site</li><li>Started Reading a book series (Vampire Hunter D and Discworld)</li><li>Took a break from photography ( I have too many photos I have yet to organize)</li><li>Learned to acess a BBS (Bulleting Board system) using Syncterm</li><li>Started using social media less and less, I think Ive been in hiatus from spacehey, left most of tumblr posts on queue, and even thought i still have a twitter account (&nbsp; mostly for fanart and to keep in touch with some friends) it feels like its getting stupid by the minute, i can barely scroll it except for a few minutes a day if at all.</li><li>Haven&acute;t written a Game review for my blog in a while</li><li>Kept a bullet journal</li><li>Wanted to learn how to do a solo RPG, but havent gotten around to starting a game session yet</li><li>Dealing with some weird and fucked up personal stuff which I will not share the details of.</li><li>Finally got around watching the 98 anime version of Trigun. I remember how popular it was in the 2000s but i never got around cause I though the protagonist would be anoying? just another idiotic anime hero? Well I was wrong.</li><li>Some new Fish were Born this year, and some died, like my gorgeous sailfin molly and a swordtail, the shrimp are still live and kicking holy shit.</li><li>Got my 3DS working again&nbsp;</li><li>Spend the last week of august sick, wondering if it was covid, then recovered</li><li>Dad had Surgery.</li></ul><br />Some 2024 Plans:<ul><li>Actually Writing at least one article for the Literature section of my website</li><li>Maybe redo some of the flawed layout while im at it and make my site more responsive</li><li>Finishh organizing all my photos</li><li>Get better at Drawing</li><li>Tackle my Game Backlog</li></ul><br type="_moz" /><br />Non-personal events of 2023:<ul><li>AI keeps invading every corner of the internet which is pissing everyone off</li><li>There was a writers strike, it ended so Im not expecting any big movies premiering anytime soon and animators are starting to unionize</li><li>Henry Kissinger Died, good ridance</li><li>Russia still trying to invade Ukraine</li><li>Israel using hamas attacks to justify a full on genocide on Palestinians and they are starting to loose the narrative a bit</li><li>Hbomberguy reveals that a Pompous Gay youtuber name James Somerton has been plagialrizing from other queer people&acute;s work, also did some light racism, transphobia and has a beef with women, his career is now in shambles</li><li>The Final and Second of Loki has aired, the ending was sort divisive among fans, but maybe it will start a new chapter for him in the MCU?</li><li>My Town finally has a new bus transport system, but its not running so well.</li><li>Marvel&acute;s What if Just aired, and we&acute;re getting a season 3 already and maybe some hints of the show adressing Loki&acute;s sacrifice in his own show, maybe?</li><li>Everyone is losing their minds over the twist in What We Do In the Shadows with Guillermo finding out he doenst enjoy being a vampire, and what will it mean for his character arc from now on.</li><li>Also people lost their minds over Good Omens and Our Flag means death, and by losing their minds I mean complete heartbreak.</li><li>Tumblr got rid of Tumblr live</li><li>Threads tries to get into this fediverse thing, not a lot of Mastodon folks were happy about it, some instances and user went as far as to block threads</li><li>Neopets has a new team now, fingers crossed if this will lead to a proper revival</li><li>That shitty bogleech dude<a href="http://ghastlym.dreamwidth.org/6264.html"><span style="font-size: medium;"> i mentioned last year</span></a>, spent two months on twitter just harrassing and arguing over fanfiction discourse, said some inflammatory shit and acted like an all around asshole, it feels like its an annual occurrence now.</li><li>Chances are Trump might not be able to run for President</li><li>My Country just aproved the right of self-determination of identity and right of gender self-expression for students in schools, which is good news for the trans kids.</li><li>Vulcanic Eruption in Iceland</li><li>Nintendo decided to turn off online services for the Wii, 3DS and WiiU systems in Early april of 2024, with it goes down the multiplayer feature, thankfully Pretendo might help preseve those features.</li><li>David Tennant as the Doctor is back, Baby! Well sorta, some weird stuff caused him to regenerate into two? Also this newer version by Ncuti Gatwa, fucks.</li><li>Elon Musk creates a Car that is a safety hazard both to Passengers and Pedestrians alike, it looks like it was designed by a child.</li></ul>And that was pretty much how 2023 went from my prespective, lets see what 2024 will bring. Also its the year of the dragon!<br /><br />So happy Yaoi!<br type="_moz" />&nbsp;<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=ghastlym&ditemid=22075" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments</description> <comments>https://ghastlym.dreamwidth.org/22075.html</comments> <category>lgbt+</category> <category>fandom</category> <category>current events</category> <category>thoughts</category> <category>technology</category> <category>holidays</category> <lj:mood>contemplative</lj:mood> <lj:security>public</lj:security> <lj:reply-count>2</lj:reply-count></item><item> <guid isPermaLink='true'>https://ghastlym.dreamwidth.org/21792.html</guid> <pubDate>Wed, 27 Dec 2023 18:50:36 GMT</pubDate> <title>Christmas has Come and Gone</title> <link>https://ghastlym.dreamwidth.org/21792.html</link> <description>&nbsp;Honestly, Im not much for celebrating Christmas all that much, mostly because it has not been a very pleasant affair for me this past couple for years, and a lot of Christmas song kinda annoy the heck out of me.&nbsp; Not gonna got into detail But let&acute;s just say this year has been awful than usual.<br />Sure, I might change my site to a more festive theme for the fun of it, and maybe see the city lights but that&acute;s about it<br />The closest thing I have to celebrate it if you can call that is enjoying some festive media I guess?<br /><br />And after that starts what I&acute;m calling the liminal time holiday, the couples of day before new years Eve where nothing much happens and is the perfect time just do fuck all. This is the best time of year in my opinion, not a lot of pressure to do festivites with family members you dont care about, no stress.<br /><br />Anyway enough about that here&acute;s my personal list of Holiday Media I&acute;ve watched this season:<br /><br /><br /><strong>Movies/TV Shows:</strong><br /><ul><li>Marvel&acute;s What if (I swear the Christmas Episode is straight out of the Avenger&acute;s Tower tumblr fanfic era, love it)</li><li>Anna and The Apocalypse (It&acute;s a christmas Musical but with zombie, it does end on a depressing not though)</li><li>Gremlins (I mean its a Classic)</li><li>That One Community Episode ( actually i saw it on December the 10th, because the joke is funnier that way)</li><li>The Hogfather (Kinda slow paced, but still I have a thing with movies where a skeleton plays Santa)</li><li>South Park Bigger, Longer and Uncut (not exactly a christmas movie, but its kinda snowy, has a bunch memorable songs and funny moments, however some jokes have not aged well)</li><li>Batman Returns ( Imean it is set during Christmas, and Danny Devito is on this one, ironically its even funnier than I remembered for&nbsp; such a dark movie)</li><li>Merry Little Batman (another Batman christmas movie but this one is a lot cheerful and mroe kid friendly, Damian is the main character, also I swear I was getting Batjoke vibes in the end.)</li></ul><strong>Games:<br /></strong><ul><li>Bully: Scholarship Edition (well it has an entire chapter set during Winter, you can start snowfights! As well a bunch of christmas themed missions and outfits, I had fun just causing mayhem)</li><li>Animal Crossing (Both Gamecube and New leaf (the town is now covered in snow, trees have lights and there&acute;s toyday with jingle, althought i think I had a lot more fun with the version from new Leaf because I get to dress up as Santa and give present to all the villagers)</li><li>Banzo Kazoie: How The Grunch stole Christmas Rom Hack (I had less fun with it maybe cause Im not that good with platformers, of course the music was kinda irritating me for a while)</li></ul><strong>Books:</strong><ul><li>An Eldery Lady Must Not Be Crossed by Helene Tursten (its actually a sequel to An Eldery Lady is up to no good, you know those detective stories where you have a sweet old lady solves crimes? this is the reverse. Maud is an 88 year old who takes shit from no one and has no problem in commiting a little crime. Set during Christmas, it explores her past with a lot of dark humour in there, bonus it comes with a recipe for cookies)</li></ul>So yeah, 2023 has its days counted.<br /><br />While we wait here&acute;s some funny videos:<br /><br /><br /><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/3tjIrHT42eQ?si=fK92DDYurT1Hqmiq" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen=""></iframe><br /><lj-embed id=""><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/QLFvudDk1nM?si=DTf99GfzxV0qBYmc" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen=""></iframe><br /><div class="ljembed" style="text-align: center;">&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: center;">&nbsp;<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/_yhgGgDhI5s?si=s4uJJ8Dxt0__nLs-" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></div><br /><br /><br /><div class="ljembed" style="text-align: center;"><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/QLFvudDk1nM?si=B638snj6cJqn7l4a" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></div><br /><br type="_moz" /><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=ghastlym&ditemid=21792" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments</description> <comments>https://ghastlym.dreamwidth.org/21792.html</comments> <category>gaming</category> <category>literature</category> <category>movies</category> <category>holidays</category> <lj:music>Dancing in December - Earth Wind and Fire</lj:music> <lj:mood>blah</lj:mood> <lj:security>public</lj:security> <lj:reply-count>0</lj:reply-count></item><item> <guid isPermaLink='true'>https://ghastlym.dreamwidth.org/21613.html</guid> <pubDate>Tue, 05 Dec 2023 18:20:52 GMT</pubDate> <title>Holiday Season is here, time for some games</title> <link>https://ghastlym.dreamwidth.org/21613.html</link> <description>&nbsp;I am very much aware i barely touched this journal in November, but hey december has arrived,&nbsp; might as well say something.<br /><br />First off a new life update, my Neighbours have moved out two weekends ago, which means I will have to say goodbye to this cute fella that i mentioned on a previous entry. Goodbye <a href="http://ghastlym.dreamwidth.org/1642.html" class="keychainify-checked"><span style="font-size: medium;">Minnie you will be Missed.<br /><br /></span></a>Other than that, nothing much has happened in November, aside from the fact that I&acute;ve been neglecting my gaming wordpress blog a bit. I initially planned in posting my Coffin of Andy and Leyley review, but again, writer&acute;s block, not even the 4thewords site didnt help.<br /><br />So instead I gained an obsession in trying to install windows 98 on a virtual machine, Again, in order to play some old 90s games.<br /><br />I think PCem seems to work more or less fine except in some games the sound stutters, while others dont have this issue. Honestly I got tired of it and decided to just go to good ol,<a href="http://collectionchamber.blogspot.com/" class="keychainify-checked"><span style="font-size: medium;">PC Collection Chamber&nbsp;</span></a>&nbsp;for my retro gaming needs and i can just install them like a regular modern game, Yeah I know, there&acute;s GOG who is a more of a legit way, but some game are missing.<br /><br />And how else am I gonna play the discworld adventure games?<br /><br />Yes you heard me right Discworld Games, but as a point and click adventure games, with the wizard Rincewind voiced by Eric idle, and has the typical humour and writting style in the books.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="https://i.ibb.co/k9cGMGs/bandicam-2023-11-29-22-08-46-425.jpg" alt="a wizard and vampire in a bar" width="500" height="375" /></div><br />Currently playing the second game, even thought I never finished the first one. I think my issue was with the puzzles. You know how 90s puzzle solving games are. I know its cheating but I had to use <a href="http://www.uhs-hints.com/" class="keychainify-checked"><span style="font-size: medium;">a walkthrough</span></a> otherwise it would be impossible.<br /><br />So plot of the second game, Death is missing, Rincewind has to find him or otherwise the world will be stuff with a bunch of dead people running around for eternity.<br /><br />I finished the first chapter and much to my amusement, turns out Death just decided to skip out on work and is Just chilling:<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="https://i.ibb.co/3mZK7nS/bandicam-2023-11-30-21-53-49-357.jpg" alt="death from discworld, sitting on a beach chair with a sun hat and a beer glass" width="500" height="375" /></div><br />And Rincewind has to go get him to get off his ass and do his job.<br /><br />Ironically on the day I was playing this i got news after that Henry Kissinger just died, and he was 100 years old. 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