Help with Email & Changing Name Servers/Webhost?
Alright, time to ask for help. I designed a website for my cousin using Wordpress, hosted via BlueHost. It's 99% done. The problem: she'd originally registered her domain through wordpress.com....
Alright, time to ask for help. I designed a website for my cousin using Wordpress, hosted via BlueHost. It's 99% done.
The problem: she'd originally registered her domain through wordpress.com. She also has an email through that, which she accesses via Google Workplace. We've transferred the domain, but the nameservers are still registered to wordpress.com. I've found the guides for transferring nameservers on BlueHost and wordpress.com, but this is a step above what I've dealt with in the past.
My main concern and frustration are the email. She's already using it for work, and I want to make sure there's no downtime, but I... honestly have no idea how it's even set up, right now. Or how this would work when transferring hosts entirely. Attempts to search it haven't been too helpful for me.
So my questions: How will changing nameservers impact the email? Would updating them potentially just... break her email entirely? Need her to set up the email separately? And if she does, can it be kept through Google Workplace/Gmail since that's what she's already using? Is it fine to leave it as-is? I assume not but her wordpress.com account shows that it expires in 2027, so...?
Just, please help.
The Card
It’s already installed✅ Portal 2
An updated version (remake, re-release) of an older game✅ Pokémon Kanto Expansion Pak
Has both combat and puzzles✅ Pokémon Kanto Expansion Pak
You wanted it when you were younger✅ Portal 2
A romhack or total conversion mod✅ Pokémon Kanto Expansion Pak
Came out more than 7 years ago✅ Portal 2
Focuses on exploration✅ Lost in Blue
You started it but never completed it✅ Lost in Blue
Has a weather system✅ Lost in Blue
Has a fishing minigame✅ Lost in Blue
Is one of the oldest games you own✅ Lost in Blue
Popular game you never got around to playing✅ Portal 2
I added two games to the burner this week: Portal 2 and Lost in Blue.
Portal 2 needs no introduction. I started playing it and it's fun, still love the dialogue and am remembering how cool the portal mechanics are, but I paused playing it only just past GLaDOS's revival and getting the portal gun with two portals. I was playing it on the couch with my aunt watching TV, and she asked me to pause until she went to bed in like 20 minutes since the audio was bothering her. So, being nice and too lazy to get up to grab headphones, I stopped.
However, what was in reach of the couch? My 3DS with a downloaded copy of Lost in Blue. It's a survival game for the DS where you're shipwrecked on an island. I marked it as "one of the oldest games I own" because A) it's from 2005, and B) I actually do own a physical copy. Somewhere. That copy has been missing for years now, and I've wanted to try playing it again because I kept dying a couple days in as a kid. So, I downloaded a copy of it to my 3DS.
Thoughts on Lost in Blue
So my first try, I died. I basically wasted the first day, and decided to let my character die on Day 2 because I couldn't fill my thirst or hunger. The thirst turned out to have a simple solution of stepping next to the river, which I did not do on my first day. So, yeah, rough start.
The game can also be kinda bad at giving directions, and the controls are a bit bad. It uses the "A" button for most actions: searching, talking, climbing and jumping. It's also kinda bad at switching, because I have to reorient myself a LOT to talk to my fellow survivor instead of search the cave floor. So, I had no clue I could climb the ledges and thus couldn't reach any of the trees that had tree bark to make a fire starter tool. Though on my second game, some of the bark spawned on ground level, which is just plain unfair.
Playing it now as an adult, I can see a bunch of design flaws/weaknesses and understand why I struggled as a kid. But, I am also a bit better now. I'd downloaded cheats because I remember my fellow survivor Skye dying a lot, but I haven't needed to use them because I'm actually decent now. The early game is VERY rough, but after getting a spear for fishing, Skye could make meals that are actually kinda filling. Better than the 4% or 11% you get from the clams, coconuts and seaweed, at least. And now that I've explored more of the island, I've found more stuff, like vegetables! Just wish it actually logged the recipes so I have an easy record of what's good.
I've also had to consult walkthroughs a few times just because it's not always clear. The most notable example is a shortcut from the cave-base to the waterfall. There's a log you have to push, and then climb and jump to a nearby ledge. However, that ledge is partially hidden, and I also haven't been able to jump like that from other logs. It took finding an old Neoseeker post to understand where the shortcut mentioned by the walkthroughs was.
On that note, the walkthroughs are very sparse. I think there's one on Neoseeker that's completed? I know another one ended right after the shortcut part I described in the above paragraph, with an unfulfilled promise to finish the walkthrough later. And looking up anything is likely to bring up results from Lost in Blue 2 or 3 instead. So, yeah.
All this criticism aside though, I spent a few hours playing it yesterday instead of Portal 2. It's not the best game, but the gameplay loop is simple enough, and it's satisfying to see how much I can accomplish compared to when I was a kid. Just... Wish it was a bit clearer on the goals and gameplay instructions. My first attempt at making furniture failed because I had no explanation for how the minigame worked, or a warning there would even be a minigame.
So that's my current Bingo summary! Hopefully I'll knock off another game before next week's thread and can ramble about it here.