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  1. Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games

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    I finally got around to playing Oxenfree. I'm really strugging to enjoy it. For context, I've played up until I find my friends and regroup back at the tower. It's interesting, and I'm enjoying...

    I finally got around to playing Oxenfree. I'm really strugging to enjoy it. For context, I've played up until I find my friends and regroup back at the tower.

    It's interesting, and I'm enjoying the story. But everything else in the game just feels like unnecessary friction. Walking is slow (sometimes Alex runs (great!), sometimes she walks, sometimes she gets stuck on an edge). It feels like there's no reward or benefit to exploring or going off route. All you get it a slow walk back to the next set piece.

    I hear the biggest strength of the game is the dialog. But I cannot get my head around it. Sometimes Alex will interrupt, sometimes she will wait - I wish there was a way to know what was going to happen.

    I find myself standing still through the conversations because if I accidentally walk over a story trigger Alex will interupt the conversation for some nonsense. I think the conversation is supposed to continue, but it really takes me out of it, and I swear it feels like I miss some parts which is frustrating.

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  2. Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp

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    I probably should write something up for public consumption. It would be a good exercise if nothing else. I did piggy back off of netboot.xyz who provide the initial boot environment and do most...

    I probably should write something up for public consumption. It would be a good exercise if nothing else.

    I did piggy back off of netboot.xyz who provide the initial boot environment and do most of the actual arcane magic. They have good support for customisation and self-hosting which was important to me.

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  3. Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp

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    I have been working on setting up a PXE server alongside a customised Linux image to boot into over the network. It's been a fun learning experience involving delving into all sorts of different...

    I have been working on setting up a PXE server alongside a customised Linux image to boot into over the network.

    It's been a fun learning experience involving delving into all sorts of different areas. The PXE server uses a wonderful rube goldberg machine of DHCP, TFTP and HTTP to eventually get to where it need to be. The most complex part for me was figuring out how to supply the Linux kernel and small filesystem to load over the network.

    It's all working wonderfully as of the start of this week and I've been going over my notes to make sure I know how I would replicate/redo the task but much more efficiently if needed.

    8 votes