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Wednesday, January 31, 2007 Serial My goal is twice a month and it's now January 31st. So my only hope of at least keeping my goal for this month is to post today. But, chances are, Alfred won't see this until Friday anyway, so he can pretend it's Serial Friday. This episode doesn't advance as far as I would have liked (trust me, some scifi stuff is coming). Part of the problem is that I had to break it so that Myra 1.6 won't be too short, plus --I believe-- this creates better pacing. So this doesn't go far, but hopefully the next one will, and should appear sooner. posted by Evil Wayne | 2:12 PM 2 comments Tuesday, January 30, 2007 Screwing With the Install Well, TheBoy was sick *again* yesterday. Actually, Sunday night he had a fever and complained about his ear again. We took him to the doctor's and she said has this cold that won't go away, causing pressure on his ears. So more antibiotics and I got to say home with him yesterday. That's how I came to be messing with my Space Empires installs. See, I have it installed twice. Once from the original CD I bought in 2000 and another one from the SE:V Bonus Pack CD (I'm not sure if you can still get it that way or not). I've kept one "clean" and the other I've added mods to. Which should have been fine. SEIV lets you add mods without destroying the original install easily. Only if you know what you're doing. So I accidentally installed the FyronQuadrantMod over the main game. I should have k Anyway, I got messed up in what I had installed and where. So I uninstall my modded SEIV folders. Then I reinstalled from my original CD, which is version 1.06 or something. So I went to patch it up to 1.94 Deluxe, only I had copied the patch into the SEIV folder and I think that's where things started to horribly wrong. Executing the patch *seemed* to work. Only when I launched the game it was still the old version. So I tried to re-execute the patch and I got an error saying I now had the wrong version. I then figured it was messed up and uninstalled and reinstalled the game. Now, thinking that I shouldn't have had the patch in the same folder, I moved it out to the desktop and ran it. Only now it gave me the same error. Now I'm thinking it must be the SEIV part of the SE Compilation that the patch is trying to read. I try to uninstall that, but you have to uninstall both of them, which is a royal pain. So with all games uninstalled, I try to reinstall from my original CD and then patch. The patch coughs up the same error. WTF? Then I start wondering about why you might not patch from the same directory and search my hard drive for "Space" and "Empires" Sure enough, there's an SEIV install under the whole default C:/Program Files/Strategy First/... So, uninstall that, reinstall original CD. Patch. Reinstall Compilation. Patch. And it works. Somewhere during all this, I deleted all the folders for fear of installing on top of something that might be causing it to mess up. So I've lost just about *everything*. All shipsets, all empires, all saved games. Now I have to start downloading the shipsets for the games I've been playing. The only silver lining is that it cleared out the 2 billion saved games I've started and then stopped playing. Now, wasn't that fascinating? posted by Evil Wayne | 1:30 PM 0 comments Thursday, January 25, 2007 Wireless-less For the longest time I've been trying to get my laptop to work with the wireless network at home. Really the only thing on it is the kid's PC, but would like to use the laptop in other parts of the house and still get on the internet (you know, for research and porn. And researching porn). But the mutherfucking piece of shit just won't work. It just stops dead. Sometimes it sees there's a network, but it refuses to connect. I even went and bought a new PC card for it, because --I've always assumed--- the shitastic internal Dell one was, well, shitastic. I've wrestled with this for about a week now and I'm very angry over the whole thing. I have to keep telling myself, the laptop is too expensive for you to put your fist through. I can get it to work by forcing an IP down it's throat. But, I'm uncertain what happens when the cable modem has to renew its lease. Then, it might not matter. Last night I was four feet, four fucking feet, from the goddamn router and it just quit on me. Dropped the signal and server I was hosting for the moment. Part of my problem is that I'm not 100% sure that I'm not screwing it up, because I'm not 100% confident in what I'm doing. But it feels right. It feels like I've done all that I can do and that has me thinking it's not router or the laptop, but the house and it's bouncing the signal around in weird ways. That's right, my house is made from crashed UFO pieces. posted by Evil Wayne | 9:57 AM 0 comments Friday, January 19, 2007 Slag Well, I had meant to have Myra 1.5 done for today, but that pesky thing of Real Life keeps getting in the way. Hopefully, I'll get to it by next Friday at the latest. TheBoy was sick a lot of last week. As I said, they start going to school and they start coming home with every disease known to man and a few that aren't. I remember the other kids doing much of the same. Starting school and then sickness galore for about a year or two. Then it calms down somewhat as their immune systems finally kick in. Anyway, that sapped a lot of last week and it seems to have carried over to this one. Sullivan tried to join in our little Thursday online gaming night (by-passing the Internet Gaming Tax, btw). He got his wires crossed or something, but he's willing to try it again. Which can only mean that Hell is currently freezing over. I've done so shitty trying to get anything resembling proper sleep. I average 1 day for every 8 that I don't. Last night I pushed it to midnight because I though Sullivan might work out his kinks. I didn't actually get to sleep until after 1 AM and awoke around 7 this morning. I have a headache and I can't really focus that well. Thank God I burned my way through a good chunk of this project I'm working on. I can pretty much go snail-slow today without impacting any budget (I hope). posted by Evil Wayne | 3:09 PM 0 comments Thursday, January 11, 2007 Shrub's New Way Forward Totally nerfing this from DailyKos, which nerfed it from Americanblog: General: Now, Field Marshal Hague has formulated a brilliant new tactical plan to ensure final victory in the field. Captain Blackadder: Ah, would this brilliant plan involve us climbing out of our trenches and walking very slowly towards the enemy, sir? Captain Darling: How could you possibly know that Blackadder? It's classified information! Captain Blackadder: It's the same plan that we used last time, and the seventeen times before that. General: Exactly! And that is what is so brilliant about it! It will catch the watchful Hun totally off guard. Doing precisely what we've done eighteen times before is exactly the last thing they'll expect us to do this time! There is, however, one small problem... Captain Blackadder: That everyone always gets slaughtered in the first ten seconds? General: That's right. And Field Marshal Hague is worried that this may be depressing the men a tad. So, he's looking to find a way to cheer them up. Captain Blackadder: Well, his resignation and suicide would seem the obvious. posted by Evil Wayne | 4:12 PM 0 comments Wednesday, January 10, 2007 Happy Birthday New Frontiers Now officially, the longest I've ever played SE:IV. One year ago, we started a game and we have yet to have any major conflict. How's that for diplomacy? There has been strife and some hostile action, including an unfortunate bout of When Ministers Attack, but overall the galaxy is not ablaze of conflict. In fact, it's been rather peaceful. Many diplomatic messages are fully of chest beatings and inflammatory talk, so it's not been that quite.  Now that I've said that, any day now the entire galaxy will erupt into on gianormous rumble and everyone will go down in flames (starting with me). I am somewhat impressed that this game has gone so long without a major bruhaha and that everyone is still playing (well, actually Alfred dropped out and Jorge joined in, but that was rather early on). I'm going to miss this game when it finally comes to an end. posted by Evil Wayne | 6:30 PM 2 comments Monday, January 08, 2007 Myra in Progress I'm working on Myra 1.5 and I think it's going to be a long segment. I'm trying to squeeze in some events to get the ball rolling a little faster, but I really don't feel like sacrificing details. This isn't literature, but it's not the 4S serial either. I wouldn't mind if it were actually entertaining to someone (beyond Alfred, that is). To that end, I get obsessive about certain details. Like the timeline. Right now, I'm totally hung up on details that are, at best, simple background materials. Things that may not ever actually matter, but, to me, they are monumentally important for some reason. So I obsess about the various ways in which history fractures. I've enlisted help, but it's mostly someone I just bounce ideas off and see what flushes out. At the same time, it's just this kind of behavior that can paralyze me. Because there's always something I think I'm going to forget. And it goes round and round until I just burn out on it. posted by Evil Wayne | 4:17 PM 0 comments Saturday, January 06, 2007 Total Annihilation I've got Alfred and Ziggy to play a round last night. Unfortunately, they have no idea what they're doing at this point. And there was some funkiness with the setup where I couldn't see or affect Alfred at all. But I'm hoping that they'll be willing to give it another try, because it still kicks RTS ass. And repeated play will flush out any bad taste this first game left behind. With any luck, they'll see the superiority of the game over StarCraft in the multiplayer arena. Because it is so much better. Even Joe has a copy on order. posted by Evil Wayne | 3:27 PM 0 comments Friday, January 05, 2007 Serial Friday: Myra Myra 1.4 is finally online. Which makes this the single fastest New Year's resolution I've ever completed. Now, you'll have to go back to June '06 for the previous installment, so you're probably better off starting from the beginning again. With any luck at all there won't be another six-month hiatus before 1.5 comes out. Editing Added some navigation arrows at the bottom of each episode to make moving back and forth easier. I added some space to some of the initial caps. Some were crashing into the text. I might try to space out the episode number a little more. posted by Evil Wayne | 9:39 AM 0 comments Wednesday, January 03, 2007 A Shot in the Dark Hey, Stacy, If you're reading this, I lost your email --I probably never had it, to be honest-- anyway, we got your Christmas card--with no return address, btw (it's okay, I understand time in the Witness Relocation Program can be tough). Anyway, to email me click HERE and replace the AT with an @ and the DOT with a period (.). Seriously, this isn't rocket science. This, on the other hand is rocket science: Spacecraft Propulsion posted by Evil Wayne | 1:52 PM 0 comments Monday, January 01, 2007 Happy New Year This year I resolve:
 So Happy New Year! (of the Robot Apocalypse). posted by Evil Wayne | 3:02 AM 1 comments |
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