Year: 2019

Another platform upgrade

It seems platform upgrades are the only time I post here now! Anyhoo – the Raspberry Pi 3B+, grand though it was, was struggling a bit with running MariaDB, so I’ve upgraded to a Raspberry Pi 4. Quad core, 4Gb of RAM and a wee fan to keep it cool – it’s a compact wee

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What the actual…

So I was wondering how Eventide could possibly get away with charging $200 for their Blackhole reverb VST plugin. I downloaded the demo, fired up the Toraiz AS-1 and played the Bladerunner intro. Oh. That’s why it’s $200.

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The Lonely Death of Lizal Anders.

I’m a big fan of storytelling in video games. The scripted stories in big RPGs can vary dramatically between the purely functional setups of things like Diablo to the heartbreaking sagas of Final Fantasy VII or X. The silly procedural stories that drop out of the bottom of Dwarf Fortress are, for me, one of

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