The Kitchen Sink

Author: tekton

  • Endless Space – Spaceships Lite

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    I’ve had Endless Space (ES) on my list of games to check out for a while now. Unfortunately the early releases weren’t very good, but now there’s a much better tutorial and seems much better overall- didn’t crash once this time! At this point Sid Meier’s Starships is a much better version of this game;…

  • 2016 Gaming Backlog

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    I needed a third because I’m bad at getting to all of these. Then again, according to most list of how long games should take it’s going to take something like a decade to get through all of my games anyway…so maybe I shouldn’t be too hard on myself. Grim Dawn Cities: Skylines (Satisfied back…

  • Zealotry in Sports II

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    Teams are still an interesting thing. Previously I opined a bit on why I do or don’t like certain teams. Some things with the NFL have changes and I forgot about the NHL last time. NFL With the Rams coming back to Los Angeles I may have a new favorite NFC team, sorry 49ers. Raiders…

  • OpenVPN – Creating ovpn files

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    After doing so many “things” with OpenVPN and going through so many great tutorials over the years I’ve collected quite a few ways to get things up and going. Creating users is usually the biggest pain, so for ease of getting up and going on Ubuntu using easy-rsa I just run this as root (sudo…

  • Sid Meier’s Starships – First Impressions

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    It was a happy coincidence that my vacation happened during the release of Sid Meier’s Starships. With a few games under my belt the initial reaction is summed up nicely as: that is one fun little game. The turn based nature of the game gives it a go-and-wait feeling that would feel great on an…

  • Comic Pull List – 2015 Start

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    Not a lot has changed from last year. Though I did drop all of the Hulk books since they got a little “meh” as time went on. New Warriors from Marvel came and went, it was a good little series I’m sad to see it go. These are all down from my monthly high in…

  • 2015 Gaming Backlog

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    I’m not going to replace anything since I’m still working on the last one. I will be adding to it though! Pokemon Omega Ruby (Complete 2016-01-01) Pokemon Alpha Sapphire (Complete 2016-01-01) Wasteland 2 World of WarCraft – 10th Anniversary Achievements (Complete 2015-01-02) Marvel Heroes – Prestige back to 60 & 3 Geared Characters (Complete 2015-01-31)…

  • Superior Spider-Man 31

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    Here at the end of the Superior Age we get some interesting looks at the future of the Spider-Man mythos and world. Spoilers ahead…

  • OS X Mavericks and PyLibMC

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    https://gist.github.com/tekton/9943256 brew install libmemcached easy_install pip pip install virtualenv virtualenv VENV source VENV/bin/activate export CFLAGS=-Qunused-arguments export CPPFLAGS=-Qunused-arguments pip install pylibmc

  • Comics Pull List in 2014

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    Remapping my comics pull list after catching up on most stories. May switch to digital for some of them, but I prefer supporting my local comic book shop as it were. There’s a chance I’ll be dropping Justice League, but the Lex/Batman dynamic is entertaining for now. The only confirmed so far from the big…