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"Media nox, obscura nox..."
2018-May-25, Friday 14:13
Haven't had a great week and I'm not sure why. It might just be post-con blues, it might be something else. My therapist pointed out that seeking an immediately-proximate cause for something isn't always helpful, and she's right. It doesn't stop me from trying, though. 
After watching the trailer for the Apocalypse expansion for Stellaris--it hit me right in the same place that the Earth Alliance president's speech Babylon 5's Battle of the Line does--I noticed that Stellaris was on sale and I immediately went out and bought it. I found a mod that allows space elves, so the Holy Ayleid Empire is currently expanding across the stars. I've only played for a couple hours so I don't have much of an opinion on it yet, but it seems fun. The people who told me to buy it were right.
I also finished another coding project! It's not super special, but I'm happy because I started breaking all the Javascript out into its own functions rather than trying to stuff everything into a single on-load function, which made it a lot easier to see what was going on. I also used a name-based track and CSS classes to dynamically change the backgrounds based on weather type and time of day with six lines of code and a bunch of CSS classes, rather than a giant switch statement or a massive if/else chain. Next time I'm going to see if I can do the whole thing without any JQuery at all. I should at least know how to write an XMLHttpRequest.
I just finished reading Locke & Key #1, after already reading Nutmeg #1 and Monstress #2 this month. I think the thing that always scared me away from Western comics is that 1) I'm neutral on superheroes as a concept and 2) I don't know where to start. With manga it's easy--start at the beginning. If I wanted to read about the X-men, where is the beginning? How much backstory am I missing? Listening to Jay & Miles X-plain the X-men especially makes me think that there are dozens of issues of backstory I'd need to appreciate what was going on, and that impression is always why I stayed away. But there are plenty of non-manga comics that follow a similar format, just like a lot of Western TV now has the same format as an anime series with a limited, self-contained run instead of just continuing until the money runs out or the creators get bored. I slept on Western comics for a long time, but I was just looking in the wrong places.
Tonight is another episode of Starlight Radio Dreams, so I'm going there later and getting fish and chips while I watch an episode of olde timey radio theatre. Other than that, I have no plans this weekend except maybe going to see Prometheus Bound on Sunday.
Probably just stay in, play games, and study Japanese/coding. Maybe beat Shadowrun: Hong Kong and write about it. We'll see what else comes up.
After watching the trailer for the Apocalypse expansion for Stellaris--it hit me right in the same place that the Earth Alliance president's speech Babylon 5's Battle of the Line does--I noticed that Stellaris was on sale and I immediately went out and bought it. I found a mod that allows space elves, so the Holy Ayleid Empire is currently expanding across the stars. I've only played for a couple hours so I don't have much of an opinion on it yet, but it seems fun. The people who told me to buy it were right.
I also finished another coding project! It's not super special, but I'm happy because I started breaking all the Javascript out into its own functions rather than trying to stuff everything into a single on-load function, which made it a lot easier to see what was going on. I also used a name-based track and CSS classes to dynamically change the backgrounds based on weather type and time of day with six lines of code and a bunch of CSS classes, rather than a giant switch statement or a massive if/else chain. Next time I'm going to see if I can do the whole thing without any JQuery at all. I should at least know how to write an XMLHttpRequest.
I just finished reading Locke & Key #1, after already reading Nutmeg #1 and Monstress #2 this month. I think the thing that always scared me away from Western comics is that 1) I'm neutral on superheroes as a concept and 2) I don't know where to start. With manga it's easy--start at the beginning. If I wanted to read about the X-men, where is the beginning? How much backstory am I missing? Listening to Jay & Miles X-plain the X-men especially makes me think that there are dozens of issues of backstory I'd need to appreciate what was going on, and that impression is always why I stayed away. But there are plenty of non-manga comics that follow a similar format, just like a lot of Western TV now has the same format as an anime series with a limited, self-contained run instead of just continuing until the money runs out or the creators get bored. I slept on Western comics for a long time, but I was just looking in the wrong places.
Tonight is another episode of Starlight Radio Dreams, so I'm going there later and getting fish and chips while I watch an episode of olde timey radio theatre. Other than that, I have no plans this weekend except maybe going to see Prometheus Bound on Sunday.
Probably just stay in, play games, and study Japanese/coding. Maybe beat Shadowrun: Hong Kong and write about it. We'll see what else comes up.
