Palia – Getting to Know the Locals
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Palia – Getting to Know the Locals

Now that I have a house going and some income as a farmer, the next big step in this new world is to get to know the locals. Aside from building up your plot of land, you have the nearby town full of people to build an actual plot of story. Well, "full" is kind of a stretch. There are maybe 2 dozen or so people living there each more or less with a specialty of some kind, and each with some sort of eccentric personality trait. I'm not real sure how the economy here survives, or whom is buying…
Palia – Getting Established
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Palia – Getting Established

So I've established a house, next order of business is to fancy things up. Well, more to start, leveling up skills. In order to be able to fancy things up. One of the main aspects of this game is crafting, and almost everything you gather feeds into this. There are several different skills to work on and level, some seem to be more useful than others. Tree Chopping - Almost everything needs wood or minerals to be constructed. Seems like there will be a lot of tree shopping going on. Mining - Like chopping, mining is a pretty regularly needed…
What I’ve Been Playing – Idling For Hats Edition
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What I’ve Been Playing – Idling For Hats Edition

A new year, a new time to try to build new habits. Hah ha ha, yeah right... probably. Anyway, I picked up a slew of new-ish games over the holidays in various sales, and I look forward to forgetting that I wanted to play them over the next few months. Off the top of my head, I picked up, yet to really play, Spider-man Miles Morales, Alan Wake 2 and Alan Wake Remastered, Tiny Tina's Wonderlands, Assassin's Creed Valhalla, and Horizon Zero Dawn. Plus some cheapies in bundles or randomly, A bunch of Oddworld Games, Need for Speed Payback, Tron…
Retroid Pocket 3
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Retroid Pocket 3

So, I've been pretty heavy on the programming push lately, but it's not all I've been up to. So, back around the start of the pandemic, I started work making a PiGrrl handheld emulator device. PiGrrl is basically a Game Boy Clone that runs with a Raspberry Pi at it's core. I ordered a bunch of parts and a case, I already had a Pi (I have several), and then the Pandemic caused my parts to take forever to arrive. Plus I probably spent more on it than I really should have. Then I got a little bored and it…
What I’ve Been Playing Recently
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What I’ve Been Playing Recently

# What I've Been Playing Recently I like the idea of this sort of regular, generic post, but I don't really want to give it a schedule, so I'm just going to throw em out whenever, for now, I think.  Considering this si the "first" one, it's also not clear what "Recently" should mean in this context.  It's my post, my blog, my rules, so I'm thinking, whatever I want to mention really. Fortnite Roughly a year ago, I decided I wanted to give Fortnite a go.  It's been popular for years, and i was looking for something relatively mindless…