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💭 Session: Skate Sim on X: "Our long-awaited Skate Core Update i...

2026-02-19T17:10:18Z

Had 10 minutes to play with the new session updates this afternoon and it feels so much smoother. I can definitely feel it even as a casual user.

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💭 Silksong Demastered

2026-02-17T18:20:18Z

Silksong: Demastered by Nekodot

Hollow Knight: Silksong in the classic NES-style!

itch.io · nekodot.itch.io

This is an abolute banger of a game on itch. It nails the nes aesthetic while keeping true to the modern silksong movements. You can play through the first boss Moss Mother, and where you start the first ascend into Bone Bottom. I was in shock when I discovered the little climb effect hornet does when you just cant quite make a jump, the hold jump for height is on point. Her downstrike with the hunters crest is perfect.

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💭 Blueskii on X: "this underground creator named "sN0UK" made Qu...

2026-02-17T08:02:51Z

External Link

X (formerly Twitter) · x.com

Wyatt would absolutely love this banger of a level.

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First W In Brotato

2026-02-11T20:48:08Z

After having brotato and doing a few runs every once in a while I finally beat the most basic balanced run in the game! Wyatt wanted to play tonight and its such an easy game to jump in do a few runs and move on without getting overly invested.

Watching back I cannot believe how lucky I got, barely scraping by with 1hp at this point

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the last 80s of the game

💭 Hollow Knight: Silksong by Ceen in 54:55 - Awesome Games Done ...

2026-01-14T02:35:01Z

What a goat, speedrunning silksong at a competitive pace, live, with live audience, while co hosting, and raising $2M for Prevent Cancer Foundation. CEEN moves in ways that do not compute with my brain, everything looks so simple, things that take me so long are done in a few swipes. Watching this it really make silkspear look OP, this thing does so much damage if you never take damage and can use it continuously without needing silk for healing.

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💭 Hollow Knight: Silksong - Sea of Sorrow Teaser

2025-12-16T04:28:37Z

Silksong DLC announcement already, we waited 8 years for the game, and are getting DLC’s months after launch. Dudes I haven’t even finished the game get, maybe not even half way. It’s amazing. Its amazing that these three make such a kick ass game with great art, story, voice, gameplay, and now drop a free dlc in 2026.

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💭 Steam Machine CAN Start at $399 with THIS SKU! | Cut Down Yiel...

2025-12-07T17:24:50Z

Moore’s Law is Dead pitches a pretty ingenious sku for the new gabecube aka steam machine. I fully support repairability and ewaste reduction. most of these components have not had MAJOR improvements in years, hence his channel name. There is a possibility here that Valve could ship with their unique hardware, (apu, psu, case, ports, networking) and let you bring your own ssd and ram from an old device that you might not use anymore. I love this idea. At the same time it feels like entering the star wars universe where there are no more new manufacturing and everything is cobbled together from old hardware made long ago.

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💭 Post by @letitmelo.bsky.social — Bluesky

2025-10-29T03:29:25Z

Melo (@letitmelo.bsky.social)

I legitimately didn't know they were competing with Steam and it's crazy to me that they burnt so much money on what sounds like something with very little (or wildly misguided) market research.

[…

Bluesky Social · bsky.app

Wild to see the LinkedIn post linked here to see how out of touch this feels. I find it astonishing that they have something so ingrained into gaming culture as twitch, yet build something like Prime Gaming. Maybe I have no idea what Prime gaming is, but it feels like the opposite of ownership. What I get from steam is a sense of ownership. I own the desktop/laptop/handheld, no one cough nintendo cough cough cant remotely disable my device for using it inappropriately. I have a sense of trust with steam that as long as Gabe is alive I own what I paid for and will be able to open up and play anything at any time on any device I want. It might be a $100 dell workstation raised out of the coorporate refurb bin, it might be a high end machine, It could be my 2010 gateway or my 2045 custom build and they are all likely to play a good amount of my library at some level. I still understand that I really own nothing and the moment steam turns off its servers its quite likely that everything is broken, but its by far the best we have. Far from the status quo we are headed towards with subscription and cloud based gaming. If they wanted to disrupt steam they did not understand their audience.

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💭 Hollow Knight: Silksong is breaking Steam, Nintendo’s eShop - ...

2025-09-04T17:20:03Z

Hollow Knight: Silksong is breaking Steam, Nintendo’s eShop

Valve's usually stable platform struggles thanks in part to lack of pre-loading options.

Ars Technica · arstechnica.com

Only 1 hour into the release of silksong, and it’s taken down all of the eshops, and steamdb dows 100K concurrent players. The Humble store ran out of steam keys for silksong already.

You guys better not break this thing before I get off work and My son gets home cause we are playing this tonight!!

I just Check steamDB, and they have 441K concurrent players right now. An Indie game! This shows when you treat your fans right and make something incredible they stand behind you.

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Mark Of Pride Hollow Knight Keeb Run

2025-08-31T17:10:06Z

mark of pride hollow knight keeb run

The Knight collects the mark of pride charm after defeating the mantis lords.

Defeating The Mantis Lords

2025-08-31T17:09:31Z

Defeating the mantis lords

The Knight reigns victorious against the three mantis lords, earning the respect of the mantis village.

Mantis Lords Defeat Hollow Knight Keeb Run

2025-08-31T17:08:29Z

mantis lords defeat hollow knight keeb run

The Knight falls victim to the Mantis Lords in his first attempt to challenge them.

Challenging The Mantis Lords Hollow Knight Keeb Run

2025-08-31T17:06:58Z

Challenging the mantis lords hollow knight keeb run

The little night steps in front of the three mantis lords and draws his nail signaling his challenge.

Thorny Wanderers Journal Hollow Knight Keeb Run

2025-08-31T11:16:31Z

Thorny Wanderers Journal Hollow Knight Keeb Run

Parkour though the thorns yields a wanderers journal.

Spore Shroom Hollow Knight Keeb Run

2025-08-31T11:15:42Z

spore shroom hollow knight keeb run

Unlocking the Spore Shroom Charm in Hollow Knight Keeb Run

Thorny Mask Shard Hollow Knight Keeb Run

2025-08-31T11:14:55Z

Thorny Mask Shard Hollow Knight Keeb Run

A tricky parkour through the thorns to yield a mask shard and complete a full mask.

Aquiring Ismas Tear Hollow Knight Keeb Run

2025-08-30T11:13:21Z

Aquiring Ismas Tear Hollow Knight Keeb Run

The long trek has paid off and we have aquired Isma’s tear, it coats our outter shell with protective coating from the acid, giving us access to new parts of the world.

Ismas Tear Battle Hollow Knight Keeb Run

2025-08-30T11:07:17Z

ismas tear battle hollow knight keeb run

Finishing the battle before accessing Isma’s tear in Hollow Knight

Climbing Out Of Deep Nest In Hollow Knight Keeb Run

2025-08-30T11:02:47Z

Climbing out of deep nest in hollow knight keeb run

Making light moves of this tricky parkour run between deepnest and the royal waterways

💭 This Bothers Me - YouTube

2025-08-28T01:55:58Z

I’m playing through peak right now with Wyatt and it is a great game, a small wholesome indiegame that is legit hard, but fun with the simplest concept. You are a scout who has crashlanded on an island, your goal is to get to the peak with your friends. You must manage hunger, stamina, weight, health and energy. You have limited resources and must help everyone to the top, if someone is low on stamina, they are going to need a helping hand or a stonger climber to go up and set pitons and ropes. Its a fantastic collaborative play game

PEAK - 2025-08-27 8-49-54 PM.mp4

a short clip of me playing with wyatt, I did not have anything great to add, but this is just a random clip

Ripped off #

It was insta-ripped off by roblox with microtransactions pay to win garbage. It looks one for one the same damn models and interface, they spared nothing at making it look exactly like the original. They let you buy a golden apple assuming it gives you crazy stamina to climb with ease, and it costs goddam robux. As Big A says here theres nothing they can really do, the roblox platform just lets this happen, and if they didn’t they would loose huge revenue because this is so prevelant. Legal fees would crush this small team that made it.

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Kings Station In Hollow Knight Keeb Run

2025-08-23T11:01:07Z

Kings Station in Hollow Knight Keeb run

Unlocking Kings station in my hollow knight keyboard only run

Defeating The Dung Defender In Hollow Knight Keeb Run

2025-08-23T11:00:03Z

Defeating the Dung Defender in hollow knight keeb run

The final blow to the Dung Defender as he admits defeat and allows the little knight to access the valve in the royal waterways.

Unlock Royal Waterway Bench In Hollow Knight Keeb

2025-08-23T09:48:08Z

unlock royal waterway bench in hollow knight keeb

Using desolate dive to unlock the Royal Waterway bench in my Hollow Knight keeb only run.

Entering Royal Waterway Hollow Knight Keeb Run

2025-08-23T09:46:21Z

entering royal waterway hollow knight keeb run

Entering the royal waterway during my hollow knight keeb only run.

Unlocking Royal Waterways In Hollow Knight Keeb Run

2025-08-23T09:45:20Z

unlocking royal waterways in hollow knight keeb run

Using the simple key to unlock the Royal Waterway in Hollow Knight during my keeb only run.

Getting The Lumafly Lantern In My Hollow Knight Keeb Run

2025-08-23T09:43:36Z

getting the lumafly lantern in my hollow knight keeb run

Purchasing the Lumafly Lanten from Sly’s shop in Dirtmouth during my Hollow Knight keeb only run.

💭 FROGS ep1 The home - YouTube

2025-06-17T13:08:54Z

Wyatt built out this full world to start making a film series about FROGS. The entire set it built on a flat world, but yet feels so immersive.

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kraft

2025-06-01T20:32:39Z

Kraft is the family gaming server that we started early 2025.

Repopulating #

Villagers are really hard to get gong. We have this huge villager tower on the server, we nearly every bed filled, and one day we logged in and there were three. Not sure what happened until I witnessed one of them jump maybe 3 blocks down and off himself. I checked my last two villagers and they were each on one or two hearts left. We almost lost every single villager on the server.

villager-tower-needs-repopulated.mp4

To get villagers to breed and make baby villagers you need beds, which we already have, and food. I gave my guys some food and they started making baby villagers immediately, crisis averted as we start to get the first few fresh full health villagers on the server.

repopulatingv4.mp4

hollow knight home row layout

2025-05-05T20:44:36Z

I just made it past 100% in my main hollow knight run, so now I will allow myself to get silksong when it comes out. I did this with a little bit of YT guidance, but mostly just figuring it out. I only just discovered the ⭐ ReznoRMichael hollow-knight-completion-check which got me an extra 2% for a few items I must have got and not saved on, because I was sure I had them.

Controller #

Hollow Knight is a game that can be played with keyboard or controller, You can use analog stick for movements, but they just translate to dpad, there really are no analog moves in the game. This makes it ripe for playing on pure keyboard. I really favor controller when there are more than one analog (throttle, brake, steering for example).

On controller I’ve switched to only using d-pad as I feel like it gives me the most crisp of controls. It is really easy to miss a pogo on analog by hitting slightly left or right.

My Keyboard #

My daily driver keyboard is a custom built 40% monoblock keyboard I absolutely love using it, it perfectly plops down on a laptop when I am in laptop mode and really fits me quite well for my wrok as a software/infrastructure engineer.

WASD #

We’ve got to talk about pinky stagger

I can use wasd perfectly fine on it, I have a layer that has no holds on any keys so that they are all nice and crisp and tailored to gaming operations that would require a hold.

Now what I haven’t ran into before is that trying to game with wasd and use the right side is very uncomfortable with this steep of a pinky stagger. Generally with keyboard an mouse games I have the keyboard a little slanted and move my fingers to wasd just fine, but it just does not work well with both hands on the keyboard.

Enter asdf #

Today is day one, I’m not quite sure how long it will last, but I am giving asdf a try for arrow keys. This will work much more akin to a fight stick where each finger has a primary direction instead of using one finger for both up and down.

vim keys, but mirrored

I chose to mirror vim keys with down towards the middle.  I had it the other

way, but when I played, I kept pressing it the other way.

a - left
s - up
d - down
f - right

power keys

I wanted to put the most common keys on the strongest finger (feels like

left pinky breaks this mantra, but whatever).

j - attack
k - dash
l - focus/cast
h - quick cast
e - inventory
u - super dash
m - map
g - dream nail

This seems weird #

So Ya, I know it’s weird. I did some searching wasn’t able to find much other than this one reddit post talking about using asdf. oddly one person reccommended sdfg, this souds so much like vim, which makes a lot of sense, but brings back moving fingers off of home row position or using one finger for down and right, which aint gonna work.

First thoughts #

I’m about 20 minutes in and struggling on False Knight, I could be a bit more patient, but I’m trying to work on pogos on all the mobs on the way in.

Holding up or down #

The ability to just hold up or down as you run through the map with enemies coming from above or below feels superior, and its going to be nice, I really just got to put some time in to get use to the layout, maybe even make some changes.

I realize now that Hollow Knight rarely needs quick swiching between up and down and would probably be fine on a wasd layout if i were to be using a split keyboard or a bit less pinky stagger that would work out, but for now I am giving this a shot.

My Son’s experience #

So my son is playing along with me, new save as well. He went with wasd and mouse, while this sounds insane to me to use mouse for clicking and no movement the natural feel that it has, has him blazing through faster than he does on controller, doing pogos he’s never done before.

False Knight down #

The recording somehow stuck on the menu screen and did not record video, but I got this screenshot of the victory.

Vengeful Spirit #

Day 2 I managed to make it to the Ancestral Mound and get the Vengeful Spirit cast. Everything is starting to feel much better and more natural. Surprisingly my main issue is with up and down since they are used a bit less, left with my pinky has not been any issue.

hollow-knight-keeb-run-vengeful-spirit.mp4

Hornet Battle 1 #

I made it successfully through the first hornet battle I was able to snag this clip of a few nicely timed pogos. Its getting better, I am still really struggling between down srike and up strike.

hollow-knight-keeb-run-hornet-pogos.mp4

Mothwing Cloak #

I got so lucky with the finish of hornet, I thought she hit me while healing, kinda lost where we were tanked a hit and almost took one last hit again and beat her to the final punch.

hollow-knight-keeb-run-hornet-finish.mp4

Gruz Mother #

After completing gruz mother I went to grab my macropad to click the clip button when her babies came out, and it was at this moment my son told me I was done for, there was no recovering from this. I was already at 2 hearts, and a mistake left me with one. You can see me fumble for the up key in the clip as I get repositioned fully on back on the board.

hollow-knight-keeb-run-gruz-mother.mp4

Now we have Sly the merchant unlocked and can buy items from him.

City #

I made it to the city, but on my way, it looks like one of the smokey layers were getting put on top of the game instead of layer in behind. I’ve never seen this, so I really have no idea what it is. During the thorny area it was in and out and right as I entered the city it locked on top and did not leave.

Soul Master #

I made my way over to the soul master, dying several times along the way to a few Soul Twisters, its time to battle.

hollow-knight-keeb-run-soul-meeting-master.mp4

After beating his second room, (this clip makes him look way too easy as he wasn’t targeting me fore some reason at the end), I picked up desolate dive, which brings a new key combo to get familiar with down+cast.

hollow-knight-keeb-run-soul-master-finish.mp4

Moss Knight #

I took a break for awhile on the game, my son got bored and moved on. He tends to switch out games a lot faster than me. I came back to it tonight after a few months off and just got some geo from the moss knights for awhile. I got this decent clip of clearing them, I’m no pro, but getting better at timing on the keeb layout.

hollow-knight-keeb-moss-knight.mp4

Lumafly Lantern #

While I had a lot of geo from the Moss Knights I finished out getting 1800 geo to get the lumafly lantern from sly’s shop at dirtmouth.

hollow-knight-keeb-lumafly-lantern.mp4

Royal Waterway #

I decided to head back to the city of tears and into the royal waterway to fight the dung defender and collect Isma’s tear.

hollow-knight-keeb-royal-waterway-unlock.mp4

hollow-knight-keeb-royal-waterway-entering.mp4

hollow-knight-keeb-royal-waterway-bench.mp4

The Dung Defender battle, great lore with this guy, lots of bouncy movement, but overall not too hard of a boss. He is not very accurate with attacks, so you have time to just sit in the corners and heal.

hollow-knight-keeb-dung-defender.mp4

Once the Dung Defender was defeated, I continued on up to the Kings Station and unlocked it.

hollow-knight-keeb-kings-station.mp4

I could not remember where ismas tear was and I ended up all the way down in deep nest, the climb out is a bit of a challenge, here I am going right by the route you take with crystal dash to get isma’s tear.

climbing-out-of-deep-nest.mp4

Isma’s Tear #

I managed to find my way through the royal waterway and where you crystal dash over to isma’s tear. This battle took two attempts, because the first I had no health left and walked in with two masks.

hollow-knight-keeb-ismas-tear-battle.mp4

Now the tear coats our shell and allows us to swim through the acid, and we can get a lot more places, and some places are just easier to get without precision parkour over the acid.

hollow-knight-keeb-ismas-tear.mp4

Thorny Mask #

I wandered around the world a bit today and found a few small items, nothing of major concequence.

hollow-knight-keeb-thorny-mask-shard.mp4 hollow-knight-keeb-spore-shroom.mp4 hollow-knight-keeb-thorny-wanderers-journal.mp4

Challenging Mantis Lords #

It felt like time to challenge the Mantis Lords. For the reason to prove to myself that I am getting better at this layout.

I drew my nail and ready for the challenge.

hollow-knight-keeb-challenging-mantis-lords.mp4

First try I made it past the first one, and deep into the second one, I think If I would have remembered the healing window for them I would have had a shot at a first try on them.

hollow-knight-keeb-mantis-lords-1.mp4

After three tries I had it. Maybe its not apples to apples with my first ever run years ago on steam deck, but it took months. I would have about 20 minutes a day waiting for kids pickup at school and I would just keep grinding at them for what added up to be likely several hours.

hollow-knight-keeb-defeating-mantis-lords.mp4

After defeating them I’m let into the treasure room where I get a bench, Hallownest seal, a big loot box, and the mark of pride. This is actually one of my favorite charms as it gives you an extra 25% range to your nail attacks. This opens up the window for pogos and reach attacks without taking damage.

hollow-knight-keeb-mark-of-pride.mp4

THPS 1 Downtown Gaps

2025-03-15T18:46:01Z

Previously THPS 1 Skate Park Gaps

Big Ass #

THPS1-5-BigAss.mp4

Billboard Grind #

THPS1-5-BillboardGrind.mp4

BS Gap #

THPS1-5-BSGap.mp4

BS Grind #

THPS1-5-BSGrind.mp4

Burly Deck Gap #

THPS1-5-BurlyDeckGap.mp4

Car Ollie #

THPS1-5-CarOllie.mp4

THPS1-5-CarPlant.mp4

Cheesy Deck Gap #

THPS1-5-CheesyDeckGap.mp4

Death Grind #

THPS1-5-DeathGrind.mp4

Deck Gap #

THPS1-5-DeckGap.mp4

Dirty Rail #

THPS1-5-DirtyRail.mp4

Glass Gap #

THPS1-5-GlassGap.mp4

Kicker Gap #

THPS1-5-KickerGap.mp4

Kicker 2 Edge #

THPS1-5-Kicker2Edge.mp4

Kicker 2 Street #

THPS1-5-Kicker2Street.mp4

Rail 2 Rail #

THPS1-5-Rail2Rail.mp4

Roof 2 Roof #

THPS1-5-Roof2Roof.mp4

Secret Tunnel Entrance #

THPS1-5-SecretTunnelEntrance.mp4

Sucky Room Gap #

THPS1-5-SuckyRoomGap.mp4

T 2 T Gap #

THPS1-5-T2TGap.mp4

Transfer #

THPS1-5-Transfer.mp4

Truck Gap #

THPS1-5-TruckGap.mp4

Tunnel Gap #

THPS1-5-TunnelGap.mp4

Wimpy Gap #

THPS1-5-WimpyGap.mp4

Mechanic Gap #

THPS1-5-MechanicGap.mp4

Box Office Gap #

THPS1-5-BoxOfficeGap.mp4

Skyway Gap #

THPS1-5-SkywayGap.mp4

Super Skyway Gap #

THPS1-5-SuperSkywayGap.mp4

THPS 1 Skate Park Gaps

2025-03-08T14:36:23Z

Previously THPS 1 Mall Gaps Next THPS 1 Downtown Gaps

Acid Drop #

THPS1-4-AcidDrop.mp4

Across The Park #

THPS1-4-AcrossThePark.mp4

Around The Bend #

THPS1-4-AroundTheBend.mp4

HP Transfer #

THPS1-4-HPTransfer.mp4

Light Grind #

THPS1-4-LightGrind.mp4

Over The Box #

THPS1-4-OverTheBox.mp4

Over The Pipe #

THPS1-4-OverThePipe.mp4

Over the Rafters #

THPS1-4-OverTheRafters.mp4

Pool 2 Walkway #

THPS1-4-Pool2Walkway.mp4

Pool Hip #

THPS1-4-PoolHip.mp4

Pool Rail Trans #

THPS1-4-PoolRailTrans.mp4

Rafter Rail #

THPS1-4-RafterRail.mp4

Transfer #

THPS1-4-Transfer.mp4

Walkway Rail Trans #

THPS1-4-WalkwayRailTrans.mp4

Wall Gap #

THPS1-4-WallGap.mp4

Wall Gap Jr #

THPS1-4-WallGapJr.mp4

Whoop Gap #

THPS1-4-WhoopGap.mp4

THPS 1 School Gaps

2025-03-01T10:39:28Z

On the road to Gap Master achievement I got all School Gaps in THPS1. This is a super fun level, I’ll have to admit that I had to look up at least a quarter of them, and could not find them myself, mostly due to the naming, all of the rail tricks were actually ledges and I was looking for big rails. None of the warehouse gaps were manuals so I had no idea that the downhill and accross the gym would be manual tricks.

Previously THPS 1 Warehouse Gaps next THPS 1 Mall Gaps

Ditchin Class #

THPS1-2-DitchinClass.mp4

Dumpster Rail Gap #

THPS1-2-DumpsterRailGap.mp4

Funbox Table Transfer #

THPS1-2-FunBoxToTableTransfer.mp4

Garbage Ollie #

THPS1-2-GarbageOllie.mp4

Gimme Gap #

THPS1-2-GimmeGap.mp4

Hall Pass gap #

THPS1-2-HallPassGap.mp4

All-Access Gap #

THPS1-2-AllAccessGap.mp4

Huge Rail #

THPS1-2-HugeRail.mp4

Kicker Gap #

THPS1-2-KickerGap.mp4

Long Ass Rail #

THPS1-2-LongAssRail.mp4

Mini Gap #

THPS1-2-MiniGap.mp4

Over a Footbridge #

THPS1-2-OverAFootBridge.mp4

Over the Air Condidtioner #

THPS1-2-OverTheAirConditioner.mp4

Park Gap #

THPS1-2-ParkGap.mp4

Planter Gap #

THPS1-2-PlanterGap.mp4

Playground Rail #

THPS1-2-PlaygroundRail.mp4

Rail to Rail Transfer #

THPS1-2-RailToRailTransfer.mp4

Roof To Awning Gap #

THPS1-2-RoofToAwningGap.mp4

Roof To Roof Gap #

THPS1-2-RoofToRoofGap.mp4

Funbox To Rail Transfer #

THPS1-2-FunboxToRailTransfer.mp4

Downhill Manual #

THPS1-2-DownhillManual.mp4

Accross the Gym #

THPS1-2-AccrossTheGym.mp4

Roof Hop #

THPS1-2-RoofHop.mp4

Down the Awning #

THPS1-2-DownTheAwning.mp4

Perfectly Balanced #

THPS1-2-PerfectlyBalanced.mp4

Gigantic Rail #

THPS1-2-GiganticRail.mp4

Ridiculous Rail #

THPS1-2-RidiculousRail.mp4

Got the badge #

THPS 1 Mall Gaps

2025-03-01T10:39:28Z

This is one of the most memorable levels for me in THPS1 from when I had originally played it. Surprisingly there aren’t as many gaps in it as I thought there would be, there are definitely a lot that you can make up on your own. Anyways here’s my playthrough of all the mall gaps in THPS1 on my way to gap master.

Previously THPS 1 School Gaps Next THPS 1 Skate Park Gaps

Huge Stair Set Off A Mezzanine #

THPS1-3-HugeStairSetOffAMezzanine.mp4

Coffee Grind #

THPS1-3-CoffeeGrind.mp4

The Flying Leap #

THPS1-3-TheFlyingLeap.mp4

For the Whole Atrium #

THPS1-3-ForTheWholeAtrium.mp4

Fountain Gap #

THPS1-3-FountainGap.mp4

Exit Stage Right #

THPS1-3-ExitStageRight.mp4

Exit Stage Left #

THPS1-3-ExitStageLeft.mp4

Over A Stair Set #

THPS1-3-OverAStairSet.mp4

Over A Huge Stair Set #

THPS1-3-OverAHugeStairSet.mp4

Planter Gap #

THPS1-3-PlanterGap.mp4

Rail Combo #

THPS1-3-RailCombo.mp4

Skater Excalator Gap #

THPS1-3-SkaterEscalatorGap.mp4

Accross The Light Beam #

THPS1-3-AcrossTheLightBeam.mp4

The Long Rail #

THPS1-3-TheLongRail.mp4

The Short Rail #

THPS1-3-TheShortRail.mp4

THPS 1 Warehouse Gaps

2025-02-22T20:46:03Z

On the road to Gap Master achievement I got all Warehouse Gaps in THPS1. This is this classic warehouse level that everyone thinks of when THPS is mentioned. Such a good level, compact, easy to play, with some fun gaps that might take a few tries to hit.

Next up THPS 1 School Gaps

Big Rail #

THPS1-1-BigRail.mp4

Channel Gap #

THPS1-1-ChannelGap.mp4

Deck 2 Rail #

THPS1-1-Deck2Rail.mp4

Face Plant #

THPS1-1-FacePlant.mp4

High Rail #

THPS1-1-HighRail.mp4

Holy Shi #

THPS1-1-HolyShi.mp4

Kicker 2 Ledge #

THPS1-1-Kicker2Ledge.mp4

Kicker Gap #

THPS1-1-KickerGap.mp4

Monster Grind #

THPS1-1-MonsterGrind.mp4

Over The Pipe #

THPS1-1-OverThePipe.mp4

Secret Room #

THPS1-1-SecretRoom.mp4

Taxi 2 Ledge #

THPS1-1-Taxi2Ledge.mp4

Taxi Gap #

THPS1-1-TaxiGap.mp4

Transfer #

THPS1-1-Transfer.mp4

Transition Grind #

THPS1-1-TransitionGrind.mp4

💭 Don't Starve Together Forever world

2025-02-09T21:31:38Z

External Link

wyattbubbylee.com

So proud of Wyatt for writing in his own blog!

Note

This post is a thought. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts

dst session one

2025-02-09T09:40:05Z

Wyatt is also documenting his run, while we aren’t playing in the same world we are playing together.

https://wyattbubbylee.com/dst-forever-world/

Loading into the world #

I always select the character Woodie. He comes with an axe called Lucy she has some dark humor (but not too dark), I like her. She also does not wear out so you always have a weapon and way to chop wood with you.

dst-1-1.mp4

First encounter with a Tall Bird #

On the first day I made a look around my home biome, and ran into a Tall Bird

dst-1-2.mp4

Tall Bird Stats #

Here are the tall bird stats from the wiki

Setting up base #

Just after the first night started I found my way back to the center of the map and made a stone campfire. I really like to use the stone campfires as they last forever, you just have to add wood. I was lucky enough to find stone by the Tall Bird to make this one on first day.

dst-1-3.mp4

Opening up the garden #

On day two I had enough materials gathered to make the garden digamajig to prep the soil for gardening. I planted the few seeds that I stole from the birds right away.

dst-1-4.mp4

Getting a hat #

I had the grass for a hat, so I figured why not. I’m not sure if it really helps this time of year, but I thought it looked good on Woodie.

dst-1-5.mp4

Getting into it with a Clockwork Bishop #

As I was gathering resources with Lucy, minding my own business BAM I got hit with an attack from a Clockwork Bishop, man these things hit hard and have really good aim. I took three hits before getting away, leaving me with very low heath at the end of this play session.

dst-1-6.mp4

Here is the clockwork bishop stats from the wiki

Session Two #

To kick off the second session, I noticed that when you have a torch you can light your cooking pot, what I did not realize was that this burns your cooking pot to smitherines. Nothing left but a frame of useless ashes.

dst-2-1.mp4

The TreeGuard #

After that terrible mistake I was off with Lucy collecting wood when I awoken the TreeGuard.

dst-2-2.mp4

The dude is slow, has terrible aim, but he is so persistent. No matter how far you get away he just shows up trying to kill you.

I needed to get my cooking pot back, so the next step was to get charcoal. So while I was collecting charcoal I did my best to try to take down the TreeGuard by burning him. But to no avail, he lives on.

dst-2-3.mp4

Once back at camp with my new cooking pot, he snuck up on me with his gigantic sluggish form, one wrong keystroke on mybehalf and I walked straight into his attack and I was done for.

dst-2-4.mp4

After that embarrasing death I made my way over to a touchstone I found and Woodie is back from the dead, but without his beloved Lucy, to get her we will need to go

dst-2-5.mp4

💭 Behold, the Steam Brick | Rock Paper Shotgun

2025-01-31T13:27:21Z

Behold, the Steam Brick

A modder has transformed the Steam Deck in a screen-less, controller-less Steam Brick.

Rock Paper Shotgun · rockpapershotgun.com

I fully believe in our right to repair, ewaste reduction, and bringing a second life to still good hardware that is not up for it’s originally intended purpose. This is a sick console like experience you can strap to the back of a tv, throw in your back to take on a trip, or leave stuffed in your vehicle to game in the backseat. Sucks that it cant do 4k, but I’ve used mine on large screens, and it does quite well for a lot of games, maybe not AAA, but the cartoony multplayer games I play with my kids do quite well.

Note

This post is a thought. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts

a night of rounds

2025-01-16T21:11:56Z

Tonight my son and I played rounds, I pulled clips of all the final rounds of each set of rounds. We play hardly any games with guns in them, this is one of the few exceptions, it feels quite whimsical, fun, and strategic, and not at all realistic or first person. The strategy part really brings me back to the fps games I would play with friends in my teens.

Round 1 - Orange #

I thought I had him on this one. I had this rare power up that allows me to shot through walls. It came down to the very last round and he had too much firepowerfor me.

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Round 2 - Blue #

The final round of round 2 was Super fast. I felt like I nerfed my homing power up by adding fastball to it and it didn’t really home in anymore. What made it so quick, I think he had glass cannon and I laid down two well placed shots.

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Round 3 - Orange #

Round three he got some really good cards, but too much firepower and stacking bouncy and ricochet made it too much to control and he friendly fired both rounds.

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Round 4 - Blue #

Round 4 I stacked up radiance and saw and just went for it. Radiance emits the power of the sun while reloading, so I went in guns blazin, pulled the shield for saw and ran at him.

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Round 5 #

Round 5 I stacked up a multi shot, Big bullet, and timed explosion. I didn’t let off the firepower and there was no chance.

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wondercraft session one

2025-01-13T15:06:46Z

My son and I are starting a new Minecraft server today called wondercraft.

setup #

We are running a few mods on this server notably FTB Ultimine for less grindy resource gathering, Sodium for shaders, and Universal Shops.

We are runninng on Minecraft 1.20.1, I think this is because it was the latest supported by Universal Shops, its at least one major release old at this point.

I grabbed a few shaders, the ones that you see in this post are rethinking voxels.

spawn #

We initially spawned in a plains biome near an acacia and forest biome. We ended up going straight for the forest, only coming back for some sheep and wheat seeds.

Night one Zombie fight #

On the first night we had the obligitory zombie fight before getting beds and bases set.

Salmon Wrangler #

I was the designated food provider. I setup a small wheat farm with about 64 seeds, then went out to hunt down some salmon for the immediate food need. I ended up with about a stack of salmon at the end of the session.

Setting up Shop #

So as mentioned above we are running a mod for shops called universal shops. This mod is new to me and my son wanted to run it inspired by watching hermitcraft. We both decided that diamonds were the goal currency, but we wanted to set up some shops early so we settled on Oak logs as the currency. My job was to setup food based shops while he set up ore based shops.

My earnings after the first day.

First Death #

I forgot that I turned my sound off for a call, got lost on the chase of the salmon and did not leave myself enough time to get to the top.

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Second Death #

Playing sloppy again I was walking around at night with only three hearts left. My son wanted me to check out his shop that he just built out and I got hit by a skelly on the way up, after the first hit I was sitting at 1 heart with no where to go.

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Third Death #

This one is just plain embarrasing, I was lost in the flow of hunting salmon again, not paying any attention. I came up for air, but didn’t even gie time for more than a couple bubbles to come back before diving back in and died almost instantly.

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Note to self #

Next time run Minecraft in full screen so you don’t dox your start menu.

💭 Why You Should Game on Linux (feat. GloriousEggroll of Nobara)...

2025-01-11T01:38:57Z

This man is responsible for making gaming on linux what it is today. Such a heartfelt story to hear that reviving his dad’s machine was at the core of what drove him to do what he has done for the wider gaming on linux community. Update on your schedule, remove all the tracking and bloatware, this is what drove him to start using linux before making it accessible for his Dad.

But really do update, this is not your 2002 PHP box, things need updated and regular updates help the process.

Note

This post is a thought. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts

we beat trailmakers

2025-01-10T19:53:14Z

Today we broke through the atmosphere in trailmakers ready for pickup from those back at mission conrol.

I haven’t posted a lot of gaming content to by blog, idk why, but I think I am going to start, especially for the ones that are good memories with my son.

Today we hit 100% of the required parts required to build the space ship and leave the atmosphere of the planet that the story is set in. Trailmakers is a game where you design and build your own vehicles. The campaign mode standed is a story where you are in a high tech freighter ship that crash lands on a distant planet. Your crew back home can come as far as the planet your on but cannot break through the atmosphere. Your job is to collect all the wreckage and gain all the parts required for a space ship build to take you out of the atmosphere to meet them.

There were a couple really heavy salvages to gather up, this one is high in the floating islands and is the cockpit fo the space ship.

I thought this was a cool shot of one of our builds with the suspension fully squatted out with a heavy load on the back.

Multiple Salvages #

It took us way to long to realize that we had enough power cores to add a bunch of tractor beams to do multiple salvages at once. Each tractor beam only has the ability to pick up one salvage at a time.

Some wild moments #

This clip brought both of us to curled over laughter, I wish I had recording on to get a full clip of it, this screenshot is the best I got. What happened was my son was being super silly and blew us up, but somehow the seat of the last build stayed in while we respawnd and our new vehicle picked it up. Not only that, but the broken seat was still usable and he was able to sit in it!

acheivements status #

Currently I am quite a ways from getting 100% of the achievements for the game. I think I will finish 100% of the stranded campaign because it is super fun, but probably wont 100% it.

I’m trying out video #

I turned on steam recording and played for a minute to test out hosting video here.

I accidentally entered deep space #

💭 Using Obsidian as a Gaming Backlog Library

2025-01-03T22:59:05Z

Using Obsidian as a Gaming Backlog Library

How to use Obsidian as a gaming backlog library. Get a long-lasting overview of games you want to and have played.

Bryan Hogan · bryanhogan.com

Very interesting way to catalog games, I need to make a catalog of mine, I’ll probably start adding some blog entries for games I’m in and have completed. Wonder if there is a way to hook into steam with python to get achievements and progress live.

Note

This post is a thought. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts

💭 Ubuntu Summit 2024 | UMU - A unified tool for easily running y...

2024-12-26T16:47:13Z

Damn Glorious Eggrolls is still making gaming on linux better. Of course its containerization that drives everything on linux these days. This is a pretty badass talk. Umu is already running in steam and bazzite. Bazzite gamemode uses this to get a gamescope session running.

Note

This post is a thought. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts

💭 Framework Portable handheld Case (Beth Deck) by Beth Le | Down...

2024-11-01T15:44:26Z

Framework Portable handheld Case (Beth Deck rev. 1.5) by Beth Le | Download free STL model | Printables.com

Printables.com · printables.com

The BethDeck is a sick looking DIY steam deck competitor built on top of the framework 13" mainboard. No soldering needed, lt with all off the shelf parts. Controllers appear to be an off the shelf controller with the shell removed and plugged into a usb hub.

Note

This post is a thought. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts

💭 Are We Anti-Cheat Yet?

2024-05-22T12:37:55Z

Are We Anti-Cheat Yet?

areweanticheatyet.com

A comprehensive community built index of anti-cheat support for linux very similar to proton, but specific to anticheat support.

Note

This post is a thought. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts

Minecraft Doc Day 18

2022-12-22T13:38:54Z

A crows nest added atop the storage silo offers a high lookout.

Minecraft Doc Day 17

2022-12-21T13:38:54Z

Construction of a floating base begins on Day 16.

Minecraft Doc Day 12

2022-12-20T13:38:54Z

Farm animals gathered and penned on Day 12.

Minecraft Doc Day 12

2022-12-19T13:38:54Z

Beet and pumpkin farm plots prepared near the main base.

Minecraft Doc Day 11

2022-12-18T13:38:54Z

Standing on Wyatt’s freshly built dock overlooking the water.

Minecraft Doc Day 11

2022-12-17T13:38:54Z

Wyatt joins to conquer a zombie spawner and build a dock together.

Minecraft Doc Day 10

2022-12-16T13:38:54Z

Secret storage area built as part of a tiny base challenge on Day 9.

Minecraft Doc Day 9

2022-12-15T13:38:54Z

Early storage silo construction begins with terraforming and chest placement.

Minecraft Doc Day 8

2022-12-14T13:38:54Z

After leaving the world paused, a surprise death screen leads to a survival reset.

Minecraft Doc Day 7

2022-12-13T13:38:54Z

A newly constructed animal pen expands the farm.

Minecraft Doc Day 6

2022-12-12T13:38:54Z

End of Day 5 shows the finished perimeter fence and first animal pen.

Minecraft Doc Day 5

2022-12-11T13:38:54Z

Start of Day 5 with work on the perimeter fence and gathering resources.

Minecraft Doc Day 4

2022-12-10T13:38:54Z

Outer perimeter fence under construction around the base during Day 4.

Minecraft Doc Day 3

2022-12-09T13:38:54Z

The roofline of the base is complete and the tree farm is cleared for fresh oak and acacia saplings.

Minecraft Doc Day 2

2022-12-08T13:38:54Z

Sun setting over the fresh house frame as Day 2 brings sand collection for windows.

Minecraft Doc Day 1

2022-12-07T13:38:54Z

The wooden frame of the new house begins to take shape on Day 1.

Minecraft Doc Day 0

2022-12-06T13:38:54Z

Acacia biome spawn with trees and resources in a new hardcore world.

minecraft documentary

2022-12-06T13:38:54Z

This is my first time journaling a Minecraft hardcore world, my son Wyatt is also documenting his journey in a survival world on wyattbubbylee.com.

Day 0 #

init

I logged into a brand new hardcore world. I was welcomed by a great Acacia biome spawn full of resources. I quickly cut my first tree, crafted an axe and set out to find my first sheep. I was able to find enough sheep for a bed, several cows and pigs.

I crafted a set of wooden tools, and farmed out a wheat farm till my wooden hoed died at the shore of a nearby stream. I found a small stone outcropping in the side of a hill and harvested nearly a full stack of cobblestone from my first wooden pick.

I ended the first day by sleeping in my bed safe from mobs.

Achievements #

bed
furnace
stone
wheat farm

Day 1 #

Thoughout the course of day one I collected wood and started the framework for my new house.

Day 2 #

The sun sets over the new frame of my house on Day 1

Day two continued the framework of the house, and a bit of sand collection for windows. I was a bit late to bed and saw four mobs spawn on the journeymap before I made it in.

Day 3 #

end of day 2

On day three I completed the roofline of the base, gathered some wood, and cleared out all the grass in the tree farm. The tree farm has a fresh planting of oak and acacia trees in it.

Day 4 #

Thoughout day 4 I kept farming trees and creating my first outter perimeter fence made of oak.

end of day 3

Day 5 #

start of of day 5

On day 5 I completed the perimeter fence and worked on my first animal pen.

End of Day 5

Day 6 #

I completed another animal pen.

a new animal pen from day 6

Day 7 #

On day 7 I left the game paused and went to some meetings, I came back to a death screen 😥. I am not going out this way, I opened to lan with cheats and reset my gamemode to survival.

Day 8 #

I started a storage silo by doing some terraforming and placing down the first chests.

Day 9 #

On Day 9 I started a challenge from Wyatt to create a tiny base. I chose to make a secret storage area in the storage silo.

Day 10 #

On day 10 Wyatt joined me, he built a dock and I found a zombie spawner.

We conquered the Zombie Spawner

Standing on Wyatt’s new dock

Day 11 #

Wyatt planted some beets, and made space for pumpkins.

Day 12 #

On day 12 we gathered up some farm animals.

Day 13-15 #

Wyatt and I went spelunking in the caves for iron.

Day 16 #

Wyatt started his floating base

Day 17 #

On Day 18 I created the crows nest on top of the storage silo.

Modded Minecraft in Docker

2022-02-16T14:44:38Z

In my adventure to put more homelab in docker, I moved our modded minecraft setup to docker.

Getting Mods #

So far I have found all of our mods from curse forge. modpacks make getting multiple mods working together much easier, someone else has already vetted a pack of often times 100+ mods that all play well together. I have yet to get these working in docker, I will, but for not I just have individual mods.

download file #

under the hood docker is using wget to get the mod. The link you click on from curseforge will block wget. What I do is pop open the devtools (f12 in chrome), click on the network tab, click the download link on the web page, and watch the real link show up.

Docker-compose #

I am using docker compose, it makes the command much easier to start, and all the things needed stored in a file. I am not using compose to run multiple things, just for the simple start command.

Create a directory for your server and add the following to a docker-compose.yml file.

version: "3.8"

services:
  mc:
    container_name: walkercraft
    image: itzg/minecraft-server
    ports:
      - 25565:25565
    environment:
      EULA: "TRUE"
      TYPE: "FORGE"
      VERSION: 1.16.5
      MODS_FILE: /extras/mods.txt
      REMOVE_OLD_MODS: "true"
    tty: true
    stdin_open: true
    restart: unless-stopped
    ports:
      - 25565:25565
    volumes:
      - ./minecraft-data:/data
      - ./mods.txt:/extras/mods.txt:ro

volumes:
  data:

mods.txt #

Once you have your mod file link from the network tab add them to a mods.txt file next to your docker-compose file.

https://media.forgecdn.net/files/3620/189/engineersdecor-1.16.5-1.1.16.jar

start your server #

Once you have made it this far starting the server is pretty simple.

docker compose up -d

kill your server #

If your still in the same directory, taking down the server should be pretty easy as well.

docker compose down

# if that does not work you can kill it
docker ps
# copy the id of your container
docker kill <id>

Running a Minecraft Server in Docker

2022-02-07T02:35:21Z

I’ve ran a Minecraft server at home since December 2017 for me and my son to play on. We start a brand new one somewhere between every day and every week. The older he gets the longer the server lasts.

In all these years, I’ve been popping open the command line and running the server manually, and even inside of Digital Ocean occasionally to play a more public server with a friend.

My buddy Nic has been sharing me some of his homelab setup, and it’s really got me to thinking about what I can run at home, and Dockerizing all the things. Today I found a really sweet github repo that had a minecraft server running in docker with a pretty incredible setup.

I ended up running the first thing in the Readme that included a volume mount. If you are going to run this container, I HIGHLY reccomend that you make sure that you have your world volume mounted, otherwise it will die with your docker container.

Docker Compose #

With the following stored as my docker-compose.yml in a brand new and otherwise empty directory I was ready to start the server for the night.

version: "3"

services:
  mc:
    container_name: walkercraft
    image: itzg/minecraft-server
    ports:
      - 25565:25565
    environment:
      EULA: "TRUE"
    tty: true
    stdin_open: true
    restart: unless-stopped
    volumes:
      # attach a directory relative to the directory containing this compose file
      - ./minecraft-data:/data

To start the server we open up the terminal in this directory and run the follwing command.

docker compose up -d

Once its up and running we can run commands on the server simply by attaching to it.

docker attach walkercraft

A few common commands we run in the server #

We play very casually most of the time so we will set keepInventory to true so that we do not loose our inventory when we die. Sometimes we also op ourselve so that we can toggle gamemode into creative.

# set the game to keep your inventory when you die.
/gamrule keepInventory true

# give everyone operater priveledges to they can run commands
/op @a

# give playername op
/op playername