Finally dipped my toe into the Metroid series. Decided to go by timeline chronology rather than releases. Also chose remakes over originals. Which means I finished Metroid: Zero Mission on my, ahem, liberated 3DS. Minus the stealth part, a pretty good game overall and a great introduction to the series.
Been playing the Picross S series on Switch. Finished all E’s and S1 on 3DS a while ago, and now S2, S3, and S4 on Switch. Perfect podcast games. BTW, as a colorblind person, I can attest that their Color Picross variant is quite good.
A Plague Tale: Requiem is in the “was a sequel necessary?” category, but is pretty good, so OK.
There are three last levels in Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker that broke me, and soured the overall impression a bit. But otherwise a great game.
You play as Toadette for half the game. And the traditional kidnapping is presented as not really a kidnapping: Wingo wants a star, it’s just that Toad and Toadette can’t let go of their capitalistic nature and that star. Does that give Nintendo a pass? Not really, but I think it is a good example of Nintendo being less evil and more traditional to a fault. They would stick to a structure, but be willing to work on the periphery or in new areas.
When I started with HTML and CSS, I was using Dreamweaver. It was producing pretty clean code, so many people were recommending it. After some time and the Adobe acquisition, I moved away from visual editors to plain text editors. Now, while something like Visual Studio Code is preferable, I can basically use any text editor.
Something similar seems to have happened with the command line interface. Slowly, through some other programs like Launchy and Everything (alpha with dark mode), I got the idea that text is not only sufficient, but in many cases faster, better and more robust than GUI analogues.
I use Scoop for about 95% of my installs, winget for another few percent, and I would struggle to remember what I installed any other way, especially since creating your own Scoop bucket is pretty simple – here’s mine.
I check for Windows updates with a PowerShell module, I sync files with Robocopy and Rclone, I even install games from the Epic Store with Legendary, among other things.
