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Using FFVIIHook on Steam Deck for Final Fantasy VII Remastered

June 23, 2022
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Games

If you have a Steam Deck and want to run Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade without dynamic resolution scaling, here’s how.

Barrett from Final Fantasy VII Remake looms over Cloud

The Last Rug Pull

March 18, 2022
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Crypto

On January 21, 2022, Dan Olson published Line Goes Up – The Problem With NFTs.

Hours later, crypto prices crashed.

Those events are unrelated.

Close up of a red Persian rug on a dark carpet

I apologize for the lack of subtlety in this image

Mythic Quest Thoughts

January 25, 2022
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Apple
TV

Everything that drives me crazy about the first two episodes of this TV show. I watched it to episode 5, but these are all the notes I took. I couldn’t go on, it was too stupid.

A bunch of awful people watching an awful trailer. Also Danny Pudi.

My PGP Public Key

January 3, 2022
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Crypto

In case anyone needs to verify me at my email address (see the home page), here’s my PGP public key.

Using OBS Studio and ffmpeg to Record Games for YouTube

November 30, 2021
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Games

I bought a MacBook Pro with the M1 Pro chip in November and discovered that my existing Elgato Game Capture HD60 S didn’t work. In order to keep posting videos to my YouTube channel I had to buy a (deep breath) Elgato Game Capture HD60 S+.

That was the easy part. The hard part was simplifying my workflow to make posting videos less arduous.

Using GitHub Actions to Publish Static Sites to Azure

November 17, 2021
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Microsoft

This site is hosted on Microsoft Azure. Its source code is stored in GitHub on a free tier, which allows me to run GitHub actions to publish the site whenever I merge any code into my main branch. Last week I ran into an issue publishing Xenobell and wanted to share the solution I discovered.

On Criticism

August 9, 2020
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Books
Games
Movies

A critic’s job is not to reflect the public opinion, but to inform it.

Art may be judged by how well it achieves what it sets out to do.

Ratings should be meaningful and distinct. The difference between each rank of the rating system should be obvious to the reviewer and the reader.

Using Premium Verizon CDN to run React's BrowserRouter

July 26, 2020
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Microsoft

I use Microsoft Azure to host all my sites. This blog, The Villain, and Sara’s Flare are all static sites generated by Hugo. It’s super fast and super cheap. Can’t believe I was paying $10 a month for years. My current monthly bills are like $0.60.

I’m working on a new site built using create-react-app and wanted to use the BrowserRouter component to give the pages a natural URI. Turns out it’s not a big deal.