Makiki's Cave of Thoughts

Wayland is apparently a thing supposed to replace X11. And to be completely honest, I don't exaxtly understand what it is set to achieve.

Previously I slugged through many chapters and gained many powerful recruits – and now, it is time for me to move towards the endgame.

Previously, I have struggled through the early part of this run, losing plenty of units, and more importantly, plenty of weapons. Furthermore, it seems like I forgot to buy some weapons, which will make things, well, interesting to say the least.

Previously we lost Seth and Kent to my extraordinary tactical prowess, which ended up with me needing to take a break. Now it is the time to resume this mess of a run 😐.

Fire Emblem 7 is a fun tactical RPG game, with permadeath being a really interesting part of the game. You can still reload the save and repeat the chapter though, which let's you forget about the fact that you've lost your units.

Here is where the Ironman challenge comes in. It is a self-imposed challenge that takes away your ability to reload. Every mistake is permanent – every lost unit, every missed item, there is no turning back. And if you game over for any reason... well, time to start from the very beginning.

Modern web fucking sucks – and it sucks for so many reasons that I run out of anger at this point and only sadness remains. And yet I still manage to feel the need to air my greviances – even though I know it ain't gonna change shit in practice. It will be just a somewhat structured inconsequential rant – but I just need to put it out.

The internet is designed to be decentralized, to have no central authority. It is designed to be the web of many networks communicating with each other. Anyone in theory is able to host their own services, their websites, and connect with others freely... except this is very much not the case. And well, there is quite a few reasons for this, to say the least – but here I want to focus on the one of them – IPv4 address exhaustion.

At least in the online spaces, it is not a secret that I am aromantic. After all, both on Discord and on Fediverse, I have a very visible aromantic pride flag on my profile picture, and I explicitly write out that I am aro in the short intro about me on my main page. I haven't really went into much detail yet when it comes to this, though – I did say some stuff on some Discord server, but these words are pretty damn ephemeral, and I still were figuring myself out back then even if I knew I was aro. I want my words about this to be more persistent and more well-thought than that. I want these words to be able to help out people who want to figure out themselves and who want to understand more about others.

So, one of the things I have on my bucket list is to create a proper megadungeon for OSR tabletop roleplaying stuff. And I have tried doing so already, but each time I got stuck near the beginning, since I had no clue how to stock the dungeon rooms in a sensible and coherent manner.

The magic system in Heroes of Might and Magic 3 is simple – and yet provides a great amount of depth, even despite the fact that the best spells in the game are obvious, with Town Portal being the literal best spell in the game.

But as there are the strongest spells, there are also the weakest spells – and it does feel like it would be natural for there being the clear worst spell in the game, if there is the clear best one.