Hey friend! It’s been too long. We hope you are well; at least, we hope you are finding bits of hope as we stumble through the darkness. It’s been a harder year than most for more of us than usual, and there’s a good chance you are no exception. We’d love to hear from you,…
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Altered: Trial By Frost Prerelease
Right now I’m into a trading card game called Altered. This weekend I attended a prerelease event for their new set, “Trial By Frost,” at a local game store called The Missing Piece. I have a long and uneven history with customizable card games. I skim over them, rarely getting far into the collection or…
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I use a personal oh-my-zsh theme which includes git status. Recently the git status part of my prompt stopped working – no error messages, it just vanished. I’m not sure what I broke. I found the code for the git_prompt_info and git_prompt_status functions used to display this here in the ohmyzsh repo, and determined that…
Read moreMarginalia 2023-12-31
A linkdump of games I especially enjoyed this year (in no particular order). According to Cain by Jim Nelson. Travel back in time and use alchemy to investigate the first murder. A clever, poignant retelling, and my favorite game of last year’s IFComp. More thoughts… Pentiment from Obsidian Entertainment. A murder mystery in sixteenth century…
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