I played in Spanish, possible that in a City that night city describes this would be the native language. I learned a lot of swear words playing through the game in Spanish. I loved roaming around the city and "learning" the city. I prefer to do this myself in real life though. I started thinking about how streets connect while driving around the next day the same way I would while playing this game. I don't like the repetitive use of the ads. You end up seeing the same stores over and over again, so it can make remembering where you are at any given point in the city more difficult since there is a "Tom's Diner" everywhere. I thought of them as chains, and that everything is a chain or a franchise store to some extent in this world, but that only protected my immersion to an extent. The ads for the in game busiesses were repetitive and annoying. The sexual stuff is just disgusting. At a certain point, it is like "why am i escaping into THIS world? This is so dumb". Sometimes when it takes itself seriously, I feel that it misses the beat. Its sarcasm is actually the best, even though sometimes the sexual things can be disgusting. Johnny Silverhand was kind of... dumb I guess? I can't take the message of self destruction seriously, when it is to fight some sort of power that doesn't give a shit about you in the first place. I guess Johnny Silverhand had some cool one liners, but Arasaka was pretty cool too. Takemura was awesome. At first I thought papa Arasaka was admirable although he did have a lot of flaws, but the corpos working for him were complete degenerates only interested in money. Papa Arasaka had at least a hint of righteousness to him while young Arasaka just wanted to change things to leave his mark. Not the best kind of person to lead an institution that is supposed to last. So I guess young man Arasaka was never going to be able to continue the power and righteousness of his father's empire, and continued to progress towards a capitalist brutality filled with multi polar traps. Considering this, it is really very sad what happens to him in the end. I actually loved the game. I put my skill points into intelligence and cool (I probably would not have chosen this stat if I played in English). I just now looked up the stat name in English and it is "cool". The Spanish name for the stat was "Temple" which i thought translated to "mettle" or "grit". Since I put no extra points in constitution, I thought that would be a good balance, grit and intelligence. Cool and intelligent while having no actual physical strength sounds really really lame. Oh well. The game plays the same. The hacking was a lot of fun. It was great to walk by people and just explode their brains before they even detected you. The gunplay was a lot of fun too, and I liked the crafting and the number crunchy stuff. I loved how the main missions had many points where your contact would say something like "I'll call you in a couple days after I have another lead", and then it gives you the opportunity to run around and explore the city, and get into the gamier parts of it. It helps the pacing of the story tremendously. I really liked the game, but I don't like how it leans so hard into transhumanism. It takes it as a given, as if you upload someone's conciousness into a microchip they are technically still "alive". I tend to think that it can be pretty easy to make everyone who is still alive think that a real person is still alive, while in reality the person is just dead. I got the Arasaka Ending, which I guess is the "bad" ending in terms of how everything pans out for everyone but it did stick with me. Loved the game overall, loved the story, loved the city. Would like to revisit it again sometime, probably in German or Japanese down the line.

I'm going to walk through all the steps to deploy a Django application on a Ubuntu virtual instance. I use Digital Ocean droplets. But Amazon EC2 or other Linux instances with Ubuntu should be similar. Digital Ocean has some great guides on there for getting set up on various things, but I want to fill in some gaps and point out some minor troubles that I have had. It is not the most intuitive thing and there are a lot of little errors that can happen along the way and I need a reference. 1 - Set up a non root user on the droplet, with sudo privileges sudo adduser new_username sudo usermod -aG sudo new_username After following the prompts to set a password and set up the user, a new user named 'new_username' should be available. Now switch to the new user. sudo su new_username 2 - Set up ssh for the django repo on github, and pull the repo. ssh-keygen The above command will generate an ssh key that can be used to push/pull from the github repo. Go to github Profile->Settings->Access->SSH and GPG keys. From there copy and paste the ssh key that was generated from the above command into the appropriate textbox. The key will start with ssh-rsa. git clone git@github.com:github_username/reponame.git Now the repo should be on the instance. I keep my requirements.txt file on the repo to install all the dependencies from. 3 - Create a new virtualenv and install the project dependencies from a requirements.txt cd into the project directory created from cloning the repo. sudo apt-get install python3-pip pip3 install virtualenv python3 -m virtualenv venv source /venv/bin/activate Now we have a new virtual environment, activated and the name of it should be in parenthesis to the left of the shell. pip3 install -r requirements.txt All the requirements from the file should be ready to go. Next post I'll go over how to set up the apache webserver with gunicorn to serve the django application, and how to point the domain name to the IP that is serving the app.

mod_wsgi was giving me problems. Everything would work find while loading different parts of the website, until parts of the site that needed to access the database were visited, and then apache would get a wsgi:error. The thing is, it only happened once in a while. It seemed like after about 2-3 queries to the database a wsgi:error would be thrown. I'm still using apache, but I switched to gunicorn, and everything works great now. I had to change some of the settings.py so that I wouldn't get 403 errors at times in the admin area, since gunicorn runs behind a proxy. But after that, things are working great. I had the domain name working with the IP, until I changed to apache settings to allow for SSL. So that is next on the agenda. Getting the domain name working, and also SSL.

First post! Hopefully the first of many to come. Took me some time making the database readable by Apache, and some final tweaking with the settings.py file, but I am glad that everything works now (pretty well). I am getting some slow down when accessing the site, but there is only a basic 'wsgi' error showing up in the apache error logs. Basically, the site loads for a bit and then hangs. Now to get SSL working with certbot, and the domain pointed at the IP and things are looking good.