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.

Over the past 8 months or so, I have noticed a word creeping into conversations, professional and retail interactions. It conveys good will, establishes a sense of control and understanding. All is well here, I am your friend and I validate your sentiments. Absolutely! Or rather Ab-sol-UTE-ly. With the stress on the third syllable. It is an interesting word. From etymology.com, the following is the root of the word absolute "(mid-15c.), from Latin absolutus, past participle of absolvere "to set free, acquit; complete, bring to an end; make separate, Sense evolution probably was from "detached, disengaged" to "perfect, pure." Meaning "despotic" (1610s) is from notion of "absolute in position;" absolute monarchy is recorded from 1735 (absolute king is recorded from 1610s). Grammatical sense is from late 14c." Something that is absolute is all-encompasing, perfect, pure, at an extreme. Absolute zero, the coldest temperature something can possibly be. Absolute monarchy, a monarchy with a sovereign that has complete and total say so in matters of state. I think that this is where my minor annoyance with the word lies. It sweeps away all discussion, it makes, or at least conveys complete understanding with what the other person in the conversation is saying. Things are never absolute and there are no right angles in nature. It is meant to be a freeing of thought, in a commercial sense. Let us sweep away these silly thoughts you may have and get back to business. Free yourself these petty human concerns, and keep this wheel of scientific progress rolling, or finish this financial transaction as quickly as possible, for the benefit of both parties involved. Therein lies the key to happiness and camaraderie. The word is friendly. "ego te absolvo" Latin for "I absolve you", I free you from your sins, in the name of the father and the son and the holy spirit. Your wrong doings, you can forget about them now. It is just that I feel a bit strange about having deeply held convictions, misgivings and *gasp* occasional negative emotions, and I would like to discuss them and see how our value systems compare. Absolutely.

J'écris une critique du roman Anéantir, écrit par Michel Houellebecq. Je l’ai lu pendant environ six mois, avec une grande pause de 3 mois entre le premier 75% et le fin. C’est le deuxième roman de Houellebecq que j’ai lu, l’autre est Platforme, qui m’a beaucoup plu en dépit d'être assez déprimant parfois. Il y a de l’espoir dans le roman. Je me souviens d’une émission que j'écoutais au sujet de deux livres français qui sortaient à peu près en même temps, Anéantir, et un autre roman qui s'appelle “Une Sortie Honorable”, dont j’ai l’intention de lire prochainement. L'émission juxtaposent le ton des deux livres, le roman de Houellebecq étant sombre et morose, tandis que celui d' Eric Vuillard est, selon l'émission, porteur d’un ton beaucoup plus positif. Je verrai. Mais malgré le mort et le desperation qui sont omniprésents dans le roman, le sentiment que la France et les français manquent un sens dans leur vie, qu’ils vivent avec des valeurs qui ont plus aucun sense, on trouve des moment ou le personnage principal du Roman, ‘Paul’, trouve le désir de continuer de vivre. C’est normalement sexuel. On dirait que chez Houellebecq le sexe et l’amour sont la seul raison de vivre. Les debats politiques, raciales, et religieuses sont traités, mais a la fin de la journee c’est sexe chez Houellebecq. On oublie ces bêtises vite faites. C’est frustrant de voir Paul incapable de trouver des convictions, des verites intellectuels philosophiques ou religiueses avec les tragedies qui l’entourent. Sa sœur Cecile et son mari Hervé, ont notamment trouvé ces convictions, et Paul les admire d’une certaine manière, et s’entendent bien avec eux. Son autre frère Aurélien, il ne s’entend pas très bien avec, mais a la fin du roman on voit qu' ils ont plus en commun les uns les autres qu’ils pensaient. C’est comme le destin! A fur et mesure que la mort approche, Houellebecq nous montre que nos comportements familiaux sont de plus en plus similaires. Cécile se fâche beaucoup avec Paul à la fin du roman, et ça montre que Houellebecq place Cécile et Hervé fermement dans le monde des vivants. Prudence, sa femme, reste fidele. Comme américain, peut-être que je suis puritanique a cet égard.

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.

1.) How can I get my battle data from WH3? ● I wonder if there is a log somewhere that stores this stuff. It would be nice to parse through it. Or to somehow has a script that can stream this data while the game is running. 2.) Which units cause the most damage to my Lothern Sea Guard? ● I have the battle data on the screen. The UI shows which units cause damage, and how much gold that damage is worth, but not how much damage is dealt to specific units. Is this data hidden somewhere? 3.) What is the least cost effective unit that I have in battle? ● This wouldn't be too hard to come up with. I could look at each units average damage dealt per battle. Again, I would need to have some sort of script running that can read the data from WH3 or be able to access this accumulated data somewhere.

So the Chaos Dwarfs DLC was finally announced for Warhammer III, adding a new race pack. They look interesting especially the Tower of Zharr mechanic. It is nice to see the middle of the map being fleshed out some as well, as I assume that is where most of them will have their start locations. I am interested to see how the Vanilla Chaos Dwarfs match up with the SFO team's vision. I'll play them in both Vanilla and SFO I'm sure, but as I mainly play SFO I'm really looking forward to how the mod enhances mechanics that already look like a lot of fun. Lots of WH3 content creators are complaining about the price of the DLC but I always find these types of complaints intentionally overblown in order to exercise some sort of influence of the price. Steam reviews have a similar issue, where people just end up complaining about the price more than the actual content of the game. Either way, I'm really looking forward to April 13.

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.