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Apr

Please Don't Call It A Metroidbrainia

I, like a lot of dorks with similar tastes, have been playing Blue Prince. It's a really well-designed mix of two types of games I love: Gone Home-style "walk around and find environmental clues" and deckbuilding. The cool conceit is that you're building a house, rather than a traditional deck of cards: every time you open a door, you're given a randomized pool of rooms to pick from, with the goal of finding the mysterious 46th room in a house you inherited from your uncle.

Blue Prince is fun, cool, and a clever mix of mechanics that I haven't

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12

Apr

Setting Up A Plex Server With Hardware Transcoding on a Synology DS423+

For the sake of full disclosure, I started writing this guide with the intention of making a clearer version of the NASCompare setup guide, but over the course of a few days of work discovered that guide didn't work at all and ended up pretty much directly following the instructions from Dr. Frankenstein's guide, which is thorough and probably does a better job of covering all your bases than this will. I put enough effort into writing this that I figured I'd publish it anyway but if you get lost or need more info Dr. Frankenstein's site is significantly more

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11

Apr

We Should Still Dream Of The Stars

We've re-entered the semi-annual cycle of trend pieces about Silicon Valley freaks trying to make their own city - this time, with Esmeralda, a planned walkable small town for "creative, high-agency people". Sidebar here that I really do not like the term "high-agency". I assume this is manager speak for rich people since as far as I can tell the primary driver of how much agency you have in America is how much money you have. Agency is not a property that is intrinsically available in greater or lesser quantities based on the type of person you are, it is

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10

Apr

At least this time I have a good reason

Most of my earliest memories are of not being able to breathe. I had really severe asthma and had to use a dorky breathing device called a nebulizer for a couple of hours a day or I would have an asthma attack. Anytime I missed using the nebulizer or sometimes just because I was asleep I would have an attack and when I had an attack there was a solid chance I'd end up in the hospital. I actually ended up really liking the hospital. My mom was a health nut and we weren't allowed to watch TV so for

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09

Apr

Provisioning a Red Hat VirtualBox VM With Vagrant

In what I hope will be the last entry in the "Brent learns the basics of VM provisioning" series, I finally moved to using Hashicorp's Vagrant yesterday. I'm glad I took the time to mess around in VirtualBox itself first - I always like understanding what I'm working with before I move to abstractions - but Vagrant makes it significantly easier. Vagrant sets up SSH in your VM by default, which is a nice time-saver, and generally makes the process of automating VM setup quick and easy. Behold:

1) Install Vagrant & VirtualBox.

2) In your project folder, add the

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