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Yeah, there’s nothing on the Fallout page either about it. Weird. It’s clearly heavily inspired by Fallout so I wonder why nobody tends to mention it? Definitely don’t need a Silo video game: we have Fallout 😛
Still need to watch the Fallout TV series. Can’t see Silo as that’s on Apple tv+ over here 🙁
Yep, middle of winter but it’s been a really dry one so there’s not much moisture to keep sparks from igniting. Don’t know how common it is, though.
Whelp, they’re going ahead with testing roads with radioactive waste: https://interestingengineering.com/culture/radioactive-waste-in-road-construction
Hopefully I grow a second head. Two heads are always better than one! 😀
I know CMake has a VS plugin that integrates it with Visual Studio. Not sure about Meson about I’ll definitely take a look.
The first order of business would be to simply see if it works, making the minimal code changes necessary to do so. After that, things can be freshened up a bit, maybe with a can of Febreze.
Other than the license, what else should be in the questionnaire?
As I recall, if it’s under GPL then all future changes need to be under the GPL unless permission is granted from all parties who contributed code to change the license. Other licenses aren’t as strict about it. Not too familiar with the MIT license, even though I’ve seen it around a lot. Just never really got around to reading up on it 😛
New Vegas is running from Steam without mods or DLC (never got around to picking up the DLC)
Edit:
Tried again and it’s still crashing 🙁
Quite possibly. I know I had installed some bits of VS over here when I first set things up, will need to look at it to see which parts. Never been good with VS, though. CMake may be a good option. In the last few years, I’ve been wanting to play around with Meson some. It’s a newer build configuration utility that the GNOME project has been switching to. As far as the image library, I don’t think so. Here’s the current repo and, while it has pull requests from last year, there’s been no real activity on the official branch in four years according to the statistics. I do wonder how difficult it’d be to swap it out for something more supported like GraphicsMagick (assuming I understand the usage of the image library in this instance; if not, there are others to choose from).
Due to its age, the code may need some additional updates to be compatible both with modern compilers and the APIs of modern systems. Quite a few things have changed in the standard in the last twenty years. Running a compiler in dry run mode would help track all of that down along with Cppcheck which we’ve used before.
It’d be nice to get working cross-platform as well since OpenMW works across several platforms. That’d require something like GTK or Qt.
Another thing missing is the code license and the headers don’t give much clue either. Should still be possible to contact Dave over at UESP, though.
Just redownloaded Fallout: New Vegas. Bit in the mood now that I’ve been reading the Silo series. I’ve also only put five hours into it so it’s time to make more progress 😛
Edit: New Vegas crashed after just an hour. Will try again another day….
There’s also the getline function: https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/string/basic_string/getline
Forgot about it but it reads console input into a string until the end of the line instead of skipping the delimiters like the other operator. Similar functions exist for files as well 🙂
Cool! Will need to go through it sometime 🙂
Code doesn’t seem well documented, though. It’s also missing a build recipe so would be a bit difficult to build. Interesting that it uses a lesser known image library. Why not a more common one, I wonder?
Yep, they’ve got a lot of goodies available! Bit surprised they haven’t gotten the license for Das Boot with it being so iconic
But it’s also about hope! Sad but it gives us hope that one day we can fix things. Really needs to be taught in schools. We watched it when it first came out but never discussed it, which was a bit of a missed opportunity.
Started rewatching the Bond films the other day. The story telling gets better as the series goes on and I’m just about to watch Goldfinger. Should have time next week. 🙂
It also gave us some amazing lines!
They started doing the weird video with the credits in the second film and you can’t even read the opening as a result 😛
The first quarter of book two deals with the back story of the Vaults. Yep, I’m just using Fallout terms for sanity’s sake. Anyways! Back story: still Fallout. 😛
Whelp. The charging port on my ancient phone bit the dust this morning. It no longer detects a connected cable. Tried it with two different chargers without success. May be fixable but it’s probably not worth the effort of finding the part from a reputable seller. Guess I’ll prepare for the funeral! Was replacing it with the tablet anyways 🙂
For some reason, I find it much harder to type on the tablet than I do phone. May need to get an external keyboard for it
So I started reading the Silo series. No idea how I came across it, honestly. The writing is pretty good but the world building leaves a lot to be desired as it’s pretty much a carbon copy of Fallout’s lore. In the first book, they make a big deal of the mystery surrounding the Vault (the author calls them Silos) but the big reveal falls flat since the first book closely follows the plot of the tutorial from Fallout 3, down to the revolution and escape from the Vault, so it’s no big surprise if you’re familiar with the game series. The book was written in 2012 and, due to being science fiction, most of the audience will already be familiar with the games. That said, I’ll still finish it as the writing greatly surpasses that of Fallout’s in my opinion so it does give a different view if you consider it more of a retelling.
We used to get it more often than we do now. When I was back in high school, we’d usually get it once a year even if the flakes never made it to the ground.
Nope! That’s okay! I’ve got blankets and boxes to cover them with 🙂
Still haven’t decided what to do for my birthday yet. I’ll get it figured out 😛
Watched WALL-E again the other day. Got it on disc now so I can watch it anytime I want! 😀
And, speaking of, the folks over at Criterion are starting to pump out 4k discs of classics. Interestingly, their shop doesn’t have a list of all films currently in print other than the 4k shop so you need to apply a filter to the master list. Bit of an odd omission
Cool!
On our side of the pond, we have WonderWorks
Haven’t been in years and I wish I was able to. It was a lot of fun!
So we have one weather outlet predicting snow for my birthday here. None of the others have gone that far yet but we’ll see. Just supposed to be flurries but I’ll take what I can get!
Thanks, will snag it! 🙂
I’d play it in German but not only am I rusty, I doubt I’d really understand enough for it to make sense. 😛
Handy for engineering, though!
So the US government just gave AT&T the go ahead to start shutting down copper phone lines in favor of wireless. This is a huge mistake as wireless is a lot more susceptible to interference. Indeed, you can’t even use it in certain buildings. Without the copper backup, I see this as creating more issues than it solves.
We do have Festivus! Which is also my dad’s birthday 😛
Yep, waste is a big issue. I’ve been using ecofriendly trimmings myself (reusable bags for gifts, durable decorations that’ll stand the test of time, etc)but I’ve been having a hard time convincing others. 🙁
Yeah, Santa may morph into something else. Not sure what!
Thanks! You, too!
With how accessible information is these days, I suspect the Santa Claus myth will die out soon if it hasn’t already. It’s much easier for children to access information now, especially with the pervasiveness of smartphones, so they’re going to figure it out much sooner than in the past.
Finished Return of the Space Wizard yesterday, also known as Return of the Jedi, so that completes the pre-Disney films. May or may not watch the Disney ones as, canonically, the main story is supposed to end after Episode VI with the GE in disarray. That’s where the EU comes in (which Disney nullified): it’s supposed to fill in the gaps during the rebuilding. Also, what happened to the massive Star Destroyer fleet at the end of the film…? They said they couldn’t destroy it. Yet, they’re celebrating on Endor with that massive fleet still in orbit…?
It’s pretty fun to keep an ear out for the Wilhelm Scream in the series. 😀
Doesn’t sound like a fun experience. I don’t know why I’d want a headache as a recreational activity 😛
Had that happen before a couple of months ago. Was in the middle of cooking a dish and a power outage occurs! Lasted a few minutes so I had to adjust the cooking. Was a bit annoying 😛
Should be doing alright. I’ve got one from my grandmother that is a couple of decades old that is still in pristine condition. 🙂
Public domain day is coming soon! Quite a few goodies coming out this go around! And The Maltese Falcon! 😀
Sin City is a classic. Really need to rewatch it at some point. It’s been too long
As we know, I like films about robots. So I watched Evolver the other day and that was fun. A bit too modern for my tastes, though. The 80s did robot films better in my opinion but de Lancie is always fun
Almost finished with rewatching the pre-Disney Star Wars films, just have Jedi left. The more I watch them, the more inconsistencies I find. For instance, in A New Hope, it is heavily implied that the Stormtroopers are not clones but the prequel trilogy sets them up as clones. In Empire, Kenobi has no knowledge of Leia even though he was part of the plot to hide her in Sith. And Leia even uses the force in Empire but no one says anything. Hello? Your non-wizard suddenly starts doing space wizard stuff, have you noticed? They noticed when Luke started in A New Hope. They thought he was crazy for disabling the targeting computer and now it’s no big deal that Leia can find Luke in a needle stack? Then there’s the famous moment where Lando is wearing Han’s clothes at the end of Empire.
Fun little fact: some of the Walmart brand cake pans are actually rebranded Wilton pans. When I got some pans there, someone had gotten lazy and simply slapped a Mainstays label (their private label) over the Wilton label. 😛
Those were my early baking days back in 2019 or so before I knew more about pans. 🙂
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