Bfahome

Bfahome

@bfaho.me

in a time before time

74 followers32 following1.9K posts

Bfahome
@bfaho.me

getting extremely hyped about this costume but it is once again reinforcing my hoarder mentality of "ok but what if i end up needing this little doodad for something in a few years? better keep it forever, just in case"

Bfahome
@bfaho.me

I have run out of 4th of july m&ms and so am unfortunately left with no other choice but to buy a giant bag of assorted halloween candy

Bfahome
@bfaho.me

tootsie rolls are very much the "this edible ain't shit" of candy. you can house a few before they fully settle and then suddenly it's like you have a boulder in your stomach.

Bfahome
@bfaho.me

like four days ago i slept slightly funny and hurt my neck and it's still sore. at this point i just need someone to do this to me.

Bfahome
@bfaho.me

It'd be great if sleeping didn't become a guaranteed path to hurting myself. I need it to do the opposite of that.

Bfahome
@bfaho.me

finished it today. here's my review. it's mostly just going over the minor criticisms and issues i had with an otherwise good experience.

Bfahome@bfaho.me

since it was $5 on sale i picked titanfall 2 up to try this out and i gotta say it does work shockingly well. some stuff is a little jank because the systems weren't built around vr controls but most of what's there is pretty good.

Bfahome
@bfaho.me

additional thought that i forgot to include/had hit the character limit before adding originally

Bfahome
@bfaho.me

This is so on the nose that it feels like it has to be some kind of deliberate vote-splitting tactic.

Bfahome
@bfaho.me

Also shout out to all the vibe coding geniuses at bluesky who thoroughly fucked up the alt text box so that it freaks out whenever you try to go back and edit or delete or insert text into what you already typed. Made the process so much more annoying than it needed to be.

Bfahome
@bfaho.me

Also just for the record this was originally going to be my halloween costume until i was hit by a stronger idea a couple weeks ago.

PaxMortisAeternum@paxmortisaeternum.bsky.social

This shit is absolutely sending me they're so damn lazy they can't bother to fix shit like this.

Bfahome
@bfaho.me

Had a brief moment of "oh man, night is longer than day now" before remembering the concept of the equinox.

Bfahome
@bfaho.me

"pirate jet" is such a great way to close the album. it's like an anti-resolution. demon days ended with an anthem of desperate hope and this is just like doo dah doo dah wheee.

Bfahome@bfaho.me

It's just like that.

Bfahome
@bfaho.me

i made this a second time after this and i feel like it was sort of bordering on mid both times, but i am still craving it again lmao

Bfahome@bfaho.me

Rice and chicken casserole. A new one for me. Turned out good.

Bfahome
@bfaho.me

Minor addendum is that i did almost overbalance and fall 2-3 times while playing lol. Also i was unsure about the tracking since it felt like it put me too close to the floor in my first (of 2) sessions. The crouch is a bit funky, with it being triggered by actually crouching.

Bfahome@bfaho.me

i ran the gauntlet a bunch of times trying to get the wallrunning dialed in and while i am still not at all good at it, i did manage to get it under a minute. the most surprising thing is the lack of sickness, other smooth movement games have given me building queasiness after a bit, but not this.

Bfahome
@bfaho.me

The gun system, as mentioned in the article, is tough; having to hold onto the gun constantly else it get reholstered is tricky while trying to parkour around. Didn't see a way to drop a gun so was stuck with a sniper rifle in my offhand for a while, having to do an awkward handoff to really use it.

Bfahome
@bfaho.me

I think with some refinement these could be really fluid systems but currently the way they interact often left me struggling with 3-4 attempts at pulling out a gun and actually use it without my grip loosening just slightly at the wrong time. I will still play it because otherwise it's very good.

Bfahome
@bfaho.me

since it was $5 on sale i picked titanfall 2 up to try this out and i gotta say it does work shockingly well. some stuff is a little jank because the systems weren't built around vr controls but most of what's there is pretty good.

Aftermath@aftermath.site

Titanfall 2 VR is a shockingly well-executed conversion of an already perfect game and one of the most moving experiences I've had in VR since Half-Life: Alyx. aftermath.site/titanfall-2-vr...

Bfahome
@bfaho.me

i ran the gauntlet a bunch of times trying to get the wallrunning dialed in and while i am still not at all good at it, i did manage to get it under a minute. the most surprising thing is the lack of sickness, other smooth movement games have given me building queasiness after a bit, but not this.

Bfahome
@bfaho.me

it might have to do with the pace, i think. i also play Race The Sun in vr and i like it better than flat, and i don't feel sick in that either. high speed vr might break through into suspension of disbelief vs. lower speed smooth movement that my brain interprets as something being terribly wrong.

Bfahome
@bfaho.me

Made potato leek soup last night so i made garlic and cheese bread tonight to go with it.

Bfahome
@bfaho.me

It's neat how both parts of Empire Ants are visually distinct on the disc itself.

Bfahome
@bfaho.me

and I don't mean product-focused games like bionicle or whatever, because that would be silly coming from me, but games that you could buy that wouldn't then try to constantly sell you on $20 cosmetics or battle passes or whatever.

Bfahome
@bfaho.me

the germ for this particular thought was the overwatch halloween event, how it used to almost completely take over the game, but now it and any other event gets like 40% share of the screen and the rest is always ads for the latest licensed collab or bundle of cosmetics or whatever. sad.

Bfahome
@bfaho.me

0 for 4 on the extended wishlist but they were always gonna play some faves anyway so we're cool

Bfahome@bfaho.me

my short list of biggest (but less likely) wants: Empire Ants Dare Charger Cracker Island

Bfahome
@bfaho.me

Actually bought merch at a show for once. Concert tee and sticker sheet.

Bfahome
@bfaho.me

owning a morph suit is so funny. there's no way to feel normal when putting it on or wearing it. it's just an inherently bizarre object, even more so when that object is fully enclosing your body.

Bfahome
@bfaho.me

once again an llm is doing something weird that its internet-poisoned hosts made it do as a joke and hordes of "anti-ai" people are tripping over themselves to go type things into the llm prompt and laughing at the results.

Bfahome
@bfaho.me

dozens of replies and quotes with "lol it did it for me too!" ok cool thanks for the contribution. way to stick it to 'em.

Bfahome
@bfaho.me

Finally got the proper torx driver and summoned the courage to do this. New thumbstick feels nice. :)

Bfahome@bfaho.me

Bought some replacement thumbsticks because the original has some wear and feels a little gummy after all these years, but i'm anxious about opening it up. In theory i like the idea of repairs and repairability but also this feels like a relic, a valuable bit of history, and changing it feels wrong.