RPG.
20+ years ago I created some maps for Secomber, a small town in the Forgotten Realms. I didn't pick the place at random. I selected it because it is known, but not well documented allowing the DM lots of freedom, and it's close to lots of interesting places.
I'm planning to revisit the old document and expand on it, so in preparation I googled a bit...
Datatalk / Chrome.
I like to differentiate my Chrome profiles by different tab colors, but the 'Chrome 2023 Refresh' enforced pastel colors on us poor users. I had not spotted that yet, but when I made a profile change, I suddenly couldn't select my original color again. Instead, we now have 'themes' that don't do what I want...
But it's fixable... for now...
Outdated. Old fashioned. Geeky, nerdy, cult.
And yet, in some ways, this old one season series is lots of fun. Sidney Bloom is a telecoms technician with a talent that allows her to creep into someone else's mind, entering a kind of 'virtual reality'.
It’s based on a computer game, but it has (fortunately) little to do with the game (besides borrowing characters and background).
Synopsis: two sisters survive in a world with lots of contrast between the rich and the poor. When a heist fails, the oldest sister goes to jail, and the youngest one goes… crazy.
Wallpaper.
I wrote about A Scientific Railgun some time ago, and here's the matching wallpaper.
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I haven’t read the Hugh Howey novels this series is based upon, but this first season was highly enjoyable to watch. People locked in a silo-like vertical arcology need to survive on limited resources. However, there is a secretive group active in the background, controlling (and using) more advanced technology, and things might not be quite as they seem. I found it now and again a little predictable, but still worth a watch.
