Dewar

The thing about regular panic attacks is that they come on with no rhyme or reason to your current mood, which then makes you scared that they could happen at any time, which then increases your overall anxiety levels.

i started up the project as a 2D project, so just using sprites for the most part. I scale them down a bit when you click them to make them look like they're being pushed in. I might, if I'm unemployed long enough, try and make the keypad a 3D object, but not ready yet. Today I'm hooking up the rest of the switches on the main menu (which will require some GIMP skills) as well as adding a "restart the same puzzle" button on the bottom. I'd also like to create a code that you could send to someone so they could try the same puzzle. At first I was thinking a random seed with a few extra digits tacked on the end to send across the menu settings, but I'm not sure how reliable that would be. Then I was thinking just coding the board layout into hex, but with a max of 49 buttons in 4 possible states, plus modifiers, that gets to be a pretty unwieldy code.

So, when you bet a certain number of buildings, that number of foundations are instantly built and, if you can't finish them, you get penalized. What happens if you under-bet? You simply can't build any more that day because there are no foundations left?

Today I added puzzle generation (basically an ability to click buttons in reverse,) a win screen, and then back to menu and exit buttons on all screens, so I guess it's an actual game now? I was going to stop there, but i came across a couple of bugs (a board could start already completed, and going back to the menu wouldn't send the options to create the next board if nothing was changed.) In fixing those, I genericized a few bits of code and ended up getting the next thing I wanted to coded as well, buttons that have multiple states instead of just on and off. It feels good to get that "one more thing" feeling about something productive, instead of just Civ or Minecraft.

It's a Light's Out puzzle. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lights_Out_(game) Though I have some ideas to make it a little bit more interesting than that. Edit: This is the first time I've actually made multiple scenes and handed off between them. Trying to pass just a few variables (the selections on that menu up there) is a lot bigger pain that it should be. Having to make an object with DontDestroyOnLoad() in it when I just want to pass four numbers seems dumb.

970 isn't quite good enough to play Elite Dangerous, but the frame doubling magic they have in the Oculus keeps the sickness away. Other than that my 970 has been plenty for everything I run. As for the amount of space an Oculus requires, part of the reason I went with Oculus is that they can't depend on you having room scale, so a lot of the experiences in the Oculus store can be done standing only. Steam VR can be a little more touchy with that stuff, but I've managed all right with a pretty cramped space. I can barely eek out a 5x5 space just larger than my wingspan and I can do a lot. Third camera is pretty nifty, but I wouldn't call it a must-have.

Irrational "I'm going to die" feelings are definitely a hallmark of a panic attack. If it continues, definitely go see someone.

Oh boy, I haven't finished ME3 yet. I guess this weekend is the marathon. I'm not in EA access, but I'm looking forward to playing with folks on Tuesday.

Today is my last day working at the company I've been at for 5 years due to a layoff. For the last few weeks I've been pretty excited about getting out and doing something different, but now I'm getting really bummed and am shedding a tear or two.

Hmm, I never did play the DLC much in Shadow of Mordor. Maybe it's time to refresh myself before this comes out. So many games coming out mid year this year.

New Pathfinder update seems pretty cool. I'm looking forward to trying it this weekend. http://no-mans-sky.com/pathfinder-update/

I was fishing around for a Wildlands thread, and this was the only place it was mentioned, so I thought I'd chime in and say I'm having a lot of fun playing co-op on the hardest difficulty.

I bought Andromeda on GreenManGaming, but I don't think I'm going to jump in on the early access. I have time to be patient.

I am watching Hedgehog videos to cheer me up today.

Also, being able to have Rein-like blocking, but still being able to attack is nice. I imagine those shields aren't going to last long though.

For those people who might be twitter blocked at work, Rob Zacny is joining Waypoint as a senior editor starting today.

I'm kinda OK with that, as I never want to spend that much time in the betas, so then I feel behind when I start playing at release. I wouldn't imagine that multiplayer is going to be that much different than ME3 to worry about a server stress test, but then you never know I guess. On a side note, I've been playing through ME3 again and I forgot how many talky bits are in it. It gives me hope that as the gameplay continues to go more action, that there will still be some interesting conversations and story peppered in between.

Man, I ordered that third sensor last week. What a bummer. Edit: And my Return/Complaint window with Amazon closed last week as well. Oh well, I could have used the extra $200.

I'm looking forward to it. I never played any of the ME2 or ME3 DLC, so I'm getting to see some of this stuff for the first time.

I've been continuing my insanity playthrough of Mass Effect 3, and I'm starting to get really enthused for Andromeda.

The splotchy-ness looks very zombie like to me. Isn't that part of the point of a wash?

I am both a huge fan of Shadowrun from my tabletop days and a huge fan of turn based strategy, so take my opinion with a grain of salt. I liked the first Shadowrun game well enough, but Dragonfall is where it really took off for me. It's also shorter than either the original or Hong Kong, so I think it's worth just dropping the first one wherever you are and starting in on Dragonfall. If you're still not interested by hour two, give the series a pass.

I got the third sensor for my Occulus this weekend. It's somewhat underwhelming, but nice to be able to turn around without it glitching quite as much.

What a pain, but thanks for the info.

I definitely have a low sex drive, when it comes to being with my wife, but a fairly high sex drive when it comes to self-love. After I started taking anxiety pills, I found that my sex drive actually increased some, as it was the stress of doing the right thing and such that was putting a damper on some of my desire. The ironic thing is, that Lexipro makes it more difficult to finish, so that's been a plus and a minus. Even with medication, I'm still not the most sex driven person out there. It feels like more a way to make my wife happy rather than a thing I'm driven to do, but I certainly don't mind it either.