Kevin C. Wong

Diary - Jul 09 to Jul 15 2022

Sat Jul 09 2022

Sleep 0600 to 1430. (8-1/2 hours)

  • Julia Evans' blog mentioned a couple of uptime tracking services. I signed up for UptimerRobot which is free (50 monitors, 5 min to 24 hour interval checks, http non ssl). It'll email if your site doesn't return a success response and with pro you can do more analysis.

Sun Jul 10 2022

Sleep 0600 to 1300. (7 hours)

  • Ice cream with CW3.

Mon Jul 11 2022

Sleep 0100 to 0230, 0600 to 1230. (8 hours)

  • Fading Suns 4E presents the 2021 version of the RPG with a totally different rules system. The bundle has no adventures or campaigns so I'll skip.

Tue Jul 12 2022

Sleep 0645 to 1430. (7-3/4 hours)

  • Amazing Adventures is a multi-genre RPG based on D&D 5E rules. Multi-genre class-and-level system is not appealing. Even Mutants & Masterminds 3E which doesn't have the class or levels still feels too much like d20 fantasy gaming.

Wed Jul 13 2022

Sleep 0430 to 1230. (8 hours)

  • Castle Oldskull bundle is big but not that interesting. It's a bunch OSR GM aids. Generators for adventures, monsters and NPCs. Advice books on creating adventures, cities and campaigns. Random encounters and treasures. It looks like stuff to make me work more as a GM.

Thu Jul 14 2022

Sleep 0630 to 1215. (7-3/4 hours)

  • I remember GOG used to do game ownership syncing -- if you bought games on Steam you could sync some of that ownership to GOG. Oh, it was GOG Connect and apparently it was based on developers/publishers choosing to do this as a promotion. Don't remember the last time it was active; several years ago.

Fri Jul 15 2022

Sleep 1500 to 2000. (5 hours)

  • Stayed up all night because couldn't sleep then by the time I was tired about 0800 I stayed up longer to watch Nemo stream.