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The legs on the old worm farm packed in, so replaced the farm with a newer version. A messy business at best. 😛

And 8k TVs can be added to the list: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/01/lg-joins-the-rest-of-the-world-accepts-that-people-dont-want-8k-tvs/

Not a big surprise, really. In order to even see the difference, one had to have a large viewing space and the TV had to be around 75-inches. Both of which were mighty impractical in a typical viewing…[Read more]

We just finished having an extreme cold spell over here. Wind chill of below 10F! I loved it!

Not a clue. I don’t have any earbuds (can’t stand them and use headphones instead) so I can’t really test it. 😛

Better watch him in the garden! Don’t want him raiding the carrot patch!

And devakm just uploaded the code!

It looks like most of the ClassWizard notations in the files can be removed as it was just a marker for the GUI tool instead of something being done in the tool-chain? If so, that’ll help clean up the headers to be more readable.

Additionally, the custom string implementation in common/string/sstring.h isn’t used much and CString is used more…[Read more]

I’ll start by asking devakm about the original code. All that’s available publicly is the packaged JAR file.

AndalayBay still has some of the project files as they are currently working on a straight C# rewrite. No idea if they abandoned the previous attempts or not, though. As I recall, the Morrowind version wasn’t that far along but may still…[Read more]

Great! 🙂
It’s Java based, and AndalayBay released a conversion to Morrowind back in 2014, converting it to C# using WPF with MVVM. She may still have the project files somewhere. The old Bethsoft release threads for that Tes4Gescko can be viewed in this edited html set.
To edit the Tes4Gecko code in VS 2022/2026 we’ll probably want OpenJDK, there…[Read more]

Spent the last few days watching old Addams Family reruns while recovering from the sinus issue. Was quite fun. It’s a shame the show didn’t go on longer as it had a lot of potential.

Also taking a break from Reincarnated as a Slime to watch How Not to Summon a Demon Lord. It’s another in the goofy anime genre that I really enjoy (Slime just…[Read more]

Okay, so we have permission to use TES4Gecko as inspiration for the algorithms with the only stipulation that we provide credit to Gecko for what we borrow. 🙂

Oh, all the old Evil Touch episodes have been posted on Youtube. Nothing too special though – they did make fun late night viewing at the time, this one with Leslie Nielson was a favourite:

And, as Anthony Quayle used to say, “Pleasant Dreams.” 😛

Okay, started updating the includes for the UI stuff, which is where most of the missing stuff is. Some of them are a bit obscure but I’ve been adding each one individually. We’ve got things like this:
#include <afx.h>
#include <afxdd_.h>
#include <afxwin.h>
#include <atlstr.h>

Not exactly pretty and commenting them to explain what they’re for…[Read more]

Yes – like this one, “To Pan”, from “Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns and Homerica, 1920”:

Only at evening, as he returns from the chase, he sounds his note, playing sweet and low on his pipes of reed: not even she could excel him in melody — that bird who in flower-laden spring pouring forth her lament utters honey-voiced song amid the leaves. At that…

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Date A Live banned in China? Did they even get to see any of the trailers? This one is for Ren Dystopia:

Series 6 will be the last? Funny, the following trailer for series 4 is banned in the US and Japan, not in China?

Now streaming Sherlock & Daughter, an…[Read more]

Doom now runs on an earbud: https://doombuds.com/

Ugh. BIOS issues like that are no fun. Definitely an odd one 🙁

The keyboard lights with OpenRGB is a known issue with XBOX MSC, so we can writhe alive to the tune of that. 🙂
The Windows idea of the HID LampArray standard came early 2024 – must have either tried it either without success or missed it altogether. Good news it works with the G213 keyboard as well as with MSC, thus the ball is in the court of…[Read more]

Need to see The Thomas Crown Affair. Been on the list for years, just haven’t gotten there yet. Still reading a lot! 😛

But the Muppets are wonderful!

Been watching That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime. It’s not bad but I can’t seem to really get into it so I may move on soon

Wasn’t able to finish Date A Live: the mid-series OVAs weren’t…[Read more]

Yeah, it’s so big GitHub won’t load it. The MWEdit code is pretty crusty. 😛

In reality, most of those are memory alignment warnings in the Windows API. I think GCC ignores warnings in system includes by default (not sure, it’s been a while since I used it) and there may be a switch for VS to turn on.

The MFC stuff will be removed down the road…[Read more]

That last link takes all of 30 seconds to load over here – it’s huge!
With stdafx it boils down to saving time and grunt with pre-compiled headers using either that or pch.h?
Yes, ensure the includes are working first, otherwise extend the sojourn in MWEdit no man’s land. 🙂

Now that I’ve thought about it, I’m tired of making tiny commits for each time and then waiting for them to build. It also adds stress to my storage device, which isn’t good. So I’m going to go back to fixing up the includes now that we know that they are the problem. In the process, I’ll probably look at removing stdafx as well. Any objections?