@gaveen Absolutely 🙂I came back to the game, or was reminded of it, because somebody on here mentioned the new update and I read up about it and all the stuff looked interesting.

I agree. It's very impressive that they keep on adding massive updates to the game 8 years later 🙂I bought it when it came out and I still continue to play it every few years.

I can't think of any other game which has added this much of free updates. Sure, some have paid DLCs but even those, I don't think have stretched on for an 8 year period. So hats off to Hello Games.

@gaveen Honestly, I don't have an idea as to what the update is without looking it up, especially since they have a part number and a version number 😛Apparently, it's Worlds Part 1: Update 5.0 but that's all I know since I came back to the game after 2 years 🙂

The wife and I played "No Man's Sky" yesterday. It was fun to use the second-controller/co-pilot feature on PS5 and be able to play together even though it was a single-player game. We enjoyed the game a lot more now that both of us could play at the same time — it felt way more engaging 🙂

I realized that I'd last played the game over two years ago but my base was still there. We were able to explore further and start doing a lot more now that both of us are playing. Not because we were exploriing separately — it's a single-player game after all — but because we felt like playing more.

We even got to the first space station, spoke with some aliens, and figured out where the next bit of the game leads us.

I was tempted to start a new game to see if their introductory mission(s) had changed since the last time I played, but really couldn't bring myself to go through the introduction all over again. So we opted to just play on with the current mission.

Looking forward to doing some more gaming today and exploring further 🙂

#Gaming #PS5 #NoMansSky #CoOpPlay

@davemark Absolutely! There are so many tutorials around for Affinity too. And YouTube videos. Every time I come back to Affinity, that's what strikes me the most — how easy it is to find information about anything you want to do with an app from the Affinity Suite 🙂

@davemark And if you have any of their v1 products, the universal subscription gets a further bump down in price 🙂We owned v1 Designer and Photos, and I think I upgraded to the v2 universal license for about $65 or something ...

It's an offer you can't beat! Especially given we got v1 updates for about 7 years or so for the one-time price.

I got my first unsolicited feedback about my novel today and it has made my day (and probably week) 😀

I know that sometimes "unsolicited" is looked upon negatively. But in this case, what I mean is that I didn't ask somebody what they thought of my book. They volunteered the information and let me tell you, I personally am elated when somebody tells me something (whether good or bad) about something I wrote. Because that tells you that it made an impression on them in some way.

I wrote that book about 20 years ago, but so far had not had any direct feedback except for when I asked, or when somebody left. a review on a site. Reviews on a site somewhere that I might not see for years don't have as great an impact, at least for me, as when somebody tells me personally. So, for me, this was a big milestone. And I'm really happy about it 🙂

#Writing #Feedback #IndieAuthor #Reviews

@TriflingTree I love this particular style 🙂 Did you have to use a particular prompt to get this style? Not that I've done much with Dall-e3, mind you. But I like the style you always seem to get with the Dall-e3 images ...

@TriflingTree Will do 🙂 And thank you again!

If you can, and don't mind, if you could leave a review on Amazon, it would help greatly. At the moment, I have one review (from about 10 years ago) that is trashing the book. So having a positive review would help 🙏

Also, now that I know there's at least one Dick Turpentine fan out there, I might have to push that book forward a bit.

There's an (incomplete) serialized story with Dick Turpentine here:
https://write.farook.org/the-highwayman/

There are two parts and then I stopped, but that was, if I remember correctly, was supposed to be the start of the Dick Turpentine story 🙂

@jefframes Congrats, Jeff 🙂 I'm glad that you're having a great week!

@MuseumShuffle @stroughtonsmith @cwagdev I've been playing it for years on and off and it's always fun when I pick it up 🙂Last played about 2 years ago and went back to the game this week because of the new update.

All my stuff was there from the last play and I continued on from there. With PS5's second-controller/co-pilot feature, the wife and I can play together and we enjoy it a lot more because neither of us feels like a spectator. We can simply play (kind of) co-op even though it's a single player game 🙂

@TriflingTree Thank you 🙏 Honest to goodness, you are my first unknown (well, not quite unknown but you know what I mean) reader with feedback given to me directly 🙂 All other feedback has either been left on Amazon etc. or has been from people I personally know ....

So this makes me very happy 🙂 Happier than I can tell you.

Book two in the same universe (but not with the same characters) is done. I'm editing it at the moment and hope to release in about a month, if all goes well. Book three is (again different characters but same universe) is ten chapters in but I might release that as a novella becuase I want to work on book 4.

So yes, plan is to write a series of novels set in the same universe but might not be the same characters. Though I did have a book planned with Dick Turpentine but that's not one of the one's I'm actively working on at the moment ...

Most of the missing features and minor annoyances about my custom Fedi client are now fixed. So I think it's at the stage where I say, "I'm (mostly) done" ...

Of course, now I start looking around for another app to work on 😛

There are plenty of candidates since there are several apps I did for my wife that are currently in #Swift and since I'm moving away from #Swift, it might be good to convert them to #Flutter.

But what I keep coming back to is a new #Writing app 🙂

I use Scrivener for writing and I love it. It's very useful for keeping all the informattion about a story together. But I want a few things that are missing from Scrivener. Is it worth creating a whole new app for those? I don't know ... but I'm looking at options right now and trying to decide.

#Coding #Writing #Scrivener #Apps

@HeliaXyana It doesn't bother me when I read it if a character swears, but in my own writing I try to avoid it but mostly because I want my books to be read by all ages and it does bother me if children read it and learn swearing from my books 🙂

But that's a personal preference mostly because I have nephews and niecess that I'd like to read what I write ...

@crcollins This is what used to happen with my family. Couldn't say or do anything much without it turning into some kind of drama. Now, most of the family is literally (and I mean literally) half a world away and no more drama.

Of course, not suggesting that you move 😀

I should be editing a chapter of my second novel before the day starts ... but today is one of those days I just don't feel it.

Started editing, but then I switched over to fixing an issue in my Fedi client to allow better replies/posts.

And then I decided to do some posts on here - nnything but actually do the editing I should be doing 😛

#Writing #IndieAuthor #Procrastination

@SJHoodlet Sometimes I think it's better just to forget about it and move on since I have no idea who did it. And apparently it was like 10 years ago though I only found out about a couple of weeks back when I actually decided to try to do something with my writing 😛

But I then I catch myself wondering who it could have been and what prompted them to do it at odd moments 🙂

But yeah, weird. I should just forget about it and move on.

Hope the bots leave you alone from now on ... unless they are good bots. Are there such a thing as good bots?

@SuperTaliaDX Thank you 🙂I'll guess we'll find out this weekend ...

Apparently, "No Man's Sky" has had a major visual update. That game has been getting updates for years now and each one seems to add something new.

I haven't played in a while. I like the concept of the game, but I generally don't like games that the wife and I can't play together. If one of us is just twiddling their thumbs and watching the other play, it doens't seem so much fun 🙂

But that was before we discovered the PS5 co-pilot feature. That allows both of us to take turns at a game without having to actually pass the controller over. Both controllers are active and it's still a single-player game, but either one of us can take over as neeed. Now we enjoy the single-player games we own a lot more.

Not that we've had a lot of time recently for gaming, but I'm hoping to give "No Man's Sky" a try over the weekend with the wife. Let's see how it goes ...

#Gaming #PS5 #NoMansSky

@SJHoodlet I had somebody leave a 1-star rating for my book on Amazon. I had done no promotion for the book at all and as far as I knew, the only people who bought the book were friends/relatives.

This person says that they read 10% of the book and that sounds like the Amazon provided free preview. But they still felt compelled to trash it and say not recommended 🙂

And that's the only review ever on that book. So I'm told by some that it's hurting sales, but then again, what sales? 😛

Some weird people (or bots) out there. I can only commiserate.

@sebastianmalloy Sure thing 🙂

At the lowest level, the link you post is just a text link. Whether it shows a preview or not depends on what is displaying the post.

So, if you want to be sure that others get an idea as to what's in the link (without following the link) a brief description might be helpful in case there is no preview 🙂