Running Linux on Windows

WSL is a pretty neat piece of technology; you can run a full Linux OS inside of your current Windows session. It’s one of my favorite things that Microsoft has made in recent history. WSL definitely beats out trying to run a VM inside your current session, but there’s one major downside. It’s not really possible to run GUI applications from WSL, unless you set up a bunch of other stuff.

A Few of my Favorite Things

I’ve had this site for nearly a year now, and I have a few articles I’m most proud of. Unfortunately, as time passes and I produce more and more content, those articles are going to be pushed farther and farther down the list. It feels bad to see those articles getting pushed out, so I’ve made a list of things that get special treatment

Hugo’s Missing Parts

Hugo doesn’t support SCSS, which is really a shame for me. The Hugo community does have plenty of support for Themes and CSS, but if you want to build themes or use materials from other SCSS frameworks you’re on your own.

Hello again

It’s been 2 months (or 2 and a half!) since my last post, and that’s a long time to host a website and not post anything on it! In that time, I dropped a whole project and picked up a brand new one (or two or three).

What is Text?

Now that you have a mostly functional site, you’ll need to get content into it. Luckily, Hugo makes that easy! Markdown is a simple but expressive syntax which makes creating formatted text simple and streamlined. GitHub uses it to format commits, Microsoft Docs makes heavy use of Markdown, and now you know that Hugo’s text-to-HTML strategy is Markdown as well.

And I Deal… hmm. Let me grab my calculator

I play games in the RPG system GURPS, which is the general universal role playing system. It’s a neat system who’s biggest feature is flexibility. You may have noticed that a lot of RPG’s and RPG-adjacent games have a spceific genre associated with them. Most are related to or are the great-grand-children of J.R.R. Tolkein’s The Lord of the Rings books. These systems have a few big upsides: first, they’re easy to grok — you know what the knight does, and you know what the ranger does, you’ve seen these archetypes do their thing. The other big upside is that they tend to have straightforward combat mechanics.

On My Recent Hiatus

I know no one is keeping tabs on this site, but I figured this might be the best time to make a note that I’ve not written for this site in a month. That’s a bit of a break but it’s not like I wasn’t making stuff. I’ve been hard at work on a new site that I’ve wanted to make for some time. I know this will probably get the same amount of online cred as this site, so to sum up I’m excited.

Spicy Statements

I play a variety of role-playing games. I started playing Dungeons & Dragons 4th edition — what a start. I’ve played D&D 5th edition, Pathfinder, Numenera, and GURPS (which is my favorite). I’ve played Final Fantasies 4, 6, 7 & 8, I’ve played The Legend of Zelda 1, 2, OoT, LttP, MM, LA, OoA, OoS, WW, TP, SS, BotW. I’ve played Fallout 1–4, NV (but never 76). I’ve played, and replayed Mass Effect 1–3. I loved KOTOR. I’ve Played Elder Scrolls 1–5 (never online COME ON BETHESDA). I love these games, and they’re (generally) dubbed RPG’s; but these are wildly different games. When I think about it at it’s core, D&D isn’t an RPG.

I’ve been writing about the game Monster Hunter: World for a few weeks now, and I have some critiques. In general, my opinion on the game is that it’s very fun when you do get to play the actual game.