16. Nem bu tsu good morning

Good morning Boomers. Have a great day.

chili

I agree about the Odd Thomas stories being very good: I will have to try Jane Hawk, but have also been distracted by Matt Haig's wonderful yarns...

Currently trying what I think is an earlier tale from Robert Jackson Bennett, The Company Man

I went to their website and cancelled and got an email stating they were cancelling membership and would notify me via email. Hope so. Thanks for the heads up!

5. Deliverance

Thanks Marian!

I've been watching Mole. It's a game I wouldn't mind giving a try. I don't mind autosaves but when there is no save on exit that is a problem for me. What's a matter with these devs? I take it you get an autosave symbol?

What's up with the rabbit flotsam?

Thanks for the details

Thanks Drac


Mouthwashing

I really liked The Hand of Glory!! Gonna add this to my "to get" list!!!

Oh Boy! More Rusty Lake to feed my addiction!

This Sunday Aug 30th at 7:10 am EST SpaceX will be launching their Falcon Heavy from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida sending up the NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. It has been under development for 15 years. This telescope has a field of view at least 100 times larger than Hubble's potentially measuring light from a billion galaxies in its lifetime which is estimated to be 5 years. Roman will investigate dark energy and dark matter, conduct a statistical census of planetary systems and enable a broad range of additional astrophysics research. It will be positioned 1 million miles from Earth. The moon is 238,000 miles from earth

During this launch the 2 side core boosters will come back to the Kennedy Space center landing on pads next to each other, pads 1 & 2. The landings will be covered. The center core booster will not make a return landing. Its fuel will be used up to ensure that Roman reaches its targeted position. Earth's gravity will pull the booster back burning it up in the atmosphere

Falcon Heavy

SpaceX Launch starts 6:18 am EST

NSF Coverage starts at 5:26 am EST

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

Building Roman

9 Things to Know About This Telescope

Official Trailer

I think this came onto my Steam radar because I played Mouthwashing and I can see why. Lo-fi psychological horror in a contained environment with something out to get you; the description fits both games.

In Mouthwashing it was a crashed space freighter, with very few crew surviving. Here it's a giant drilling machine, burrowing incessantly into the Earth in search of a strange signal. Except you, the Navigator, seem to be the only crew still here. Very soon it is apparent that something not at all good has happened.

It's a claustrophobic environment, all cramped rooms, staircases and twisting corridors. The visual style as well as the predominantly reddish colour palete add to the feeling of confinement. Throw in the sounds and the atmosphere created is suitably edgy.

I am just over two hours in and am on Day 2. Much to date has been unravelling what I am doing and how to do it, repairing stuff and making a number of course corrections. The technology is old-world, full of cassette tapes, cartridges and ASCII-style text, accompanied by the satisfyingly appropriate clicks, whirls and hums as you load tapes and interact with systems. The opening menu will give you a taste of what you are in for.
I have also successfully run away from something monstrous, and am currently trying to do so again. Failing lets me try again, this current attempt more involved than the first.

Notes I have found, phone calls I have answered, and a vision or two, are starting to help piece together the story, both mine and the mission's. I haven't got a good grip on either yet, although the bodies clearly don't bode well for the latter.

The game plays in the first person and exclusively autosaves at certain points (not on exit). WASD moves you around, the mouse and keyboard interact with the environment. Tab brings up the inventory bar, and clicking an item will put it in your right hand. You can then try and use it in the game world. Mimicking motions (e.g., turning a knob, pulling a lever) is at times required. Puzzling to date has been well integrated into the game.

So far so good.

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