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Written by Ron Gilbert, Esq. on 2025-01-23 at 05:33

I'm sick of everything having rollover text. I can't move my cursor around the screen without some fucking rollover text coming up and blocking my view or distracting me. I only use Slack for a couple of friends but it is the worst. The Mastodon web client has started doing this. Knock it off!

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Written by Ron Gilbert, Esq. on 2025-01-22 at 21:55

I'm starting to realize we're the ones in the Mirror Universe.

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Written by Ron Gilbert, Esq. on 2025-01-22 at 03:51

Just found a bug that only happen when players are rapidly skipping dialog. The writer in me want to mark the bug as "Won't fix".

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Written by Ron Gilbert, Esq. on 2025-01-19 at 22:41

New blog post! Let's see how this works out... I'm already starting too see some small workflow issues with Hugo. Mainly around timezones given I'm in NZ and the server is in the US and I VPN through Seattle.

https://www.grumpygamer.com/12_days_of_crunch_time_mention/

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Written by Ron Gilbert, Esq. on 2025-01-18 at 20:57

Many thanks to all the Mastodon users who helped me fix my CSS issues. I'm not a CSS expert, I'm just a weekend html hack. Still a little work to go to make mobile look better.

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Written by Ron Gilbert, Esq. on 2025-01-18 at 20:54

Breaking news: grumpygamer.com static site is now live. Only problem I see is Grumpy Gamer has a monitor from the 90s. I'm going to leave it and call it charming.

https://www.grumpygamer.com/

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Written by Ron Gilbert, Esq. on 2025-01-18 at 19:51

Doing a test of social media tags and images on the all new totally the same static site.

https://test.grumpygamer.com/

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Written by Ron Gilbert, Esq. on 2025-01-17 at 04:44

True story: When Twin Peaks first aired, the MI team would come to my apartment and we watched each episode.

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Written by Ron Gilbert, Esq. on 2025-01-17 at 00:02

I played for an hour or so a day for a total of 8 days then stopped.

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Written by Ron Gilbert, Esq. on 2025-01-16 at 23:49

Public me: You need to follow your heart. Make games that matter to you. Do what is fun for you. That is what really matters.

Private me: Why the fuck didn't I make Balatro!

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Written by Ron Gilbert, Esq. on 2025-01-16 at 21:21

"After turning down an offer to direct Return of the Jedi..."

That's world I want to live in... or at lease visit.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/jan/16/david-lynch-twin-peaks-and-muholland-drive-director-dies-aged-78

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Written by Ron Gilbert, Esq. on 2025-01-16 at 18:39

Not good news to wake up to.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/jan/16/david-lynch-twin-peaks-and-muholland-drive-director-dies-aged-78

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Written by Ron Gilbert, Esq. on 2025-01-16 at 01:40

Back in the 90s, a friend drew this for me and I framed it.

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Written by Ron Gilbert, Esq. on 2025-01-15 at 22:54

Indie game devs are like indie musicians we're not special. You toil and play in seedy bars and upload youtube videos and have a 1/100000 chance of being discovered. Like being an indie game dev, you need to do it because you love the creative art of making games. Every so often a game like Balatro comes out and misleads us all.

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Written by Ron Gilbert, Esq. on 2025-01-15 at 08:28

I've decided to host my Hugo site on my own server. I need the server for other reasons, so it's not cost me anything extra. I can copy the Hugo public files to my server with rync. It takes about 2 seconds. I built it into my git push workflow, so there is no extra work on my part. It also gives me flexibility in how I host images, etc.

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Written by Ron Gilbert, Esq. on 2025-01-15 at 06:16

Second and close to finished version of the all new all the same 100% static website is live.

https://test.grumpygamer.com/

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Written by Ron Gilbert, Esq. on 2025-01-15 at 00:30

I know doing EFIGS translations can really help sales, but does anyone have stats on doing Klingon?

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Written by Ron Gilbert, Esq. on 2025-01-14 at 20:13

I'm not looking for a place to host a static site, I'm looking for a place that will host a static site AND pull it from Github when it changes.

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Written by Ron Gilbert, Esq. on 2025-01-14 at 20:12

Is Netlify a good service for hosting a static site? I'm curious because they will pull from Github when the site changes, so all I need to do to publish is push to Github. I'm looking for a place that won't grind to a halt under load.

I looked at Github pages and it won't work for me, so don't suggest that.

Or is there a way for my server to know when I pushed to github and pull and host it myself. I'd rather do that, but I haven't found a way.

Maybe I'm overlooking something obvious.

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Written by Ron Gilbert, Esq. on 2025-01-12 at 21:48

Here is the all new and just the same Grumpy Gamer website as static html done by Hugo.

https://test.grumpygamer.com/

Once I have all the kinks worked out I'll move it to the prime url.

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