Playtime: 16h 30m. Brilliant! I haven’t had so much fun with a game in a looong while, certainly not with any of the other games here reviewed. There are differents kinds of fun to be had while gaming, but Split Fiction excels at the best two kinds: fun while collaborating, discovering with, and sabotaging (why not?!) a friend; and some primitive, core kind of of fun, that makes you giggle like a baby non-stop because “this idea is stupid, outrageous! how can it be so fun?”. ...

Playtime: 67h 30m. A beautiful game. This stylized version of ancient Japan couldn’t be more appealing to the eyes. The plot does work, although it can be easily predicted from the first hours. But the friends you make are imperfect enough to be believable and captivating. Well, except that damn fighting monk. Exploration is rewarding, but can easily become a game of clearing map markers, which, admittedly, I did. ...

Playtime: 5h. Once I was done with Lies of P I had some time to start a new game before the holiday season. What I wanted to play next was Ghost of Tsushima, but the idea of starting the game, having the holiday break, and then resuming it on 2025 didn’t appeal to me. So I looked for a bite-sized indie game on my wishlist and found Cocoon. ...

Playtime: 42h. A surprisingly good game, with balanced mechanics and combat. Full of depth. Only sometimes frustrating. So here I was, days before my birthday, but not allowed to purchase and play the games I actually want to (Ghost of Tsushima or God of War: Ragnarök) because I gave put them on my b-day gift wishlist that my wife always ask for and, like magic, I end up being gifted by either her or my friends. ...

Playtime: 2h 36m. A delightful little game that has been sitting on my Steam library for I don’t know how long. It is easy to see why it is such a classic. So many interesting gameplay ideas implemented with simple controls: directional and 2 buttons, jump and action. Still on the “doing so much with so little” topic, there is also an interesting story being told during the bloodshed playthrough. ...

My personal blog moved from https://tinsuke.wordpress.com to https://blog.tinsuke.com. I also brought over the modern content, and might even import the old posts, who knows. This website is powered by Hugo and hosted on Codeberg Pages (source here). ...

Playtime: 134h 30m. Wow, how did I play this game for so long? I don’t know, the game loop of hunting and bringing down machines is entertaining enough (but so it was on the first game too), and I hopefully kept on going, looking for that spark of magic that made me fall in love with Zero Dawn. ...

Thanks to the porting efforts of huo-ju (photoprism-freebsd-port) and psa (libtensorflow1-freebsd-port), it is quite easy to get PhotoPrism up and running on a FreeBSD system or jail. The port uses SQLite 3 for the DB implementation by default, and while that runs fine for a few thousand pictures, things start slowing down a bit when reaching the tens of thousands. This post will help you to migrate your PhotoPrism FreeBSD installation from SQLite to MariaDB. ...

Disclaimer: TrueNAS CORE 13.3-RELEASE has been released, and if you update to it, you can just run pkg install py-paperless-ngx and profit! If, for some reason, you can’t update to 13.3, this guide might still be useful. Since February of 2024, thanks to Michael Gmelin (grembo), Paperless-ngx is available as an official port for FreeBSD: deskutils/py-paperless-ngx. But upon closer inspection, one can see that the port is only available for FreeBSD versions 14 and 15. FreeBSD 14 is available since November 2023, so users have had some time to upgrade to it and, therefore, there’s no problem with py-paperless-ngx not being available for FreeBSD 13, right? Well… that could be the case, were it not for some of us, users of TrueNAS CORE, currently on version 13.0-U6.1, which runs on FreeBSD 13.1, and will see its final version, 13.3, which was expected to launch in Q2 2024, running on FreeBSD 13.3. So we are somewhat stuck with FreeBSD 13. At least until something like zVault is able to offer an upgrade path to TrueNAS CORE users. ...

Playtime: 174h 39m. 1 This is it. This is what the game could have been at launch. Well, if you ignore all the hyping b-shit that its marketing lied about. ...