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1) I have not been keeping up with the challenges given other things going on, but this one grabbed me: What games do you play, if any? Are you a solo-gamer or do you view games as a social activity? ( Read more... )

2) I've been watching a bunch of things on Max, mostly biographies. I found the Jaws 50 year anniversary documentary interesting as, while I remember the film I've never seen it.

In bios I finished Rock Hudson: All That Heaven Allowed which was a fair amount of surface stuff. ( Read more... )

3) In movies, saw Shazam fury of the gods which was pretty meh, as it just seemed rather predictable. Also watched Traitor which was a lot more interesting in terms of the undercover spy story. Then saw the Batman Lego movie which was 30 minutes too long (tedious final battle section) but was otherwise entertaining, particularly in all its pop culture references. ( Read more... )

4) In TV series, I ended up skipping through most of The New Pope just as I had The Young Pope. It just felt rather repetitive. Also watched The Investigation, a Danish production focused on the police activity finding evidence for the actual case of a murdered journalist aboard a submarine. ( Read more... )

5) Continuing to post trip photos to

common_nature, the latest being our stay in Hood River

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I still really have to get these up to my github!

The newest one is Raven's Ore Swapper, which joins my other Stardew Valley mods. It is yet another machine (and the pixel art is basically a colorswapped clone of my giftbox exchanger), but it is set up to take an ore or coal as input. This being me, the ore swapper is rather randomized and only really upgrades your ore if you're trying with copper, iron, or gold; the rest will mostly give the same item back, but have a chance of returning a different ore - some better, some worse - or even occasionally coal. You even have a small chance of getting 2 of the item you put in.

Yes, this is kind of the seedmaker (which has a chance to give you different, better/worse seeds than your input veggie/fruit), except with ores. I thought that was a fun concept so I wrote it. As usual, it is built on Content Patcher and needs that mod to function.

To prevent abuse, I set the processing time to 2 hours; I played around and that seemed to work pretty well - it doesn't take forever to process but it still takes some time, so you won't be mass-loading iron ore to get gold. This is the first one I've written just for fun instead of a problem I thought needed solving in my playthroughs.

(My seed exchanger now also uses colorswapped pixel art for its appearance, so progress!)

Sunshine Challenge #6

Yes, I wrote another Stardew Valley mod.