I found that video really annoying, as it didn't have any captions telling us what the locomotive was, or where it was recorded. In many, you could read the reporting number, and go look it up, but not all of them. I recognised a few locations, because my family in England live near the Mid-Hants Railway (a.k.a. the Watercress Line), but the ones in the Midlands and North of England I'd like to know more about.

Because a lot of locomotives are preserved out of their original home territory, knowing the class doesn't help either. And who lets a Southern Schools class pull LNER Gresley teak coaches? Sacriledge!

The Eastern US does have some preserved steam, and I've visited most of what's near me. There are a few interesting lines in the Rockies, too, that I haven't. Maybe when I retire...

After all this time, I at long last figured out how to scroll to the rear end of super long trains in TpF's train composition window. This allows me to create my very first 'double-header' train on the map's one train line designed well enough to support trains long enough to justify them. Here's a nothing of an image showing the result.

@ghastley
I don't know if you're interested in this sort of thing, but I'm quite taken with the videos of a fellow who documents now-defunct British railway routes. He travels along routes as they appear today when able and shows images of the routes when still active if available. Nice musical accompaniment. I picked one route at random to link, but there might be others closer to areas that interest you more:

Rediscovering the Bedford to Northampton Line.

Uggh Khajiit just saw a collection of the old Castlevania games on the Nintendo E-Shop on Switch and had to get it. This one has a problem.

That one will have to call in sick next week

(Khajiit loves the face that birb is making in the pic )

Lol.

I watched the Lynton and Barnstaple one in particular, because a friend and I did exactly the same thing back around 1970 by bicycle. It was interesting to see what a further 40 years had done, with more obliteration in some places, and restoration in others.

Since it was about the L&B in particular, it didn't cover, or even mention, the Lynton and Lynmouth Cliff Railway, a water-powered funicular. That was a fun end-point to the trip.

Fourth-ed, even though I'm late to the party as usual. Just dew it, mang. Its real good.

Also miro-kun, that Star Wars game of yours have multiplayer? The one where you manage planets and armies and etc? Because if so, I'm gonna waste you seven ways till Loredas, sonny boy. Its on GOG.com and I'm kinda in the mood to buy some games today

I don't have the game in front of me now but the wiki says it's multiplayer. But don't expect to play against me, I'm a single player raven from here to eternity

The second developer Transport Fever 2 trailer.

As for TpF 1, I'm again facing dissatisfaction due to my incompetence while designing the map's railway network a year ago. It's so bad I'd need to nuke much of it to the ground to set things to rights...assuming I now know enough to do so, which is debatable. For good or ill, I just can't drum up the courage and/or enthusiasm to do so.

Despite the above, I'm currently re-laying track to remove or at least reduce jarring bumps at rail junctions, when/where possible. Also, removing those signals that aren't really necessary. It harms nothing that those needless signals are where they are. But it does look unsightly.

Been putzing around it TpF, smoothing badly laid track, replacing some locos and/or wagons. Nothing more than that, gaming wise.

Played through the demo of the first Doom game yesterday. IDDQD and IDKFA were my constant companions. Don't judge me!


Or do

Khajiit can’t judge if Khajiit doesn’t know what that means!

"Ditto"

Ahh IDDQD and IDKFA, those be Doom cheat codes. I think the first one gives you God Mode the other gives you all the weapons and key cards.

And I think IDSYSPOD or something like that was the no clip command? It has been so long I don't remember anymore.

It was IDSPISPOPD

Ah, well if that be the case, Khajiit won’t judge because everyone is free to play games as they see fit. Just have fun!

And of course, in Daggerfall dungeons, because they were huge and sprawling and randomly put together from "blocks," including teleport walls and etc. "surfing the void" became a thing.

One would place a Mark (I think it is called something else in Daggerfall) near the entrance, and then find a good place (usually a stairwell) to step through a seam- cast a Levitation spell- and you were outside the structure of the dungeon looking in....

And if you added a line to the .ini file ] and [ would zip you to all the "key" locations....

The main quest dungeons remain static- but the others...

That sounds annoying and “cheating� sounds like a good way to minimize how annoying that can be.

Been slaving away creating a new TpF Scenic Excursions video. All video segments and transitions are in place. A YouTube description is more or less done. A thumbnail has been make. I now struggle over text narrative, as is almost always the case. What's a fellow to do when he has space to fill but nothing to say? In any case I hope to have it ready for upload NLT tomorrow night. Push come to shove I'll publish it with minimal text. Won't be the first time.

Appropriate musical interlude? Something light and classical or perhaps jazz? Or maybe period-specific?

Khajiit is currently playing Total War: Three Kingdoms.

An interesting proposition but nah, no music for decrepit me. Not with these TpF videos in any case. But...were I to add music it would definitely be either classical or 'period-specific'...which of course includes but is not limited to classical. There's one piece by Villa Lobos I'd dearly love to included in a special TpF video, with all game audio stripped out and the video tailored to match the music. The piece was written to musically depict the sounds of a traveling steam train. I'm pretty sure I've linked it here before...but have no problem doing so again.

Don't have the guts to attempt it. Too afraid of getting hit by a copyright infringement notice or having some person/agency take over the video. I don't monetize, and hardly anyone watches my releases, so there's likely little to worry about, but I don't intend to risk it.

I am reading a lot of good things about it. Angry Joe seemed to like it, though I only watched about 10 minutes of his video on it before going to bed last night. It sounds like it is more RPGish with its characters.

It’s probably one of the slickest TW game’s Khajiit has played. The diplomacy is much improved in this one. It straight up tells you what you need to make the deal work. Combat is classic TW but you can select “Romance Mode� and your heroes will get into 1v1 martial arts fights with opposing heroes which are fun to watch (even in this mode you can push a button to make your heroes ignore any duel challenges if you don’t want them to get involved with that). Biggest disappointment is that there isn’t any ship combat; would’ve loved to have seen a battle involving fleets of Junks! Oh well, maybe in a future update or DLC. If you like TW games and/or have even a minor interest in Ancient Chinese history, then this one really doesn’t think you’d be disappointed if you checked out this entry in the TW series.

Oh, and you can play as a faction led by a dual axe wielding Bandit Queen!! Fun!

Anytime I have gotten to play a game in the past few weeks, it's still almost exclusively been Fallout 4. But I need to take a break from it. I have other games I need to get through in my backlog. Although a few weeks ago, I finally got to play the Resident Evil 2 Remake at a friend's house.

GOG has a bunch of my wishlisted games on sale. I'm not going to go crazy, but I'm buying a couple of the really cheap ones that really intrigued me--Magrunner: Dark Pulse and SiN (Gold Edition). The former is supposed to be similar to Portal and Q.U.B.E., which I really enjoyed. The latter is another old-school shooter that looks fun but I have never heard of anywhere else. They were $2.49 each (75% off), so I figured I might as well snatch them up.

TpF Scenic Excursions Ep20, Goods for Dunwich - REVISITED is online and available for view. We ride the single-track, one train route delivery goods from Goodstown Factory to Dunwich, first ridden episode seven. YT compression degradation is pretty well subdued even at 1080p full-screen this episode, except along the one short stretch of track I most wanted a crystal clear image...go figure.

I got back into Diablo 3.

And WHO has actually made gaming addiction a thing now.

Sign me right on up.

I just started two new games within the past week.

Sin - It doesn't control the best but I like it so far. It's something a bit different than most FPS games. You have primary objectives and secondary objectives to complete in each level. I think it also runs on the original Unreal engine, so that's definitely a plus. From what I understand, it had the unenviable task of going up against the original Half-Life (my favorite FPS) when it released.

Heretic Kingdoms: The Inquisition - Just bought this game on sale from GOG for a whopping $0.49 yesterday. It's an isometric action RPG where you control a single character, something I have really been wanting more of (especially since absolutely loving Divine Divinity when I first played it about 2.5 years ago). It's pretty decent so far. Kept me playing for quite a while last night. Not exactly floored by it, but hey, it was less than $1. Can't complain. Let's see if it keeps this up.

There's a stretch of land at Sittingbourne's outskirts wedged between passenger and frieght tracks. I long ago turned that land into a rock-nature garden with equestrian statue. Only, the garden was too garish to be natural, too chaotic to be a sculptured park. The statue was lost in the muddle. With each train ridden past it, dislike grew. Yesterday afternoon I decided to get off my duff and do something about it. Nuked the entire area in question and rebuilt from the ground up with a completely different concept. Still a WIP, progress is seen below.

Image1: The area immediately before makeover began.

Image2: New concept in place, centered on a Cathedral, 2019-06-08.

Image3: View of WIP seen looking down passenger tracks toward the city.

Image4: Close-up of Cathedral area with WIP slightly further along. The 'workday' ended here.

Image5: Close-up of WIP Cathedral area from freight tracks, work done the morning of 2019-06-09.

I'm reasonably pleased with what's been done thus far. Much remains to do.

It is looking really good. The twin towers of the church (Isengard and Barad-Dur?) really anchor the entire community.

Very last thing I did yesterday before closing shop and retiring to bed was begin redoing ground cover along tracks leading to Sittingbourne Passenger Station (from the Cathedral area). Like what is now the Cathedral and its surrounds, original ground cover was a garish eyesore. Its replacement looks, I hope, more natural and doesn't draw attention to itself in the wrong way.


<nods> It turned out better than anticipated, all things considered. I totally didn't expect I'd be able to pull off placing those surrounding residential buildings, what with the tight confined space and sloping ground.

I got ousted from my spot as raid tank. Little sad.

Guild leader thinks I'm too stressed to do it. *sighs* I think what is going on is someone else wants to, and they needed one of us to drop out(two of us). So I got picked.

Saki, aww. What game is that?

World of Warcraft

YES...My town's mascot!!!! I think I'm going to cry .

This one has it.

Also lol town mascot.

The world is lessened by the release of Transport Fever Scenic Excursions ep21. We travel by rail between the cities of Dunwich and Sittingbourne aboard a steam locomotive powered passenger train. Scenery is a mixed bag, running the gamut from early/primitive to current/elaborate. The route itself is one of the map's too many two-stop rail lines:

TpF SRA 21 - Dunwich-Sittingbourne Railway Passenger Service

Aside from the above, I spent much of yesterday evening putzing around near Sittingbourne, adding scenic detalis that should have been added prior to 'filming' ep21. Better late than never?

Been on an Ancient Chinese history kick lately so yesterday Khajiit fired up Jade Empire again. They must’ve done something in the last patch from GOG that made playing with a controller wonky. If Khajiit can’t get it to work right this one may have to play with m&k, which would normally be fine but Khajiit is accustomed to playing this game with an Xbox controller.

Now is the time to air their dirty laundry to the public

Eh, it'll be ok. I can stop getting blamed for wipes and stuff(everyone dies), and just try to not stand in bad stuff. We'll be ok.

Having done much in Transport Fever since uploading SRA ep21. About the only thing of worth is to redo the rail approach to Sittingbourne Passenger Station on the Bebbington side. (Opposite the direction taken ep21.) Originally mostly embankment except for two street underpasses. It's now as you see it. Took a good bit of time, being created from modules rather than a stock bridge (which could have been laid in seconds). Doesn't help that I'm not practiced at building this sort of structure from scratch.

Neverwinter Nights has really sucked me in from the get-go, which is good and bad. I'm glad it is something new (for me) that has clicked with me, but it's hard to pull myself away from the game at the same time. I have responsibilities to attend to, NWN...

World of Warcraft is opening Classic servers in August. Play like it was 2005 again! It's running on patch 1.12, hence 2005(launched Nov 04).

Reading the complaints on the beta forums is lol.

Khajiit played WoW for a few months in 2007 or 2008. Never did “click� with it though.

That was just before it peaked at 12 million players.

It's ok if it didn't click though.

Nanotank.


Superb little puzzle game. Only setback playing on the Millennium is that stuff that should glow don't glow.

At this price it's a great buy if you are at all interested in this sort of railway-centric transport-empire building game. To me, the base vanilla game is OK, but depending on what you want from it, mods can make it shine. What's more, like TES:Oblivion, said mods (from Steam Worshop, TransportFever.net, and elsewhere) are entirely free. No DLC or pay-to-play/win elements in sight! The sale ends Jul 9, btw.



Have done little gaming since the release of my most current TpF Scenic Excursion episode (21). I'm not tired of the game, just frustrated with my current map, as I tend to become on occasion. The difference this time is that I've added scenic detail to almost every bit of railway worthy of it. I'm pretty much at the point where I need to nuke a good portion of the inferior transport network and rebuild almost from scratch. Either that or start a new map and hope I've learned enough to do better. (Debatable.)

As to the second choice, I recently installed Common API. This allows me to export Mod Lists from one map to another, in correct load-order. I've been working on that, importing my current mod L-O to a new randomly generated map, uninstalling mod I know I don't want next map, installing appropriate mods not currently used. Spent the past two days randomly generating a halfway decent map, then modding it properly as above.

Not sure I'll use that map for play...but it's now my go-to save for British Mod load-order transfers. (At some point a want to do the same for Austrian/Euporean Mods.)

I'm also tempted to go with a pre-map custom map covering some segment of Britain. I'm thinking Severn Valley Railway at the moment, but there's plently to choose from.

This assumes I don't stick with my current map.


Sticking with Britain, trains and railroading...here's a nifty episode of Lost Railways - Scotland & Wales.

I finally sold my soul out to the mainstream and downloaded Steam just to get Galactic Civilizations III. Stuff was at a vastly reduced price compared at GOG (19.99 vs 7+ bucks for the base game). It’s downloading now with 4-xpacs that I added in for a value price and yeah.

#UnlimitedPower and #IAmTheSenate here I come.