weekend time, hoping for a lazy sunday. i'm the only one here not sick, so i'm on call but i'm hoping once things calm down i can get some more re9 time. so far the game is really impressive. the leon sections are a straight up refinement of re4r, and grace's sections are peak survival horror. i'm having a blast. not at all sure i'm gonna get server time today, but that's fine.

i've also been wanting to get back into playing the ultima games. some time ago i cleared the first 3 and started 4, but never finished it. as a kid i got the compilation cdrom but i didn't know what i was doing, and my uncle bought me uix, which i enjoyed at the time but have since refined my opinion of, especially as my series knowledge grows. i've also been enjoying ultima outlands for a similar reason, when i was in 6th grade i had a friend who would share the game manuals with me, and tell me lore and stories of adventures and pking exploits - but there was no world where i was able to convince my family a subscription was reasonable. so it's cool that though i got to live through the game back then vicariously, i can experience a fractal of what that game might have been like today. so far it's really intersting, especially given the differences and similarities it has between modern mmo experiences and the more old school ones i enjoy like osrs. that said i know there's others that i've just never known like everquest (though i did once work with a guy who would often regail me with his tales from that game).

struggled with blog formatting today, still am kinda but some searching and phone a friend helped me realize i could use css for this too.

i'm still not sure i'm happy with how the text is displayed - i need to figure out how to make it wrap properly. this is absolutely a knowledge gap thing.

update: i think i found the fix, again css saves the day. white-space: pre-wrap + overflow-wrap: break-word (as far as i understand it) seem to auto-dictate a respect to my spaces without removing any and overflow is thrown in there in case in the future i paste in some bigass thing for whatever reason.

been working on trying to set up an xmpp server on a spare zimaboard i have. found a video tutorial on doing it via nixos but i ran into some odd errors i'm having trouble resolvoing due to me being so unfamilar with nix. i'm sort of at a crossroads, i'm doing this one way or another but i think debain is the play instead.