I tend to say a lot of things.

That might seem like an obvious statement to you, but for those that know me well enough, know generally how I feel about the state of the modern web. I am no stranger to loving open, interoperable things.

Yes, I will admit that generally hating siloes for merely existing is a bit of an old way of thinking, but the game can only be played for so long, and open solutions to modern technological problems require attention in order to be pushed into usable states.

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I've always wanted to make an immersive sim.

Some of my earliest exposures to games when I was young were games like Thief and Deus Ex that emphasized several ways to resolve an obstacle with additional design for large, believable (but not open, in the modern sense) worlds. The challenge, is that usually immersive sims require hundreds of systems to snap into place late in development, and I am one person with extremely limited time and a crippling coffee addiction running on little sleep.

A little while into my first exposure to these kinds of games, I was introduced to Dungeons and Dragons proper after hearing it in passing for a couple years at that point, particularly paired with faint echoes of the satanic panic. Unfortunately, the group fizzled and I had a pretty difficult time getting a group together (Roll20 didn't really exist yet to my knowledge and it certainly wasn't widespread until a hot while later). My exposure to and interest in TTRPGs up until 2019ish waxed and waned often. I was mostly playing Warhammer 40k until 2015, at which point the game just stopped being fun because of awful players and Games Workshop being generally a nuisance, and thus we swapped to other games like Corvus Belli's Infinity.

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Ah. Scope creep rears its ugly head again. Except... it's by design, for some reason.

Previously, I mentioned that there may be a post regarding 'everything apps'. In actuality, I described it using the term 'rant', but I think I can structure this in a way that doesn't require a flow of consciousness.

For starters, I suppose I should mention that I'm not entirely adverse to people and companies trying to do different things in software. My opinion, however, is that an application or script should do at most three things, lest functionality, usability and sanity be sacrificed for an ever-expanding featureset.

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I'm mostly writing this to take my mind off things.

Tragically, I'm trying to keep my mind off of not getting an immediate response from an HR dept about some work, since self-employment didn't treat me all that well. Learning new things as much as possible is excellent when the job you have gives any kind of consistent income, which is not how this has gone.

I digress, and will build myself a better future as necessary.

Nikola's templating system is interesting but I haven't had a huge amount of time to pick it apart and make my own. Respectfully, the documentation could be slightly better, but I admit it is perhaps a personal failing that I don't exactly understand it immediately. I intend to draw and plan out my theme and throw it up for those using Nikola as well, assuming I can get it to my liking.

With a customizable config, of course.

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