Getting Creepier By the Day

By Patrick MurphyPosted on May 31, 2020May 31, 2020Cat UncategorizedTags Minneapolis Riots, White SupremacistsLeave a comment

If you're also following Devil Monkey Games, a lot of this will be repeated. It is getting gorram creepy out there. We're about ten miles from where it's really bad, and some of it is only five or six miles down a main highway from us. Starting Thursday, stores near us were being boarded up… Read More »

It Is Gorram Creepy Out There

By Patrick MurphyPosted on May 28, 2020May 28, 2020Cat UncategorizedTags DMV, Minneapolis RiotsLeave a comment

Had to swing through Brooklyn Center today to continue my DMV adventure. Managed to get my replacement title printed out on the spot, so I'm good to go to sell the truck as soon as things calm down. Because I was early and needed a few things, I tried to swing by the Walmart out… Read More »

Tiger vs Title

By Patrick MurphyPosted on May 27, 2020July 2, 2021Cat LifestyleTags DMV, Monkeys, Tigers, Weapons-Grade Stupid1 Comment

I made a discovery yesterday. It is easier to get your hands on a monkey or tiger than a motor vehicle replacement title right now. By "monkey" I mean the cute little primates that swing from tree to tree eating bananas and flinging their dung at all who annoy them. By "tiger" I mean the… Read More »

Qanon Stupidity

By Patrick MurphyPosted on May 17, 2020May 17, 2020Cat UncategorizedTags Conspiracy Stupidity, COVID-19, Morons, Weapons-Grade StupidLeave a comment

So this stupidity happened. Short version: some stripper drinks the Qanon Kool-aid and goes on a road trip to take out Joe Biden because she thinks he's part of some cabal of child molesters. Because she's stupid enough to believe Qanon is credible. It gets dumber. At some point in her stream she said "I'm… Read More »

I Made A Discovery

By Patrick MurphyPosted on May 12, 2020Cat ProjectsTags Devil Monkey Games, VidgamesLeave a comment

Got bored working on some FPS engine tweaks to see how it worked indoors and figured I’d just make a little dungeon “inspired by” The Legend of Zelda. The original NES game, not one of the newer ones. Not hard, considering you can find full screencap maps online. Looking at these maps and from playing… Read More »

One Of The Most Toxic Value Systems I Have Ever Encountered

By Patrick MurphyPosted on May 10, 2020May 10, 2020Cat Story TimeTags Ethics, Morons, Philosophy, ReligionLeave a comment

"There is nothing you can say that will change my mind. If you don't stand for something, you will fall for everything. People believe what they believe and nothing can change that; nobody changes what they believe. This isn't close-mindedness, it's principle." Where I come from, that's called proud, deliberate ignorance. He wears it as… Read More »

Life Lessons From Kids’ Cartoons

By Patrick MurphyPosted on May 10, 2020May 10, 2020Cat LifestyleTags Cartoons, Ethics, Geek, Philosophy, Science Fiction, TVLeave a comment

When I was a kid, I had two real choices for cartoons before school: Robotech and GI Joe. There were some pretty significant differences between the two shows, and I think these differences are to blame for certain aspects of my personality; there's a reason I own two different DVD versions of the full series… Read More »

Fart Math

By Patrick MurphyPosted on May 10, 2020May 10, 2020Cat UncategorizedTags Educational, MathematicsLeave a comment

So there's this concept called "specific heat." It describes how much energy is required to raise the temperature of a given substance by one degree C. It also includes the energy costs of state transitions from solid to liquid, liquid to gas, and back again. Among other things, it also explains why you can have… Read More »

“Geek Cred”

By Patrick MurphyPosted on May 10, 2020May 10, 2020Cat LifestyleTags Gaming, Geek, Morons, Philosophy, Science Fiction, TVLeave a comment

I'm a geek by nature, not culture. I've noticed something hilarious since geek went mainstream. It's probably the same thing that happens when anything else suddenly becomes popular, but since I've always been out on the fringes this is the first time I've really seen it. That would be geek poseurs. Not geek… Read More »

So I Almost Killed the Devil Monkey Games Site Today…

By Patrick MurphyPosted on May 10, 2020May 10, 2020Cat Projects, Short BusTags Coding, Devil Monkey Games, Geek, Glacial Buddhalike Calm, WordPressLeave a comment

I went to do some upgrades to the site. Got some work done on a new and improved WP theme, got it looking pretty OK, then went to restructure the site... And screwed up a setting. Boom. Whole WP section -- the majority of the content -- becomes inaccessible. I don't mean hidden, I mean… Read More »