Esoteric Update #166 - Vaccine Saving Throw Failed Successfully?

Ugh, it's Monday again, huh? So to make things brief, I got the vaccination for COVID last week, and it ended up with me being bedridden for five days. Still, I did manage to eke out some updates to the game. I'm just afraid I can't say they are interesting to talk about...

But let's start with the lore:

Lore: The Burned God
Lore: Sun Dragons

Now, concerning the updates. Because I wasn't in a state where I could work on anything more significant, I decided to go down my TODO list and start crossing out the smaller things. As such, I managed to get a large number of small tasks completed. Roughly, we can divide these into three categories.

Firstly, I committed some time to manage the game's various files. I ended up introducing some more writing into the game, sorting out lore (so close to 200 entries!) and implementing a few things that were hanging. I've also written some new entries, but it's hard to share how soon they'll come around in the lore rotation.

Secondly, I looked into some things in the engine, partially thanks to someone who took an interest in the game, and made some improvements here and there. Most of them were very small, but there's one thing I'd consider rather significant, and that's fixing the integer random to work with 64bit integers, instead of only up to 32bit, like it did before. I'd say we also hashed out more reasonable solutions for transforming the attributes a player assigns to their character into in-game decisions.

Thirdly, there were some things I wanted to research and experiment with, so I also used some of my time in bed to do that. Some of them were successful, some not. One, in particular, annoys me, and that was finding that it's intentional for CSS not to be able to animate parameter changes to/from auto. Why?

In any case, I still feel a bit exhausted today, but the symptoms are by this time gone. That is to say, I'm no longer feverish and shivering. Plus, it's just good to be vaccinated, regardless of the bad effects it had on me afterwards.