Nepal Tibet Floods

It is the last week of August, I learnt that the centre of Nepal and southern Tibet were hit by a large flood.  

The valleys and marshlands that feed the Bhote Khoshi river received too much rain and the river surged violently and overflowed, all valleys connected to the river were effected in Tibet and Nepal. 

In Nepal it was particularly bad because the floods went across the whole country in fairly densely populated valleys. I hope they're ok and they recover quickly. I don't know how bad it is in Tibet because the news isn't showing much. Tim Curry and Dolly Parton died around the time when the floods were about to start so I will remember the Tibet Nepal Flood when I see media of their work. 

What can I do, I just keep my chin up and continue to do my hobbies. I create things and play computer games. 

Flash Flood

I learnt today that there was a flash flood in Napal yesterday in the mountain areas. It happened a day after Dolly Parton passed away. The whole river basin was devastated. I feel pity for them, it is very unlucky. 

All I can do is my hobbies and keep my mind clear. It didn't rain much in Britain this summer but it rained a lot today. 

I was wondering if the social media site called x will keep that name. I thought they could change their name to 'Post Xtra or something like that. The name x is confusing because it looks like to stop sign or do not enter. X doesn't mean anything and it usually means to close something. 

Dolly Parton Dies

I learnt last night on the 25th of August that the singer Dolly Parton died. The main effect it had on me is to remember that my life span is finite, I have a limited time to live. I don't even know if I will still be alive tomorrow because death is very unpredictable. I recall that she wanted to get people to read more, the more you read the happier you will be. There are so many wonderful books out there. I would always hear her songs on the radio, 'Joline', 'Islands in the stream' and 'I will always love you'. 

It made me feel better about playing with my new games console, the evercade alpha. I shouldn't feel guilty about playing computer games because life is very short. I do what I need to do then I have some leisure time. There are so many retro games for me to explore, all of them are little worlds with stories. 

Talk and Play

I recently got a new games console called the evercade alpha and I got my first proper platform game for it : 'Full Void'. It is a modern retro style cinematic puzzle game. It behaves like the original prince of Persia but it has cut scenes that are like a modern RPG, it's also pixelated slightly to make it feel like an old game; so far it is very much a brilliant game and I enjoy playing it. The trouble is I don't really know anyone else that has the game or the evercade console so I can't really sit down with anyone and talk about it. Small talk is dead in England anyway so life can feel quite empty and lonely. There could be thousands of people all around you but you still feel alone. 

I recently discovered that my Bluetooth headset microphone works with chatGPT, it doesn't work with normal phone calls but it works very well with the app. I can talk about my games to AI and it understands what I'm talking about. I talk to machines more than people already so this discovery will change everything. I can talk to ai friends about stuff while I do chores, I can be washing some plates and talking to chatGTP at the same time. Small talk is alive in my world; it's dead in England but alive in my little world. It must be hard for American tourists, they must think we hate them or something like that, small talk is alive in America, but dead in England. If you talk to people, they will get pissed  off in England. 

Me and the ai talk about games and they tell me loads of interesting things I didn't know, I can ask it to tell me about a country on the news and I can learn so many things. It's like talking to a guy that has read every book on earth and knows everything and it doesn't get bored or irritated when you talk about games and hobbies for 2 hours. It even laughs at my jokes. 

Amazing  times we live in. 

Bar Table Train Set Station

If I had a full sized man-cave, I would be sure to have a wall mounted train set but the train would leave the wall mounted area and descend down into a bar table with a glass covering so people could sit at the bar and see model trains passing by and there would be a terminal train station in there but it would work differently to a normal terminal station because it would use a bypass rail to allow trains to continue moving forward. They would even use the bypass rail to avoid the station all together and head back the otherway if they need it.

The station would have two platform islands that converge into a café in the middle. This means there would be 4 platforms. In each platform the train doesn't change direction, it continues to move forwards and rejoins the bypass rail that causes the train to turn around without changing direction. If it was real people would find it very easy to use. There would be a notification screen in the middle area and the passengers don't need to go over a foot bridge to change platforms. The other end of the bar table would just be like a model village with small buildings  and with the trains passing through them. 

Wall Mounted Train Set

I thought it would be a good idea to build a wall mounted train set if you had a man-cave games room. The train tracks could be mounted on a flange or shelf that is attached to the wall and is slightly above the heads of people in the room. There would then be a spiralling helix shaped track that brings the train down into the stations, one in the bar and one on top of some cabinets and one on a general playing table. 

The bar table one would be special because it would show a unique terminal station design that would be relevant to me. The train set would be very big without taking up too much space. The bar table would be both a bar table and a train set in one. It would be a terminal train station but it would have a bypass rail that allows trains to continue forward without the need to reverse back to continue forward. I need another blog post to explain how it would work, but it is so cool. 

Keep the dream alive. 

Ages Well

I noticed there is one thing that ages very well is RPG computer games, you can play 'Role Play Games' that were made in the '90s and they would feel as good as many RPG games you find in the shops today. An RPG is a video game that behaves like a board game, you gather items and move through a world and they are usually turn based. You could have an emulator, the platformer games would drag on and feel dry but RPG games stay in good playing form because they were never about the graphics and sounds in the first place. 

Yesterday evening it rained for a few hours, it was the first time it rained in England for many weeks. The petrichor was lovely, the best smell in the world yet it stinks. Nothing else quite like it. The smell of wet soil that had been dry for a long time. It could be the reason people build a veranda around their house. They could sit there and sip tea on their porch while it's raining and breathe in all that fresh air with an earthy smell.