FTL+Oulipo
Dec. 18th, 2018 06:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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-Harper's Magazine had a nice feature/review on the Oulipo, some of my writing inspirations, at the back of their new issue. Some of my favorite Oulipian constraints are the lipogram (writing text without a particular letter of the alphabet, such as e), "Exercises in Style" (retelling the same story 100 times in different formats), and "Metro Poems" (composing poems in your head between stops of a train journey, then writing the lines down at the stops).
-I had a couple plane flights the last couple weeks, and what's a nerd to do without internet? Relapse into FTL: Faster Than Light, of course. I have yet to beat the game, but the last few days I'd been trying the Kestrel (the first ship you start with) again to try to get some of the achievements that will let me unlock the next "human-style" ship. Today I got the United Federation achievement with six different species onboard at once.
If you have at least 40 scrap when you encounter the "translator," you can hire it/them/her/him, who turns out to be a Lanius named Transla. This was my first time with a Lanius crew; they suck out all the air from their surroundings so I wound up putting her(?) in the sensors room to keep an eye on our enemy ships, and because hopefully not too many people would be passing through there. We got blown up several stops later, of course, but hey, achievement unlocked!
I should probably also try Advanced Mode for the "11 subsystems" achievement, there are probably some cheaper ones there.
In other news, migraines suck, and I'm thinking about writing a post about the worst song from the best Christmas album. (I'd been thinking about writing it before it came on just now...)
-I had a couple plane flights the last couple weeks, and what's a nerd to do without internet? Relapse into FTL: Faster Than Light, of course. I have yet to beat the game, but the last few days I'd been trying the Kestrel (the first ship you start with) again to try to get some of the achievements that will let me unlock the next "human-style" ship. Today I got the United Federation achievement with six different species onboard at once.
If you have at least 40 scrap when you encounter the "translator," you can hire it/them/her/him, who turns out to be a Lanius named Transla. This was my first time with a Lanius crew; they suck out all the air from their surroundings so I wound up putting her(?) in the sensors room to keep an eye on our enemy ships, and because hopefully not too many people would be passing through there. We got blown up several stops later, of course, but hey, achievement unlocked!
I should probably also try Advanced Mode for the "11 subsystems" achievement, there are probably some cheaper ones there.
In other news, migraines suck, and I'm thinking about writing a post about the worst song from the best Christmas album. (I'd been thinking about writing it before it came on just now...)
