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A new tool I am using on my gaming PC is TempusGameIt. It is a simple gaming time tracker, but has a nice little community built around it, largely of members from the Gamepad.Club Mastodon server. It works very well, and provides a great unified time tracker that works both within and without of Steam. My usage stats can be found at: https://tempusgameit.com/users/OberstKrueger.

Personal projects have taken a back seat the last couple of weeks due to real life obligations, but it hasn't stopped me from making plans for the future. In addition to a number of small toy apps I have started to plan out, the PlayStation emulator has begun to go in a new direction. Since there are a number of already fully featured and functioning emulators, this project is taking a more academic path forward. Instead of simply working towards playing games, I want to emulate the hardware as exact as I can. Most emulators simplify the hardware, as an exact recreation is not necessary for games to function. But I want my emulator to have a fully working CPU pipeline, additional registers that help transition between the different stages, and whatever else comes up. I will take some shortcuts for less interesting elements (RAM can stay as a simple array of unsigned integers, thank you very much), but the core elements I will go as complicated as I can.

I do believe this will add a few extra years of work on to this, and move it out of the category of emulators that can run well. But it will be a lot more fun and interesting for me, which remains my primary objective.

Diablo IV has been on my currently playing list for a few months, but my time with it is coming to a close for a while. The game remains one of my all-time favorites, but season 14 will be my last for a while. I have been playing it heavily since it originally launched, and given my limited gaming time these days, I want to dedicate that time elsewhere.

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