mmmega idiot and Hytale: a somewhat fantastical journey

March 8, 2026

i have a confession i would like to make.

i have never, in the history of my life...

bought a game on release week.

now, i have bought games within the first 3 months of release because all of the bugs are fixed by then. i even bought a few in early access, like ULTRAKILL.

but never a game on release week, until Hytale released.

naturally, on the second day of the game being out, my brother pestered me to buy it when his friends were going to play.

and seeing that i am complete and utter garbage at free will, i happily obliged.

to this day, i don't think it was a bad choice, maybe only choosing to play the game on shit tier internet because my brother already somehow had a server up and running.

trust me. hit detection was not fun.

naturally, i enjoyed it more when i was in singleplayer, and i had some decent fun mining, fighting monsters, crafting weapons, and a lot more.

i then put the game down for a moment, and a few days ago, i popped it back open seeing as there's been an update or two.

i ran to the avatar section, and did a bit of customizing, since they now have added multiple outfits.

the avatar i made pre-update...

...and the one i made after the update for my second outfit slot.

after putting together the new outfit and feeling bonita, i loaded up into a new world and started doing stuff.

i spawned inside of this little building, and immediately left to take in the scenery. it was beautiful, but there was a problem: i had no tools.

luckily, sticks and stones (literally like stacks of rocks and piles of random sticks) are everywhere, and if you tear out enough plants, you can make basic tools like a hatchet, pickaxe, and sword.

seeing as i wasn't in the mood to really build, i decided to try and kit out the spawn building with all the stuff i need. it was way easier here, because i'm not fighting 6 something other players for space.

i made a bunch of workbenches (unlike Minecraft, crafting a respective category of item is done at its own workbench, and not at one crafting table) and then decided to go mining.

i am a dwarf and i'm digging a hole

i got a bunch of copper, smelted it, made some upgraded tools and went to mine iron. i may or may not have went to a lava area, and got extremely lost until i died.

it sucked, but the game's world defaults are more forgiving, only dropping half your items and taking some durability away. (meaning you always keep your armor and tools :D)

i died super far away from spawn, so i didn't go back.

i ended up finding some random hill, and i ended up breaking a block underneath to find an entire dungeon. you already know i had to rob it for what it was worth.

had to be quick screencapping because the skeleton in the corner noticed i existed and beat the everloving hell out of me

after that ordeal, i went to the surface and saw the moon :)

i then did some dicking around back at base before wrapping up.

overall, a very fun return to the game for me, and i need to bully my console friends into either buying a Steam Machine or letting me build a PC with them so I can play with them.

- mmmega idiot

the guestbook now exists

March 4, 2026

i mentioned in my last post that i was doing a guestbook.

it exists now, powered by atabook.

should be in the links bar. if you find a page without it, feel free to mention it.

that's all. have a good day.

- mmmega idiot

the (potential) path for the idiot in the coming time

March 3, 2026

since i have been updating this for a good minute, i guess it comes time when you whack some ideas around

these are in no particular order, and i can't make promises as to whether or not these will actually be implemented

guestbook - pretty simple. a guestbook so other people that come in can write about stuff on the site, ask questions, or just say hi.
donations - don't worry, this won't happen till *way* later on. this site is unfinished, plainly, and i really want to do what i want to do without feeling like a cheapskate or sellout in those endeavours.
cdn (images) - i have to be careful with this one because i don't want to store images on the site hogging that precious 1 gig of size, but i also want one that ideally doesn't rat out half of the earth including me. if you have a good one, shoot a comment on the update post and i'll gladly look.

now, onto some updates i'll guarentee a bit more:

shrines - i got one in the works already. it's about something on my about section if you need a clue onto what it could possibly be about. probably won't be out with this one, though
tech review (?) - i got an AYN Odin 3 ordered that i wanna give a shot whenever batch 4 pre-orders get sent out. people in the handheld world are really excited about it, and i figured it wouldn't be a bad idea to give it a go and see if all those YT channels are just hyping for no reason or if there is some merit to those reviews.
sitemap - if you're seeing this, it's going to get removed for now. it's basically a dead link, and there's not much you can't access without the links bar.

i wanna do this stuff at some point in the future, some more recent than others. but, i also wanna just talk about tech and gaming stuff in general. Linux, cybersecurity, games, hardware, so on and so forth. you'll absolutely be getting a whole heap of that stuff, there is pleeeeeenty where that came from. if you have anything you wanna say in this list, make a post on the Neocities wall and i'll be glad to chat about it. i think that's all i wanna say, so until then, have a good day.

- mmmega idiot :B

i downloaded Linux and now have a side of the airplane to myself

March 1, 2026

so back in August, i did an SSD upgrade going from a 1 TB hard disk drive and a WD Green 128 GB to 2 TB Samsung 990 PROs.

in hindsight, it would have been better to absolutely stash some DDR5 RAM, but i don't view into the future, so...

alright, i'm already way off track. all you need to know is i had a W11 partition before i decided to go to Linux.

i started by using Bazzite. i liked that it was indeed easy to maintain and update in theory, but immutable systems proved to be more trouble than they were worth.

case in point, i attempted to layer a VPN directly onto the system and it screwed up networking, which the docs said was a last resort.

turned out i liked flatpaks, so long as they did not attempt to replace all traditional programs and only supplement them.

so, i then went upstream to Fedora KDE and tried that since Fedora (Atomic) is where Bazzite upstreams and it proved to be better than Bazzite in that regard.

it was pretty good and i was happy with it until i tried to update any software that wasn't a flatpak.

KDE Discover constantly complained of bad GPG signatures with most software for some reason and I wasn't actually sure why.

it even happened with my system updates, too, which meant going to the terminal to update since it didn't seem to complain.

i eventually had a good setup going, but then felt the sudden need to downstream yet again.

then i went to Nobara and now we're here. i enjoy it a lot so far, as it's good for gaming and content creation but not too restrictive like Bazzite is (in my cases).

and since i already mentioned the fact i'm in a cybersecurity class, yes, i played with Linux there, too.

i actually studied it for an event along with Computer Security. i ended up placing in 3rd and 1st in regionals, so i say it wasn't a bad choice.

i'm still using the practice VM for casual use, too. I used Fedora Workstation, and it's suprisingly usuable after extensions + gnome-tweaks.

overall, i enjoyed my time with Linux so far, and i wished more devices out there used it more often.

pretty sure i annoy everyone when talking about it in every circle i'm in, but hey, i get a side of the airplane to myself without paying for first-class!

- mmmega idiot

"mmmega, where the hell have you been???"

Feburary 24, 2026

okay, yeah, fair question

so what ended up happening was that at some point in my own dumb life, i got a liiiiiitle sidetracked, and when i mean little...

i mean a lot, oh my god.

like how i'm on a FIRST Robotics Competition team now, and although i am on the way outta high school i actually managed to get a Best Autonomous Award for the team.

i also managed to convince the principal to finally let me go to a technical center for Cybersecurity, which took a few eternities, but we got there.

it helped me quite a lot, actually, the people there are chill as hell and i can actually say i have friends there. (not to say i don't have friends at the main school, who will all probably be reading this first, which in that case, hiiiiiiiiiii :B)

okay, so cool, i did a lot of things, so why am i back here in particular?

if you cannot tell with the current state of the internet as of this point, it suuuuuuucks ass

you gotta hand in your id to access stuff, every major site has a video black hole you can get stuck in and have to fight to actually get out of, advertisers yoink every last drop of info avaliable that is both about you and in this plane of existence (maybe even the next ones at this rate)

but, you do not need me to tell you that, probably because you all came to that conclusion millenia before i actually acted on it

you all seem chill as hell, so i'm just gonna be here.

hi again :B

- mmmega idiot