Lots to report, hope everyone has been well. I’ve reconnected with my online Grand Theft Auto V Roleplay family and since that project is long gone, we’re coming together to develop a similar roleplay server for Red Dead 2 Online (RedM). The big thing here is learning lua scripting, and I’ve already made several meaningful pull requests to the server! The big thing for me is learning more about client side vs server side scripts. I’ve already got the Splunk Universal forwarder on the dev server and we’re using an HTTP event collector to capture all kinds of cool logs from in game functions. I also have a Splunk app called DB Connect directly hooked into the MySQL/MariaDB database so we can do live queries on the fly, or ingest data for historical reference on scheduled intervals. I sprung for https://www.splunklogs.com and it works! Pretty nerdy stuff!

I’m also getting back into card counting blacking and renewed my Blackjack Apprenticeship membership that I let expire in December. It will be a fun mental challenge along side the technical development from the redm stuff! I am really hoping I can marry the two hobbies together so I can write scripts that will have a true blackjack experience in redm. There’s existing things from the original rockstar game, free scripts from the GTA V (fivem) casino, but none of them give you the full functionality of splitting while also giving you a true shoe. Most of the scripts essentially uses a constant shuffle machine so every round is a new shoe. This renders card counting useless, so I’m hoping that in helping script up a proper blackjack script, that I can also focus on getting better at blackjack in real life.

Oh I upgradeed my Dell laptop from Fedora 37 -> 38 and something was very wrong with VS Code. I tried uninstalling reinstalling, no dice. Wiped the laptop, fresh install of Fedora 38, and now VS Code works great!

That’s all for now. Hopefully more later. My love to you and yours.