{"id":344,"date":"2020-04-30T23:35:57","date_gmt":"2020-05-01T06:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tesguides.com\/blog\/?p=344"},"modified":"2020-04-30T23:35:57","modified_gmt":"2020-05-01T06:35:57","slug":"time-wounds-all-heels-the-pain-of-neverwinter-nights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tesguides.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/30\/time-wounds-all-heels-the-pain-of-neverwinter-nights\/","title":{"rendered":"Time Wounds All Heels? The Pain of Neverwinter Nights."},"content":{"rendered":"

I don\u2019t want to get into the politics of the Covid-19 response (the consequences are depressing, no matter which side you think is correct), but being essentially home-bound for a few weeks has left me with ample time to go back through my Steam library and fiddle around with stuff that has been gathering digital dust for a while. By happenstance, I installed Beamdog\u2019s Neverwinter Nights Enhanced Edition<\/em>, mostly for a chance to laugh at the polygonal graphics (dang, but Aribeth has some pointy things that shouldn\u2019t be pointy; and I remember someone creating \u201cjiggly mesh\u201d to make those pointy bits jiggle \u2013 go figure). I sold off my original Diamond Edition game at a garage sale many years back, so I snagged Beamdog\u2019s remaster when it went on sale sometime back as a replacement (let\u2019s not get into the pending stress catastrophes that my bookcases have become over the years \u2013 they are sagging in place where I didn\u2019t know it was possible for them to sag). After installing and rolling up a basic Elven Ranger, I remembered that I had written a \u201cBeginner\u2019s Guide\u201d for the game<\/strong><\/a>. It was still there, but at some point during the intervening 15 years, Chrome decided that Flash objects were a no-no, so every single one of my menu links were broken because the object that held the link wouldn\u2019t load; Firefox wasn\u2019t any better. Edge at least loaded them if I allowed Flash on a per-session basis, but I don\u2019t do Edge and I\u2019ve long since removed Opera and the other browsers, so I couldn\u2019t say how they handle things.  Well day-um! Where I thought I would be wasting time laughing at an almost-20-year-old game, it looks like I needed to go fix a crap ton of broken stuff so I could refresh my memory and THEN I could waste time with the game. To cap things off, I got rid of the copy of Dreamweaver that I used to write the guide (and create all of those non-functional Flash objects). Not that I would have expected something designed for 32-bit Windows XP to work very well on 64-bit Windows 10, and I\u2019m not going to shell out $250 per year for the current version. \u201cSoftware as a service\u201d is a whole other rant, but I wouldn\u2019t use it often enough to justify the cost in any case. So back to Notepad++ I go, the whole while wondering whether I remember enough about HTML to fix the parts that needed fixing (I did, and Lord, it is tedious). I\u2019m pretty much done with the Prelude and Chapter 1 and have mostly got the page edits into something resembling a routine. Give me a couple more days and the whole thing should be up and running again. Maybe then I can go back to grousing about lockdowns and laughing at Aribeth\u2019s jiggly bits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I don\u2019t want to get into the politics of the Covid-19 response (the consequences are depressing, no matter which side you think is correct), but being essentially home-bound for a few weeks has left me with ample time to go back through my Steam library and fiddle around with stuff that has been gathering digital […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tesguides.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tesguides.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tesguides.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tesguides.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tesguides.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.tesguides.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":345,"href":"http:\/\/www.tesguides.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344\/revisions\/345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tesguides.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tesguides.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tesguides.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}