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I talked yesterday briefly about how I love clouds, adore them really. There’s something dreamlike and peaceful, well, at the best of times.
There’s also another element I was born to: water. I’m a Pisces and natural born water baby. Sometimes I think I’m part mermaid I love the water that much. But, just like changeable clouds, I have a healthy respect for water, especially the sea.
Like cloud and water in general, the sea is a living entity. Alive in a way all elemental forces are. Not sentien…
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We're only on the 5th day of Blaugust and I'm already struggling to think of something to write about. I went through the list of prompts and nothing is standing out there either. I think I'll just do a little freewriting (freewheeling?) today and see how it goes.
Let's start with some music I've been loving lately:
The album Come Closer by Tomora - a trip-hop collaboration between Aurora and Tom Rowlands of the Chemical Brothers. I always love seeing new trip-hop releases because it's a bit of…
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I'm munching on shrimp chips as I write this. Both sushi restaurants I've been to serve these, while none of the ones I went to in LA did. This puffy variant doesn't read as Japanese to me, but I suppose when the menu lists pho and panang curry alongside its sushi and sashimi, there really aren't any boundaries.
Swedes like to ask me what I think of the Asian food here, and I'm never sure what to say. It's all good? The flavor's a little different, but I don't have the vocabulary to describe it.…
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I picked up Final Fantasy XIV sometime mid-2022.1 I was finishing the final year of my Master degree, except I already knew I would be repeating it, because very little was done. I was in the middle of an internship that was remote and not really my cup of tea. In the middle of all this stress, my gender was having a stroke too. There was no better time for me to fall for a massive time-sink of an MMORPG with free trial up to level 60 including the award-winning Heavensward expansion, and so I d…
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You've heard a few stories from my youngest days (and there's plenty more I will share), but how about we jump ahead a little to my college days? In fact, I just heard this song on the radio at the end of July and it gave me the idea for the theme and inspiration for my participation in Blagust this year.
Relax by Frankie Goes to Hollywood
I have a Media Studies degree. I don't bring this up often because I've never really done anything with it. I've taken my share of video classes where we ofte…
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I don’t know what to write about today, so I figured I would answer a week 1 Blaugust prompt question. I can’t answer all of them since I haven’t been blogging for a year yet.
What made you decide to do Blaugust this year, and what are your personal goals?
I thought it would be a fun writing exercise to do daily posting. I wasn’t very productive in Artfight, so I’m searching for other activities now that it’s over. I joined almost as soon as I found out about the event from some other people. I…
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I will say this; Planet Crafter moves along at a brisk pace. It is also good about laying out the next objective for you and giving you a way to see how fast you are progressing.
Certainly A Planet Crafter
Unlike Valheim, which I will use for comparison as it represents such a staple of the survival crafter genre, with rather broad objective of slaying the current biome boss, Planet Crafter objectives are much more incremental.
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I have a main. An undead warlock that I've been playing for over 19 years, and never seriously wavered. And I still can't stop rolling alts. Both of those things are true, and if that sounds like a contradiction, welcome to my armory page.
The 52 characters that I leveled to max in War Within
Here's how it goes. I'll be perfectly happy on the warlock, chipping away at whatever the current thing is, and then I'll see a class and race combo that I don't have, or a class gets reworked, or Blizzard…
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The image at the top is there because this was going to be a post about the new fishing event in Neverness to Everness. That's not happening any more (Tomorrow, probably.) but the picture still has some relevance qua "picture", so I'm going to leave it in. It's a lot prettier to look at than the rest of the pictures in this post, that's for sure.
Now it's not about fishing, this is a post about blogging. More specifically, it's a post about Blogger, in which I moan about it.
Whining about bloggi…
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I apologize for the short post yesterday, it was just I was mentally drained when I started writing it out, and by the end of it. I just couldn’t think anymore. With trying to help Blade get a new job, trying to make sure we have enough money to cover... Continue reading
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Playing Hello Kitty Island Adventure is like drinking a mug of hot chocolate while wrapped in a soft blanket. It’s become a part of my daily routine that I always look forward to. Whenever I need a little downtime, I load it up and see what my adorable buddies on Friendship Island are up to.
HKIA is a cozy game where you and a bevy of Sanrio characters find yourselves stranded on an island resort. You all set about opening various shops, facilities and cabins around the island to make it feel li…
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I stumbled upon the Duck and Cover book series (author: Benjamin Wallace) entirely by accident. In this instance I was sucked in by the marketing blurbs comparing the series to something by Douglas Adams with dark comedy and characterization. The books are definitely good: not Douglas Adams or Terry Pratchett good, but worthy of a read.
The premise and books
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Although a big part of Blaugust for me this year is going to be figuring out what the heck this blog is actually about now, I thought it might be nice to do at least a couple video game centric posts over the course of the month.
I like chore sims in general. Things like PowerWash Simulator, Crime Scene Cleaner, and even Hardspace Shipbreaker all fall into this category for me. Doing the same thing over and over and over again until everything is in order, or completely disassembled, or organize…
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Day 4 of trying to keep up with Blogust. I literally dont have time and I am typing on my phone and it is torture, so please head to the blog page :3
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I love fountain pens. For a few years now I’ve started collecting a handful of cheaper pens to experiment with and figure out what sort of nib I enjoyed. I’ve got a few EF (extra fine), some M (medium) and some F (fine). I learned there’s a difference between EF in the East, and EF in the West, depending on manufacturers. I don’t own a broad nib yet, but that is on my list. None of my pens are particularly expensive, minus the one that I inherited from my MIL when she passed. From front left to…
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Week 1 of Blaugust is themed as the “Welcome to Blaugust” week – but arguably, I’ve already covered the literal facts of the event, and my reasons for taking part, in my prior Week #0 post. However, I don’t want to divert too far from the main theme, so I’ve instead decided to answer a larger question, which is: why do I write? I started writing consistently on this site more than half a decade ago, and it’s fair to say that lots has changed in the meantime. I’ve been formulating and thinking ab…
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Image from the Blaugust Discord channel and community
During the month of August I will be participating in Blaugust, a month long blogging challenge.
Last year I wrote a post about my blogging journey as part of the Reclaim Hosting #blogging4life initiative. and I also wrote a guest post for them about my beloved Daily Create. I don’t want to repeat any of that again, so suffice it to say that this IS my very first blog, though I have moved it from being a WordPress.com hosted site in 2012 to b…
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For the past couple of years I've seen the concept several times: punch needling. I didn't think much of it, I preferred to crochet and knit, and I didn't need another hobby.
Then I saw a cute coaster kit the other day, and I had to get it. The advantage was that the kit came with all the materials, including a punch needle.
I fell in love with punch needling the moment I figured it out, and each coaster better than the one before.
I bought some cheese cloth, and some new embroidery rings. I use…
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Game: Zeno Clash 2Developer: ACE TeamGenre: Beat’em-up/Fighting Game, First-Person-ShooterReleases: 2013 (Playstation 3, Windows, Xbox 360)Stalk’s Rating: 5/10 Weirdness has come home. We are back in Zenozoic, the lands of strange and quite frankly fucked up shit in “Zeno Clash 2”, the strange first-person brawler … Continue reading →
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I guess it’s official now that Mike Caulfield has finally blogged about the new film podcast we’re doing: Couch to 4K. In fact, we’ve been recording episodes since April as we’ve tried to figure out both our chemistry and some kind of workable format. I’m easy—I think everything I do is great, especially when it involves talking about movies. How wrong can one be?* We have three episodes out so far, and now that I’m back from my extended vacation and Mike has taken over production duties, things…
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My childhood friend Eric lived in a yellow house at the end of a cul-de-sac. We spent our summers and after-school evenings playing video games (SNES, later N64), ping pong, and street hocky. We blasted the Mortal Kombat soundtrack on CD and played tackle football in the back yard. Young and indestructible, we never donned helmets or padding, but wore our bruises proudly.
Eric had a neighbor named Matt, a regular kid, but two years older than us. Matt was lanky and tall and, owing to the age dif…
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Orluf Wavebane and party rest in a safe alcove, guarded over by a statue of a legendary cleric.
Over the past year or so I’ve been trying to get more into tabletop roleplaying and I feel I’ve been pretty successful. I’ve had the urge to get back into it for many years, after some unsuccessful previous attempts from a while back. This new attempt started by my overhearing in the school pick-up line a couple of people talking about playing some D&D or something like it. The next time I went to pic…
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This here, what you’re reading right now, is my first blog.
I don’t have much of a history of writing on the internet before I started Many Welps. As I said this weekend, I used to write for a now defunct comic book review site in 2014. That was my first experience writing on the internet, using WordPress, and publishing something I wrote to a wider audience. I wouldn’t classify it as blogging but it was quite fun. I was surprised they kept letting me write for them, honestly. They weren’t payin…
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So Robert Birming is doing something called AuguStory, and I'm feeling spontaneous. It's been a long time since I've done a blogging event.
I have to write the story of my blog for this prompt. He has given us some ideas to work with:
How did you first start blogging (what got you into it)
What platforms or sites you've been on over the years
Has your blog changed focus or purpose over time
A post from your early days you'd point people to
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I’ve been thinking about AI for a while now, since I am increasingly being surrounded by AI tools at work, with Microsoft adding a Copilot button everywhere I look. But that’s a topic for another time.
What inspired me to write here was the recent controversy within the Blaugust community about the use of AI-generated images and text. And I knew about this controversy after reading Andreas’ post: Are we becoming too paranoid about AI slop? And then the contribution to the topic by Joel: Not para…
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Gamers Esoteric
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Charm
When I saw today's #RPGaDay2026 prompt was charm, I laughed, scratched my head, and sat here thinking about it. You see, I'm not a very charming person in real life. I'm a very forgettable person with the personality of a rock. This prompt gave me some thinking to do from a game developer's perspective.
The longer I've worked on building my game, the more I've realized that charm and charisma aren't exactly the same thing, and that's an important distinction to make during game development…
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I am on the search for another White Whale in Warframe. I want to build a Burston Prime. I need four parts to build the Burston Prime. I have three of them, the blueprint, the stock, and the receiver, but am missing the barrel to make the gun. You know how I can get that barrel? From cracking one (1) specific Relic, and it isn’t even guaranteed to drop from said Relic.
I could trade for it, I could figure out how to work Warframe Market to buy the part for the Platinum I have built up. I don’t n…
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It's a day late but I've answered the Blaugust group project prompt: 'Tell us all about your very first blog!'
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The Ghastly Mirror
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Lately I´ve been sharing my 3DS with a sibling, wanting to get a second one for her this led me to the chaos of the second hand market, here are my thoughts.
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House House, makers of the delightful Untitled Goose Game and Panic, makers[1] of the fascinating Playdate, have teamed up again to release Big Walk.
It's a game where you "hang out and get lost with close friends in a big world." And the trailer makes it look cozy as heck.
For most of my gaming life I have been a solo gamer, playing mostly various flavors of (J)RPGs, (Action-)Adventures, and Platformers. Notable exceptions are Rock Band(s)[2], Mario Kart(s)[3], Super Smash Bros.(s)[4], and Fina…
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The next expansion for the MMORG, The Lord of the Rings Online, was announced on the 1st August, via the gaming website MMORPG.The Wolves of Mordor, which will launch later in the year, appears ambitious in scope as it will include two new game systems as well as the obligatory story update. This expansion takes place in Draugardh located in the North East of Mordor, beyond the Plateau of Gorgoroth. It includes the new zones of Heledhris, Parth Rhavas and Nan Ogol. These vary environmentally ran…
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📌 Yesterday, Cocoa's (kitchen) water bowl has officially dried up. We haven't emptied it since the last day she took a sip from it 13 days ago. It's hitting me pretty hard.
The grief I feel comes in waves. At the same time, it also feels like being stranded in the middle of a vast ocean, where I spend every waking moment treading water. My legs burn, and my lungs are screaming for air. At this point, the shore is nowhere to be found.
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I sit in my easy chair, a hotel sec deposit arriving at 6 AM which brought about a walk to get fruit from WM. I was already at WM to buy the fruit when the refund hit, I just decided to get a bit more. Two cartons of smokes. Snacks and cigs through the day.
I felt like I wanted to visit some old sites. Blogs. Landing pages. I looked up Neil Ungerleider, a former Fast...something journalist, former blogger for journal of a journalist. Different life and times now.
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I signed up for Blaugust on a whim thinking it was a post daily challenge. It turns out there are weekly prompts too (albeit optional), with the first week focused on sharing why we joined.
So here's why I joined: there's been a lot of change in my life, and I haven't really sat down and reflected and written for a while. I'd like to set apart some time to do this. I'll also try to post write1 daily, which is not something I've attempted before.
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You know that feeling when you're brimming with excitement about doing "a thing"? You feel energized and motivated and just happy. So you sit down and do the thing... and then it's like all the reality of the world falls on you. It's not what you saw in your head. Or it feels bad. Or it turns out to be way harder than you thought. And just like that, the excitement's gone, and you're left disheartened.
Wrestling with watercolour lately has put this cycle on repeat for me.
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Speaking of changes and of Wholesome Games, I am always looking for ideas on what I can play with our daughter or what I can let her play on her own once in a while.
She is not allowed to play anything with violence, anything that isn’t age-appropriate, or games with online interactions. It should also not be a game that uses predatory tactics to urge her to continue playing.
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I've used a few different recipe apps and websites in my lifetime. They were never quite right, but they did the job. I purchased my previous favourite app (I think for 5-8$ at the time? This was probably 7 or 8 years ago) for its pro features and ad-free use. But of course, as with so many things these days, it started to get worse. They eventually switched to a subscription model (thankfully my previous purchase was grandfathered in so I wasn't forced into a subscription). But it was the begin…
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Like many millennials, my first endeavor with the internet came as I was in my middle Teens and my introduction to blogging was through the amazing LiveJournal. I used to blog about the mundane everyday life of a teenage girl – with witchy inklings and just dipping her toes into the online social life that would consume her.
I still have a friend on social media from my LiveJournal days. Shes outlasted my high school friends whom im drifted away from and while it’s very much a passive relationsh…
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Venture into dungeons to gather ingredients and cook up a storm in your restaurant to pay off a lot of Debt!
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I was at FFXIV Fanfest a week ago, and no diary from Germany can be complete without a mention of German trains.
When I was picking our hotel, I thought it was well connected to the Fanfest location. And it is, but not when they decide to do a little weekend track renovation. And then when we tried to get to the keynote on day 1, an entire train station got evacuated due to a fire alarm, and we had to scramble for alternative routes.
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On the second day of my holiday I decided on another evening walk down the trail that led away from the beach. The day had been very fun, and very busy and I was mentally exhausted, in dire need of a break, and once again a lonely walk brought me right back into myself.
The trail started very easy and obvious, though I saw many overgrown and reclaimed branching paths that fireshadowed what this trail was soon to turn into. I thought I could avoid such inconvenience by sticking to this one path,…
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Let’s assume your favourite team is called ABC. Does being in form, mean ABC is going to win their next game? This point can be argued in fact from both sides.
Usually being in form, translates to feeling good, mentally as well as physically. ABC in good health is likely to do well in the game they play. With every game ABC plays, they gain confidence. They get rewarded with dopamine. With this, they are ready to play in almost any circumstance. Although, too much of dopamine, can make them over…
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After reading a few posts from fellow bloggers about how much it costs them to run their site, I am intrigued as to how much I am actually paying for this passion project of mine! Check out the last section for more examples.
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The requirements for hosting a personal site and a commercial one is vastly different. Everything mentioned on this page applies to the former. There’s also a multitude of ways to host a blog, and everyone’s tech stack is different, so keep that in mind.
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I had a fun day today! I went to work, and then went to a new meetup. This is something I found out about the day before - the alumni of a programmer's retreat in NYC in my city have a weekly meetup apparently, where techies get together and do remote work, and afterwards they discuss interesting problems faced during their work/side projects.
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I did a quiz! Thanks to Swifty's HQ, I now know which eeveelution I am: Leafeon!
I've always been a fan of grass-type Pokémon. My first starter ever, way back in the day, was Bulbasaur. I've stuck with the tradition and chosen grass types for almost all of my starters since then: Turtwig, Snivy, Rowlet, and Sprigatito. The one exception was Mudkip in Generation 3, which was a water type, simply because I thought it was too adorable not to choose.
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In one of those Repo Man lattice of coincidence moments, I was suddenly hit with a couple of unrelated posts about Monopoly the other day, which is the sort of thing that makes you think… at least think about Monopoly. So I did. Or tried.
The first was from Bhagpuss, who brought up the apparent reveal of a RuneScape edition of Monopoly.
RuneScape Monopoly – Image stolen directly from Bhagpuss
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Ask a hundred WoW players which expansion was the best and a good chunk of them, without hesitating, will say Wrath. I'm one of them. I've played every expansion since, and none of them ever quite got back to what Northrend felt like in 2009.
Part of it was the setup. TBC pulled me in, but Wrath was the first expansion I got to walk into on day one, already max level, already ready, no old-world slog standing between me and the new stuff. You picked a boat to Howling Fjord or a zeppelin to Borea…
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My word I'm having so much fun delving into the newest incarnation of EverQuest. Yesterday I advanced myself to level 16 and explored a bunch of old zones that I really just kind of ignored before . . . because I could. When I started, I was a high elf locked in the whole Greater Faydark area and grew up being lost in that whole area over there.
Now I'm playing as an Iksar in the Deserts of Ro in some strange zone called New Sebilis. WHAT? That zone isn't listed in my EverQuest Atlas: The Maps o…
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Shadowz Abstract Gaming
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A while back I wrote about having a slight addiction to my Kindle Paperwhite, and well truth be told I’m still believing that I have a very strong addiction to it now. Last time I ever talked about the genres that I really enjoyed it was mostly Paranormal Romance, and... Continue reading