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But they didn’t actually announce the expansion itself, which seems odd. They have two posts up covering features of the upcoming Wolves of Mordor expansion, as well as having given MMORPG.com an exclusive interview about the features, but didn’t actually make any sort of fuss about “Oh, by the way, we’re going back to Mordor with the Wolves of Mordor” thing.
Lord of the Rings Online
Sure, they mentioned it, even gave a bit of insight, but it was absolutely not a full throated announcement of co…
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I don't have good eating habits.
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MMO Casual
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Seventeen years. Somewhere between twenty-one and seventy-seven posts a year, depending on how much life was in the way. It works out to more than six hundred posts about a video game and the guy playing it, written under a name that isn't mine, for an audience some years I could count on two hands.
When people find out, they ask why anyone keeps a blog going that long with numbers like that. Fair question. Here's the honest answer.
I kept going because I never made it a job. The second a blog t…
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Aeish World Neocities
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Wow, I am so proud of myself for showing up for Blogust! I don't know if I will be able to keep this up all month, but really getting started is the difficult part (for me. And everyone else with bad executive functioning.)
I don't really know what to put here, it's barely been 24 hours since the last post. Today, I was struggling with executive functioning a little bit more than I usually do. I went to office in h…
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As in the actor, yes. It almost seems like a dream to me. Now here I am, waiting to watch the new Spider-Man movie. I can’t believe I have followed the guy’s different films for a decade now.
Way back in 2018, I was going to smaller Comic Con events, I somehow got lucky and managed to travel for it twice. First I went to Glendale, AZ. Then Seattle, WA later in the year. I had a goal in mind to meet an another MCU actor that shall not be named. Due to various reasons, it never happened. I felt de…
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Aywren's Nook - Gaming and Geek Blog
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In a previous video I where talked about social anxiety in FFXIV, one of the top responses I heard was that folks wanted to roleplay, but either didn’t know how to start or were too afraid to try it. I pulled together a number of tips based on my own experience, and suggestions of others in the RP community, to make this follow-up video.
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These days, my primary "third place" is my local game store (LGS).
For those unfamiliar, an LGS is a small independent retailer of physical gaming merchandise that can include board games, card games, tabletop games, and role-playing games. Not every LGS serves all of these categories of gaming in great depth, but most will carry at least a few product lines of all of the major brands in each space. If you're new, you'll probably be able to get what you need to get started in whatever floats you…
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Morning! It’s a gray and dismal rainy start to this Monday morning, the start of another work week. And, for me, the start of a new work sprint.
I already regret putting the Blaugust day in the post titles. I was trying to make it easier for anyone counting, but it really looks ugly.
MRI Complete
Yesterday I drove clear to the other side of the city to get an MRI on my neck. I drove a complete circuit around the circular bypass highways around the city.
The MRI itself was uneventful, and took ab…
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Earlier this year I found myself suddenly coveting a retro handheld, possibly thanks to reading about joelchrono’s adventures with them. If you’re not familiar, they’re small gaming devices, typically running Linux or Android, that are designed to play old games from an SD card. It’s a pretty crazy market — there are several Chinese companies churning out multiple new models each year, and usually when you buy one it comes with thousands of games pre-loaded, which these Chinese companies obvious…
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This essay was super fun to write. Thinking about how to keep your thoughts interesting in the age of AI. Nakatomi Drift
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Courtney Rosenthal
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I had a good thing going. I was blogging regularly – weekly in fact.
My goal was a post every Tuesday. I’d start working on the post end of the week, refine it over the weekend, and push it live Tuesday morning. Each post was about something I was working on or thinking about. They tended to be researched and developed, with something of substance to say.
Except it was such a heavyweight and burdensome process, with such high expectations, eventually it all fell apart.
Recently, I’ve been thinki…
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Cubic Creativity
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Since Planeswalker Decks seem to always come out in pairs, here is the flipside to the Planeswalker Deck “Chandra, Pyrogenius”, which was all about going Aggro with vehicles. The Planeswalker Deck “Nissa, Nature’s Artisan” takes a slightly different approach, being … Continue reading →
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Beyond Tannhauser Gate
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I’m not really sure how this is going to look on my site since I just updated a bunch of plugins, my theme, and actually even wordpress to their latest versions. This took a while so I ran out of the time I had set aside for ‘being creative’ today, and I still have not gotten my theme built back up the way I want it. I forgot how much of a pain this could be.
Along with fighting with my theme and layout today…and losing, I actually got a chance to go for a run for the first time in 2 weeks. With…
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Why am I doing Blaugust? Answering the week one prompts!
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Lyons in Beta
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I've been wanting to redesign my website for some time. The turn-key 11ty "starter blog" I was using before was probably perfectly editable, but who wants to try and understand someone else's mistakes when you can start from scratch and make all of your own mistakes! At the same time, ever since I stopped streaming[1] (which was fun in its own right but was mainly to support podcasting) I've been missing the design-y aspect of streamer layouts. Two great problems that go great together right? I…
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Earlier this week at the AIDS 2026 conference in Rio de Janeiro, the State Department showed a map of Africa with six countries highlighted. Each country was identified incorrectly along with the funding amounts. Reuters suggested it was created with OpenAI tools; the State Department took “full responsibility” and blamed a “team member.” At least, … Continue reading Basic Geography →
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I love coffee! I'm not sure if I'd call myself a coffee snob but I'm sure other people might haha. I recently stumbled on this coffee questionnaire via James Zhan and Syl's Blog and I can't resist a questionnaire!
How many cups of coffee per day?
Usually two cups per day (500ml/~16oz). This question got me into a tangent/rabbit hole about the measurement of coffee as technically I brew 1 pot of a 4-cup coffee maker... but those are pretty small mugs of coffee (it is NOT 1L of coffee). It is kind…
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Gridranger's blog
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Memories Taken by the Heat
I've just come back from my morning dog walk. On the streets here, you can smell the nearby forests. The sea is only a couple of kilometers away. Clouds towered over our heads.
The cool breeze and the scent of water vapor in the air brought back memories from years ago.
After my divorce, I moved to a small flat in the downtown of Budapest. It was 2020, and I managed to buy a neat apartment that had previously been used for Airbnb. It became unprofitable for the owner a…
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MMO Casual
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I didn't start with Vanilla. I know that's practically heresy in some circles, but it's the truth. The expansion that actually pulled me into World of Warcraft and never let go was The Burning Crusade.
Picture where I was. Everybody I knew was already max level, already geared, already talking about a game I'd never touched. So I rolled a character and started the long grind to 60, through the same Eastern Kingdoms and Kalimdor zones that hadn't really been touched in a while by everyone else. T…
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Yesterday's post was featured on the daily blogroll westkarana.xyz. 😊
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On blogging, writing about abuse, and growing up as an artist. Also for AugusStory.
I’ve been blogging since I was….
I don’t actually know. It feels like I’ve been blogging since the big bang, and it feels like I’ve never blogged before. Baby’s first blog! Except I’ve been blogging since I don’t remember, except I remember it perfectly and I’ve been blogging since the first breath I took in 2001, except it’s really more like I’ve been blogging since I died on the operating table for a minute and…
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Blogging live from Indie Web Club yet again! Lots of pieces from my camera roll. Please click on the link (and appreciate the visuals :') )
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Prompt: Yep, next. Letter 14 – Enough is as Good as a Feast
GPT-4o said:
Letter 14
Enough Is as Good as a Feast
Dear You,
You’ve probably been taught to aim for abundance.
More options. More status. More snacks.
More zeros in the bank account, more rooms in the house, more likes, more speed, more hustle, more everything.
But let me slip a spoonful of ancient wisdom onto your plate:
Enough is as good as a feast.
Maybe even better.
A feast is loud. Grand. Impressive.
A spectacle of plenty that mak…
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Beyond Tannhauser Gate
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It’s that time of year again and I am making another run at Blaugust. Maybe 2026 will be the year I get back into regular posting, maybe not, but at least I am giving it the ole’ college try.
Anyone looking to get in on the action should head over to the Blaugust 2026 Official Announcement page and then on to the Blaugust 2026 Signup page.
Actually, now that I see the signup page, I realize I am posting this without having signed up yet myself. I better get to that!
Anyway, as with last year’s B…
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I’ve been muddling through ways to stay interesting – to myself and friends – in the age of AI. Part of the answer, I have come to understand, is the construction of Thickets. Dreaming up such a thing without a way to traverse it kept the idea incomplete. One nagging thought was that it was important to get properly lost – as opposed to trivially lost. That feeling where you had a good sense of where you were, but a question you asked or a connection you made has left you in unfamiliar territory…
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Andreas from 82Mhz just published he is joining #Blaugust 2026. I remember I joined in 2024 and it was a fun way to keep blogging. I had an introduction post back then, and although most of it is still current, I will do a quick update here:
I still work in construction as an estimator, and I am now considered a senior estimator in my team.
I still love reading, and it is my main hobby, as attested by the posts on this blog. I am very much a sci-fi and fantasy reader, but I’ve been distancing my…
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Geek on a Harley
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My only significant motorcycle road trip of 2026 was taken on May 9th through May 14th. The trip was planned as an opportunity to visit familly in and around Chilliwack and to familiarize myself with longer distance riding for the year.
As luck would have it, the ride did not go quite as planned. I did get a good visit with several members of my family which was great. But some things happened which, along with changes in my mental state and general health, led me to cancel other, longer journey…
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The Friendly Necromancer
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Happy start of Blaugust! I don't know why I signed up for this. It's not like I don't have a billion other things going on right now, and I usually don't sign up unless I'm dead set on posting EVERY FREAKIN' DAY. That may be different this year. We shall see.
For today, I don't know, just thought I'd talk a bit of real life. I posted to my friends on Facebook a couple days ago, just a random goofy video.
"I've been watching a lot of Mullet Review lately, and when my co-worker magically found a c…
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