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For today's word, I want to talk about the main theme, aka the gist, of my world.
Nobody in my world got the whole truth, and nobody gets power for free.
Something happened to our world. The once shared, singular version of reality broke, and it turned our world upside down. In the scramble that followed, people reached for whatever they thought would keep them alive and only through trial and error did they learn what those choices actually cost them.
One of my core mechanics is built en…
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Before we start, let me explain to those readers outside of the UK, the significance of a Dairy Milk Freddo chocolate bar and its relevance to this post. The “Freddo” is an 18g (0.63 oz) chocolate bar, in the shape of an anthropomorphic frog. When it was re-launched by Cadbury in 1990 (it had previously been manufactured by an Australian confectionery company in the seventies), it was priced at 10p (£0.10). It remained at that price until 2005 when a 1p to 2p increase began to occur each year. B…
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You know those moments where you think, dang, computers are so insanely fast now … so why in the world does software still feel slow??
Well ripgrep is the antidote to that feeling. It’s just mind-bogglingly fast. I flippin’ love ripgrep. I use it for so much stuff.
Anyway, today I found a nice snippet that lists all my blog posts that are still in draft status:
rg '^draft( = |: )true' --glob "*.md" --files-with-matches content
The handy bit there is '^draft( = |: )true', which will find both dra…
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Dearest viewer, allow me to bring back a classic among this here Blog. We are going to play the hit song “Blockade wants to punt his laptop into the street”. Why? Because I really want to punt my laptop into the street after the way this week has gone so far. Not my desktop, I treasure that far too much. My work laptop? Weapons free.
Monday, the usual suspects, “my printer no print”, “I can’t log in”, things I’ve heard a million times. Except along the way, I get a call for a printer someone els…
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Now that I’ve hit the credits, here are my impressions 15 hours in.
Gameplay
Splatoon Raiders is a clever mixture of Splatoon and Monster Hunter gameplay, stripping out the PvP and leaving pure single-player and co-op goodness. Like Monster Hunter, you progress by completing levels, acquiring and crafting loot so you can tackle bigger challenges. The levels are quick and snappy and plentiful, so you won’t be getting bored any time soon.
Story and Setting
Storywise, it’s mostly the same as the pr…
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With my players all online, gone are are the days of rolls of grid paper and hand-drawn maps. A modern digital adventure calls for virtual maps and this is how I go about that.
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Don't panic, not a long post. I visit my university city every couple of months because I like the scene (whimsy) and I visited again today to catch up with a friend who's moving away for a Masters in a couple months. I won't air out our gossip 'cause it's none ya1 but the topic of location came up, which is something I've written about before.
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Hello, I'm Magi, and I blog sometimes. (lol)
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Look at this sweet boy. Say hi to Lennie!
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I love MMOs. Back in a day I was in every beta test and while paying sub and sometimes even buying the game was quite often out of my capabilities I still played a lot of MMOs. One of the main issues was the time consumption, which lead to me skipping a few years in single player games history and partially made me stop with MMOs. I just wanted to catch up with some other games and preferred to not lose touch with single player games and tried to touch grass some more, getting my life in the rig…
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On queer religion, religion after trafficking, my goals in religious studies, complex relationships with family members, and that unshakeable spark of belief.
I grew up feeling touched by God in ways that, according to others, I did not deserve. I believed in God before I knew what God was. I grew up with a mother who described herself as "spiritual but not religious" and a father that came from a conservative Christian family but who had somehow agreed to keep his faith out of raising me, so I…
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Its summer (still) which means book reading times for many.
Here are a few books I remember from the top of my head (which means they must have been influential to me). No specific order. Title and something I remember from that book.
Non-Fiction
Factfullness - Hans Rosling
Look at the biggest number first if you want to make an impact.
The attention fix - Anders Hansen
Our brains evolved for a different kind of world, and it explains so much.
The Checklist Manifesto - Atul Gawande
Checklists ar…
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digital acrylics, cat and dog anatomy, shares insights from various art classes and teachers
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Behold, it is I, the guy who continues to play new shiny videogames instead of sticking to my ongoing playthroughs.
I’ve written before about my ongoing games, which games I would start over instead of resuming, why I abandoned them, and the like.
This post will be different. Not a list of games, not excuses as to why I stopped playing them. My plan is to share with you exactly where I stopped playing and trying to remember what I was doing and where I was going! So, an excercise on my own memor…
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Ubergeek Kelly's World- Life, technology, science, rants
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I previously wrote about some adventures I was having with visitors to my site being blocked while attempting to post comments. I had a hypothesis at the time that the problem was related to a Cloudflare feature called Browser integrity check (BIC). However, I believe I’ve now disproven that as the (primary) cause: the real culprit appears to be a plug-in for WordPress called Dam Spam.
The counter evidence
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The Friendly Necromancer
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It was my birthday yesterday! Thought I'd take this opportunity to just do a quick rundown of events on or around my birthday and say that I'm happy I'm still alive and writing about it. How's that?
My typical birthday celebration consisted of two things: Eating at Spaghetti Factory and watching an IMAX film. Although I didn't do either of those things yesterday, I did see a movie a couple days before and eat at ye' old Spaghetti Factory three weeks ago, so . . . it still counts!
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This is specifically in reference to handwriting like it's 1895 where I am learning a more formal Victorian script. But it applies to any kind of learning.
Lesson the first: I can be - am often - a lazy bastard. Lazy is also a fun word to write in fancy cursive.
It is often easier to learn something completely new than unlearn or adjust something you already know. Zs are so different - I've never completely messed one up. Poor form, sure. Whereas Bs are almost the same except they attach the oth…
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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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A look at trends in the site analytics after about a year since I started blogging.
I started this blog in July 2025, but only really got started with posting on it in August, so we can say it's been approximately a year since I started. So I thought I'd look to see if there's any conclusions that can be drawn from my blog stats. The answer is... not really?
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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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To feign is to present a false appearance of something. I did this a lot as a child and feigned illness to avoid going to school. You see this in some movies mostly, but sometimes one character might feign an attack, usually a punch, against another character to intimidate and scare them. Or in a battle you might feign a retreat to lure the enemy into a false sense of confidence and draw their advance.
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When it comes to talking up my favorite games, I try as often as possible to not demean another adjacent title as a way to drive home that argument because it’s the most menial of punch-downs possible. Even if I may feel that way in some cases. Just because World of Warcraft has never really been my jam doesn’t mean that shitting on it makes Final Fantasy XIV look better.
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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?
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The Ancient Gaming Noob
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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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It’s smoky in Portland right now. For the moment, we’ve got the worst AQI of any “major” city in the world.
Here’s what it looks like outside (image from Oregonlive.com):
It’s a drag. My kids both have camps this week that have either been canceled or compromised. Exercising outside is a bad idea. I’m monitoring our indoor AQI with a couple sensors and redistributing air filters around the house.
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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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As a recovered stationery fiend who used to live across the street from a stationery store in Japan, I have transitioned from a maximalist, deco-heavy style across multiple journals to a purely functional layout in a singular Hobonichi Weeks. In today’s post, I wanted to share some thoughts about and photos of current and past layouts.
There are several elements that have been consistent since 2024 to present. My handwriting has stayed super messy because I never really take photos of my weeks (…
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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.
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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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Last year I first discovered HTML day, though this event has now run for the past 4 years! In a day and age when vibe coding is becoming a new reality, the celebration of hand-coded and intentionally built apps and sites is more important than ever.
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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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August 5, 2026
don't cry. 20,000+ species of bees, ok? source.
I love bees, they are one of my favorite groups of animals, and they appear to be becoming increasingly popular in the cultural zeitgeist - lots of stickers, dishtowels, etc stating 'save the bees', and so on. Despite this, lots of laypeople seem to misunderstand bees fundamentally, which I guess is ok, they are an incredibly diverse group of insects. Any public positive interest in an insect is a win. But I think it would be great i…
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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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Hello again. It's your boy Mike here, blogging about blogging (glances at Wouter). Today, I'd like to explore the topic of making my blog posts more durable.
I recently completed importing a backup of some of my old blog posts. These posts were from 2012 - 2019 and required a fair bit of editing because I was using embeds from other sites, some of which have since been purchased and shut down.
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During the month of August I will be participating in Blaugust, a month long blogging challenge.
Today’s TDC is this:
Today is Summer, make summer art today
Well, this week Glasgow is back to dreich rainy days, so instead of heading outside with my camera I searched my Flickr archives for a sunny image and chose this one:
189/365 Sunflower flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license
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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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Morning!
It’s another very early morning and an unusually busy day for me.
I have a dental cleaning appointment this morning, so I have to hop to it and get ready for that. (For me, that means being ready hours early and then fretting about remembering to bring everything I’m supposed to and getting there at exactly the right time.)
Afterward, a friend is coming by with a truck to help throw out an old mattress and sofa that won’t fit in my SUV. It’s an old memory foam mattress, so it’s huge, he…
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Inspired by Tamarian, here’s a modest proposal for a mythometaphorical conlang: Intermythic English. Intermythic English is English with the addition of the 150 words below (newly updated!).
Sample Sentences
Yama can sarasvati Babel. “You can speak Intermythic English.”
The Minerva of Babel has Castor and Pollux. “The author of Intermythic English has twins.”
Yama and Nar can ahura mazda new Sarasvatis for Babel. “You and I can create new words for Intermythic English.”
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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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(This is my fifth post in a series of entries I’m using to participate in Blaugust for 2026.)
Over on DIY Photography, Alysa Gavilan as a good introduction to freelance photography as a career. It’s worth a read if that’s something you or someone you know is seriously thinking about that as a choice.
I’m not summarizing articles here, but I’ve known a few freelancers and photography business owners (Are you a freelancer if you have employees?) and because of that I offer some additional advice:…
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This is the first community builder post I’ll be doing this Blaugust. There are around 140 blogs participating in Blaugust this year. Here are the ones I already follow. How do I follow blogs? I use a feed reader. There are many free and paid options available. I currently use NewsBlur, which is great, though I am considering migrating to something cheaper and more basic. All these blogs have a feed — just paste the blog URL into a feed reader and you’ll get all their posts in one handy feed.[1]…
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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 →