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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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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!
We saw Spider-M…
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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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
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What do you get when you cross Super Smash Bros. with I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream? The answer is Dead by Daylight, an asymmetrical horror game where 4 survivors attempt to escape a deadly game of cat and mouse against a killer. They do this by repairing generators which are needed to power up some gates that will allow them to leave the lethal playground, and then do it over and over again. For eternity.
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Quick housekeeping note: Reply notifications are now enabled in the comments. If you’ve commented in any of the previous days comments have been active, I have replied, but you probably didn’t see them. From now on you should be notified about replies if you leave the box ticked.
My earliest console gaming memories are on my granddad’s Master System. Since getting into retro handhelds, I’ve been revisiting the Sega Master System games from my childhood. Check out Part 1 for more!
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Usually post my streaming schedule on Mondays, but again was a bit of a busy Sunday and Monday, so I posted it late and why not share it here also, get some plans and recaps posted from time to time. Easier for people to navigate all the content on different platforms and in different formats this way plus easier to catch some of that live when it comes to streaming. Can always find my streaming schedule on Twitch (feature that barely anyone uses I feel).
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The man versus machine-theme continues with the Planeswalker Decks from Aether Revolt. Planeswalker Deck “Chandra, Pyrogenius” went into the world of vehicles, while “Nissa, Nature’s Artisan” focused on the idea of energy counters. Well, Aether Revolt brings another pair of … Continue reading →
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On the last day of GenCon, my friend asked me how I’d rate my first-ever gaming con experience from one to ten, and I mentally scored each event I attended before giving an average score overall. I ended up somewhere between three and four overall, which kind of felt like a huge waste of money. There are a lot of missteps I took like taking risks on events based on their descriptions which ended up not being accurate (ex: a “LARP-lite” experience ended up just being a series of childish carnival…
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Poise
This word brings a fun topic to today's post. Poise deals with balance and equilibrium. As a game developer, this is one of the biggest focal points for my TTRPG — and honestly, for just about everything I do in general.
Technically I could roll straight out of yesterday's post about stature, since I was already dabbling into playtester classes there. But I won't. Instead I want to talk about how I'm approaching the whole balancing-abilities-without-breaking-things problem. Especially sinc…
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When the events I share on my weeknotes are few and far between, it’s often because I wrote a lot of posts already talking about stuff that was interesting to me during the week, so, yeah it happens sometimes! In any case, this is some of the other stuff that happened between July 28 and August 3, 2026!
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I’m usually not focused solely on MLB but with the trade deadline passing today and my Angels suffering one of their worst seasons ever, it was a big thing on my mind. For the first time in at least a decade, the Angels actually made some rational and reasonable moves at the deadline and got rid of players that could help other teams while brining in some young talent for their farm system.
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Woah. I only just experienced Path of Fire within the past year or 2, despite it being out for almost 9 years now. But it’s new to me and I played it, so that’s something.
Yesterday’s post was a stark reminder to me that, yes, I’ve been blogging on this site now for 14 years. 14 years! Over that time I’ve had a ton of changes in my life from jobs to cars to kids to my hair turning grey and yet here I still am. Tapping away into the void. It’s pretty obvious I’ve become more jaded over the years,…
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It’s almost been a week since Everquest Legends officially released. I have a bad habit of waiting to long to start writing about a game and it feels like I’m about on that cusp for this one. I’ve been playing almost everyday, making slow but steady progress.
I come to EQL without the rose tinted glasses of nostalgia. In 1999, I was in second grade and I’m pretty sure I wasn’t even aloud on the internet. The most I used the family computer for at the time was playing with MS paint and pretending…
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I joined Blaugust this year again. This site was mainly a blog before, so I'm giving it a new go this year with a fresh look.
This year will be a bit slower, as I am more than often pretty beat and tired; Europe is undergoing one of the worst heatwaves I've ever witnessed: Hot temperatures above 35°C all day, reaching highs like 40°C and not really cooling down during the night... a rather unpleasant unexperience.
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My Third Blaugust entry, In Which my Gardening Adventures Lead me to find a very pleasant suprise.
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Kyle Orland at Ars Technica writes about the expanding trend of physical console game discs and cartridges that require internet connectivity to play, as tracked by the DoesItPlay organization:
Thus far, a full 27 percent of the physical releases they’ve tested require some sort of download to fix game-breaking bugs or obtain core game content that is not stored on the physical release itself. That ratio balloons to 34 percent for tested PS5 games and 50 percent for those on the Xbox Series X.
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In my last post, I mentioned that I prefer playing Wholesome Games nowadays. I am aware that there is no one definition for what a Wholesome Game is.
I mostly use this term for games that give me a cozy comfortable feeling with no stress, which means usually no time limits. What I also love is games that do not focus on violence. Or one of my personal pet peeves: Solving any and all issues with violence.
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So, I wasn't fully tuned in to this Everquest Legends release that happened just a few days ago. I mean, I saw the e-mail from Daybreak and skimmed a few blogposts (enough to know Tipa was playing). I even logged on to Twitch and watched several streamers play for about 20 minutes. I hate to admit this, but watching the Twitch streams bored me enough that I thought I wouldn't play the game (it just wasn't that exciting to watch despite the personalities). I'm blaming Tipa. Talking to her over Di…
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I literally have scores of blog posts about my film podcasting adventures that I’ve yet to publish. For nearly two years now, I have been co-hosting the Family Pictures Podcast, and we’re closing fast on 80 episodes. This spring I started a second podcast, Couch to 4K, with Mike Caulfield. It’s like watching and talking about movies is my new day job, and I love it. The only issue is I’m not feeding nearly enough of that back into the bavablog, and that pains me to no end. Somehow I feel that if…
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When it clicks, Copa City is fun, but often times, it struggles to get there.
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The original Tomb Raider feels like a grand adventure. It’s an atmospheric game that puts you in the shoes of globe-trotting thrill-seeker Lara Croft as she searches for an ancient artifact. You’ll face all kinds of foes ranging from dinosaurs to rival treasure hunters as you climb, jump and swim your way around long-abandoned ruins.
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Well, this is embarrassing...
Remember when I complained about not being able to remember my login details for Wuthering Waves? I wrote a whole post about it under the (entirely intentionally) click-baity title "Wuthering Waves Is Dead To Me Now." Remember how, in that post, I said "I've tried everything and every account I can think of and nothing works"?
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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
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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…