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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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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!
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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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Quail Creations
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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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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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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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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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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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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.
Her favourite game right now is “Bluey – Let’s Play” (the free mini games, not the expensive monthly subscription). She l…
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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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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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Preface
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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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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This is my response per the August 4th Group project prompt from Krikket => https://nerdgirlthoughts.game.blog/2026/07/23/blaugust-2026-calendar-weekly-prompts-group-projects/
Arguably you are looking at my first blog: (Ubergeek) Kelly’s World, first introduced in April of 2003. I’ve talked about my blogging history in previous Blaugust events, but this time I’ll try to aim a bit more specifically at the when and what of things.
Not a blog: Geocities (1996 – 2003)
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Cheerful fumbling
It’s a damp early morning, the house clearly recalls the past hot day better than the cooler night. I’m playing a four chord song on my piano: my voice leading is clunky, the rhythm is uneven, and I couldn’t be more pleased to spend five minutes like this, skill-taste gap be damned.
Even though I’ve played piano and other instruments in the past, it feels like starting over again. They say that to be an expert at anything, you need to practice for 10.000 hours. Well, I’ve only…
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August is here and so is blaugust. I stumbled upon that post in bluesky and since I want to write more, I figured I’d join. I’m already four days behind so I need to ramp up. In order to meet the goal of 31 posts, I’m going to try to do two posts a day. This aim-for-the-moon strategy has served me well in other side-quests (ha! there’s another topic).
Since I need to write A LOT, I’ll start by listing all the ideas I have in my backlog here.
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One of my favourite notebooks (pictured above) that I own is bound in leather with cotton pages and I have such an urge to try painting on them. I haven’t yet, though I have tried drawing on them. I’m hoping when my new ‘White Nights’ watercolour paint shows up this week, I’ll get brave enough to give it a shot.
The pages are made to look aged on purpose, and it is such a tactile way of writing on them. At first I didn’t know what I could possibly write that would be ‘worthy’ of such a book – bu…
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I can't say I had any plans to do the Community Builder thing for Blaugust this year. The very fact that I'm calling it "the Community Builder thing" suggests a distinct lack of empathy with the concept. I'm not a great one for achievements or badges or titles, although I do quite like a title in a game. I'm not that struck on socializing either although I'd say I was social enough. Emphasis on "enough". Just enough. Not more.
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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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Subtitle: For the Moments That Feel Like Too Much
Weight, like for many others, is a struggle for me.
I love a sweet treat. I married into a family that loves sweet treats. Unsurprisingly, my toddler loves them too.
I can fight it sometimes. Can I go healthy for a few meals? Sure. Eat healthy when I’m in a good mood and stress-free? Absolutely.
But when it really matters is in the hard moments. When I’m irritated. Bored. Anxious. Then the cravings come. It can be tempting to just say, “Whatever,…
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Weekly Whaaa…?
I use the ISO weeks from Monday to Monday, so ISO Week 2026-W31 is the week of 2026-07-27/2026-08-02.
Backyard Bounty of the Week
Over the Fourth of July weekend we picked up a few herbs and other plants for our backyard container garden.
It’s now a (notably smoky) month later and the pepper plant (named Pablo, naturally as it’s a poblano) has already doubled in size. It’s now at least a foot above the tomato cage it’s been climbing like a ladder. We’re letting the two delicious-l…
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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!
📅 In case you missed it, I joined Blaugust for 2026, a month long event where the point is to write and participate as much as you want! Of coures, I’m going for the full 31 posts, though there a…