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The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference
–Elie Wiesel
Last week the site Aftermath, had what they called Hater Week, where the staff opened up on things they did not like. There were some interesting takes.
Aftermath Hater Week – I totally stole this image
Some of them I felt in my bones, like the one about how awful Adobe is. I remember having a beta copy of Photoshop 2.0 back in 1991 and thinking it was the coolest thing ever. I am not even a creative by profession, but everybody I…
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Three of these are mine with setup and other stuff
Was supposed to be catching up, but ended up missing a couple of days instead, downside of being back home compared to travels – too much stuff that affects my plans out of my control. Even though most of my travels I’m not solo (sadly, mostly financial reasons), but it’s still just one person usually and it’s easier to discuss plans, besides I’m the one planning stuff mostly since travels are also my stream content.
That was one of the reasons…
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AuguStory, the story of your blog by Robert Birming encourages sharing the story of our blog. Chloe at For No One has put together some great additional prompts and I've enjoyed stories by Sylvia and Becky at Online Goddess.
My blogging story is not that interesting - while I've been banging around making sites since 1999 I've not consistently had a blog. Different projects have come and gone. Personal blogs, politics, local stuff, TV shows, a game, courses I was doing, on Diaryland, Blogger, Wo…
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I learned quite recently that August 8[1] is HTML Day, a celebration of HTML that includes actual meetups! It almost feels like a silly thing to celebrate when I think back to my teenage self building fan sites in notepad.exe, but in reality it's quite impowering to be able to craft something with one's own (digital) hands. I know most people, especiailly people who grew up with social media, don't understand how incredily accessible HTML and CSS (and even basic JavaScript) are!
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I’ve drafted this replay post about a dozen times because there are so many things to say about Morrowind that it is difficult to know where to start. The context of it’s development for Bethesda as a company is important, the direction it steered the Elder Scrolls series away from and into, and the unique take on world building, and storytelling. But how about we start at the bottom and work our way up? Let’s start with the vibes, man.
Seyda Neen.
Morrowind is a small roleplaying game that feel…
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A-ha, I have found the official Blaugust 2026 prompts! This week's topic is "Introduce Yourself," so I'll go ahead and do just that. I'm only covering some of the questions in this post. I'm thinking about doing the others in posts of their own.
Tell us ten random facts about the human behind the blog.
I already halfway did this in my second Blaugust post, and you can find 38 more facts about me on this page.
Tell the story behind the creation and name of your blog.
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Inventory Full
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We have a lot of stuff. And I mean a lot. We live in a rather large house with a lot of storage space and over the years, particularly since the children all moved out, we've filled most of it up.
So, now we're vaguely thinking about moving to somewhere smaller and more manageable for our twilight years, we're going to have to do something about that. And since it's going to be a long job, even though it's very unlikely we'll be going anywhere for a couple of years, I've already started on my ha…
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This past weekend was my birthday. My partner and I celebrated by camping at Cape Lookout on the Oregon coast. We had dinner at Willy’s in Oceanside. Run by a husband and wife team they serve Japanese comfort food in a beach town nestled on a cliffside.
The Oregon coast is an unbelievably special place to me. It feels otherworldly. It is one of my most expected pleasures since moving to the state. Wide, often empty beaches, shrouds of mists crawling over groves of pine. The chance at glimpses of…
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I swear, it’s like she writes this stuff specifically for me.
Aywren’s latest blog post, about playing a Warrior of Light character that’s taking unexpected backstory and roleplay-related lore turns as a result of the MSQ of Final Fantasy XIV (spoiler warning in that blog, by the way), engaged my neurons, particularly since I play a character who… isn’t a WoL but still has adventures.
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Chulip is the quirkiest video game I’ve ever played by far, and I adore it for that. You play as a poor boy who moves with his dad from the big city to Long Life Town, where everyone is more than happy to gossip about you. Our protagonist is immediately smitten with a girl who lives nearby, and soon learns that in this bizarre little town, people build their reputations by exchanging kisses.
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( blaugust #2, 8. August, 2026 )
Not too long ago, few months perhaps, I was wondering about an event that happened almost 25 years ago - my first public performance of computer music so to say. It is significant only to me, but also because at the time i was... people would say "out of my comfort zone", but in reality I was a student, surviving one of the biggest cities of the world, soaking in a lot of new influences and hard realities, learning digital artist's tools, and…
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Mists of Pandaria got laughed at before anyone had played a minute of it. Kung fu pandas. A whole expansion about kung fu pandas, plus a pet-battle system a lot of people immediately wrote off as WoW doing Pokémon. I remember the reaction to the announcement, and it was not kind. It also turned out to be one of my favorite expansions in the whole run, and I've never really backed off that.
The joke fell apart the second you actually got to Pandaria. The place was gorgeous. The Jade Forest, the V…
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Ugh, this one is a tough one to post. 10 year old me liked it when it was popular in its time. I'd say bye to this memory if I could.
Bye Bye Bye by NSYNC
Yep, that's the one. This memory is kind of cringe inducing in retrospect, but it was fine at the time. In 5th grade, I was involved in some sort of dance at the front of the class with some other students. I think it was just some recess activity. As someone who doesn't like public speaking and can't dance I don't even know how I got roped in…
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I finally decided to break my nerves about live streaming on YouTube. Granted it was only for 40+ minutes, but it was something that I kept putting off for years now and well today I decided to jump in and try it. Course this still wont stop me from recording... Continue reading
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And this list of MMOs I have played proves it.
Related posts:
EverQuest Legends: Where’s the lore?
Buy Now! The EverQuest Legends Cash Shop
Not Gonna Lose My Blog: Backups Saved Me Once and Will Save Me Again
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No Man’s Sky turns ten years old tomorrow. I will not review the cycle of hype, disappointment, then eventual revival around the game. I’ve been there a few times before. It is enough for this moment to say that game is very different than it was back at launch in 2016.
Still, it has been a pretty amazing and occasionally unlikely journey, these last ten years.
No Man’s Sky – Celebrating 10 Years
Hello Games has added some pretty amazing things to the game. I feel like corvettes were a huge deal…
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Our new apartment is a whole lot of white. The prior homeowners made bland design choices: white walls, white cabinets, white tiles, white counters, white knobs, white everything. Like a sterile hospital room. E said it'll look better once it's filled with our things, but I can't imagine it.
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Immersion is extremely important to me as a story-focused player in FFXIV. And while I generally enjoy the story beats of the game (ignoring some of the lesser engaging stuff in Dawntrail), I do have one small issue with how FFXIV handles the main character of the MSQ… because if you aren’t playing a Warrior of Light (WoL), then things just don’t mesh well.
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Morning! It is a Saturday morning and I 100% do not feel like writing a blog post, and in fact, largely feel like I’m “over” the rush of renewed blogging energy that Blaugust brings every year and I’m ready to move on to another project.
But alas, there are some 24 posts yet to be written. The “staying motivated” Blaugust topic week should be in the second week, not the last.
This is the dual-edged sword of writing challenges. Writing something is easy. Writing something that’s worth reading 31…
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During the month of August I will be participating in Blaugust, a month long blogging challenge.
A fun activity for today’s TDC. I chose the digital option and doodled away before clearing the page and making a clean spiral.
Spiradoodle flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license
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Date day
Since my old poodle, Saladin, has separation anxiety, it's impossible to leave him alone without causing him extreme stress. It means that my wife and I can go somewhere together only if we take him with us. Which is cute, but:
We can have a coffee or a meal together only in dog-friendly places, and enter only places that let dogs in.
To keep him calm in crowded places with plenty of stimuli, I have to carry him. My arms are full of him, and although he is quite light for his size, bein…
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Evil Hat’s pitch for AGON:
On their way back home from the war, the heroes have become lost among strange islands populated by mythical creatures, dire beasts, treacherous landscapes, legendary kingdoms, and desperate people—all somehow cursed or abandoned by the cruel power of the capricious gods.
It falls to you to seize this opportunity for greatness—to set things right in these lost lands, overcome the trials of gods, monsters, and people, prove the glory of your name, and win your way back…
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Subtitle: Reflecting on my (not) selling stuff
This weekend, there’s a sale on all my products, including my Blender add-on course. There you go. That’s the plug.
For my second add-on course I’m working on, I interviewed a couple guys talking about the business side of Blender products. “What it takes to sell a Blender add-on,” that kind of stuff.
Listening to what things to do, what not to do, made me realize I’m doing a lot wrong. I’m sure if I hired a marketing guy, they would ask what the he…
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You already guessed it, we have another Planeswalker Deck to talk about. As you might have noticed, I am using Blaugust 2026 to publish some deck reviews and the total amount of Planeswalker Decks just so happened to fit nicely … Continue reading →
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I haven't been inspired to post on august morning for quite some time now, even though I have a bit of a backlog of photos I would like to share one day1. Recently, I came across Inventory Full's Blaugust Class of 2025 post again, where my photo blog was mentioned. It reminded me that I do, in fact, miss sharing some of my just day to day photos. Maybe until I'm ready to commit to posting on august morning again, I can share a few photos here occasionally instead.
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The Friendly Necromancer
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I don't know if you're familiar with Storyworth, but it's a site dedicated to capturing your loved one's memories and keeping them in a book. A year ago, my wife "gave" me a year subscription to the site (part-time job) for my birthday and said "DO IT!" I'm like, but what about my stack of journals and blogs?
Some of those journal entries are adorably written in crayon
Her response was, "There's no way I'm reading your stack of journals! That is crazy, and I can barely read your handwriting!" Ok…
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It snuck up on me all of a sudden, but it’s starting to look like Autumn where I live. Leaves starting to fall, the light of the sun looks different, it feels like Summer is quickly coming to its end. I made a drive across the river into Kentucky this evening, and the whole way it either looked like late-September, or mid-October depending on if the rain had caught up to me or not. On the one hand, one step closer to the heat being gone, but on the other, where’s the time gone?
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I read today a piece about digital cameras and wired headphones making a bit of a comeback. It’s not news. I’ve read about this a few times over the past few years. What comes around and all that. However, it struck a chord with me since some of this stuff I have never fully moved away from or have still got tucked away in a draw somewhere until I am minded to have a play or finally get rid of it in one way or another. I was thinking about taking a few pics and writing a post about some of this…
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Mercy
Over the years, I've read some great stories about countless adventures from people who played a TTRPG — only to encounter a horrible GM. The ones who are merciless, who seem to aim to hurt and punish their own table. I can't fathom that kind of gameplay, but to each their own.
I'm a firm believer that actions have consequences, but I don't want to kill my players' characters because of a GM's power trip. That said, I'm not one to coddle my table either. My players have learned that if I s…
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Following up on yesterday’s pine-grabbing, if you’re unfamiliar with Mike Krukow and Duane Kuiper’s colorful and unique baseball vernacular, Grant Brisbee’s 2023 “ultimate glossary” of the duo’s “greatest sayings” in The Athletic is a fun read. (I’ll admit up front: these lose a lot in written form. You really need to experience them during a game to appreciate them fully.)
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Reviewing the ESO Roadmap Revision and pondering on cross studio collaboration at Bethesda. I also discuss remakes and remasters and how they may not be what gamers want.
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I was over on Wilhelm’s TAGN site today enjoying a good read about the disaster that is Xbox Games. I generally agree with everything he is saying: Microsoft has done a terrible job running their game business and it is showing. But I also have a somewhat different experience as a user of the Xbox console that I feel bears mentioning.
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I’ve never done an “introduction”-style post on here. The closest is perhaps the possessions post from two Blaugusts ago. Well, it’s introductions week for this year’s Blaugust, and one of the prompts is “Ten facts”, so here are some facts about me.
I’ve slept with the same yellow-orange blanket for over 20 years. This sounds weirder than it is, I think? It’s not a “blankey” or anything, I don’t obsessively sleep with with it every single night without fail — it’s just a blanket that has served…
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I’ve had this story rattling around in my head for a while now, and I wasn’t really sure what to do about it. You see, the latest livestream out of Star Citizen was… not a good look. At all. In a lot of ways. And while I haven’t played the game in a long time, it still affected me to watch.
For those who don’t have nearly two hours of their lives to devote to a stream VOD, just know that the presentation of the FPS combat that was showcased did not go to plan, or if it did go to plan, it hasn’t…
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Going back to just after I graduated grad school, when I started writing poetry (as I had time to think a little more freely), I started keeping phases and snippets. Some were in notebooks and some in text notes on my computer. Often these were things that would pop to mind and wouldn’t clear my head until I captured them. Some turned into poems (a sliver of what I wrote is on my Poetry :: vanderwal.net page). Some turned into short stories that picked up a few of the phrases and snippets, some…
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I realize I have spent a lot of my time writing about videogames here, and not focusing much on most of my other hobbies. I guess I just want to ramble about something different today, so why not?
The other day I saw a post on a reading group I found in some mainstream social media platform that shall remain unnamed, and it was all about how great The Night Land and The House on The Borderland by William Hope Hodgson were, but what I found most intriguing was how many people were fans of these w…
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If you ask me to name the best story in any horror game, I’ll tell you to look no further than Silent Hill 2. It’s a harrowing and thoughtful journey through the depths of despair, dealing with themes of grief, trauma and guilt while still being scary. Over the years since its original release, the game has become so famous that there’s a good chance you’ve already had the interesting plot details spoiled. If you haven’t, I urge you to consider playing it and experiencing it for yourself.
SH2 is…
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Five Curious Habits of My Poodle
The offering
Most dogs aren't happy if someone stands beside them while they eat. If you are standing next to mine at mealtime, you might get a piece to taste, just like he sometimes gets one from our food.
Yes, my poodle spits out his very first kibble right at the feet of the person standing next to him. It almost looks like giving a symbolic share of the prey.
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I hadn't looked in several year, but this blog was started 14 years ago in May 2012. If you look at my introduction, you'll see I was looking for a way to play MMOs casually and I guess that is still true today. I started with the first Newbie Blogger initiative, initiated by Syp or Justin Olivetti of Massively and Bio Break. When I just went looking for the image above, Google first reference was at Tales of the Aggronaut from back in 2012 when Belghast posted about it. That seems meaningful in…
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I’ve never watched any Star Trek. Not the shows or the movies. Maybe it’s time to dive in? What’s the best entry point?
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French solo developer Oneiric Worlds just announced their new upcoming cozy desert road trip, Yashi - Sand Driver!
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It is Friday and, as foretold by prophecy, it is time for another look at how things are going over at Microsoft’s XBox Games division.
Sad Xbox Games logo generated by Co-Pilot, because AI is what is killing them
After the announcement of the great layoff, have Asha and Satya solved the problems they set out to tackle? Do they even have a clue what they are on about? Well, read on and judge for yourself.
Asha Sets Some Priorities – But First We Need a Slogan!
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A week of Blaugust, a honkaku mystery, some music for Bandcamp Friday, Traitors NZ, and more Zelda.
We are a week into Blaugust and I have managed a post a day so far. However next Monday I'm back to work for a full seven days so will probably not continue that pace. Probably another link post on Monday or Tuesday and a digest on Friday at least. I also need to spend some more time job hunting. I am only really employed at my current job until the end of September. Which isn't that far away. Try…
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After a pretty solid week of World of Warcraft discussions, I thought I'd take today to being to toss in some discussions on other games.
I gave Final Fantasy XIV a real shot. Not a weekend, not a free trial I abandoned in the starting city. A couple of years, an actual subscription, a character and jobs I put genuine hours into. And I still stopped. This is my attempt to be honest about why, without doing the tribal thing where you have to trash one game to justify playing another.
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I’ve never really held back from jumping in at the deep end, with both feet, not worrying whether in fact I can swim or not. I created my own self-belief long ago. Something I think I learnt from a very early age; maybe 3-4 years old?
Preschool, one bright sunny afternoon, poolside, I took a huge flying leap towards some random guy in the pool my sister was dating who, arms open ready to catch me, turned at the very second I flew over his shoulders, whereupon I landed in the water with a rather…
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I said we'd get there! And we have. Took a while but it won't be worth it.
Well, how could it be? It's a post about a limited-time event in a game that, by my count, two people who follow this blog might be playing. And all the event involves is fishing.
It's not proper fishing, either. Not even by the standards of the game itself, which aren't exactly rigorous to begin with. Fishing in Neverness To Everness isn't one of the most sophisticated representations of the pastime I've seen in a game.…
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I started playing this the other day, and finished the prologue the other day, but decided I would still play this, and it’s a game that I can enjoy. It’s from the same game studio that did Gas Station Simulator, and it’s something I can play on my own which... Continue reading
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Yesterday my work was rather entertaining. A workmate went on vacation for today and tomorrow, and there were a few tasks I had to do on their stead. This was nothing unusual, he covers for me plenty as well. However, I do wish things had allowed for at least a bit more time to write a post.
I did have a relatively easy idea which was a quick draft before my actual post of the day.
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You didn't know about the cash shop? It's not a story the hardcore would tell you.
Related posts:
EverQuest Legends: Where’s the lore?
EverQuest 3 is officially dead.
EverQuest Legends: Analysis Paralysis