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The Ancient Gaming Noob
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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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ComradeNerdy
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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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What the Fran
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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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Lyons in Beta
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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!
It would probabl…
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Alex's Review Corner
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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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Syl's Blog
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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.
"Syl's Blog" is probably the…
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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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object dot computer
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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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Through Wolfy's Eyes
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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.
While I’m definitely not alone in this line of thinking, I felt like this was a great opportunity to steal her t…
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Kay Talks Games
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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.
It’s a weird game that is part life sim, part puzzle game. You go around town, getting to know your new n…
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Luka Prin/ce Lucija log
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the meaning of blog
( 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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MMO Casual
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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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PaseoBaggage - Blaugust 2026
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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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Shadowz Abstract Gaming
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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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Chasing Dings!
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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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The Ancient Gaming Noob
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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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Aywren's Nook - Gaming and Geek Blog
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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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Endgame Viable
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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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NomadWarMachine
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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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Gridranger's blog
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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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Aeish World Neocities
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Returning to blogust after missing two days. A speculation of what upcoming blogs might be about...
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Troy Press
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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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Beyond the Horizon
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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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Cubic Creativity
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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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Notes by JCProbably
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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.
This photo is from a visit to G…