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BlizzCon 2026 will be arriving at the end of the week. On Saturday September 12th we’ll get the big keynote speech that will reveal the plans for the company for the next year or so.
BlizzCon 2026
It is too late to get tickets to be there in person. Those sold out ages ago.
Also, I will note that there are at least TWO aspects to the event to consider. There is the in-person event, which I know people who attend regularly enjoy. I’ve never been and it is unlikely I ever will, but the fact that t…
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I’ve finished both of my “Summer Project” games, and am now at an impasse. I don’t know what I want to play now. I have options, an actual written backlog I want to tackle, but nothing speaks to me right now. And so I’m just kind of “floating”, waiting on something to strike.
This summer, my big project games were Final Fantasy VII, and Doom: The Dark Ages, and as of yesterday, they’re both completed. I could start FFVII Remake, or pick up Dark Ages Revelations, but I feel like I need a “cooldow…
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We are back with some more actual video game releases here in week thirty-six.
Fantasy Critic League – Like Fantasy Football, but for Video Games
We had four titles lined up for release in the league this week. Surely somebody much have made out with that many titles in play. But first we have to stop and look at where we ended up last week on the scoreboard.
Week 35 Scores
First out of the gate was The Blood of Dawnwalker, a open world dark fantasy title.
The Blood of Dawnwalker
That rolled on…
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I want to share a dumb little side note on specifically these posts. One, I often write them throughout the week, as I do things, so I don’t forget. Sometimes they probably feel a bit disjointed for that, but I try to keep a flow. Second, when I write in Joplin, everything gets a date. Either the date written, or the date it gets published on the blog. Like I may write a review without a date, but once its scheduled, I add a date. Its sort of a way to keep track of if I need to push something to…
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Hey There!
It's 66°F, Humidity 87%, Wind 9 mph NE, sunny
It's supposed to be a pretty pleasant weekend weather-wise. This morning is starting off right.
Yesterday was something of a mixed bag. After morning routine I went out for a walk, and took some pictures along the way, which is not my usual MO. I also ran into my friend and former colleague and his wife, who were doing some planting in the new Discovery Trail that was built in June. We chatted a bit, and I completed my walk.
When I got bac…
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I visited the Blaugust participants and these are my favourite blog posts from the second half of the month, following up from 132 Blaugust posts. A bunch of them are end of August wrap-up types because I'm always interested.
Sadly I only read English so for the blogs in other languages I've tried to link something cool. Otherwise they, and other blogs that 404ed or didn't have new posts, etc, are at the end of this list.
Sacrificing something for something 20ily April
I used to be excited about…
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I stuck around in Blackburrow until I hit level 14. At that point I felt like it was time to move on.
EverQuest Legends
It wasn’t that the xp had run dry or that things had gotten too easy. I could have hung around for at least one more level… maybe as many as three… making decent progress in leveling up.
But that assumes a world wherein leveling up is my primary goal.
If we’re to be frank dear reader, my interest in levels or achievements or mastering my class combo is fairly low. There are dis…
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It's 8:44 AM EDT, 71°F, Humidity 86%, Wind 5 mph NE, mainly clear
Yesterday was a bit of a return to normalcy. I went through my morning routine as per usual, but decided against a walk. I need to get out today, though, and get back started.
After my morning routine I started off by watching the condensed game. I am really starting to like watching condensed games on MLB.com. If I get more into the habit of this, perhaps I'd have more free time in the evening. To do what, I am not sur…
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Since I spent the whole month writing themed posts, I thought it would be fun to give a little update about what I was actually playing during the month of August. I stuck with some forever games, revisited some old favorites and even finished a game for the first time. Here’s how my August in gaming looked.
I turned on streamer mode so I wouldn’t have to censor all those names.
I mentioned before that my sister recently started playing Dead by Daylight, which means we got to experience the Summ…
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August came in at 2 hours and 24 minutes.
That number is wrong and I want to say so before anybody gets attached to it.
Here's what the tracker gave me. 1 hour in WoW. 56 minutes in Guild Wars 2. And then 28 minutes filed under something, somewhere, doing who knows what. I have no idea. It's a rounding error with a mystery attached.
The real number is more like 10 to 15 hours, and almost all of the missing time happened in Vancouver.
We went up for Junior Pan Pacs. Jake was traveling with Team U…
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I haven’t done one of these in forever, so it’s time to get back on the wagon.
Blaugust 2026
Complete bust. I wrote 3 posts in 31 days. That’s actually more than I thought, but it wasn’t great. I haven’t done well blogging this year at all, so it’s not that much of a surprise. Maybe I can rectify that in the last half of the year. For those of you who participated in Blaugust 2026, hope you had a good time.
The App Ecosystm
I’ve continued to create new apps that help with parts of my life and wo…
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Battle Box is one of my favourite Magic the Gathering formats. It’s a self-contained gaming environment for 2 players. Mine has 171 spells and 20 lands — 10 for each player. Players draw from a shared deck and the deck is focused on combat and combat tricks.
It’s perfect for quick and casual lunch time or afterwork gaming session. There’s no need to build and bring your own deck or learn deep strategies of a specific deck. You shuffle up, draw and start playing. You read the cards as you draw th…
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Welcome to September! Time for a new blogging challenge for the month. After some ideation, here’s my proposed September blogging challenge, on topics I find myself reading and posting about, with an emphasis on pragmatism:The Web And Standards September Useful Posts blogging challengeOr the #WASSUP challenge for short.I really enjoyed the #Blaugust blogging challenge last month (31 posts ✅ — summary in another post), and not feeling a resonance with the two prior September challenges noted on t…
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I did a lot of blogging in August due to Blaugust, and for some reason it also meant that I shouted to the void quite a lot. I mostly stuck to omg.lol's Status log, where people couldn't reply or react to what I posted. Sometimes, it was nice to just shout something into the void without getting an echo back. I did just discover that you could follow that feed via RSS, but that's probably old news to everyone else.
⚠️ Want to learn what these Micro Thoughts are? Read the explanation here
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People ask how retirement is going and I say good, busy.
It’s a fine answer at a cookout. It’s also a report with nothing behind it, and I spent thirty-five years refusing to accept exactly that answer from anybody who worked for me. Good compared to what. Busy doing what, and was that the thing you said you’d be doing.
What set it off was hearing myself say it twice in one afternoon, to two different people, in the same order and the same flat tone. Good. Busy. It came out prepackaged. In my ex…
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The big finale of Fogden Game takes place in some kind of derelict coliseum. At one end there's the Fog Coffin and in front of it stands Inanna, flanked by Zankou and Poinsette. At the other, there's everyone else.
I took screenshots of each group as they appeared and then another of the full complement. That's the whole crew up there at the top of the post. From Right to left: Adler, Daffodil, The Appraiser, Hotori, Linko, Chaos and Thyme. It's such a classic stand-off. I loved the drama of it…
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I hoped that it would never come to this point, but we are long past the point of “a straw breaking the camel’s back”. Magic the Gathering, a card game that I was fond of more than half my life, … Continue reading →
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Whew! We made it the current build of Poetry Slammers! Version .07 did a lot. Besides adding a new campaign circuit (a monumental task in and of itself), scoring was rebuilt, an infinity mode was added to the game, and a whole slew of word packs were added to the shop.
I hope you get to press Start to play soon!
Being as we're in the middle of summer, it kind of felt appropriate to add a waterpark circuit to slamtown. Sure, I mean, who reads poetry at a waterpark? BUT THIS ISN'T ANY WATERPARK, i…
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This week was the lead up to and start of our road trip. I enjoy road trips a lot. Driving through Oregon and Northern California is a delight. It’s. been just about 7 years since I’e moved here from Connecticut and I will never stop being awed by the natural beauty it has: volcanic mountains, misty rainy forests, the powerful forces of coast, and the starkness of the high desert.
Our trip takes has taken us, first, to the southern Oregon coast. I love it’s small towns and long lonely stretches.…
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I ponder how crowdfunders are not real stakeholders and thus can have no input on the goals and timeframes.
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It’s the last day of Blaugust 2026. I don’t really want to write a “how my Blaugust went” post, because everybody’s writing them, but I don’t have any other ideas for the last day.
I did successfully post 31 posts in 31 days, so I can still do that, for whatever that’s worth. Once I abandoned the idea of actually writing a new post every morning, it was pretty easy. It didn’t even take that much of my time.
Well, it was less easy in the final week or so, as I had completely jettisoned all intere…
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Steam reviews sometimes can be quite something, but you can also find some interesting topics for discussions and blog posts randomly after checking some games. Review on the screenshot is from Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era and there are many that share this same sentiment – we want PvE content, but you focus on PvP. We already were talking about this on stream in the past multiple times, so seeing that review made me screenshot it and start a draft for this post.
This “phenomenon” appear…
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Sure, you've killed every dragon and every god. But can you turn into a gnome?
Related posts:
EverQuest Legends: Where’s the lore?
EverQuest Legends: Dogs and cats living together, MASS HYSTERIA!
EverQuest Legends: Clearing Dungeons
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The end of Planeswalker Decks is in sight, with all of the entries that WotC ever released now being covered on Cubic Creativity. We sure had some ups and downs, as usual, but thankfully we go out with a bang … Continue reading →
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Subtitle: as an adult, without hurting yourself.
This post is my response to the 32-Bit Cafe "Back To School 2026" prompt:
"Make an educational/informative page (blog post, tutorial, etc) that about something that "everybody already knows". Believe it or not, not everyone knows about this thing or knows how to do this other thing. But _you_ know; why not share that knowledge?"
https://discourse.32bit.cafe/t/back-to-school-2026/5099
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I was in my late 20's when I first decided that I wanted…