39 entries. 68,770 words.
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2023-01
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January 2023 Bullets.
2023-01-01.
It’s a new year, whoopie. Nothing particularly noteworthy to report.
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Mid-January Top of Mind 2023.
2023-01-16.
An unexpectedly stressful start to the work year and a return to some gaming, instead of doing anything productive.
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2023-02
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February Top of Mind 2023.
2023-02-01.
It’s a new month and the year is already 8% complete.
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Where Do I Fit In?.
2023-02-09.
To be brutally honest, the older I get, the less I feel like I fit in with other Internet gamers.
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A Busy Month - February, 2023.
2023-02-13.
It’s been a busy couple of weeks. Also I need a better title for these kitchen sink posts.
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Chaos and Uncertainty - February 2023.
2023-02-28.
Sass mode activate!
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2023-03
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Ignorance Is Strength - March 2023.
2023-03-15.
It was so warm in February that flowers bloomed early and covered my car with pollen. But today we cower in fear of the Ides of March.
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Gen-Z Sleeper Agents - March 2023.
2023-03-31.
It’s been a somewhat uneventful couple of weeks of mundane daily routine.
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2023-04
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Taskmaster 15 Is Risen! - April 2023.
2023-04-15.
April did, in fact, begin with showers. By which I mean rain.
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Nineteen For Me - April 2023.
2023-04-30.
I successfully filed my taxes on the last day again. And did them wrong.
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2023-05
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The Cliff - May 2023.
2023-05-15.
Redfall flops, Party-based RPGs, Baldur’s Gate videos, Kubernetes, and the news. A relatively uneventful time slice of life.
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Data Loss - May 2023.
2023-05-31.
Party-based RPGs, ChatGPT-powered Twitch embeds, and catastrophic NAS failures.
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2023-06
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Not Quite "New Car" Expensive - June 2023.
2023-06-15.
Solasta campaign finished, Phoenix Point started, a data recovery attempt, Unraid, the dentist, and more, or less.
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Based On A True Story - June 2023.
2023-06-30.
Not much gaming, data recovery failure, and a lot of trashy true crime docudramas.
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2023-07
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The Coming Blaugust - July 2023.
2023-07-15.
Blaugust 2023, a little Pathfinder, setting up an ActivityPub server, what I’ve been watching, and a little more.
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The Imminent Blaugust - July 2023.
2023-07-31.
Blaugust 2023, Pathfinder: Kingmaker, blog site updates and microblogging, a nutritional reset, and more, in the summer heat.
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2023-08
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Nothing But Baldur's Gate 3 - August 2023.
2023-08-15.
There’s nothing else in the world for me right now except Baldur’s Gate 3. (No spoilers, though.)
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Creator Appreciation 2023.
2023-08-16.
Some hastily-written thoughts about Creator Appreciation week for Blaugust.
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Unspoken Community Standards.
2023-08-23.
Some thoughts and observations about the perilous minefield of unspoken community standards, and editing your own words.
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Vacation - August 2023.
2023-08-31.
Blaugust retrospective, Baldur’s Gate 3, videos, vacation, and more. A fairly bland and uninspired effort.
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2023-09
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Autumn Approaches - September 2023.
2023-09-15.
A hastily-written scrawl about the last couple weeks.
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Stupid Title - September 2023.
2023-09-30.
Tiring of Baldur’s Gate 3, Wheel of Time, and more.
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2023-10
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Scary Movies.
2023-10-11.
Watching a bunch of scary movies in October.
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Movie Binge - October 2023 Part 1.
2023-10-15.
A birthday, and a whole lot of horror movies.
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Halloween - October 2023 Part 2.
2023-10-31.
No games in October, just horror movies.
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2023-11
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Autumn Leaves - November 2023 Part 1.
2023-11-15.
Snowrunner, voting, blog work, audiobooks, and more. Well, not much more than that, really.
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Next.js - November 2023 Part 2.
2023-11-30.
World of Warcraft did a thing. New Next.js and AWS blog development. Dev vlogs. Lower Decks. Fairy Tale. Thanksgiving vacation. A work presentation. Jupyter.
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2023-12
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Cold - December 2023 Part 1.
2023-12-15.
It’s cold. Monster Hunter games. Devlogs. Doctor Who and Indiana Jones. Next.js development. Slow time at work. Dentist and poison ivy.
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End Of Year - December 2023 Part 2.
2023-12-31.
Oops the year’s over already. The return of Baldur’s Gate 3. Best year for gaming? YouTube stats declining. Trapped in British quiz shows again.
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2024-01
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Start of Year - January 2024 Part 1.
2024-01-15.
The 2024th one. Baldur’s Gate 3 finished. Warhammer Rogue Trader started. Juggling CRPG videos. Taskmaster, New Zealand, Australia, and Guy Montgomery. A new cataract enters the ring.
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Grumpasaurus Rex - January 2024 Part 2.
2024-01-31.
Searching for a game to enjoy. Lies of P, Alan Wake, Palworld, Enshrouded. Voicemeeter Banana. Fantasy High Junior Year. Røde PodMic USB.
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2024-02
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Toxic Bosses - February 2024 Part 1.
2024-02-15.
Steam Next. Toxic bosses in Lies of P and Nioh. Hellpoint. Dimension 20. New computer glasses.
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Leap Day - February 2024 Part 2.
2024-02-29.
Last Epoch 1.0. Nightingale Early Access. Lies of P done. Lords of the Fallen in progress. Mitigating microphone noise with console tables. Making Let’s Play videos. Dimension 20. Java.
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2024-03
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Spring? - March 2024 Part 1.
2024-03-15.
Elden Ring DLC, Lords of the Fallen, Nioh, Sons of the Forest. YouTube wrecking my videos. Keeping up with the Actual Plays.
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Nobody To Play With: Badgerfriends, Pt 1 of Possibly Just The 1.
2024-03-21.
The first episode of a highly experimental solo D&D campaign.
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Pause for Badgerfriends - March 2024 Part 2.
2024-03-31.
A pause on video games because of a sudden side project. Editing D&D combat. A cool program called Sound Show. Mid-tier Actual Play Show Reviews.
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2024-04
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The One With The Eclipse - April 2024 Part 1.
2024-04-16.
A day late because yesterday was tax day and of course, being me, a person who usually doesn’t know what day or month it is, with a particular blind spot for any kind of administrative task, I only do my taxes on or after tax day.
Gaming Syp said there was a Guild Wars 3 pseudo-announcment? If there was such a thing, I don’t see it being anything but a software refresh.
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