It’s the first day of Blaugust, and it’s a dreary one. (654 words.)

We now bring you a brief Shadowbringers update. (1609 words.)

I did a weird thing: I bought Final Fantasy XV on Steam. It’s … not bad? Maybe? (1101 words.)

Here’s a list of some old posts that I’m going to mine for topic ideas this Blaugust, which may or may not turn into a fruitful strategy. (223 words.)

Blaugust 2021 is coming soon! It’s fun! Do it! If you want. I’m not your mom. (779 words.)

I didn’t really intend to play Shadowbringers. I thought I was done with Final Fantasy XIV forever, actually. But a few things combined to get me back in this game. (602 words.)

I played Final Fantasy XIV last night. Sort of. (763 words.)

I simply have no choice but to rant about Nioh for some number of paragraphs. (1777 words.)

There’s a lot of buzz about Final Fantasy XIV’s Endwalker expansion, and now I see it’s that time again when Square Enix is letting lapsed Final Fantasy XIV accounts login free for a couple of weeks. (697 words.)

I was thinking about why some boss fights are fun challenges and other boss fights drive me absolutely crazy with needless frustration. (1000 words.)

It’s the last stretch for The Surge, as Warren finishes out his first day on the job. I hated the last zone in The Surge (the Nucleus) so much I almost uninstalled the game with only a couple hours left to play, but I powered through it because I’d gone too far to throw away so many videos. :) (1134 words.)

I saw a tweet the other day that reminded me of a topic of interest to me for decades, and I’m almost positive I’ve never written a blog post about this, so it’s finally something new to write about: The sound of your own recorded voice. (1393 words.)

The continuing adventures of Warren on his first day on the job at CREO. We’ve now reached the point in the story where I no longer remember what happened, didn’t write anything down, and don’t have enough time to re-watch the videos to figure it out. Soooooo. Yeah. Vague, one-sentence summaries! (562 words.)

The continuing adventures of Warren hacking and slashing his way through the Resolve Biolabs to reach his ultimate goal of … who knows? Warren doesn’t really have any motivation. Just an unquenchable thirst for hacking up robots and zombies. (Though he might have a secret backstory.) (663 words.)

I put together my new PC build over the Memorial Day holiday weekend. There’re always some surprises when you build a PC: Things that don’t go according to plan. Here’s some of mine. (1566 words.)