45 entries. 72,636 words.

2024-01

• 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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  3,456 words

2024-02

• 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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  4,646 words

2024-03

• 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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  1,417 words
• 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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  3,134 words

2024-04

• The One With The Eclipse - April 2024 Part 1. 2024-04-16. Dragon’s Dogma 2, videos, Fallout, an eclipse, and some other stuff.
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• Pathfinder? - April 2024 Part 2. 2024-04-30. A hastily-written scrawl with some vague remarks about games, Pathfinder, and the Glass Cannon Network.
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  1,693 words

2024-05

• May - May 2024 Part 1. 2024-05-15. Social media retreat, replacing coffee with tea, a little gaming, actual play shows, and that’s about it, really. At least I refrained from talking about TTRPGs this time.
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2024-06

• Broken Slack - May 2024 Part 2. 2024-06-01. Busy hands games. More about Glass Cannon shows than you probably care about. Dune and Planet of the Apes. Broken Slack.
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• Summer Is Here - June 2023 Part 1. 2024-06-15. The heat is on. It’s on the streets. And in my house. More about lexical selection errors and Hitler documentaries than you probably want.
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• A Review of an Audible Review. 2024-06-20. Or: What Must It Be Like To Be That Person
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• Eliminate human tyranny! - June 2024 Part 2. 2024-06-30. The end of a hot June. A summer of MMO stuff apparently. Subtitling. A lot about The Three Body Problem. A couple of movies.
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2024-07

• Elden Ring DLC - July 2024 Part 1. 2024-07-15. Finding a groove in the Elden Ring DLC. Fool Us, July 4 movies, Stainless Steel Rat audiobooks.
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• July 2024 Part 2. 2024-07-31. Blaugust, Elden Ring DLC, REAPER templates, television, movies, and audiobooks, the value of code coverage, and poison ivy.
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  2,276 words

2024-08

• Introducing Me to Blaugust 2024. 2024-08-01. A somewhat disturbing AI-altered photo from 2022 to introduce myself.
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• Saturday Musing About Blaugust Systems. 2024-08-03. A return to the good old days of just typing whatever I’m thinking on a Saturday morning. Were they really good days? Read on to find out! What a cliffhanger!
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• AI-ing Yourself. 2024-08-06. Bloggers turn to AI to find themselves.
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• Recent Blog Updates. 2024-08-07. An impending tropical storm, now uploading Elden Ring DLC videos, some small updates to the blog, time blindness, and Blaugust controversy?!?
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• Does AI Steal?. 2024-08-09. A discussion of whether or not AI steals from artists.
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• On Writing Challenges. 2024-08-14. Blaugustians are writing about writing challenges.
  • Writing
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• August 2024 Part 1. 2024-08-15. Elden Ring DLC completed, a burst of Disney+ activity, Song of Ice and Fire audiobooks, changes at work.
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• Parasocial Media. 2024-08-16. On content addiction and the parasocial nature of social media.
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  526 words
• Elden Ring Astrologer. 2024-08-17. I started working on an Astrologer in Elden Ring.
  • Gaming
  401 words
• Youtubers I Watch. 2024-08-18. A simple post for a humid day with no air conditioning.
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• How I Hung A Computer Monitor Over My Bed. 2024-08-21. While I rest my back in bed, I explain a little bit about how I hung a computer monitor over my bed.
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• I Don't Like String Constants. 2024-08-23. I find string constants mildly irritating, except in very specific circumstances.
  • Development
  425 words
• Webrings? Really?. 2024-08-26. After seeing a third serious post about webrings in recent days, I thought I’d say a few words about it.
  • Development
  416 words
• The Recluse Report - August 2024 Part 2 [+audio]. 2024-08-31. A long one. Wrapping up Blaugust, RSS summaries, Elden Ring DLC done, Dragon’s Dogma 2, a busted PodMic, Reafir, Saturn’s Children, the dentist and insurance.
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2024-09

• DIY Comments - Step 1. 2024-09-07. I finally started writing a comment system for my static blog.
  • Development
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• DIY Comments - Step 2. 2024-09-11. Continuing with a comment system for my static blog… handling spam, saving and loading comments from a Dynamo table.
  • Development
  1,225 words
• DIY Comments - Step 3. 2024-09-14. Continuing with a comment system for my static blog. The client side experience, with and without Javascript.
  • Development
  1,468 words
• The Recluse Report - September 2024 Part 1. 2024-09-15. A brief foray into Dragon’s Dogma 2, video editing for video games, Antipodean game shows, writing a comment system, and casseroles.
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• The Notebook LM Podcast on Endgame Viable on Elden Ring [+audio]. 2024-09-27. Or why nobody need bother starting a new podcast using humans from now on.
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  220 words
• The Recluse Report - September 2024 Part 2. 2024-09-30. A stuporous malaise, Wings of Pegasus, rebuilding my old music files, isolating vocals with AI.
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2024-10

• The Recluse Report - October 2024 Part 1. 2024-10-16. Silent Hill 2, transferring 4-track and 8-track tapes, and other random tidbits of little consequence.
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• Silent Hill 2 Unanswered Questions. 2024-10-22. I have questions about Silent Hill 2. Spoilers ahead probably.
  • Gaming
  565 words
• The Recluse Report - October 2024 Part 2. 2024-10-31. Halloween, Diwali, Silent Hill 2, mower troubles.
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  1,325 words

2024-11

• Election Day Diary 2024. 2024-11-05. Random notes from an exciting/terrifying election day in America, which somehow doesn’t talk about politics.
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• Post Election Remarks 2024. 2024-11-10. The much-edited post-election missive and the biggest test of my spam filter yet. This one gets more political, but there won’t be any angry outbursts.
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• The Recluse Report - November 2024 Part 1. 2024-11-16. All is bleakness and despair, Supermassive games, leaves, Bluesky, election distraction, eh, that’s pretty much it.
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• The Recluse Report - November 2024 Part 2. 2024-11-30. Dark Pictures Anthology games, an assortment of random media consumption, a filling at the dentist.
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2024-12

• The Recluse Report - December 2024 Part 1. 2024-12-15. Game announcements, the dream of AI-generated video descriptions realized, a week of watching movies, Fall of Casseroles wrapup, a shocking real estate development, and a lot of crazy news this month so far.
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• The Recluse Report - December 2024 Part 2. 2024-12-31. Football, Steam sale, refining AI-generated video descriptions, the woes of fixed-position mics, Squid Game, holiday work schedule, and pasta sauce.
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