Current Events
52 entries. 104,633 words.
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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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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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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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.
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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2024-05
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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
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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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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
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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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2024-08
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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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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
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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 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
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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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The Recluse Report - October 2024 Part 2.
2024-10-31.
Halloween, Diwali, Silent Hill 2, mower troubles.
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2024-11
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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
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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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2025-01
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The Recluse Report - January 2024 Part 2.
2025-01-31.
Three games I’m looking forward to, watching anime movies and westerns, the Washington hype train crashes, and a hurricane of news that’s impossible to track.
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2025-02
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The Recluse Report - February 2025 Part 1.
2025-02-15.
Not much gaming, but a lot of television.
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The Recluse Report - February 2025 Part 2.
2025-02-28.
Dragon’s Dogma 2 finished, Avowed started, some media production changes, television and movies, video script updates, a minor rant on the day job, soups, and an update from the inmate-led asylum.
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2025-03
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The Recluse Report - March 2025 Part 1.
2025-03-15.
Monster Hunter Wilds, Kingdom Come Deliverance II, a new mattress, and a dead car battery.
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2025-04
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The Recluse Report - March 2025 Part 2.
2025-04-03.
Monster Hunter World, Kingdom Come Deliverance II, Door Dash, Revenge of the Car Battery.
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The Recluse Report - April 2025 Part 1.
2025-04-16.
Suddenly Resident Evil Village, Kingdom Come Deliverance II, HDR video recording, Cursor, and coughing.
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2025-05
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The Recluse Report - April 2025 Part 2.
2025-05-04.
The Quarry, The Devil in Me, Oblivion Remaster, Failed HDR Recordings, Last of Us, Wheel of Time, Black Mirror, initial ENT results.
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The Recluse Report - May 2025 Part 1.
2025-05-16.
New Gaming PC, Oblivion Remaster, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, Last Of Us season 2 woes, new season of Taskmaster, disaster content, medical updates
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