Author Archives: baudattitude

Densha De Go! Densha De Go! Densha De Go Go Go!

Posted on January 13, 2021 by baudattitude

I bought another train game. Much like the last train game I played – Densha De Go! Pocket Yamanote-Sen – this game is all about driving a commuter train in a big circle around Tokyo, carefully adhering to a timetable … Continue reading →

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In which, I play more WoW and make a career change.

Posted on January 2, 2021 by baudattitude

By career change, I naturally don’t mean in real life.  I continue to earn my paychecks in my role as a random IT grunt.  No, I mean in my current MMO. See, I enjoy playing healers.  It’s great fun to … Continue reading →

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OK, I’ll say something about Shadowlands now.

Posted on December 13, 2020 by baudattitude

My last post about WoW was talking about how it would not be the first MMORPG I would recommend to anyone, and that my recommendation would absolutely be that a newcomer to the genre should try FFXIV instead. On the … Continue reading →

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Ok, Stadia is better than I gave it credit for.

Posted on December 4, 2020 by baudattitude

It’s still doomed.  I mean, I have had a TERRIBLE track record for predicting what technologies are going to take off and which are destined for history’s rubbish bin, but boy howdy does Stadia have a lot working against it. … Continue reading →

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More Home Smartifying

Posted on December 2, 2020 by baudattitude

Nothing video game related today.  The two things I have been playing are Far Cry: New Dawn and the most recent World of Warcraft expansion.  Considering how Far Cry 5 ended, I’m going to wait until the end of New … Continue reading →

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In which, I try Stadia and it’s actually OK.

Posted on November 25, 2020 by baudattitude

Kinda giving the whole post away with that title, but you can keep reading if you want to spend a few more minutes of your life reading my eloquent prose. Since my ego won’t allow me to conceive that anyone … Continue reading →

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Making an iOS Shortcut for Apple Pay

Posted on November 23, 2020 by baudattitude

So I guess this is a gadget blog now? Because apparently that is the stuff I am posting.  I have come a long way from the days when I would write posts about my attempts to get upskirt shots of … Continue reading →

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Brand Disloyalty

Posted on November 22, 2020 by baudattitude

So, in the fifteen years or so since I bought my first modern Macintosh (a first-gen Intel Mac mini), our house has turned into a bit of an Apple Shrine.  We have four Macs, an iPhone each, a few iPads, … Continue reading →

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Apple TV for consoles is here, and it’s …eh.

Posted on November 15, 2020 by baudattitude

So, I’ve had an AppleTV of one sort or another for a bit over eleven years now.  The very first model, basically a stripped-down Mac Mini in a squashed box, was purely a way to rent movies from iTunes and … Continue reading →

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On Green Bars

Posted on November 13, 2020 by baudattitude

So, no posts here in ages and it would be kind of embarrassing if the last thing I wrote was a tediously boring bit about extracting audio tracks from mkv files. Instead, let’s have a tediously boring rant about healing … Continue reading →

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