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18th Anniversary post?

This blog launched on March 3rd, 2007.  It’s been a ride, and I figured that I should write something here to prove that I’m still alive. It has been 18 years of very sporadic posting, and most of it has … Continue reading

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Wait, ANOTHER good Marvel game?

A few weeks back, I got around to playing Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy.  It was pretty good, and went a long way towards helping me forget how little fun I had with the Avengers game that had come out … Continue reading

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Circles, pretty good:

So, last month I really wanted to get the new Genshin Impact cosmetics that you could only get if you launched the game on an Xbox, but I had just sold my Series X out of a desire to cut … Continue reading

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Kinki Spiritual Affairs Bureau : What the heck did I just play?

So, I’m not the biggest fan of the phrase “So bad, it’s good”.  Like, I have a soft spot for the occasional objectively-bad piece of entertainment – I will defend the 1993 Super Mario Brothers movie to my final days … Continue reading

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WoW Accomplishments and dealing with timestamps in photos.app

Two things that are mostly unrelated, but still a little related. First, hit a nice milestone for the War Within and picked up the Ahead of the Curve achievement for the current season. The guild I’m in isn’t super hard … Continue reading

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What if… a Marvel game was actually really good?

  After selling both of my current-gen consoles, it felt like I should probably actually play something on the PC to justify the bold statements in my last post, and what I picked was the 2021 Eidos-developed/Square-Enix-published “Marvel’s Guardians of … Continue reading

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Nerd Purge, continued: rambling about PC gaming.

A few days ago, I mentioned that I was in the process of thinning out computers and game consoles and, well, other technology that kind of piles up when you’re in the line of work I’m in and have the … Continue reading

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Lore-Abiding Citizen, Again.

It’s been 90 days since the launch of the most recent World of Warcraft Expansion, “The War Within”.  I thought I’d talk about it. While I’ve technically – TECHNICALLY – been playing WoW since very shortly after the launch back … Continue reading

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This is the sort of thing you do for fun?

So, I’m fortunate enough to be married to a colossal nerd.  While we aren’t 100% into the same things, there’s definitely a crossover between our respective interests, and it means we can understand each other even in the instances where … Continue reading

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Nerd Purge 2024

It’s been a year.  But not all in a bad way! I was laid off at the end of September… but it was the kind of layoff where you get a huge severance package and where “getting back to work” … Continue reading

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