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Five Games for a Year
Back in 2019 Naithan at Time to Loot talked about picking just five games for a whole year. I saw the post, and thought it was a great evergreen prompt, so I tucked it away to pull out at a later date. Today just happens to be that date! The Rules He starts with five rules for this exercise. The more detailed explanations can be found in his post. The consequence for playing a sixth title? Playing anything outside of your pre-selected five titles will result in any gaming device you touch spontaneously combusting. (I mean, not truly, this is a thought-experiment!) Selections aren’t limited to a certain platform. All…
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Master Matoya Appreciation Post
Warning: Possible spoilers ahead! Master Matoya has swiftly grown on me. She’s just… epic?? I enjoy pretty much everything that comes out of her mouth. Except for the gag bit where she mis-genders Alphinaud mistaking him for his twin. That was annoying. But at least it was only in a single cutscene. She also called out the eye-change that happened with Y’shtola after she’s rescued. It had been bothering me that her eyes were so different and off putting and neither Alphinaud nor Tataru had called it out. Not even her sister noticed! So I’m at least glad that was addressed by Master Matoya… though I still have lots of…
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Developer Appreciation Week: Sticker Shops
If you don’t know, planners and stickers (and well, stationery in general) are something I have gotten into a lot. I have quite a few sticker shops I frequent, but I wanted to call out the few that I head to first when I hear it’s release day. The Honey B Shop Shan and the Honey B Team create hand-drawn stickers that are a perfect mix of alternative culture and cute! Pretty much everything she creates (including her washi tape!) is something I adore and have to get my hands on! Creating & Co Paige focuses on lots of book stickers—whether they be reading challenges, or themed around books… and…
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Developer Appreciation Week: Streamers
Lately I’ve been watching a lot of Twitch streams… even though I mostly lurk. It’s become my form of entertainment to replace TV/movie streaming, quite honestly. Except for when I’m feeling in the mood for an audio book, of course. Because I’m watching so much Twitch, and have found a home in quite a plethora of streamers’ chats, I wanted to list out some of my favorites for y’all to follow! They’re mostly variety streamers that focus on social issues, mental health, fat liberation, etc. So check them out and at least give them a follow! Streamers I’m loving the heck out of in alphabetical order. Andrealausell BeardPrincess BigMikeyOcho Blizzb3ar…
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Developer Appreciation Week: Games
This week is the start of Developer Appreciation Week! Bel defines this as follows: The D.A.W. or Developer Appreciation Week is an event that used to happen in our blogging community but fell by the wayside. The idea behind it was it was a week to show our appreciation to the people that make all of those games that we love. The thing is over the years we have grown past just being a “gaming” thing, so for other communities it might be a time to reflect on your favorite Authors, Musicians or just Creatives in general. I’m going to do a few different appreciation posts throughout the week, but…
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Big Ugly Cry
Warning: There may be spoilers ahead! Oh, Heavensward… why would you do this to me? The ending of The Vault just… killed me. Haurchefant! I don’t think a game has made me cry this hard for this long before. I’ve sobbed and snotted so hard that I have gone through a half roll of toilet paper. And I think I have myself together enough to continue the MSQ. [A Few Moments Later] Oh Gods why??? The guards being all choked up has me absolutely sobbing again??? And then Count Edmont talks about what Haurchefant said to him and… I’m gone again. How dare you do this to me, Heavensward? It’s…
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Revisiting the WP Content Calendar
Back in April last year, I tried using the content calendar plug-in for the first time ever. And it really clicked with me. Fast forward to today, and it’s still clicking with me. In fact, before a depression period hit, I was ahead on blog posts because of this beauty of an addon! It also helps a lot for catching up on content (as I publish this after the actual listed publish date…). Now, as someone focusing on multiple types of content, do I find this to be a good end-all-be-all content calendar for me? Not at all. I still have to set up my weeks and month ahead of…
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Ding 80! …On Fisher
I hit 80 for the first time ever in FFXIV! But it’s not a Disciple of War or Magic. It’s Fisher. Honestly, Ocean Fishing made it a breeze to level. I think for now, though, I’m done with gathering professions until I hit Stormblood. So I guess… phase one, complete! This is post 13/31 for Blaugust You can find out more and sign up over at Belghast’s post!
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Creating a Second Blog
Back in 2019, I was wondering whether it was worth my time setting up a second blog or not. I had a lot of posts that flitted over the border of “lewd” into “almost or actual pornography/BDSM”, and I didn’t know what to do about it. Back when I was contemplating what to do, I mentioned that I didn’t “feel like there’s an easy answer to what I should do”. But there really was an easy answer. It just took me a few months to figure it out. I needed a website for my adult content creation anyway, so why the hesitation in writing about the nerdy NSFW stuff, too?…
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Stressing Over Dancer
Getting started on Dancer was a lot more difficult than I thought. The whole rotation explanation in Gamboling for Gil (the quest where you have to fight Ranaa) was beyond stressful! Trying to figure out what I was doing on top of Gegeruju being all, “Oh, wow. This is so entertaining. Not.” was absolutely harrowing. I didn’t know what my Dancer rotation should’ve looked like, and the quest did nothing to help me figure it out. I got super emotional over the quest, and ended up looking up my single-target and AoE rotations at level 60 just to get through the quest. Once I figured out what they should be, everything…