Blaugust AMA: My Longest Gaming Session
For Blaugust extra credit, there’s an AMA (Ask Me Anything) thread running over on the Anook pages. It’s a simple enough process, ask a question of the previous poster and the next person in line asks...
View ArticleBlaugust: 10 Question Challenge
The Blaugust 2015 Writing Prompts thread unsurprisingly has some writing prompts. This set of 10 questions is one of them. 1. Favourite console? XBox 360. It’s only one of two consoles that I have...
View ArticleA Note On Blog Security
As you know I recently fixed up my blog after it had been hacked. A job that took quite a few hours. As part of doing that I included a new WordPress plugin called Wordfence. As its name suggests it...
View ArticleBlaugust Day 9
Last week, on Thursday evening, there was a news report on TV that reported that a 45 year old father of two young children had been killed in front of those children by a hit-and-run driver. At first...
View ArticleEverquest 2: Bargears Revisited
The other day I mentioned that I had loaded up Everquest 2, but was having some major graphics problems with it. The problem was that when loading the game up, visual artefacts appeared all over the...
View ArticleThis Relationship Is Headed For An Epic Fail, Young Lady
Strolling down memory lane. I linked to this video, Dating a Noob, all the way back in 2009. I still think it’s as funny today. I won’t link to the old post though, the video format there uses Flash...
View ArticleMan! I’m Crap At MOBAs
This is another in my Blaugust series of posts. For the others, you can find them at the tag page here. A few months ago, on a whim, I decided to try out some games in the MOBA genre. I downloaded...
View ArticleHi, My Name Is Stropp And I Have G.A.D.D
This is another in my Blaugust series of posts. For the others, you can find them at the tag page here. G.A.D.D. Fellow Gaddites. I haz it. You might too. It’s the sense that the grass is greener on...
View ArticleDoes It Have Guns?
I saw this on TV the other night. The ABC (Australian Broadcasting Commission) puts on a weekly programme called Good Game which reviews and showcases the latest games. This last week the half hour was...
View ArticleBlaugust Blogging Barriers
Okay. So I like alliteration. You haven’t noticed by now… Before I started this Blaugust thingy, I noted that the nasty condition known as Real Life (it’s worse that psoriasis!) might curtail some of...
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