Hi! I’m an old reclusive Gen-X software developer who writes twice a month about games or projects I’m working on or what’s happening in the world. Not AI-generated since 2012, despite what ZeroGPT says. Except the images. All the images are AI-generated now because it’s way too much of a hassle to find images for blog posts.
Feed Experiment [+audio]
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I’m experimenting with an idea I’ve had for a while, and that idea is to attach audio files to blog posts. (273 words.)
FFXIV - Contemporary Shadowbringers Reviews [+audio]
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Out of curiosity, I went looking to find some contemporary accounts of why Shadowbringers was The Greatest Final Fantasy Story Ever. Because it wasn’t clear to me. (1192 words.)
YouTube and Twitter APIs
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An automated YouTube upload script is now working. Hopefully. (465 words.)
Blaugust 2021 Lessons Learned
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Well kids, what did we learn this month? (509 words.)
FFXIV - New Game Plus
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I recently learned about New Game+ in Final Fantasy XIV, some time earlier in Blaugust, in the Blaugust Discord. I didn’t think it would work very well, but it actually does. (942 words.)
The Endgame Grind Decision Point
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Should I dive headlong into the vortex of Final Fantasy XIV endgame possibilities or should I detox and play something else? (534 words.)
Nuts To The Post-Shadowbringers Blues
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I started into the post-Shadowbringers Main Scenario Quest last night and got a whole two quests in before the game slammed a massive brick wall down in front of me. (1048 words.)
YouTube Data API
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YouTube’s API is a pain. (498 words.)
Shadowbringers Done, Part 1
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I finished the first ending of Shadowbringers. The one before the long series of post-expansion patches. (469 words.)
Best MMO Technology
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Yesterday I mentioned how much I worried that Final Fantasy XIV was staggering into their new expansion on duct tape and bailing wire, so I thought today I’d mention the MMORPGs that appear to have a much more solid technology base that I don’t have to worry about. (417 words.)
FFXIV Needs A Limit Break
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I’m waking up to this news that Final Fantasy XIV has closed off all the North American Aether servers to new players indefinitely because they can’t handle the strain anymore. (340 words.)
Blogging Motivation: What's That?
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I think we’re supposed to be writing about how we bloggers stay motivated when blogging, but I think a much more relatable topic for the masses is how we definitely, positively don’t stay motivated. (670 words.)
Sunday Screenshots - FFXIV
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I didn’t even rename the screenshot files this time. (95 words.)
Saturday Screenshots - FFXIV
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Hey, writing blog posts every day isn’t that fun sometimes. Here’s some screenshots. From that same game again. Because they’re the only screenshots I took yesterday. (151 words.)
Friday Screenshots - FFXIV
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I was going to pull out one of seemingly hundreds of half-written posts to finish them, but then I realized I hate all of them! And now it’s evening. So here’s some screenshots. It’s from that game I’ve been playing. You know the one I mean. (92 words.)
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