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A couple of weeks ago, I was introduced to a site called The CRPG Addict, in which one man chronicled his journey through playing every computer role playing game ever. I loved and was inspired by the site, so I decided to do my own take on it involving computer space games — which are [...]

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So it’s no secret that…I’m just not that fond of Twitter. Rather than the order and structure of threaded conversations on other social networks, Twitter, to me, is just like one big chat room where everyone screams into the dark, hoping to be heard and replied to. I try to keep up with it a [...]

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On a forum I frequent, there’s a thread entitled “Game of Thrones (no spoilers)”, which I thought would be perfect for me because I’ve only seen the show and haven’t read the books. However, upon entering the thread, I found that it’s rife with people spoiling the shit out of the thread by posting stuff [...]

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Ever since I was a little kid, I collected stuff. Toys, coins, gadgets, you name it. As I’ve gotten older I’ve narrowed my focus on the geeky stuff I’ve collected to maybe one or two types of things. As geeks we have whole treasure troves of different types of stuff we can collect…signatures, photos, books, [...]

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I talk to a lot of people on any given day, whether in person at work, or through various technological implementations. While back in my day — which was a Tuesday — there were only a couple of methods to communicate with people not in the same room with you…namely the telephone or a written [...]

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Once again, my site was hit with malware, but I’ve uninstalled and reinstalled WordPress AGAIN. Hopefully it won’t happen again. Sadly I think I lost a story in the process. Boo.

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So as you may know, I’m something of a social network whore. I’m somewhat addicted to them, because they make it easy to have conversations (or snippets thereof) with many of my closest friends. However, the more I’ve used them, the more I noticed my habits have changed in their use, and I’ve developed a [...]

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Recently, Blizzard entertainment announced plans to make real names mandatory on their Starcraft 2 forums, with other forums like World of Warcraft to follow. This was met with a wide array of opinions, both positive and negative. While I’m in the positive camp, I know many, many people who prefer pseudonyms over their real names [...]

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So I had to uninstall and reinstall WordPress to make it right, but it all seems okay now. Gotta do some tweaking to make the site back to where she was, but things are okay now…I hope. Thanks for your patience! Edit: I’m not insanely fond of this theme, but it’s the best I have [...]

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Hey kids, just wanna apologize for not posting much of late. Been a crazy month with work and sickness and all manner of distractions, but I’ll be back on the horse soon. I’ll be posting a review of the almost-complete version of Metropolis soon, for example, plus some other fun tidbits. I hope y’all are [...]

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