Year: 2021
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Easy Solution For Reference Citations in a Fresh MediaWiki Install Not Showing Up With Cite Extension
I always meant to do stuff like this with the blog: drop easy-to-read, simple, layman explanations on things I figured out with tech stuff, and maybe someone else will find it, and even find it useful…! So I got a brand-new, fresh, vanilla MediaWiki install all finished and set up and ready to go. (No,…
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Angelic Layer: The Mario Kart Big Leagues Review (Video/Podcast)
OK, here’s the deal, because good lord does this need some heavy explanation: The Setup Shortly after COVID hit big in 2020, some friends began organizing Saturday evening online gaming hangouts. We cycled through a few things early on, but by April we had settled on Mario Kart 8 Deluxe for Nintendo Switch because it…
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Review: Vinyl Post, the monthly postcard-sized record delivery service
This never happens. I’m immune to this kind of marketing. Dammit, they got me. While doing the usual message board rounds one day back in September, I stumbled upon an advertisement that spoke to me: it was about vinyl records. Not just regular records, though: postcard records. Having recently thrown myself into the world of…
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A Realm Reborn: Final Fantasy XIV Reflections
As we head into the Shadowbringers finale, I’ve been reflecting back on my early days with Final Fantasy XIV. The game has been an unexpected constant in my life since 2013, with an uninterrupted subscription since A Realm Reborn‘s launch, hundreds of dollars spent on Primals Blu-rays, and quite a few art books kicking around.…
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Easy and Delicious Pecan-Infused Bourbon Home Recipe
It’s no surprise that the pandemic hit us all in different ways. In this article I will share an in-depth summary of the last year and a half and all the emotions and life events that led up to the creation of this recipe… …ahahaha nah. I’m not going to do that to you. Wow,…
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Kanzenshuu Reflections in Light of Giant Bomb’s Upcoming Transitional Period
I’ve always been a pretty casual “fan” of Giant Bomb: primarily a Bombcast (and later Beastcast) listener, and rarely a viewer of any video content. That… probably sounds bizarre considering what their primary output is, but I guess I’ve just always been a text-and-audio person, even when it comes to commentary on a visual medium.…
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Sun Wukong Leads a Journey to the West Theme at the Las Vegas Chinatown Plaza
When you find yourself with a free afternoon in Las Vegas, what better choice is there than to… *checks notes*… take a ride out to Chinatown Plaza…? And so I did back in 2019, because and of course I would. I had to go see Sun Wukong! The Theme: Journey to the West Las Vegas’…
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Reviving the Ol’ Personal Blog
Is this blog alive again? Who can really say? Truth be told, I let it get so out of date that it got infected, so I had to just trash the whole install and start fresh. In the process, I was backing up a few things, dug up a few other things, and remembered that…
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Podcast Guest Appearances: 2021 Catch-Up Edition
It is I, killer of podcasts. It seems that when I show up on someone else’s podcast, there’s a significant chance that podcast will end soon after. I wonder if that’s why people stopped asking me to come on their shows? It can’t be that I’m a terrible and unlikable guest, right? Welp, as I…