Star Trek Strange New Worlds – S01 & S02
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Star Trek Strange New Worlds – S01 & S02

Despite that I've been writing about Star Trek Discovery, what really brought me back to Star Trek was Strange New Worlds. I had tried and given up on Discovery several times, not making it past the first episode, and I wasn't hearing much great and Star Trek Picard. I was hearing good things about Strange New Worlds. I know the timelines and continuity is iffy, but it's essentially a prequel series to The Original Series. Something I kind of realized when starting SNW, is that I have never really watched TOS. I have seen episodes here and there for sure,…
My Gaming Journey – Part 1 – 8-Bit Era
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My Gaming Journey – Part 1 – 8-Bit Era

Last year when I did Blaugust over on [BI], I dis a series of posts about my history of computer use.  I wasn't really going to try to go all "hardcore" at posting this year, but I decided it might be fun to try to parallel that series a bit with a history of my Video Game memories. Also, I have no idea if these are all 8-bit systems, it's just an easy way to segment things, don't @ me. Like my computer use, I've played video games, essentially my entire life.  I've played a lot of games.  My god…
What I’ve Been Playing – Boring Gamer Edition
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What I’ve Been Playing – Boring Gamer Edition

I wish it were more exciting this week, but it's kind of more of the same.  I'm admittedly in a bit of a rut in my gaming lately. Overwatch I almost wasn't playing this anymore, again.  It's starting to reach a point where it's more frustrating than fun again.  Last weekend had a trial round for the upcoming new hero Juno (maybe it was two weekends ago?).  Juno seems, a little lame honestly.  She is a healer, but it kind of feels like an "easy mode" style healer.  She doesn't need to toggle between healing and damage, so you can…
Solo Play – Food Chain Island
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Solo Play – Food Chain Island

Something I have hoped to do for a while is play some solo games and do some write-ups on them.  I have to start somewhere, and today, I am going to take a look at a wallet sized solo card game called Food Chain Island by Button Shy Games.  I recently backed a Kickstarter for another solo game by this same group, and one of the pledge options was to get copies of some of their other, previous titles, so I figured, why not. The game itself consists of 18 cards, a rule book, and a card wallet to hold…
Welcome to Blaugust 2024
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Welcome to Blaugust 2024

Welcome to Blaugust.  A sort of, celebration of blogging, created by bloggers, and set during the month of August.  I first participated last year on Blogging Intensifies, I set a goal to blog daily over there, and I accomplished that goal.  It was, a little grueling to be honest.  this year, I'm participating here, on Lameazoid.com.  And I have no plan or real intention to post daily. The main reason for switching which of my two blogs I am using is well, frankly, a lot of the other Blaugust Blogs seem to be gamer style blogs, so Lameazoid just, fits…
Blaugust 2023 Wrap-Up – What I Learned
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Blaugust 2023 Wrap-Up – What I Learned

The last theme week for Blaugust is "Lessons Learned". I can't say I learned anything new, I've been blogging for a while, literally decades, and I'm already aware of well, all of that which comes along with it. As, kind of depressing as they are. But let's pretend it's all fresh and new. Daily Updates As much as I like the idea of updating daily, I am not cut out for it, not anymore. Maybe never, though this isn't the first time I put effort into daily blogging. I like to think I have plenty of idea of things to…
Blaugust 2023 – Staying Motivated
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Blaugust 2023 – Staying Motivated

This week's "Blaugust theme" is "Staying Motivated". These days especially, I have to say, I have, almost zero motivation. There are a lot of factors as to why, I'm not really motivated to discuss them at this time though, maybe later, sometime (X-Doubt.jpg). Instead, let's look at what keeps me motivated. I think one thing that keeps me going a lot of the time is gamifying things. I think the idea of "gamification" seems really stupid on paper, but it also works pretty well. Achievement badges are actually kind of a weakness. I once spent an afternoon playing around with…