Blogging Months
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Housing in Guild Wars 2 – What could it be like?
Gaudete Theory suggested today’s Blaugust Group Project: It’s alive! Ancient Draft, Revived! I took a look at my drafts and decided to just go with the oldest one I have. It is this one here and I wrote the draft back in February 2013. Guild Wars 2 was merely half a year old at that…
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You’d Never Guess, But… (Blaugust Group Project)
Krikket gave us another writing prompt as part of Blaugust 2025. Share something about you that you don’t normally talk about on your blog and you think your readers would never guess about you. I am a psychologist with a doctoral degree, but do not talk about my profession here or keep it really vague.…
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Screenshot Saturday: Find all 5: Vikings
I love the “Find all” game series and recently realised that they have added a lot more games since I last checked. Hidden Object Games are fun to play once in a while. What I love about this game series most of all is the graphic style. Another neat feature is that once a part…
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Small Joys Big Smiles
Krikket gave us another writing prompt as part of Blaugust 2025. Talk about a tiny thing that makes you disproportionately happy. When our daughter was still a little baby, my mother-in-law brought us a really cute baby hat that she had crocheted herself. She had left me some wool, so we could decide whether we…
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Tomato Mozzarella Mushrooms for Kids…
…and adults alike. It brightens up every table even if the rest of what you are serving is plain and boring (to look at). You need: cucumber slices small tomatoes (cocktail or cherry, for example) small mozzarella balls fresh basil a bit of mayonnaise For everything to hold together, you also need tooth picks (wooden…
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The Blog Questions Challenge
I saw this from fellow Blaugustan Varun Barad and decided to join in as it seemed like a nice thing to do during Blaugust. So here are my answers to the questions. Why did you start blogging in the first place? I have always liked writing. And I loved reading blogs about gaming. The first…
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LotRO: Enjoying the Farmers Faire
After playing a bit of Tales of the Shire, I really wanted to pay a visit to Lord of the Rings Online again! On August 14, the Farmers Faire seasonal event started (running until September 2). Since I have been away for a longer time and can never really remember what to do at each…
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First Impressions Review: Tales of the Shire
Ever since I first heard about Tales of the Shire, I wanted to have it! When it finally released, I still waited and checked the reviews before deciding to buy it. It is currently sitting at 80 % “Very Positive” reviews. But I usually don’t trust the overall score. I actually particularly like reading the…
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Kickstarter and MMORPGs
I recently read an article about Kickstarter projects for MMORPGs in the past 13 years and whether they were successfully released or not. It is a German article, but I am not going to write about all these MMORPGs now anyway (edit: There is an AI powered translation of the page into English. Thank you,…
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Paeroka’s Ponderings: Can a Game Be Both Cozy and Challenging?
I needed a few ideas what to blog about and asked ChatGPT. I asked for prompts about indie games, cozy games or MMORPGs. This one was a fascinating question. Can a game be cozy as well as challenging? I, personally, get bored easily when a game does not pose any challenge whatsoever (although I do…
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Paeroka’s Ponderings: Games waiting to be played
We all probably have this “pile of shame” of games that we just never played for a number of reasons. I have some that on the one hand, I really want to play but whenever I start them up, I am suddenly not in the mood for it after all. Or there is something shinier…
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Blaugust 2025 – Here we come!
It is this time of the year again! Welcome to Blaugust! In short: During Blaugust, we come together (“we” being anybody who wants to blog!) and try to each publish 31 posts this month. For a more detailed explanation, follow this link. In previous years, I was among the first to sign up. This year,…
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The Game I didn’t know I needed: Gourdlets
I played the demo for Gourdlets in the Steam Next Fest in June 2023 and put it into the “The Okay Ones” category. Back then I wrote: “Gourdlets is super cute – but I like having more than just a pure sandbox, some objectives to achieve, etc. If this game wasn’t just a sandbox, then…
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Steam Next Fest from October 2023 – Yes, Very Belated!
Oh my… as you can see from the title, this post has been in my Draft folder for months… I was wondering whether to just trash this post. But since it is Blaugust and since I spent a lot of time writing this post already, I decided to take a look at it now, update…
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Broken Layout…
You may notice that the blog looks different. The theme I used before, “Textbook”, was broken and showing some ugly frames while not showing some of the featured images. It was working fine with Edge, but not with Chrome or Firefox. I had been waiting for a couple days, but since nothing changed, I took…
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