» Sapphire & Steel (1979-1982)
07/12/25 19:03 (2 hours ago) from Blog - Contains Moderate Peril
The seventies was an interesting time for UK genre television. Despite small budgets and often low key visual effects, there was no short...
» (This Year) I Love the Night Life
07/12/25 17:05 (4 hours ago) from Going Commando | A SWTOR Fan Blog
» The Road to Alliance Tournament XXI
07/12/25 15:15 (6 hours ago) from The Ancient Gaming Noob
We are once again at the starting point that will lead us to the annual Alliance Tournament in EVE Online, this one set to be the 21st in...
» Your Long Hot Summer Starts Right Here
07/12/25 10:51 (10 hours ago) from Inventory Full
Saturday, Saturday... what shall we do on Saturday? Well, technically it's the last day of my holiday, although now I'm only working two ...
» GPT: Polishing a Phrase Till It Sings – Not a Joyride
07/12/25 05:55 (15 hours ago) from Why I Game
Sometimes a sentence is important, and doesn’t sound quite there yet. It’s a chapter closer, or needs to be more in a charact...
» Moving to Insmother
07/11/25 15:15 (1 day ago) from The Ancient Gaming Noob
As of this post going live I think I am done moving. I think all my stuff is in the Keepstar in C-J6MT in the region of Insmother. Well...
» UK Heatwave
07/11/25 13:32 (1 day ago) from Blog - Contains Moderate Peril
Temperatures are forecast to increase across the UK over the weekend. They have gradually risen over the last few days and are expected t...
» LOTRO: Where’s your head, dude?
07/11/25 13:00 (1 day ago) from Bio Break
At this point, it’s been months since my LOTRO Mariner has seen the daylight, but she’s in no rush to exit Moria — not ...
» Blaugust 2025: The Countdown Begins
07/11/25 09:23 (1 day ago) from Inventory Full
It's that time again. It sure comes around fast. Which is a quote from... me! That's the kind of self-indulgent thing you can get away wi...
» Blaugust 2025
07/10/25 17:36 (2 days ago) from Blog - Contains Moderate Peril
August is fast approaching, so you know what that means? Yes, the annual Blaugust: Festival of Blogging is nearly upon us. This long esta...
» Wrapping Up Steam Summer Sale 2025
07/10/25 17:15 (2 days ago) from The Ancient Gaming Noob
When this post goes live the Steam Summer Sale will have passed, another such sale now in the rear view mirror. The sales, like the seas...
» Blaugust 2025 is Coming!
07/10/25 13:00 (2 days ago) from Nerd Girl Thoughts
Some of you may be thinking “Hold up, why are you posting about Blaugust 2025?” and that’s an excellent question. The answer is simple &#...
» Marvel's Midnight Suns - First Impressions
07/10/25 12:03 (2 days ago) from Inventory Full
One of the more interesting psychological phenomena surrounding gaming is the way multiple options so often collapse into one. It's commo...
» Frosthaven Scenario 14: Jagged Shoals
07/10/25 12:01 (2 days ago) from Chasing Dings!
They say that a pig can consume a body in eight minutes. What about ten pigs? That are also fish somehow? Related posts: Game Night: Fros...
» GPT: Continuing Sentences and Keeping Up Writing Flow
07/10/25 03:07 (2 days ago) from Why I Game
Here’s another writing use case I found for ChatGPT very early on in restarting my attempt at completing The Mindwalker Job: Case i...
» #17= Magmia - Born 4 May 2003 - 101 Days 12 Hours
07/09/25 15:36 (3 days ago) from Inventory Full
And so we come to Magmia . As should be obvious by her excessively long Played Time, she's one of my most important characters. Remember,...
» Warming up for Pandaria
07/09/25 15:15 (3 days ago) from The Ancient Gaming Noob
As we have been told, Mists of Pandaria Classic is headed our way in under two weeks. It will soon be time for another test of “wa...
» Rimworld: A deluded rich man’s dream
07/09/25 13:00 (3 days ago) from Bio Break
It’s time for another Rimworld run, in honor of the upcoming Odyssey expansion drop on July 11th! I’m pretty dang excited for...
» Knole
07/08/25 21:56 (3 days ago) from Blog - Contains Moderate Peril
Knole is a country house in England and a former archbishop’s palace that is currently owned by the National Trust. It is located within ...
» EVE Online Enters the Era of the Global PLEX Market
07/08/25 16:15 (4 days ago) from The Ancient Gaming Noob
Having spent the last five years trying to fix the player economy they broke, one might think that CCP deciding to have a go at PLEX now ...
» Get To The Back Of The Line, You Two!
07/08/25 13:53 (4 days ago) from Inventory Full
This seems to be buying season. Or acquiring season, at least. Since I last posted about adding seven more games to my collection, just a...
» Cowabunga, it's spicing time!
07/08/25 11:41 (4 days ago) from The Friendly Necromancer
It's been a few weeks, and I've been playing a lot (for me at least) of Dune Awakening. The dynamic duo of TreeTrunks McSkinny and Skip L...
» MMO Tropes: Alts
07/07/25 19:37 (5 days ago) from Blog - Contains Moderate Peril
In massively multiplayer online games (MMOs), alts (short for alternate characters), are new characters created by a player in addition t...
» The Mordor Project Arrives… In Mordor… Which Was the Plan All Along!
07/07/25 15:15 (5 days ago) from The Ancient Gaming Noob
Today it has been four months since I set my mind to getting to Mordor. My actual arrival date was June 25th. The new 64-bit servers an...
» Games For A Wet Weekend
07/07/25 13:20 (5 days ago) from Inventory Full
I did a lot more gaming than usual this weekend. For one thing, I wasn't working and for another the sun wasn't out. It was raining...
» LOTRO: Midsummer days, hot nights
07/07/25 13:00 (5 days ago) from Bio Break
Once the “new and improved” Midsummer Festival arrived in LOTRO, I knew I had to shove everything to the side to tackle this ...
» HeroQuest First Light: Second Adventure
07/07/25 12:00 (5 days ago) from Chasing Dings!
The one where an elf dies and a wizard retires and we meet someone surprising. Related posts: HeroQuest: First Light: First Adventure Her...
» Heads of State and The Accountant 2
07/07/25 01:56 (5 days ago) from JVT Workshop
» Politicians
07/06/25 21:36 (5 days ago) from Blog - Contains Moderate Peril
I still maintain a legacy presence on Twitter/X and I follow my local MP (member of Parliament) Louie French. It’s not something I especi...
» TAGN Fantasy Critic League 2025 – Week Twenty-Six and Counter Picks
07/06/25 15:15 (6 days ago) from The Ancient Gaming Noob
We are now halfway through the year… and not much happened this week. But that was expected. Last week we left off with the scoreb...
» Self-Reflection Sunday – Getting Back In The Saddle
07/06/25 13:00 (6 days ago) from Nerd Girl Thoughts
It’s been awhile – almost a year since my last Self-Reflection Sunday, and nearly that long as well since I’ve been pos...
» Thoughts on Holidays
07/05/25 19:09 (7 days ago) from Blog - Contains Moderate Peril
Mrs P and I travelled to Croatia on Friday 13th June for our summer holiday. We spent one week in Makarska, which is located on the Dalma...
» Buy One, Get Six Free
07/05/25 09:10 (7 days ago) from Inventory Full
So, finally, as if anyone cared, here are the five games I claimed from Amazon Prime gaming in June. Or was it July? And why are there si...
» GPT: The Initial Test Case – Ideas for Forward Progress
07/05/25 08:02 (7 days ago) from Why I Game
So how did I begin the first test of getting ChatGPT’s help with completing an old “story” written way back in 2013 as ...
» Playing Against Bots in Warzone
07/04/25 18:52 (8 days ago) from Blog - Contains Moderate Peril
Warzone added a new “casual mode” to its Battle Royale at the start of Season 4. This reduced the number of real players in-game and sub...
» Trending Now...
07/04/25 17:56 (8 days ago) from Inventory Full
For various unexpected reasons, I had to spend much of yesterday driving Mrs Bhagpuss around the Cotswolds (Not exactly a hardship on a b...
» Palia: Not every librarian is a secret smokeshow
07/04/25 13:00 (8 days ago) from Bio Break
If Palia truly excels in one area, it’s infusing its limited cast of NPCs with a whole lot of personality and story. Everyone I tal...
» Darkness Falls (2003)
07/03/25 20:27 (9 days ago) from Blog - Contains Moderate Peril
During 1836, in the town of Darkness Falls, Maine, an elderly widow Matilda Dixon is adored by the town’s children as she gives them a go...
» Why I Write – Soft Launch of Tavernpunk Tales of Ares
07/03/25 14:41 (9 days ago) from Why I Game
This is a special announcement that for the next couple of days (or weeks or months), this blog space will be co-opted to bring you a spe...
» Heralding The Heralds
07/03/25 09:44 (9 days ago) from Inventory Full
Jenn Chan , Darkpaw 's " Head of Studio " dropped another Producer's Letter for EverQuest II yesterday. I imagine she posted one for the ...
» The Recluse Report - June 2025 Part 2
07/02/25 22:05 (9 days ago) from Endgame Viable
The Serious Stuff Not to sound overly dramatic, but my body has been trying to kill me, and only recently revealed its intentions. I offi...
» The Humanoid (1979)
07/02/25 18:47 (10 days ago) from Blog - Contains Moderate Peril
The Humanoid is one of many international Star Wars knock-offs that flooded cinemas in the late seventies and early eighties. Like so man...
» Finding Solutions to Questions I Never Asked
07/02/25 13:42 (10 days ago) from Scopique
When you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail; when I have a 3D printer, everything needs to be printed.
» World of Warcraft: Stuck in the crosshairs of indecision
07/02/25 13:00 (10 days ago) from Bio Break
Bemoaning a lack of time to play enough of a game that one would want or to accomplish all desired activities doesn’t make for inte...
» Thinking And Drinking
07/02/25 12:50 (10 days ago) from Inventory Full
Sometimes I wonder if I even like MMOs any more. MMORPGs. Whatever. Certainly, the " MM " part no longer has any real relevance for me. I...
» Malifaux: Boilermaker takes the stage
07/02/25 12:00 (10 days ago) from Chasing Dings!
Not all of the Foundry crew are from Canada, but some are. The Foundry folks mix metal and magic into living constructs that stalk around...
» A Man For All Seasons (1966)
07/01/25 22:43 (10 days ago) from Blog - Contains Moderate Peril
Contemporary viewer’s may be perplexed by a film such as A Man For All Seasons. Why make a two our motion picture about a Tudor lawyer, s...
» Shut up and take my money…what do you mean, “No”?
07/01/25 16:53 (11 days ago) from Mailvaltar
For quite some time now there’s something going on in the gaming industry that I just can’t wrap my head around. On the one h...
» Palworld Does What Nintendon’t. Again.
07/01/25 12:00 (11 days ago) from Chasing Dings!
Palworld's new update does more than let your Pals become their true selves. There's also fishing. And, almost forgot, a portal to the wo...
» Conquest Events That Are Good for Small Guilds
06/30/25 19:59 (12 days ago) from Going Commando | A SWTOR Fan Blog