The Web site
I spent a while watching the views odometer, ready for it to roll over to all sixes for a display shot… as a result of I additionally take photos of my automobile odometer when it hits a enjoyable quantity. I’m simply that man. Nevertheless, as typically occurs, I missed the second. As an alternative, I caught this quantity:
Do the 8s stability out the three 6s?
666 is, after all, each dumb particular person’s quantity to get labored up about within the west. In the meantime, should you grew up with or spent a number of time round Asian cultures within the US, you can see an affinity for the quantity 8 in lots of, it being deemed fortunate. Right here in Silicon Valley there are a number of residence listings that finish in “888” moderately than “999” to look propitious. So is the quantity 6,668,888 fortunate or not?
Aside from that, WP.com didn’t break something too badly in March. I imply, the feedback administration panel spacing is all screwed up, so all feedback have to slot in a 25 character huge column, which suggests an extended, slim entry that’s manner taller on the web page than it needs to be. However, I’m additionally fairly certain WP.com doesn’t care about blogs or running a blog, a lot much less feedback on weblog posts, and hasn’t for not less than a decade at this level.
My presently chosen theme is at risk of breaking beneath the burden of recent options it doesn’t help, however after I go take a look at the themes WP.com recommends, none of them appear like an precise weblog anymore. I imply, WP.com hates sidebars and displaying precise content material on a single web page. Sure, I’m caught on a really quaint… in tech time scales… imaginative and prescient of a weblog,
Lastly, Discord… didn’t break something, however it appears like they’re planning on doing some type of Fediverse integration as a result of after I drop a hyperlink to a publish in there now it grabs the Activtity Pub model of hyperlink and resolves to that… which might be high-quality if WP.com didn’t toss technique to a lot information down that pipeline. So now any hyperlink I share from the weblog on Discord is obnoxiously lengthy so I type of really feel like I shouldn’t do this any extra.
I may simply flip off the Exercise Pub integration. I feel possibly three individuals see it on Mastodon. However I type of prefer it as a degree of integration, particularly since you possibly can go away a touch upon the weblog from Mastodon, which is frankly simpler than attempting to depart a touch upon the precise weblog should you don’t have a WP.com account.
For these , I wrote concerning the Exercise Pub integration again in January.
One Yr In the past
I had ideas about Dune: Half 2 and the concept that there is likely to be an element 3.
I used to be excited about a brand new monitor. I’ve not acted on that as but.
Mark Jacobs introduced he was taking funding for the Camelot Unchained from the crypto loopy VCs at Andreesen Horowitz. The query right here was actually who was scamming whom on this deal?
EverQuest turned 25, which required a retrospective publish in addition to some stats from the crew and a take a look at the anniversary occasions and rewards.
In my ongoing EverQuest beginning factors collection, I went into the Qeynos Aquaduct, roamed round Blackburrow, fell off the raft in Halas, and what West Karana was like again within the day.
In Valheim we had been getting ourselves in hassle once more as we looked for Moder. Then it was into the plains and defeating Yagluth… as a result of we’d carried out this earlier than. Then it was the Mistlands, which we didn’t love.
We additionally determined to poke our noses into The Elder Scrolls On-line. I made it to stage 10, however didn’t go a lot additional.
We then dropped into Conan Exiles for a peek. That seemed adequate that we went all in on it.
I had some Friday Bullet Factors about Blizzard together with bits about Season of Discovery, WoW Basic Hardcore, some perception into The Warfare Inside, Diablo IV on GamePass, and one other WoW mount from Hearthstone.
With the Hardcore Basic announcement, I got here up with a number of different basic server concepts I figured Blizz would possibly discover. In the meantime, Blizz went with the Plunderstorm occasion in retail WoW.
In the meantime, one thing that seemed like WoW subscription numbers leaked out of Blizz.
In EVE On-line there was the February destruction stats from the MER and a excessive sec brawl in Perimeter over TTC Sotiyos.
Niantic knew what we wanted and let us pop a fortunate egg at friendship milestones.
I additionally had a Friday Bullet Factors publish concerning the New York Instances attempting to personal the phrase “Wordle,” Apple and Epic at it once more, Nintendo shutting down the Yuzu Swap emulator, Elon inventing running a blog, EA going all-in on AI, and the WoW Cataclysm Basic closed beta beginning. Solely a type of wasn’t dumb, you decide which.
Then there have been some spring targeted Friday Bullet factors as I discussed the Steam Spring Sale, the Anomaly enlargement for RimWorld, the Stellaris Machine Age enlargement, one thing about Mission Awakening, and one thing about Playable Worlds utilizing AI in there at that time unannounced sport.
Then a final spherical of Friday bullet factors about DC Universe On-line touchdown on PS5, Guild Wars 3 confirmed… possibly, Gearbox escaping the clutches of the terrible Embracer Group, and Blizz and NetEase getting again collectively once more.
Lastly, my Phone Tales collection reached Edify and the telephony subsystem and speech recognition.
5 Years In the past
Oh man, it was the beginning of the pandemic lockdown, the March that lasted perpetually as all of us realized keep residence. Happily I obtained a Ninendo Swap Lite for my birthday to maintain me busy.
I did one other ballot about which voice service individuals had been utilizing. Discord swept the ballot.
I summed up the Winter Fantasy Film League run, however FML was quickly placed on a pause on account of theaters being shut.
Gamigo CEO Remco Westerman was unironically happening about synergy.
I used to be nonetheless enjoying a little bit of EverQuest II, although it was largely the Overseer characteristic getting me to log in. EverQuest turned 21, which introduced with is new servers, server merges, and different particular gadgets. We received a free heroic improve… to stage 85… which I used on one among my characters.
The large information from Dawn although was Holly Longdale, who had been working the Norrath franchise for the corporate, leaving for Blizzard.
In WoW Basic the occasion group was working by means of Razorfen Downs earlier than heading off to Uldaman. Archaedas was a difficulty, however with some strategies we had been capable of end him as a 4 particular person group.
I used to be additionally attempting to farm the Hydrocane from Gnomeregan.
In EVE On-line there was an early March replace that introduced us some adjustments, which was adopted later with an replace that included low sec and faction warfare adjustments in addition to giving battleships a frigate escape bay. CCP was additionally transferring together with their financial privation plan, asserting the elimination of minerals from moons. The February MER was already displaying mineral costs rising and this was anticipated to make them go larger nonetheless.
CCP threw extra ability factors at us.
Out in house we had been packing as much as head residence from Venal. Liberty Squad was carried out because the company Terrifying League of Canine Fort, which was working the group, left the alliance to seek out journey elsewhere.
There was a plan for Blapril, an early run at Blaugust, as we had been all residence with free time.
There was a query as as to whether of not there must be a shooter from CCP like Mission Nova.
And there have been some Friday Bullet Factors from Gamasutra, together with much more about CCP’s Mission Nova… which, give how lengthy CCP has been at this shooter factor, ought to have been referred to as Mission Aeternum.
Ten Years In the past
I hit stage 50 but once more. Hitting 50 is a factor individuals do in stage primarily based MMOs.
The Elder Scrolls On-line dropped the subscription enterprise mannequin.
The Crowfall Kickstarter marketing campaign was nonetheless working. I used to be questioning in the event that they had a mid-game plan. They actually didn’t, however the marketing campaign nonetheless introduced in $1.7 million, double what was requested.
EA closed down Maxis as an entity inside its group. It’s what EA does finest.
It was a Turbine roast as an insider spilled the beans on downsides which have plagued the developer of Lord of the Rings On-line.
Rift hit its 4 12 months anniversary, however it felt prefer it had been round for longer than that.
I used to be questioning what a development server would appear like with EverQuest II. Nevertheless it was Candy 16 for EverQuest, which was getting a new development server for its birthday it appeared.
Blizzard introduced that they had been going to go forward with their PLEX-like thought, the WoW Token. The occasion group was within the Iron Docks and farting round in garrisons.
CCP was speaking concerning the subsequent stage of the proposed sovereignty adjustments for EVE On-line. There was the Scylla launch, which was overshadowed by Fanfest. Additionally, the members of CSMX had been introduced.
In New Eden I tried to fly an Ibis from Immensea to Deklein. Then there was a rumor of conflict as the standard suspects attacked our sovereignty in Fountain. That referred to as for an enormous previous transfer op which, in post-Phoebe New Eden, meant caps taking gates. Then there was that system our foes took. And as soon as they had been evicted from Fountain, it was time for a punitive expedition to Delve.
And The Mittani declared that the facility blocs of New Eden would by no means die. We will see. He luckily didn’t embrace himself within the equation.
My daughter and I attempted out Diablo III on the PlayStation 3.
I put collectively a assessment of my Kickstarter historical past… I ought to do this once more.
Lastly, it appeared as if a number of the MMO information websites had been being attentive to bloggers once more… not less than briefly.
Fifteen Years In the past
With the March 2010 month in assessment I used to be capable of announce that the location had handed the a million web page view mark. A minor milestone.
FarmVille. All of us tried it as analysis for Shut Up We’re Speaking #60. We didn’t inhale. Does anyone even get that reference anymore?
I ran by means of GDC and had dinner.
I used to be waxing nostalgic for some taste of Rome.
EA was saying very silly issues about what number of subscribers Star Wars: The Previous Republic would want. It’s by no means too early to set the bar for failure. Additionally they had been threatening to taint 38 Studios.
I used to be additionally questioning about larger challenges in MMOs. Should all paths be equally straightforward?
I held an April Fools contest, which received a number of entries.
Pokemon HeartGold and SoulSilver launched and, after some delay, I used to be selecting that preliminary Pokemon.
I used to be nonetheless invested in Star Trek On-line… I was attempting…. nicely, they had been giving us lifetime subscribers some perks.
In EVE On-line I hit 50 million ability factors. I additionally had my first Tengu.
World of Tanks was staring to announce a few of their development timber, beginning with the Russian and American units. These have modified quite a bit since then.
The occasion group was starting to embrace the Dungeon Finder. Nevertheless, after Mauradon we discovered we nonetheless needed to do a bit of exterior legwork to organize for our Sunken Temple run. I additionally received a chopper alongside the way in which, on my birthday no much less.
And, lastly, that complete Derek Sensible/Alganon factor was simply kicking off.
Twenty Years In the past
The late Monolith Productions, backed by Sega and Warner Brothers, launched The Matrix On-line within the US. It hit Europe a month later. The title was quickly taken over by Sony On-line Leisure, which ran it till its closure in 2009.
The Bloodline Chronicles journey pack was launched for EverQuest II. It was free for Station Entry subscribers. Amongst different issues it gave the sport destructible partitions.
Twenty-5 Years In the past
Sony launched the PlayStation 2. Obtainable initially solely in Japan, it had ten launch titles.
Most Considered Posts in March
- Enshrouded After the Dragon
- The Blizzard WoW Basic 2025 Street Map consists of Pandaria and New Vanilla Development Servers
- The place Does Your Tolerance for Grind Fail?
- I Needed Evendim, I received Esteldin
- Caught on the Stage 47 Necessities for Pokemon Go
- Why is Niantic Promoting Pokemon Go? To Bounce on the AI Bandwagon of Course!
- No Man’s Sky – Enjoying with Mates
- The Stars Attain Kickstarter Marketing campaign Approaches $500K
- This One Easy Trick will Up Your Pokemon Go Steps Dramatically!
- Arrival in Oatbarton – Beginning Evendim
- RuneScape Exhibits How It’s Accomplished with its 2025-26 Roadmaps
- LOTRO 2025 and a Sparse But Chaotic Roadmap Forward
Search Phrases of the Month
is threads useless
[It always was… also Meta is a horrible company]
voice xml
[No dead, but not very healthy either]
wizards unite
[Now there is something literally dead]
wow basic ddos
[That got some people on Hardcore dead]
will star citizen ever launch
[No, but neither is it dead]
eve portal
[That is dead]
what’s the least searched factor on google
[That bringing you here might mean TAGN is dead]
Recreation Time by ManicTime and iOS
- LOTRO – 49.02%
- Pokemon Go – 22.68%
- Enshrouded – 13.46%
- Balatro – 7.67%
- EVE On-line – 6.74%
- World of Warcraft – 0.42%
The amusing bit in that is WoW. Shintar had written a publish about beginning contemporary in retail and I took it to coronary heart, gave it a shot, and spent about an hour with a contemporary character within the Dragonflight content material… after which ran off to LOTRO the second the brand new server launched… the place I additionally began a contemporary character… and by no means seemed again.
Enshrouded
As I’ve mentioned a number of instances now, we’ve reached concerning the peak of potential progress presently accessible within the sport to this point. We nonetheless need to play, and can be altering issues up subsequent month. However I’ll get to that subsequent week.
EVE On-line
I received on early within the month and blew up some moon drills with the crew… after which didn’t do a lot else. However not less than the AIR Profession Program factor has been mounted… not less than it was should you thought it was damaged earlier than. The April and Could MERs can be attention-grabbing to observe.
Lord of the Rings On-line
As the sport time metrics above point out, I did dive proper into LOTRO once more. The promise of an improved server expertise… nicely, it’s considerably higher. The server is packed, so some lag is to be anticipated. However not less than it isn’t lagging throughout off-peak, late evening, week day hours… which it was completely doing the final time I performed.
Pokemon Go
Made some progress, however there have been no large occasions that basically made the month stand out. I ended up enjoying about an hour a day, although that’s virtually all time throughout which I might not be in any other case enjoying a online game.
- Stage: 47 – 67% of the way in which to 48
- Activity Standing
- 10 souvenirs from buddy – 10/10
- Earn 300 hearts along with your buddy – 300/300
- Stroll 200km along with your buddy – 200/200
- Stroll 25km every week for eight weeks – 4/8
- Pokedex standing: 871 (+7) caught out of 1,008 within the Pokedex
- Pokemon I need: Carnivine, a lacking Sinnoh entry
- Present buddy: Corviknight
Coming Up
April Fools is tomorrow, although with the way in which the world has been going since January twentieth, I’m not certain you may give you a “simply kidding” merchandise that wouldn’t appear tame when in comparison with how dangerous issues are shaping up. Costs up, inflation up, unemployment up, US status… right down to an all time low. Once more, this was all promised upfront…
In the meantime, again within the bunker I’ll seemingly be carrying on with the my try to succeed in Mordor in LOTRO. I’m truly not that removed from Moria now. My posts should catch up.
I may also be maintaining a tally of the EVE On-line Month-to-month Financial Report. The March report gained’t present a lot of the AIR change, however it would possibly seize the start of the pattern. Additionally, I’ll attempt to discover a while to undock and possibly shoot one thing.
And, as famous above, we’ll be searching for a change up in Enshrouded.
