Blaugust 2026 – Previous Half Means, Creator Appreciation, and What I Write About

August 17, 2026

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We at the moment are onto the bottom of Blaugust, the midway level is simply behind us within the rear view mirror and a mere two weeks left earlier than issues are wrapped up.

Blaugust 2026

I’ve not gone in on a number of the group writing initiatives or weekly themes up to now, and I’m not going to become involved within the RSS debate because it appears to be extra of an esoteric measuring of fine versus perfect. My RSS feed delivers full textual content and I don’t plan to vary it. Case closed for me.

However that tends to be my manner. My plan for Blaugust tends to be to only hold doing what I used to be already going to do anyway, which is to write down about video video games.

And never even common video video games, for probably the most half. Often my life intersects with some common title like Balatro or Blue Prince, however I often find yourself getting off that practice fairly rapidly. Nor do I have a tendency to write down something very helpful, besides as a aspect impact of what I deliberate to write down. I don’t do assist guides or write critiques.

So I don’t write something of basic curiosity about an arguably unimportant and infrequently area of interest leisure matter.

This web site is absolutely only a net log, from which the phrase “weblog” was derived, of my online game exercise. After I began out on this journey of running a blog about 20 years I little question thought I used to be going to have some profound observations to share. There’s an early period of the weblog the place I felt each submit needed to have a lesson or some extent or ought to sum up into some tidy little message.

However I couldn’t maintain that even when I needed to. I meandered for a couple of years considerably unsure what to actually write about. Finally that settled down into recording my journey. I discovered a tempo I may maintain, and saved going. I sometimes joke that there are weeks after I spend extra time writing about video video games than taking part in them, however solely as a result of it’s true.

Does what I write have worth? Possibly.

As I observe within the About part of the location, the weblog is about me, and for me. There’s a major viewers of 1. And I discover worth in what I’ve written. However I additionally don’t write and transfer on. I additionally revisit. My month in evaluation posts embody an ever rising part about what occurred one, 5, ten, and so forth years in the past, anchored in what I wrote.

At some stage the weblog is an experiment in constructing context. How are you going to know the place you’re going when you don’t know the place you’ve been, or no matter it was the Speaking Heads have been on about.

There’s additionally a little bit of an experiment in measuring what I believe I like and the way that performs out and what opinions stand the check of time and which modified. For instance, I wrote early on within the lifetime of the weblog that I used to be not an enormous fan of The Burning Campaign enlargement for World of Warcraft. I took subject with a number of the design selections the group made which appeared fairly transparently chosen to attempt to make the enlargement final two years so they may get the subsequent one out.

Suffused by nostalgia in 2019 when WoW Traditional launched, our group was in a position to check whether or not we have been too harsh on the enlargement on the time. And… no… we weren’t. It remained a gradual, grindy mess and we skipped most of it, opting to go all in on Wrath of the Lich King when its flip got here. After which we stopped taking part in when Cataclysm ran manner too lengthy. It was actually historical past repeating itself.

Anyway, the weblog might be hitting its twentieth anniversary subsequent month and I’ll little question have many phrases of that kind to share.

General although, as a supply of reminiscences and impressions recorded within the context of their time over the past 20 years, the weblog has served me nicely… and others. My writing a week by week standing of World Conflict Bee for 59 weeks straight again in 2020 and 2021 has was a superb first hand context and timeline for the occasions of the battle. And I hyperlink out to different sources every week, so you possibly can high-quality worse methods to start out out trying into one of many largest digital wars in online game historical past.

Which brings me again round to what I write about and the truth that it’s Creator Appreciation week.

Blaugust 2026 Schedule

This week began out as developer appreciation week again when the occasion was extra a group of online game blogs, however received generalized to “creator appreciation” because the occasion moved by means of the years.

Right here is the factor. My weblog, from my perspective no less than, is nearly all creator appreciation.

Once more drawing from my About web page, I attempt to not waste time writing about issues I don’t like.

It’s possible you’ll rightfully retort, “Aha! However I simply noticed you didn’t just like the World of Warcraft enlargement The Burning Campaign! Clearly you’re a liar or stuffed with self-deception!

Possibly you’re proper. Self deception is a standard flaw. However I’ll say that I do like World of Warcraft total as a title. I’ve loved many hours taking part in it. That I don’t like one facet of it, that there was an enlargement that I didn’t love, that I take subject with the design selections the group made in crafting any specific period of the sport, doesn’t change the truth that I like the sport.

I might argue that I spend no small period of time attempting to determine WHY I don’t like points of video games that I in any other case like and luxuriate in and that form of introspection shouldn’t be hating on a recreation. I way back realized that not each recreation is for ME alone and that it’s unreasonable to imagine the whole lot ought to be tailor-made to my specific likes and wishes.

Hell, I’ve opened up posts about video games fairly hostile up entrance. See my first submit after taking part in Tarisland. The title actually introduced “I Hate It Already!” However I spent many of the submit… and two additional posts… exploring why. It was principally the management scheme. That and the actual fact it was a considerably generic fantasy MMORPG.

The purpose right here is that I take the work being achieved significantly, even when I don’t just like the implementation. I admire the hassle, even when it isn’t for me and I attempt to be considerably considerate in my method, to no less than justify my response… although that may be a bit attempting when CCP/Fenris is off on one in every of their makes an attempt to resolve a posh downside with a single dimension repair.

So it’s creator appreciation each week. I most likely may have simply written that and saved you a journey. However the place is the enjoyable in that? Additionally, I usually assume by means of an concept whereas writing about it, which suggests I don’t at all times find yourself the place I although I’d after I began.

Additionally, it’s NOT TOO LATE to affix in on Blaugust. We had anyone join the occasion this weekend. If you wish to take part listed here are they key hyperlinks to get began.

Thus far we now have 165 individuals signed up, together with a couple of on the market I’ve seen who’re utilizing the has tag and going alongside with out signing up. However I’m solely going to record out the one who stuffed out the shape as a result of there was too many submit on social media for me to kind out who’s who. So, alphabetically we now have the next websites:

Be at liberty to repeat this record and possibly give a number of the websites a go to when you have the prospect.

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