The Website
WordPress.com hasn’t modified up something dramatically this month. Nothing right here to get indignant about. They’ve nonetheless damaged issues nonetheless, so there may be nonetheless some minor disappointment.
Again in January I discussed that WP.com had launched Exercise Pub integration, which allow you to join your weblog instantly with the Fediverse, in order that it will seem on, enable folks to observe it, and auto replace for customers of providers corresponding to Mastodon. Fairly cool. You can even go away a touch upon the weblog from Mastodon, which was truthfully simpler than attempting to depart a remark right here with out logging right into a WP.com account.
I had a few issues with it on this weblog, and turned it off in March because it was inflicting issues with Discord. However I let it run with my different weblog, EVE On-line Footage, as a result of its format was fairly properly suited to the mixing. And so it appeared within the Fediverse.
EVE On-line Footage – Fediverse Model
Granted, no person truly adopted it, which is about par for the course for the 17 years that weblog has existed. There isn’t any broad curiosity in EVE On-line display photographs. It might get a like from time to time… however even that appeared to dry up in June.
After which I found that WP.com broke the entire Exercise Pub factor, so the likes stopped as a result of the mixing stopped working after June 11, 2025.
This corresponded with an replace to the weblog settings for WP.com hosted blogs and there doesn’t appear to be any strategy to get the mixing working once more. I can not even flip it off and again on once more, probably the most primary of hassle capturing, as a result of the on/off possibility has gone lacking.
One 12 months In the past
There was the finish of the Steam Summer season sale, which at all times prompts me to summarize my gaming up to now within the yr.
There was additionally Pokemon Go Fest 2024. My spouse and I additionally made it to degree 46 within the sport.
Enad World 7 purchased the struggling title Palia and assigned it to Dawn. In the meantime, the EQ and EQII producer’s letters gave hints about their fall plans.
Playable Worlds, having introduced Stars Attain, put the sport as much as wishlist on Steam and received on all the standard social media websites. Then there was the begin of the pillars posts, adopted by extra pillars, and then much more pillars. It was just like the Acropolis.
I performed a bit extra Tarisland.
In EVE On-line the Guristas took over the Alliance Match XX sponsorship.
The AIR every day objectives received a change up whereas CCP made it clear that the “farms and fields” thought for null sec was over. There would, as soon as once more, be good area and dangerous area in null sec. This received Asher to write an open letter to CCP about their plans, which received endorsements even from our conventional foes.
I did a Friday bullet factors put up about CCP bulletins round Equinox, Vanguard, Carbon, ATXX timeline updates, and really getting talked about within the Group Beats put up. In the meantime I used to be nonetheless on about shuttle destruction within the MER and CCP launched the weekly 15K talent level injector for Omega accounts. The latter will get you an additional 780K talent factors a yr in the event you bear in mind to redeem them.
I additionally bought a SKIN on the Paragon Hub.
In sport we had been out within the Dronelands capturing the brand new Skyhooks. Whereas on the market I narrowly averted catastrophe after I jumped to the Fraternity staging beacon.
Then the invasion of far Catch started in what was the beginning of the Imperium’s plan to maneuver eastward. PanFam and Fraternity didn’t appear involved whilst we dropped a Keepstar on grid with considered one of their in U-QVWD.
With Cataclysm Traditional we shocked Blackrock Caverns in our second strive. Then, as a result of we missed a quest, we went again and did it once more as a foursome. Alongside the best way an alt hit degree cap.
Over in retail, the pre-patch for The Battle Inside landed.
There was additionally the World of Racetrack imaginative and prescient of WoW.
In Valheim I made it to the Ashlands, principally out of my grudge towards it. Having gotten there and examined it out I used to be completed.
I began again in No Man’s Sky. You begin out in hassle after which work up from there.
There was the nice and cozy as much as Blaugust 2024.
Lastly, WP.com was being terrible, as a result of that’s what they do greatest.
5 Years In the past
The 2020 Steam Summer season Sale completed up. I purchased some issues.
In TorilMUD, getting older was abolished. And an excellent factor too!
SSG was compensating folks for outages in Lord of the Rings On-line.
Minecraft gave us the Nether Replace. I went out and discovered a crimson forest within the nether.
I used to be reflecting on Diablo II at its twenty yr anniversary. We didn’t know for positive there can be a remaster at that time.
Blizzard was getting us extra particulars concerning the Shadowlands beta and launch.
In WoW Traditional the occasion group was ending up Zul’Farrak after which meandering about Maraudon, which we completed up on our second run.
Blizzard was banning botters in traditional whereas on the brink of open up the Ahn’Qiraj battle effort occasion. As a part of the anti-botting effort they had been limiting the variety of situations gamers may spawn in a day, however we had been a minimum of getting some further bag slots.
CCP cancelled their San Diego participant occasion as Covid didn’t look to be going away any time quickly.
I additionally resigned myself to the truth that, regardless of previous guarantees, CCP was going to maintain promoting talent factors in EVE On-line. (I’d really feel higher in the event that they stopped being so dumb about it.)
In sport we noticed the launch of the Zenith Quadrant, the primary a part of which was a small replace to command ships, and official assist for the capsuleer cemetery at Molea. The June MER confirmed that mining was shifting to excessive sec after the useful resource adjustments.
However the bulk of my posts in July had been concerning the opening of World Battle Bee, which I selected to checklist out quite than attempt to create a paragraph narrative:
It was form of a giant deal on the time.
Ten Years In the past
I used to be feeling a little bit of the summertime MMO ennui blues.
Home windows 10 launched, bringing with it the Microsoft Solitaire Assortment. This wasn’t your Win 3.1 Solitaire or Freecell, and extra is the pity.
Mission: Gorgon was off with one other Kickstarter marketing campaign. Would the third time be a attraction? (Spoiler: sure)
Want for Pace: World shut down, so I mentioned farewell to Palmont.
Derek Good started what would develop into is campaign towards Star Citizen, detailing why he felt we might by no means see the sport that was promised. It may have ended there, however RSI responded in a means assured to show it right into a combat and took away his Rear Admiralty. Sport on!
In Minecraft I used to be studying about not falling off of issues, bringing gentle to darkish locations, and accumulating supplies. Additionally, sheep stole my mine cart.
I used to be mucking round in Battle Thunder for a bit. It’s a ache to return to the sport as a result of there may be at all times an enormous replace required.
Over at Dawn, there was a vote up for the EverQuest development server Ragefire about rushing up the unlock of Ruins of Kunark, in addition to discuss raids and such.
On the EverQuest II facet of the home, there was a beta for its first nostalgia servers. I prevented the beta however was there when the servers went dwell… for the massive shock, the return of the Isle of Refuge, including to the nostalgia expertise.
And whereas that was happening, it seemed to be the tip of Smed at Dawn.
In New Eden my alliance, TNT, handed over its final system in Deklein. We then lived in Tribute.
The Aegis growth hit… however there was a delay between that and different bits of what we now name Fozzie sov to be deployed. However entosis hyperlink modules had been lastly in a position to take sov because the month rolled alongside. So we began to be taught by doing.
There was a plan within the Imperium to herald care bears to mine and rat as a way to elevate ADMs in order that our now a lot diminished area holdings would stay safe.
At one level Mordus Angels managed to assert some sovereignty in Pure Blind! Are you able to think about? Loopy instances!
In the meantime, within the money store… erm… New Eden retailer, extra skins had been being rolled out. Or, quite, the similar pores and skin on extra ships. The weblog banter of the month was on about attributes, and I used to be bitching about by no means having sufficient leap clones.
On the Azeroth entrance, Blizzard mentioned they can be saying the subsequent World of Warcraft growth… proper after the Q2 quarterly report was launched, which raised some suspicions in me. What would the subscription numbers appear to be in the event that they felt they wanted a giant announcement to distract from them?
And I lastly received my copy of Deluxe Tunnels & Trolls from the Kickstarter… solely two years late.
Fifteen Years In the past
The late Paul the octopus created the then largest web page view day ever within the historical past of the weblog, later to be surpassed by Cats enjoying Patty Cake and Alamo. Truly writing about video games is rarely standard.
I used to be instructed I write like Cory Doctorow… or possibly Ian Flemming.
My daughter was Banned from Membership Penguin. Tears had been shed, classes had been discovered.
EverQuest II Prolonged, the free to play EverQuest II, was introduced. I questioned whether or not attempting to play it with out paying in any respect can be a problem in and of itself. In the meantime, there was some proof that EQII accounts had worth. That gorgeous information little doubt received them happening the authenticator they introduced at Fan Faire this yr.
I accomplished 100 ranges in The Company: Covert Ops. I used to be unemployed, what can I say?
StarCraft II launched. I by no means purchased a duplicate and the bottom version finally went free. It by no means surpassed the unique in recognition and Blizz finally simply stopped doing content material for it, although like many elderly Blizz titles, it does get a patch on occasion to maintain it playable.
Want for Pace World, an MMO model of the Want for Pace sequence, launched. I ended up enjoying it for a bit. However, being an EA MMO, it was doomed to be shut down.
In EVE On-line Hulkageddon III ended, and it even had a video wrap-up. After which PLEX was made transportable in area. I ponder in the event that they waited for Hulkageddon to be over for that?
In one other Summer season hiatus season, the occasion group began one other run at LOTRO. This time it was Bung who was out, having the twin problems with shifting and having a brand new child to take care of. These of us in Center-earth frolicked with previous mates. That delay deciding who my foremost character was, by letting me roll one other one!
Blizzard gave up on a few of their RealID plans due to a lot public kvetching. Shortly there after, the ESRB got here out towards Actual ID as being dangerous for shopper safety whereas proving they too had been dangerous for shopper safety.
Blizzard revamped Parental Controls once more. As a lot as I’ve griped about them, they’re higher than any comparable controls I’ve seen, even in video games that provide that as a characteristic.
World of Warcraft Journal subject #2 confirmed up. Concern #4 would arrive 9 months later, which is form of a very long time for an alleged quarterly publication. As soon as subject #5 was lastly out, the entire thing was shut down.
And any individual was attempting to make yet one more flying automotive that didn’t dwell as much as our expectations. Have none of those scientists ever seen The Jetsons?
Twenty Years In the past
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas will get rated adults solely (AO 18+) and the corporate faces sanctions when the sizzling espresso mod unlocks a hidden mini-game that existed within the product which permit the protagonist to have intercourse together with his girlfriends. In contrast to another notorious graphic mods, this one was not fan created content material, however one thing the corporate put into the sport.
In EVE On-line the Chilly Battle growth hit, bringing freighters, dreadnoughts, and participant owned outposts (“Everlasting” caputurable stations, to not be confused with Participant Owned Starbases, the doughty POS that is still to at the present time) in null sec. These stations are gone, however remembered by way of particular faction Fortizars.
Forty Years In the past
The Amiga 1000, the primary within the line of Commodore’s Amiga sequence of computer systems, is debuted. Launched in an period when DOS customers had been nonetheless working from a command immediate and Mac customers may run precisely one program at a time, the Amiga introduced efficiency, multitasking, multimedia, and excessive decision graphics to the lots. Later variations of the Amiga, mixed with the Video Toaster software program bundle, would do for video manufacturing what the Macintosh and the laser printer did for desktop publishing.
Forty-5 Years In the past
Atari releases Missile Command to arcades, one of many iconic titles of the period. Not the primary arcade title to make use of a trackball, but it surely definitely helped cement the trackball as an enter machine. It hasn’t been ported/copied onto as many platforms as Tertis, but it surely has by no means gone away both.
Most Seen Posts in July
- Why Does EverQuest Must be The Method It Is?
- Caught on the Degree 47 Necessities for Pokemon Go
- How Badly Do I Desire a Titan?
- TAGN Fantasy Critic League 2025 – Week Twenty-Eight Goes Bananza
- The Blizzard WoW Traditional 2025 Highway Map contains Pandaria and New Vanilla Development Servers
- The Mordor Mission Arrives… In Mordor… Which Was the Plan All Alongside!
- Degree 48 Achieved and the Degree 49 Process Necessities in Pokemon Go
- TAGN Fantasy Critic League 2025 – Week Twenty-Six and Counter Picks
- Degree 45 at Final in Pokemon Go
- LOTRO Legendary Gadgets – 2025 Version
- EVE On-line and the Summer season of Change in Southern Null Sec
- TAGN Fantasy Critic League 2025 – Week Twenty-Seven with Tony Hawk and EA Faculty Soccer 26
Search Phrases of the Month
what’s rimworld
[Oh my, where to begin?]
rimworld odyssey value it
[Maybe… but you have to leave your base to play it]
rimworld unable to achieve parking spot
[I am not sure…]
why is it known as rimworld
[Why are you called Steve?]
rimworld lossless scaling
[Why would you want this?]
rimworld on ipad
[Maybe through Steam Link]
rimworld expert in all the things to an unnatural diploma
[Did you win then?]
Sport Time by ManicTime and iOS
- EVE On-line – 37.60%
- Pokemon Go – 19.92%
- Enshrouded – 19.71%
- WoW Traditional – 12.01%
- RimWorld – 10.48%
- LOTRO – 0.23%
- World of Warcraft – 0.05%
EVE On-line topped the checklist for July. I’ll get into that beneath. Additionally, WoW Traditional is again… a bit. I imply, we had the pre-patch all month. And LOTRO… properly… I did get to Mordor. I’ll at all times have that.
Enshrouded
The group has made some effort to get collectively and do just a few issues, however it’s summer time and other people have issues to do on the weekends. We did make some progress, together with attending to the spire within the Albaneve Summits. We’re not able to combat the dragon but, however we must always be capable of mount an expedition to get the blast furnace as soon as we’re throughout.
EVE On-line
I ended up enjoying rather a lot in New Eden, if “enjoying” is the correct phrase. I didn’t go on numerous ops… although there have been a lot to go on… however I had a lot to do in ending up the transfer, beginning with filtering down all of the stuff in my hangar. I had piled a lot in there that I went over the merchandise restrict. So there was some stock administration time. Additionally some ship reassembly, together with some Epithals, that are used to haul PI supplies, as a result of it was additionally time to get my PI again on-line, because the market had began to get well. After which I caught an alt in an Ishtar and did Forsaken Hubs for a few days, simply to earn some ISK. That’s most likely value a put up quickly.
Pokemon Go
My focus for the month was largely round attempting to advance some achievements to get to platinum degree as that’s going to be the largest barrier. I knocked out just a few, however I’m nonetheless 10 shy and I’m near being completed with the straightforward ones. In the meantime, my spouse remains to be degree 47 as a result of she nonetheless must stroll 25km in every week… one thing she completely does, however she leaves her telephone sitting on the desk or counter whereas doing so. Like I mentioned, maintain your telephone in your pocket to get steps!
- Degree: 48 – 35.2% of the best way to 49
- Process Standing – 1 of 4 completed
- 10 trades with Pokemon caught a minimum of 300km aside – 1/10
- Acquire 50 Fortunate Pokemon in trades – 0/50
- Ship 500 Items to mates – 500/500
- Earn 35 platinum medals – 25/35
- Pokedex standing: 887 (+4) caught out of 1,008 within the Pokedex
- Pokemon I would like: Carnivine, a lacking Sinnoh entry
- Present buddy: Toxel
RimWorld
With the launch of the Odyssey replace I grabbed a duplicate of that and went and performed some RimWorld for just a few days. It’s nonetheless a nice reply to the query, “What do I do with six hours of free time on a Saturday afternoon/night?” You possibly can sit there for hours fiddling together with your colonists and their base. It is usually form of amusing to see the beginning factors for the totally different DLC paths pop up. However after just a few days of coping with the issues of my colonists, I made a decision to step again from it once more. It’s participating however not totally satisfying for me now.
WoW Traditional
Oh, and stepping again from RimWorld may need coincided with Mists of Pandaria touchdown in WoW Traditional. I received my Pandarian out of the tutorial and did some pet battles, however with the opening of the growth I jumped proper in… actually… you leap and parachute into the growth as a part of the opening. It has, nonetheless, been form of sluggish going… although I keep in mind that being the case again within the day as properly. The Jade Forest shouldn’t be the very best zone within the growth. We’ll see if I keep it up, or if the group determined to take a panda trip from Enshrouded for a bit.
Coming Up
Properly, as I’ve talked about just a few instances, will probably be Blaugust 2025. Anticipate some posts to associate with that, beginning tomorrow.
On the again finish of the month will probably be Gamescom, and Blizz is anticipated to announce a few issues… like possibly the timeline for Midnight and when housing would possibly develop into a factor in WoW.
Fantasy Critic League will keep it up, although my subsequent title to launch isn’t till September. So I’ll be in final place for some time nonetheless.
In any other case, will probably be the standard stuff. In EVE On-line we’d get a touch concerning the subsequent growth and we is perhaps about due for an additional replace in Enshrouded… although I think that may come nearer to November.
