The Website
I’ve been backwards and forwards on the entire WordPress.com integration with ActivityPub, which theoretically means that you can share your posts routinely with the Fediverse.
I turned it off right here on TAGN as a result of it was too damaged, however I’ve left it on for my different weblog, EVE On-line Photos, as a result of it appeared like the perfect check; a website that principally posts an image with a quick description three days every week. And, after ages of the combination working for a bit, then being completely damaged and failing to publish, it lastly appeared to quiet down initially of the month and simply work.
I made a decision to cease manually posting hyperlinks to Mastodon from the positioning and simply began boosting the Exercise Pub posts to get folks to only observe that in the event that they wished these posts. After which I observed the combination does NOT publish hyperlinks to the positioning. All it posts is a 549 pixel vast preview picture of every publish. So the reader has a shrunken model of the picture posted and no approach to get to the positioning or the complete picture. Fucking WP.com doing the flawed factor but once more.
So, greater than a 12 months later, I can’t in any respect endorse the WP.com ActivityPub integration. It’s clearly a checkbox function to them that they don’t in any other case care about.
I’ve since turned off the connection. Sorry to the 5 individuals who truly adopted that account. I hoped it could work out.
As an alternative I’m now experimenting with MastoFeed, a service that may publish out of your RSS feed to your Mastodon account. To date it appears to be working nicely… which most likely means it should die from neglect or get acquired and over monetized or one thing like that. Nothing that works is allowed to outlive on that trait alone on this world.
In the meantime, the depredations of WP.com continued elsewhere. On the cellular JetPack app, which changed the WordPress app some time again they’ve a brand new structure for the stats web page.
Attempt new stats? On no… however have a look at my battery cost
That is about par for the course the place they’ve some up to date visuals which might be too busy, too crowded, and that comprise ineffective knowledge. Smooth doesn’t enter into it, whereas I’m not certain what “highly effective” even means for stats. Definitely there was nothing extra highly effective than the way in which they had been.
Nonetheless, no less than for now I might revert to the outdated view for now.
One 12 months In the past
The weblog turned eighteen and there was that annual publish once more… even by way of I used to be touring when it posted. We had been in Honolulu for our anniversary, and it’s a Pokemon Go sort of city. However I did full my Vivillon assortment.
I additionally posted the underside 100 search phrases that also deliver folks to the weblog, in accordance with Google Console.
There was additionally the summing up of Blaugust 2024.
Over within the World of Warcraft, Blizz declared that individuals had been leveling up too rapidly in The Battle Inside… and it was time to place a cease to that. It’s nearly like they realized not everyone cares about finish sport raiding.
However additionally they gave all subscribers entry to the Dragonflight growth. There was some extra leveling for a few of us! I attempted it for about fifteen minutes.
Over in Cataclysm Traditional we had been scuffling with merchandise ranges in Grim Batol. However we got here again for an additional run the following day and succeeded. We additionally tried Tol Barad to assist gear up and… it was fairly terrible. However we went on to the Halls of Origination and wrapped that up.
I went off to Uldum in my private quest to complete off the entire Cataclysm zones. Later I ranked the expansions overland zones. I favored Vash’jir and Uldum on most factors.
On the EVE On-line entrance, CCP introduced the schedule for the CSM19 elections. The MER for August 2024 got here out as nicely, and the invasion of Catch seemed extra just like the summer time droop of legend. There have been additionally adjustments to the AIR Alternatives every day duties. In the meantime, CCP saved making an attempt to get the Equinox sovereignty updates settled.
In the meantime, we discovered that CCP’s Marc Andreesen backed blockchain bullshit sport was to be referred to as EVE Frontier.
Then there was an EVE On-line centered Friday bullet factors publish concerning the coming Crimson Harvest occasion, the CSM19 elections, Alliance Match XX, the approaching of EVE Galaxy Conquest, skyhook adjustments, Zarzakh being underneath siege or not, and the way CCP was making an attempt to cover the crypto rubbish side of EVE Frontier.
In New Eden, my primary hit the 270 million ability level mark. I additionally used the brand new chat filtering choices to clear up many of the spam in Jita.
The EverQuest group introduced the Scars of Destruction growth.
In EverQuest, because the twenty fifth anniversary celebration continued, I received or accomplished or was finished with the Overseer side of the sport. It has all the time been a surprisingly adjunct mini-game whose function has been considerably opaque to me.
The Stars Attain per-alpha testing continued, with a terrain modification check that demonstrated that gamers can screw up a planet fairly rapidly.
Firaxis mentioned that one among their objectives for Civilization VII was to get participant to complete their video games.
Battlefront.com was purchased out by Matrix video games, and it seemed just like the outdated Fight Mission titles, like Barbarossa to Berlin could be not obtainable. However then anyone identified that they had been nonetheless obtainable over at GoG.com, so I purchased the trio of titles as soon as extra.
There was a Friday bullet factors publish about online game trade information that included extra layoffs at Microsoft whereas they introduced elevated shareholder dividends and extra inventory buybacks, a $60 Overwatch pores and skin, Diablo IV making a billion {dollars}, Sony’s screw up with Harmony, EA being all in on AI, a crypto model of Flappy Fowl, Nintendo suing the Palworld devs, a Sony exec suggesting sport devs drive for Uber, and sport devs leaving the trade for good.
In my Phone Tales sequence, I mirrored on my time spent in administration and my struggles with the internship place I created.
5 Years In the past
The weblog turned fourteen and I made my ordinary publish about stats and the passing of time.
Nintendo introduced the tip of their lengthy working DS {hardware} line.
Chris Roberts was aggravated as a result of persons are so cynical on-line, threatening to unleash an irony-quake.
With no BlizzCon deliberate for 2020, Blizzard introduced BlizzConline for February of 2021.
My third entry within the ongoing binge watching sequence was posted. I used to be additionally wanting on the primary streaming channels I used to be viewing in addition to some secondary channels.
In my play by way of of Diablo II on its twentieth anniversary I wrapped up Act II, then launched myself into the considerably forgettable Act III. When it got here to Act IV I needed to go use that one time respec to complete Diablo. On ending Act V I summed up with some ideas concerning the sport.
In WoW Traditional we had been taking up the upstairs portion of Sunken Temple, although it took a 3rd run to get to the Avatar of Hakkar. I used to be additionally nonetheless plugging away with some alts.
In EVE On-line CCP launched quantum cores for Upwell constructions. Abyssal websites additionally received some updates, with T0 and T6 websites opening up with the Depths of the Abyss replace. In addition they tried to breath some life into the EDENCOM ship lineup.
In the meantime, metaliminal storms had been doing no matter it’s they actually do. There was the GM Week bot bash in Yulai, the place excessive sec gamers received to explode some capital ships, together with two titans.
My very own primary character hit 220 million ability factors within the sport.
After which there was World Battle Bee, which I’ll simply checklist as bullet factors:
Then, in a last Friday Bullet Factors publish for the month I checked out LOTRO’s mini-expansion, Microsoft shopping for Zemimax, PlayStaion 5 pre-orders, the tip of FarmVille, EA being dumb about lock bins once more, EVE On-line ship fashions, and one thing about CCP planning on doing some kind of useful resource redistribution factor in New Eden, which grew to become the entire financial hunger plan that drove gamers from the sport. Type of quite a bit for one publish.
Ten Years In the past
The weblog turned 9 years outdated.
Some survey mentioned it might guess my age primarily based on my online game preferences.
World of Warships formally went dwell after its open beta.
As a part of the Coronary heart of Thorns growth, the Guild Wars 2 base sport went fully free.
Additionally on the free entrance, WildStar went free to play, bowing to the realities of the MMORPG market.
In World of Warcraft, the capability to fly was lastly unlocked in Warlords of Draenor… supplied you had all of the achievements.
In Diablo III I used to be wanting on the complete season factor.
Lord British was on once more with some quotes, permitting that Blizzard might do some issues nicely… like Diablo. However he was extra on about sandbox video games, like his upcoming Shroud of the Avatar, as a result of sandbox video games generate information headlines. His instance was EVE On-line, although it wasn’t clear to me that SotA was going to get the identical kind of protection.
In Minecraft I used to be making pals with the zombie pigmen and utilizing a utility to see a map of our world. I wanted that map as we had been all out exploring. Aaron was kicking of our transit hub within the roof of the nether and I used to be ruining Xydd’s neighborhood. In the meantime, our internet hosting service was going out of enterprise.
On the Dawn entrance I used to be reflecting on the standing of EverQuest Subsequent 5 years after it had been introduced. The standing moved to “cancelled” ultimately.
There have been growth plans for EverQuest and EverQuest II. The Ruins of Kunark growth was unlocked on the Ragefire development server whereas the vote for the Desert of Flames growth was up on the Stormhold server. Dawn additionally killed off enforced raid rotation on Ragefire, having “fastened” the underlying situation lastly. There was speak of the new server names for the approaching server consolidation in EverQuest II. I’m not certain I appreciated the outcomes.
In EVE On-line I used to be joyful, within the age of Fozzie sov, that POS towers nonetheless gave kill mails. Even CCP appeared to suppose that possibly blowing issues up was higher than sov wands. They had been additionally contemplating going again to greater expansions, placing much less emphasis on the month-to-month updates. The month-to-month updates nonetheless had names for the second… the Vanguard month-to-month replace for instance… however that will go by the tip of the 12 months.
Asher Elias began off his podcast and led us off to a combat with Ron Mexxico, who was one among his early visitors, and introduced us to Cloud Ring in Fozzie Claws.
The month-to-month EVE On-line weblog banter… which appears to have died off just lately… wished to know what we’d do had been we put answerable for the event of New Eden.
Lastly, I used to be reflecting a bit on lifetime subscriptions and noting Asheron’s Name downtime, Lord of the Rings On-line server transfers, the Drunder server in EverQuest II, and Home windows 10 in one among my Friday bullet level posts.
Fifteen Years In the past
Nicely, there was that complete 4 12 months anniversary factor.
Planet Michael, the Michael Jackson digital world, was introduced. How is that coming alongside? The Twitter account have been fairly quiet since… 2011.
The entire David Allen, Derek Sensible, Quest On-line public blame and disgrace fest ended when Quest On-line gave David Allen some cash and he went away. Derek Sensible couldn’t assist however throw in a pair last feedback. Good factor he’s been quiet since then… *cough*
CCP was speaking about Public Fleets and such that had been deliberate for his or her Incursions growth. We wouldn’t truly see them till December, however there was speak.
Extra attention-grabbing was a information to suicide ganking in EVE On-line put up by TooNuRacoon.
In the meantime, I used to be kicking off my EVE On-line display screen shot contest. All of the entries have since been posted on my different website.
I attempted turning an outdated joke into an MMO joke. Some folks received it. Some didn’t. Some received indignant, as a result of that is the web and that’s what folks do on the web.
I checked out cloaks in MMOs, and the way little they resemble what we’d name a cloak in the true world.
In World of Warcraft I lastly received that Brewmaster achievement.
Lord of the Rings On-line flipped the change and went free to play. We had been really among the many free (to play) peoples Center-earth then. There have been some points with Turbine Factors, although I did get my 5,000 level pay-off.
The occasion group was nonetheless summering in Center-earth. The group was lastly into the meat of the Lone Lands. We additionally tried some skirmishes and talked about Anderson Cooper.
In LOTRO I additionally bumped into anyone who was in search of a social setting just like outdated EverQuest. I ponder if he ended up on Fippy Darkpaw which, for a short while, had all the most effective facets of early EverQuest.
Twenty Years In the past
Over in EverQuest II the Desert of Flames growth launched, the primary full growth for the alleged EverQuest successor. (There have been a few journey packs, The Bloodline Chronicles and The Splitpaw Saga, that had been launched earlier than.) Whereas it was a fairly gorgeous new place in Norrath, I used to be actually towards these flying carpet mounts. They simply weren’t very “EverQuest” to my thoughts. I’ve since softened on that opinion, SOE and Dawn having added so many extra hideous mounts to the sport since then.
In the meantime, in EverQuest, the place two expansions a 12 months was nonetheless the norm, the Depths of Darkhollow, the tenth growth for that sport… solely six and a half years outdated at that time… went dwell.
Thirty Years In the past
Sony jumped into the console wars within the US because the PlayStation lastly arrived within the right here. It had already been obtainable in Japan for nearly 9 months, so fairly a little bit of anticipation had constructed up.
Thirty-5 Years In the past
Wing Commander, the primary entry within the sequence, and the basis of Chris Roberts’ fame, launched.
Most Considered Posts in September
- My Music Listening was Wrecked by iTunes
- No Man’s Sky – Taking part in with Buddies
- Binge Watching – Wednesday Season 2
- Palworld and our Go to to the Oil Rig
- Constructing My First Corvette in No Man’s Sky
- Caught on the Stage 47 Necessities for Pokemon Go
- Labor Day Musings 2025
- Stage 48 Achieved and the Stage 49 Process Necessities in Pokemon Go
- The Blizzard WoW Traditional 2025 Highway Map consists of Pandaria and New Vanilla Development Servers
- No Man’s Sky, Voyagers, and the Corvette Impact
- TAGN Fantasy Critic League 2025 – Week Thirty-Six and the Hole Knight: Silksong Reckoning
- World of Warcraft Midnight Editions and Pricing Revealed with Early Entry for Housing
Search Phrases of the Month
no man’s sky corvette
[Oh yeah!]
no man’s sky first corvette
[First corvette, best corvette]
no man’s sky customized corvette
[They are all custom!]
nms corvette editor
[It has flaws for both good and ill]
no man’s sky corvette builds
[Best go to Reddit]
no man’s sky star wars corvette
[Again, Reddit is your best start]
purchase corvette
[No, build corvette!]
2008 corvette on the market
[Yeah, now we’re off topic]
no man’s sky corvette touchdown pad
[Only in space stations… I want one at my base]
nms corvette elements checklist
[The Wiki has you covered]
(Not listed, actually a seek for a Chevy Corvette for yearly from 2004 ahead, plus one for a 1962 Corvette particularly)
Recreation Time by ManicTime and iOS
Given which title I’ve most likely been gushing about essentially the most, it’s most likely no shock who’s on the prime of the checklist for September.
- No Man’s Sky – 60.15%
- Pokemon Go – 17.91%
- EVE On-line – 10.18%
- PalWorld – 6.81%
- Balatro – 4.96%
That represents loads of time in NMS for certain. Excessive fantasy fell fully by the wayside this month, with no LOTRO or WoW or every other taste in that area of interest of the MMORPG style. Even my spaceship time appeared to be yoinked from EVE On-line. Or possibly I simply appreciated titles with longer names because the checklist additionally appears to be in descending order of title size.
EVE On-line
Issues occurred in New Eden in September, however I used to be principally absent. After sort of binging on ratting and exploration and a pair different ISK making ventures I hit that wall the place I received uninterested in the entire thing. Additionally, No Man’s Sky was scratching that house itch a bit, however we’ll get to that subsequent. I did go on a few fleets and received on a number of kill mails, so I can show I used to be nonetheless taking part in. However I wasn’t all that invested.
No Man’s Sky
The Voyagers replace, which landed on the finish of August, clearly received me again on the NMS prepare. I constructed a corvette, then went on the expedition, then simply saved on taking part in… and writing about… the sport. How lengthy will it stick? I have no idea. However the corvette adjustments had been simply sufficient of a change as much as make the core sport play loop attention-grabbing sufficient to stay with for now.
Palworld
Our soar into Palworld was interrupted some in the course of the month by journey plans and the approaching of the NMS replace talked about above. Nonetheless, as soon as we received into the again half of the month and issues settled down a bit, we continued plugging away, looking for a path ahead that was good for the 4 of us and our different dedication to the title.
Pokemon Go
The sport has been tossing small xp centered occasions at us all month as we look ahead to the October adjustments which were promised. In a little bit of luck, I ended up getting Keldeo, my final entry for the Kalos Pokedex, which is what I mentioned was the Pokemon I wished final month. That by no means occurs. In any other case, I’ve been within the ordinary every day play routine.
- Stage: 48 – 63.2% of the way in which to 49
- Pokedex standing: 896 (+3) caught out of 1,008 within the Pokedex
- Pokemon I need: Hawlucha
- Present buddy: Toedscool
WoW Traditional
I performed no WoW Traditional in September. My makes an attempt to wrap up the Jade Forest and transfer on to the Valley of the 4 Winds in Pandaria fell off this month. I truly cancelled my WoW subscription, however in the way in which of issues, I used to be on the six month plan to get the pets and mounts that come out (FOMO works on me too) and September was the mid-point of the cycle. So I can nonetheless play till the vacations, if the motivation takes me.
Coming Up
There may be all the time the Steam Autumn Sale… which is early this 12 months… and which began yesterday. My complete wishlist is on sale once more… or no less than the titles which have reached some level of availability. There can be another occasion nearer to December in an effort to nominate titles for the Steam Awards.
We’ll get the massive replace to Pokemon Go on the fifteenth, which is able to change up the leveling expertise and lift the extent cap to 80.
In EVE On-line the CSMXX elections will get rolling, with voting kicking off on the finish of the month.
Likewise, Alliance Match XXI can be working October 24, 25, and 26.
We will even be getting the annual Crimson Harvest occasion and possibly some tidbits concerning the winter growth. A busy month for New Eden.
We’ll most likely be getting some bulletins and particulars from Dawn about expansions for EQ, EQII, and LOTRO. LOTRO is already obtainable for early birds and the opposite two will observe swimsuit quickly.
The occasion group will most likely follow Palworld now that it seems like we’re making some progress, although Ula has picked up Palia, a title I performed a little bit of earlier than Dawn purchased it. I’ll need to examine in on how that’s going. Possibly it’s time for an additional peek at that.
