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• Post #4421996

  Was messing around on the Switch last night, got a little bored with Octopath Traveller & opened the Nintendo Online service (which for some reason we got so we could do voice chat even though we're in the same house). Wound up playing Fire Emblem for Game Boy Advance (I think it was GBA) & it holds up pretty well. I guess this is the benefit of 2D sprites..they age way more gracefully than polygons do.

• Post #4395450

  I quit taking my antidepressants sorta just to see what that would feel like (I did it very gradually). I went from 20 mg to 10 mg and felt pretty good. Then I went to 5 mg and felt really good. Then I eventually went to 0 mg and still felt really good. Two weeks later and I am SO damned out of it. Brain fog, headaches, unable to focus, catching movement out of the corner of my eye when nothing is there. Apparently this is a thing. You feel like you're thru the process and BAM! It gets y...

• Post #4376058

  Rainy morning = no walk, but a blog post instead. https://dragonchasers.com/2026/08/04/bouncing-off-hell-is-us/

• Post #4208226

  I lied. I guess I DID have one last (?) Solarpunk post in me. https://dragonchasers.com/2026/07/29/a-high-five-for-the-solarpunk-devteam/

• Post #4067724

  In the mood to write a blog post, including dad-joke level title. Talking a bit about NTE and mostly about going back to Wuthering Waves https://dragonchasers.com/2026/07/24/wuthering-waves-gachad-me-back/

• Post #4044292

  I had to write a post to make it into @Tipa@gamepad.club's next recap! Today I'm bitching about their being too many souls-like games out there. https://dragonchasers.com/2026/07/23/has-souls-like-killed-action-games-for-me/

• Post #4040483

  My new favorite part of my mornings is going over to https://tempusgameit.com/screenshots to see what new screenshots folks have shared. #tempusgGameIt

• Post #3997174

  Why did no one tell me about the STEAM TRAIN FEST!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SgXTZEmWRY

• Post #3962814

  Starting the week by delaying doing actual work in favor of blogging about AI and learning. #AI https://smithtalkstech.com/2026/07/20/learning-in-the-age-of-ai/

• Post #3915626

  Cheap booth labor for hire

• Post #3912431

  Vehicles are packed. Sucking in the last cool, clean breaths I'll be taking for several hours. It's already bloody hot out there... Wish us luck!

• Post #3700610

  Probably not gonna matter to 99.9% of the folks who see this, but there's a vulnerability in a Wordpress plugin, Gravity SMPT, and I'm seeing a TON of probes for it across our 130 sites. If you have a wordpress blog and happen to use this plugin, be sure it is updated, and if it isn't, issue yourself new API/OAuth keys for your email provider. Assume someone has already hit your site and collected that data from you. (1/2)

• Post #3693900

  I didn't get as much time exploring 999 Nights in NTE as I would have liked, but what I did see was quite enjoyable, if a little silly. The silliness of the scenario is offset by your characters being VERY aware they are in a game & discussing game tropes & such as they play. I'll probably blog about this but in the meantime Bhagpuss has a good post on it: https://bhagpuss.blogspot.com/2026/07/dicing-with-dragons-in-nte.html

• Post #3630850

  Summer is the time for gaming! https://dragonchasers.com/2026/07/06/celebrating-americas-birthday-with-three-days-of-gaming/

• Post #3398654

  Our IT dept has now blocked our (the web development team) use of devtools. Hit F12 and you get an error message saying we're not allowed to use them. This company has it's head so far up it's own backside....

• Post #3398653

  I thought that Over The Hill (its in the current Next Fest) would be somewhat similar to Snowrunner. It isn't. It is an almost exact Snowrunner clone only with low poly graphics. Even the controls are the same. I'm cool with game devs being inspired by other games but this is SO similar that it gave me "the ick" as the kids say.

• Post #3398652

  The backlogging has begun. I picked up Dragon's Dogma (the first one) on Switch because it was on sale for only $5

• Post #3398651

  Feedly down for everyone or am I just cursed? I'm lost and alone without my RSS feed friends!

• Post #3398650

  OK everyone breath easy. Feedly is back! Here is a peaceful Outbound screenshot to help you let go of your RSS trauma.

• Post #3398649

  Time for a Friday afternoon, unedited, un-SEO-ized, blog post! Topics: Neverness to Everness, Switch 2, and Outbound https://dragonchasers.com/2026/06/19/outbound-neverness-to-everness-and-nintendo-switch/

• Post #3398648

  Wanted to get all my obligations out of the way so I could have a relaxing afternoon, so decided to take my long walk at 1:30PM. On a sunny June day in the south. It isn't CRAZY hot (93F/34C) but it's still too hot for walking along the pavement in the direct sun. I shoulda gone to a nature trail, or waited until later in the afternoon. These days my aim is 5K steps. In theory I'd like to get back to 10K but that's going to take a bit. 5K is hard enough. But at...

• Post #3398647

  I played Solarpunk so @scopique didn't have to! https://dragonchasers.com/2026/06/20/punk-as-heck-a-few-hours-with-solarpunk/

• Post #3398646

  Movie night tonight was The Running Man, the remake starring Glen Powell. We thought it was pretty good. It was more serious than how I remember the original being, and at the same time the satire felt more biting even though the whole "TV networks control everything" message would work better as 'media companies' in a more general sense today. Or maybe that's just me since I don't want "live" TV at all anymore. OTOH the gap...

• Post #3398645

  I may have sold Solarpunk short. I'd only played for a few hours when I wrote my post, and hadn' experienced bad weather yet. Game has some intense thunderstorms that can destroy crops and stuff. Also you can get hit by lightning. Also I now know what happens when you die (you drop all your stuff and respawn at where you initially started the game). There must be a way to update your spawn point, though.

• Post #3398644

  Nintendo e-shop has their sale going, like everyone else. At the same time, Amazon has $10 Nintendo e-shop cards for $8.98. (US only, I'm afraid). https://a.co/d/0aYUlizs It's only the $10 cards that are on sale as far as I can tell. And you might be limited to 2. But hey, 10% off is 10% off, right?

• Post #3398643

  Having just picked up the Switch 2 there's no way I can justify a Steam Machine right now, but good luck to those ( @stargrace !) throwing their name into the hat to get a chance to buy one!

• Post #3398642

  Had to shut down my personal work PC again. It was almost 80F in my office yesterday. Too many computers and not enough A/C ducts!!!

• Post #2579953

  Pretty good Game Pass month for me this month. Forza Horizon 6, Mixtape, Outbound: Three games I have been looking forward to playing. Guess I better start making room on the drives. FH6 will probably be pretty big.

• Post #2579952

  Last night in Neverness to Everness I took a break from following the main quest line and did a side quest. Named enemy was level 28. I ALMOST took him out but not quite. Then I realized I'd never bothered to level up my characters. Had enough geegaws to level them all to 20 and I mopped the floor with the boss. If a group of level 1 characters can almost take out a level 28 enemy... I'm gonna call that a pretty casual combat system. Maybe the balance changes later on.

• Post #2579951

  I feel like if this playlist resonates with you, you'll probably enjoy Mixtape. Honestly it's more visual novel than game but damn is it EVER plucking at my nostalgia heart strings. Also probably obvious but play it with headphones.