I’ve kept Adobe Flash installed on my main machine for far longer than I probably should have. I don’t quite know why, but I guess I just wanted to still have it available just in case. Blame my desire for Anyway, Flash has pretty much needed to update every damn day or, at least, every …
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An Antitrust Suit Against Google? About Damn Time!
Today the United States Department of Justice and 11 states (Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, and Montana) filed an antitrust suit against Google, with the focus being it’s domination of the internet search market. I’ve been saying for years Google has been ,quite simply, a monopoly. They have their hands far to …
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Looks Like I’m About To Spend All Night Hacking Again
That feed function I mentioned earlier is pretty neat, importing entries here on Xadara into my Bulletin Board System, but it has one MAJOR problem – it doesn’t import them WELL. By that, I mean it does a bit of a poor job in properly importing the excerpt of the post and thus has some …
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Final Zone RSS Feed Importing Is Live. Neat.
File this under “crap that only I’ll actually care about” but after a bit of a rough night waiting for some help with code that just refused to work, I’ve got RSS feed importing go on Final Zone. This post will function as a partial test of this functionality. I know it’s working, but I’ve …
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Angry Video Game Nerd Episode 109 – Atari Sports – Episode Review
Here we have another one of those more odd episodes of The Angry Video Game Nerd where instead of focusing on one particular game, he spends time discussing a whole category of games which follow a similar theme – in this case, sports games on the Atari 2600! While certainly not mine, or the Nerds …
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Space Invaders – Atari 2600 Game Review – XVGR
Space Invaders was released in 1980 for the Atari 2600 (then Atari VCS) game system. It has the distinction of being the first arcade game to the officially licensed for any home game console, and would become the first “killer app” for the Atari 2600 – people would buy the console specially to play Space …
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Those Game Reviews ARE Coming. Seriously.
2020 has been a hell of a year for pretty much everyone on Earth. As is obvious I’ve even stepped away quite a bit from this website and many related projects (although my work in the BBS scene took over, so it wasn’t time wasted) and this has caused obvious delays in, well, everything. I’ve …
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King Of The Hill S1E1 “Pilot” – Episode Review
Welcome to Arlen, Texas. A perfectly average town with perfectly average people living perfectly average lives. In this case our story focuses primarily on Hank Hill and his family and friends. Following a quick introduction to Hank and his friends Dale Gribble, Bill Dauterive, and Jeff Boomhauer, we get to the focus of this first …
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Giving Destiny 2 Yet Another Go Before The Vault Reset
For those not in the know, the MMO FPS Destiny 2 is going through what amounts to a massive reset come November 10th with the release of the Beyond Light expansion. In very basic form, much of what currently makes up Destiny 2, some of which has been there since the beginning, is going to …
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Angry Video Game Nerd Episode 108 – Ghosts n’ Goblins – Episode Review
Well well, it’s October and with perfect timing the next AVGN episode on the review list is the Halloween episode for 2012 – Ghosts n’ Goblins! That’s right, in this episode James takes on not just one of the more difficult games in the NES library, but a game that has haunted him since his …
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Image Consolidation – An Annoying Inevitability Of Running A WordPress Website
I’ve spent some time the past few weeks changing out the locations of a great many images here on Xadara, moving them from sub-folders on the site into the main WordPress image gallery. This is, of course, something you would think I would have just done anyway – it’s how most people run WordPress based …
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I Had To Re-Enable Mandatory HTTPS On Xadara. I Hate It.
Just as the title says, I’ve had to re-enable mandatory HTTPS on this website. I didn’t want to, I’d rather have let the site be reasonably accessible from older computers lacking modern encryption, but at this stage, given how things are with the internet on a whole this just wasn’t feasible. The problem I was …
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There Is A Logic To Everything
This is another one of those entries I’ve been meaning to get to for what feels like forever – a bit of a look into how I view the nature of discourse or, more correctly, how I come to the conclusions and opinions I have about reality. Simply put, as the title states, I feel …
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What’s Coming For October 2020 On Xadara
I’m going to make this a short one, as not only am I writing it with a bit of a time crunch but I’m also pretty set on what October will consist of. I used September as a month to get back into the groove of writing, after several months taking a bit of a …
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October 2020 Xbox Live Games With Gold
Well damn, it’s about time Microsoft realized that maybe, just maybe, October is the perfect month to have a lineup of games that fit with a spooky, scary, or otherwise “Halloween” theme. Let’s dive right in. On the Xbox One we have Slayaway Camp: Butcher’s Cut and Maid of Sker. Okay, Slayaway Camp doesn’t look …
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