Yep, we’re pulling out that dirty word here on Xadara — Backlog. The backlog is what happens when I don’t get around to writing about some topics which interest me, but aren’t super urgent. Things I make note of to cover, but never get around to. It’s a constant source of stress and annoyance when …
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What’s Coming For 2019
I’m a bit late to the party writing this one up, but as is tradition for the first post of the new year I’m taking to writing my possibly overly optimistic plans for the next 365 days or so. Right, let’s get to it. 2018 proved to be a rough year, much like 2017. My …
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The 2018 Recap
Oh, look, it’s the end of the year. Cool. While a bit arbitrary it’s still an event happening, and is usually sued as a good point for recapping the past and for starting something new. That being the case, why not recap 2018 here on Xadara and put it all into perspective? Let’s begin. The …
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January 2019 Xbox Live Games With Gold
Woohoo! It’s about to be a new year and with that comes, well, a new month and new Games with Gold. 2018 wasn’t a bad year by any means – it had its high and low points, but on a whole provided a good selection of games and a few that I enjoyed checking out. …
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Christmas Memories Part 3 – Sony PlayStation 2, 2003
2003 would prove to be one of the most, shall we say, interesting years of my life. I’ll spare the details but it was chaotic, to say the least, and at a point during it much of what I owned was stolen. Not a great start to your adult life, but I learned quite a …
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Christmas Memories Part 2 – Sony PlayStation, 1998
When you’re young, 5 years is a long time. By 1998 I was 13 and in the 8th grade. Gaming wise I had gotten a SNES a year beforehand, in 1997, from a friend of the family (as SNES consoles were relatively cheap by this time) since my Genesis had long ago been broken, and …
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Christmas Memories Part 1 – Sega Genesis, 1993
Being the age I am December 25th brings back fond memories of the Christmas days of my youth. This year was no different in that regard, but this year I noticed an odd pattern regarding those years and the “major” gift each year. Namely, the years 1993, 1998, and 2003. 25, 20, and 15 years …
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When You Don’t Know What To Do With Your Own Website…
Yep. It’s another one of these posts. I know, I do this often, but there’s a reason. Beyond the fact I like to “think out loud” at times, I also find writing on the subject to be beneficial to me getting over whatever block I have happening at the moment, and right now we’ve got …
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Sony Inadvertently Leaks Player Totals For (Possibly) Every PS4 Game
Sony has a bit of a history of security failures over the years – PSN being hacked on multiple occasions, among other incidents, being the first that come to mind. Of course, such is common enough with most any major company — things happen. However, this case is a little more interesting in both what …
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It’s The Holiday Season, and I Work In A Used Game Store – An Update
Oh, hello there. It’s been a while. Again. I’ve been desperately wanting to write something more substantial here for the past few days but I’ve been quite busy for reasons that, if the title above doesn’t make clear enough, I’ll talk about here for a little while. I work in a used game store. A …
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The Incredible Failure That Is The PlayStation Classic
When the PlayStation Classic was announced in September 2018 I was pretty optimistic, as most of the internet seemed. The much-beloved PlayStation getting a “flashback” style console akin to what Nintendo did with the NES and SNES Classic Edition consoles seemed like a great idea. What could go wrong? The PlayStation had an amazing game …
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Powering The PlayStation Classic – A Follow Up
This Entry Has Been Superseded By This Article: A Final Commentary On The Whole PlayStation Classic Power Supply Mess Over the past few days since the release of the PlayStation Classic, my article from several months ago titled “So The PlayStation Classic Doesn’t Come With A Power Supply, And That’s Absolutely Fine” somewhat blew up …
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What Happened To All The Space Content?
Anyone who has followed this site over the past few years will notice a few constants about what I write about – technology, gaming, social commentary, and space and rocketry. Given the depth of the articles I’ve written on the subject, my absolute love of that last category, space, and rocketry, is well documented. Even …
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underconstruction.gif (Or, Yet Another Update Post)
I’m going to try to make this post short and rather to the point, but knowing how I am with things, this will be another 300-500 word mini-essay on one topic. To put what I want to say here in its simplest terms, things are changing around here. Some elements will be more obvious than …
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December 2018 Xbox Live Games With Gold
Well now, it’s the end of the year. Time for one last set of games, and here we have… well, it’s games. I’ll spare the intro and get right to the video and my thoughts on this end of the year set of free games. Let’s begin! On the Xbox One, we have Q.U.B.E. 2 …
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