I have quite the love-hate relationship with the social media service Facebook. It’s my primary online way to keep in touch with many people, both close friends and acquaintances in the gaming and convention scenes. It’s also a useful enough service for discussing various subjects I’m interested in (I’m a member of quite a few …
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Why I Repair Old Game Consoles
While looking over my YouTube channel, I noticed something – many of my videos are about video game console repair. In one way or another, from the Atari 2600 to the Xbox 360, I have video after video of getting inside the plastic shell of these machines and fixing problems these machines may have. From …
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Google, Get It Together!
Let’s get one thing straight right off the bat – I absolutely hate Google. By that, I explicitly mean the corporation known as Google, it’s services, it’s general policies, up to an including the new “parent” company, Alphabet (which, let’s face it, is the absolute worst name for any company ever if you ask me.) …
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How to avoid Retail Hell
It’s the holiday season, and you know what that means: Stores are packed beyond belief, sale after sale is driving to take your money, and that one item you really want is impossible to find. It’s also the absolute worst time in a retail workers life. It might not be for the exact reasons you …
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The logic of Like and Dislike in Social Media
Social media is all about sharing, discussion, and feedback. In general, social media services will always feature allowing users to comment, saying exactly what they think. There are, however, often simpler ways to express your opinion on a given post – a “like” feature. Be it Instagram, Facebook, Google+, Ello, or even YouTube, there are …
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#MarriageEquality
I normally avoid social subjects on Xadara. This site is more about my commentary on technology and entertainment, but I felt I absolutely have to say something here. Good job United States Supreme Court. I hate that it took until 2015 for this to happen, though. It isn’t that hard of an idea, if you …
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The Opinion – A Mini Rant
Humans are complex creatures, with complex thought processes. We take in vast amounts of information every moment of our lives. Via comparison and contrast, we eventually form our own views based on this information. We form our opinion based on all of these interactions of information. Simply our thoughts on the summary of data presented …
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One of these posts again
It’s been 55 days since my last post here. I know because Facebook likes to tell me. Since I share posts from here to the Xadara facebook page, and rarely do anything else with that page, I have a nice, persistently annoying timer telling me how long it has been between posts. This is far …
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The Cost of Retrogaming
The average price of a new video game on the shelves of any given American store can vary between $40 to $70. The average non-gamer sees this as excessive, and even many who would consider themselves gamers find these prices to often be too high for the quality of the product in question. Of course, …
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GameStop Pricing is Hilarious Sometimes
Occasionally in my quest for software for my Wii, I will hit GameStop to see what might be lying around cheap. The Wii is a system at the end of its life, and while it was a popular game console, it seems that only a small selection of titles ever show available in the second …
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Goodbye, RadioShack!
In a bit of news that I am absolutely amazed did not hit my radar, so to speak, it appears the 92 year old technology store chain RadioShack is down for the count. The situation, as it stands, seems to be as simple as loss of profit, up to the point of them filing bankruptcy. …
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Xadara GameChat – September 7th, 2014
Here is the Xadara GameChat for September 7th, 2014. This episode had quite a bit to cover, and I was rather tired while recording, but it seems Watercress enjoyed it. I had originally posted this under the title “September 24th” which is immpossible considering it’s only the 9th at the time of me editing this. …
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An Anticlimactic Return!
Surprise! I’m not dead! But this website sure has been! Yes, I have been neglecting Xadara. In fact, it has been months since my last post here, which was in April. Ironically, that very post was about me, well, acknowledging that I do not post enough. I’m tired of not posting, and I know the …
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Xadara Gamechat – June 3rd, 2014
Nothing special here. Just the first major Xadara GameChat. A good, albeit somewhat simple start to what will become the final form of the podcast series.
It’s been a while, hasn’t it?
A few days ago, I wrote my first article for this website in 2 months. 2 solid months of no activity here, on my website. The question someone would ask, of course, is why? What happened? Much of nothing would be a way to describe the past few months. A few things have changed in …
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