I feel like I normally doom myself to procrastination when I speak of upcoming plans for the site, but the past few days have proven fruitful writing, and I’m feeling optimistic, so why not take a chance, right? I’ll be keeping this short, as I really just wanted to put up a list of subjects […]
Another thing of note in YouTube’s never ending “let’s try things, then change those things, then remove those things a few years later” pattern over the past decade is the removal of automatic post sharing. Strictly in this case sharing to Twitter and Google+ (which quite honestly I think were the only two options left) […]
After a long enough download phase, I finally gave Apex Legends a shot earlier and, as I said last night, I’m writing my first impressions here now. Let’s get the formalities out of the way – this isn’t a review this is just a capturing of my first thoughts. This is after all of 30 […]
Back on January 15th YouTube finally killed off the annotations feature completely on all videos. This came about a year and a half after YouTube ended the ability to create and edit annotations in any form, rendering those existing on videos as “stuck” so to speak, and not allowing any newly uploaded videos to take […]
I wanted to get my thoughts out on Apex Legends here on launch day before I give the game a try. It’s very rare that I would do something like this but for this game, well, I felt it at least worth doing, and getting thoughts out before I play it — when my opinion […]
I’m going to keep this one short. Remember that Typewriter Journal Project I wrote about in mid January? Yeah, literally that same night was the last entry in it. Over the next couple of weeks I found myself too busy to really keep up with it. I had realized some entries were kind of a […]
In a bit of current gaming news that spawned some “discussion” worth commenting on, Microsoft had some issues this past week regarding their Xbox Live service. Now, I didn’t pay too much attention to this for two reasons – one, I was busy, and two, when I did fire up my Xbox One during said […]
It would appear my birthday has come around again, which means another chance for me to post some kind of introspective article that I can look back to in a year and think “oh, okay, I wrote that. Cool.” In all seriousness, I do enjoy the chance to reflect from year to year, and without […]
It’s the tail end of January which means you know what around here – me taking a look at February’s Games With Gold lineup! January wasn’t a bad assortment at all, but could have been better — let’s see how February looks! Starting off as always with the Xbox One we’re looking at Bloodstained: Curse […]
On January 24th 1984, Apple released the original Macintosh computer. That was 35 years ago today and, surprisingly, I’ve seen very little discussion about this online beyond where you would usually expect to see it – some hardcore fan discussion, a tweet from Apple CEO Tim Cook, and a few news pieces, certainly, but nothing […]
Nothing lasts forever. Things break down over time, and inevitably everything needs to be replaced. This is something most people grow to accept pretty early in life, but no matter how used to this fact you get, it still sucks when something does fail, especially unexpectedly. In this case, as the title suggests, the graphics […]
Time for yet another update – this time one regarding all my projects, of which Xadara is really the only one that has been going steady. To make a long story short, January has been a pretty productive month, albeit with some challenges, for me and hosting. On New Years Day I discovered why the […]
In case you didn’t know, PlayStation 4 consoles, mainly the original series but this is still somewhat true with the Slimline models, have incredibly fragile HDMI ports. While no HDMI port will withstand deliberate attempts to break it, PlayStation 4 ports seem to break far more readily than most any other console in the past […]
I enjoy writing. That should be known from the large quantity of content I’ve written over the past few years. I also enjoy machines — at least, ones that catch my interest. I’ve written before about my love of the typewriter and how I discovered that I enjoyed them (all by a fluke accident, honestly.) […]
This is one of those questions someone has to have asked when seeing me online – just who in the hell actually is this person with the strange Japanese username? It’s a natural question to have, and I figured with us starting off the year why not provide a bit of an explanation as to […]