Apparently, in the YouTube scene, we’re going through another “Adpocalypse” — a situation on YouTube where advertising revenue takes a dive because advertisers got pissed about something some big YouTube content creator did and YouTube decides to be more strict on what content can actually be monetized on the site. For those keeping track, this …
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How To Fail At Giving Away The PlayStation Classic
I know, I’ know — I’m beyond late for writing about this. Get over it, I wanted to weigh in myself on this hilarious little attempt Best Buy made back in late April on getting rid of some of their certainly slow-moving stock of the PlayStation Classic console. Here’s what the deal was – on …
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My Power Mac G5 – One Year Later
June 2nd marked one year since a work colleague gave (yes, gave) me a Power Mac G5 computer – my first working Macintosh system and, of more interesting note, a specimen of the last generation of PowerPC based Macintosh computers. With me being the kind of tech enthusiast I am the machine was naturally a …
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A Word On Old Blog Posts – An (Archival) Update
When you have a site like mine, one which has had well over 1000 entries posted over the years, things become a bit of a mess to maintain. It isn’t just as much an issue with tagging and overall organization, but actual site resources — old images you don’t use anymore being the main issue. …
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Remember Those Game Reviews I Said I’d Do? Those Are Finally Happening.
Way back in the far off space year of 2016 I wrote an article titled “The Review Plan” where I discussed the basic ideas I had for reviewing media of all types. I outlined my 1 to 5 rating scale and a few thoughts and ideas on how things would go. It seemed straightforward but …
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Finally, A New Mac Pro
Apple’s World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC) is happening right now in San Jose, California and, as you can imagine, the tech world is focused on this event as sharply as they can be on every aspect of this event, given it sets the stage for the next year of professional end computing and the Apple …
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What’s Coming For June 2019 On Xadara
Oh, is it really the start of another month already? It seems like May was quite short, but that was probably due to a combination of being extremely busy followed by extremely sick throughout the entire month! Anyway, right, what’s the plan? I obviously haven’t been able to get to as much this past month …
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June 2019 Xbox Live Games With Gold
We’re coming up on another month and you know what that means – another set of games in the Games with Gold lineup. After a somewhat disappointing past few months I’m not expecting too much great, but let’s take a look and judge once we’ve seen what’s available. Starting with the Xbox One we have …
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Angry Video Game Nerd Episode 54: Deadly Towers – Episode Review
Here we have a bit of a unique AVGN episode. The game being focused on is a well enough known “bad” game for the system, called “Deadly Towers.” This time, however, the video script was a chance for the fans to participate in the production of an episode! The way it worked was this: As …
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Free Video Game Day 2019
I’m a few weeks behind on writing about this, but I wanted to share the experience of Free Video Game Day 2019 for those who may find it interesting from the point of view of the retailers. The event is simply a way for game stores to give back to their customer base. The idea …
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Slowly Getting Back To Normal – An Update
It’s amazing how long it takes to actually fully get over some illnesses. In my case, I’m fighting the tail end of that sinus crud that’s pretty much been pulling me down all month, and while I didn’t miss much work due to it, I haven’t had the energy or drive to write stuff here. …
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I, For One, Welcome The Return Of New Coke
I’ve only been wanting to try it for most of my life. Time to explain. We all know the story. Coca-Cola was losing market share in soft drinks to Pepsi. The legendary, nearly century old Coke Formula seemed “stale” to the American populace. Something needed to done, and the answer was to change things. A …
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Guess Who’s Been Sick The Past Week? – An Update
Oh yes, it’s time for another one of these posts. As you can tell it’s been kind of dead around here recently, and that’s not for lack of trying. I’ve been rather sick the past few days, in a buildup that’s been about 2 weeks in the making! I’ll keep this brief, but I felt …
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When Your Site Traffic Is High For Reasons You Can’t Quite Figure Out…
It’s been a bit of a strange week for Xadara. I haven’t posted much in about a week, but my site traffic has been higher than it has in a long time for reasons I just can’t quite understand. The other weekend I had a spike in traffic which made sense – I was writing …
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Hi There. It’s Been A Crazy Week – An Update
It’s been about a good week since the last post here on Xadara and I felt like updating everyone – at least, in short form – on what’s been going on. It’s been a pretty active and rather chaotic week for me. Between preparing for Free Video Game Day at work (this past Saturday, which …
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