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Games That Define Me – Part 2 -Now-ish

Scopique August 11, 2023

Part 2 of my expose on myself, now in the modern era (roughly) and featuring five all new action packed examples of games that I'm using as shorthand to get to know me, somehow.

As Expected, I Backtrack

Scopique August 10, 2023

After several TPK, I tried once more with a new idea, and it paid off. Now I understand the feeling of accomplishment, and have a renewed desire to keep going. Spoilers for Baldur's Gate 3 ahead.

Games That Define Me – Part 1 – Then

Scopique August 9, 2023

Here are five games I played when I was younger which I consider to be good examples of my formative years as a gamer.

Gaming Frustration in Middle Age

Scopique August 8, 2023

Getting old sucks, not just because some things are physically more difficult, but because sometimes our favorite hobbies follow a diverging track that makes partaking in them increasingly difficult, mentally.

And They’re Off! Blaugust 2023 Begins

Scopique August 1, 2023

Cry havoc, and let slip the blogs of Blaugust! Today we introduce our readers to the annual Festival of Blogging in earnest, so prepare yourself as the legions of posts blot out the sun (for the next 30 days or so at…

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Movin’, Email Edition

Scopique July 27, 2023

Digging myself out of 30 years of accumulated email address use is a massive headache. Learn from my mistake going forward: diversify your email addresses for better organization and maintenance.

Say Hello To The New Boss…

Scopique July 8, 2023

A gloriously new day for Scopique.com, hereby now known as Blog.Scopique.Online until such time as I bother getting the dot com domain and all the email mess sorted out.

Beeper: An Elegant IM for a More Civilized Age

Scopique June 2, 2023

Beeper is a modern day Trillium, a way to consolidate several different instant messengers under one central interface. While still in its infancy, it looks promising, and is built on top of the open-source Matrix platform for those who are into those…

Competition is Only Good When its Good – Microsoft Loop

Scopique April 8, 2023

I did a pass through Microsoft Loop, a digital note-taking service. A pass-through was all I needed, though, as the service is pretty anemic at this point. It's no Notion, that's for sure, but I hope MS keeps adding to Loop, because…

The Revenge of Dedicated Space

Scopique November 7, 2022

Reviewing my posts here at Scopique HQ I realized that the last post I had posted about my desk setup experiment did not reflect the actual end result. In short, the end result was the original result, just with an intermediate step…