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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…

Social Diaspora

Scopique November 4, 2022

As a GenX’er, I’m young enough to be internet savvy, and also old enough to remember when it was difficult to find people who shared similar interests. We were limited to people we met at school, at work, or in the neighborhood,…

Dedicated Space – The Sequel

Scopique October 18, 2022

Here’s the unadulterated result of a spasm of reorganization. On the right we have the monitor directly connected to the main PC under the desk. It has the flight pedals, 2 sticks, StreamDeck, Tartarus, Tobii, and currently the mic and speakers. I…

Dedicated Space – Two Setups, One PC

Scopique October 18, 2022

This was originally a Tweetstorm, but I felt that I wanted to write a post and have no other topics to cover this morning, so here we are. I have a Game World Problem: my desk is ill-designed to accommodate everything that…

Steam’s Next Fest October 2022 Demopalooza

Scopique October 4, 2022

If there’s one thing I would love to see the gaming world return to, it would be more regular releases of game demos. It seems that developers stopped releasing demos because they would totally derail the hype train process of controlling the…

Hobbies, And the People Who Hate Them

Scopique July 31, 2022

I guess “hate” is too strong a word, but it provides the emotional punch necessary in a title designed to get people to read the post. In my Old Age I have been spending less time playing video games, and more time…

Discord Abuse

Scopique July 22, 2022

Two nights prior I had an inkling for a post that I wanted to write, but it was late, and I wasn’t in the mood to peel off one of my trademark “fire and forget” posts for publishing the next morning. Cut…

My VR Renaissance

Scopique January 28, 2022

I have been doing a lot of non-gaming stuff recently; 3D modeling, working on a D&D campaign, napping. After blazing through Horizon: Zero Dawn I didn’t feel that I wanted to start a whole new game, although I tried restarting Control (didn’t…

Note Taking With Technology

Scopique October 12, 2021

I’m one of those weird people who really like stationary: pens, pencils, notebooks, binders, the whole nine yards. When I was younger I used to do a lot of writing and because it was well before modern computing that meant I had…