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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…

MMOs

Scopique August 19, 2020

The massive multiplayer online roleplaying game genre — MMORPG to us old guard, or MMOs to the slightly less old guard, or World of Warcraft to the kids — is alive and well. It’s also dormant. It’s also dead. Like almost anything,…

A Beaten Horse – Mixer, Facebook Gaming, and A Shrinking Market

Scopique June 22, 2020

I’m only beating this horse in order to remain relevant in the moment but I had my say yesterday on Twitter so I won’t go over the sarcastic responses again. Instead, we need to consider how bad this is for everyone, regardless…

Quick Takes – Microsoft PowerToys

Scopique May 15, 2020

I’m following up my previous post by a matter of seconds because I feel that this is a PSA that some people might need. As a blogger, one of the most time-consuming tasks I engage in can be image management. I usually…

Stories of Days Gone By

Scopique February 7, 2020

Back in junior high, before computers were as ubiquitous as they are now, I took a class about how to use them. Yes, kids, there was a time when people had to be taught how to use a computer. I mean, I…

Hobbies

Scopique October 10, 2019

Hobbies are the things we do when we’re not doing the things we must do. They are electives that are chosen because the topics excite us, that allows us to push ourselves for the sheer joy of discovering what we’re capable of,…