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When Inspiration Strikes
Happy Saturday to all of you fine folks out there. Though, if I’m being honest, there’s a good chance no one is even reading what I post here. Sometimes it feels like the internet is dead, like we’re all just drifting through some strange digital void. Maybe we’re in the Matrix, and somewhere out there,…
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A Mysterious Package Arrived… Inside Was AZTHENGAR
Today, in my part of the world, it’s raining. And honestly, I’m not complaining. For the first time in what feels like forever, I can actually see my driveway again. The snow is finally retreating, the cold is loosening its grip, and the wind has calmed just enough to remind me that spring is on…
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The Day a Green Beer Took Me Back to the Golden Age of Gaming
On a beautiful Tuesday, one I had deliberately taken off from work, there’s something uniquely satisfying about not having to clock in during the middle of the week. The world moves on as usual, but you get to step outside of it for a while. That alone feels like a small victory. So what did…
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Azthengar: A Forgotten DOS Fantasy Rediscovered
Azthengar, a name that lingers in the shadows of old, forgotten websites where games were once given freely to the world. Some were cracked, others were stored on floppy disks, passed quietly from one computer to another. Then, with the slow hand of time, they began to disappear. Sites that once lived on webrings or…
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Ten Dollar Treasures and Tower-Building Thoughts
Today at work I was busy working on another expensive item I couldn’t afford, which in my opinion is kind of fun to do. Especially since I’m off tomorrow, which is going to be a big day for me. It’s my birthday, and of course I’ll be partaking in the good old birthday tradition of…
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A Windy Sunday and the Quiet Joy of Making Games
On a day like today, the wind is blowing so hard that my home feels as though, at any moment, I might be sent off to Oz if I weren’t so lucky. Still, I kept to my Sunday ritual and headed out to have my clothes dried at the laundromat. Our dryer finally crapped the…
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Old Games, Old Memories, and Resident Evil
I was at work today listening to a lore podcast about the Resident Evil series, and it really brought me back to when I first played the second one on the good old PlayStation. Something about those tank controls and an enemy called the “Licker” always scared the crap out of me. Then my mind…
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