HeroQuest First Light #5: The Horrors of Synchroform Halfway through the quests, we discover the secret of Qwindrak's transformation... chasingdings.com/2025/11/02/h... #HeroQuest #TabletopGames #FirstLight

Spotify says it's Black Friday. I say it's #DailyBlogroll. Stories by @sypster.bsky.social, @dragonchasers.com, @heartlessgamer.com, Azuriel, @belghast.com, TAGN, WCRobinson, @monsterlady.bsky.social, @scripting.com, @aywren.bsky.social, me, and others! westkarana.xyz

Viva la Dirt League has started a new series based on The Sims: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QId6...

Followed a link to CNN and they now ask you to agree to their Terms of Use and Cookie Policy in a pop-up, front and center. Not sure if this is more egregious than the typical Cookies, Accept/Reject pop-up but it feels way worse to me & I don't care enough about CNN to investigate!

Going through old papers & found a review of a restaurant I cooked at from the NY Times, dated 1981. They loved my duck, but also "a 3-course dinner w/wine is likely to average $22 a person, including tax and tip" Those were the days, eh?

Waking up to a new #DailyBlogroll? Stories today by @stargrace.bsky.social, @belghast.com, TAGN, @anarchaeopteryx.bsky.social, @monsterlady.bsky.social, @scripting.com, @tofutush.bsky.social, @dragonchasers.com, @blockade85.bsky.social and more! westkarana.xyz

Don't want to make y'all feel old or anything but Emilia Clark is 39 today. Game of Thrones (the tv series) is 14 years old. At least counting from season 1. Oh and we're still waiting for that next bood. LOL

TIL they still make erector sets. www.walmart.com/ip/Erector-b... I'd love to go back to 1968 or so and show my dad the $180 price tag on these.

Scheduled Internet install for the new apartment. That's the essentials. Water, electricity, food... we can do without that as long as we have the Internet. Oh wait, we'll need electricity to power the modem. I guess I better get that set up next.

One last attempt before they're off to the recycler: Parked the old truck in a spot where lots of dogs walkers go past, and folks leaving the rental office drive past. 4 cartons of DVDs, some of them still in shrinkwrap. Wish I had all that $$ back!

We got the new Alexa+ update for our Echo devices, mostly because it should listen longer and I won't have to say "Alexa" over and over again. I'm expecting this to be a debacle but then, I am kind of a technology masochist. 🤣

Fresh #DailyBlogroll stories to brighten your day from Frostilyte, @grumpygamer.com, @monsterlady.bsky.social, TAGN, TFN, Tobold, me, Juhis, @scripting.com, @dragonchasers.com and more! westkarana.xyz

You thought AI was everywhere before? Kohler now has an AI-powered camera that hangs on your toilet and looks at your poop; the AI then tells you if you're well hydrated and looks for any signs of anything amiss. www.theverge.com/news/802727/... NOW AI is everywhere!

Got renter's insurance sorted for the new place down near the coast. Same coverage costs about twice what it coasts here in Raleigh. Asked why and the obvious answer was the right one: Much greater chance of being clobbered by a hurricane/flood. Being near the beach will be worth it though. Right!?

Moved one of my domains from GoDaddy to CloudFlare Registration and saved a bundle. Cloudflare is $10.46/year while redacting private info in Whois. GoDaddy was charging $21.99 for the registration & then another $20-ish for Domain Privacy.

I pay for ChatGPT Plus ($20/month) & between Sora 2 being invite-only (no invite here) and Atlas being Mac OS only (Windows here) I was wondering why I should keep paying, so I asked ChatGPT and... It suggested I cancel and see if I actually miss the Plus features. Honestly or hallucination? :)

Welp, @partpurple.bsky.social just discovered that Amazon Prime Video has all 26 seasons of Dark Shadows. So we won't be seeing her until spring. She says she's going to climb under a blanket and not come out until she's watched them all! 😀

ChatGPT is like a doting mom. It's always proud of you and thinks everything you create is just amazing: Me: What did you think of the post? GPT: Honestly? It’s charming as hell — the kind of post that makes a reader nod, grin, and go dig through a box of old floppy disks.

As part of our pre-move purge we're trying to get rid of a bunch of old DVDs (not Blurays). You literally can't give these things away. 1st I looked into selling them & was getting offers of like 6 cents. Not worth the time it takes to list them.

More from the usual suspects in today's #DailyBlogroll -- @stargrace.bsky.social, @sypster.bsky.social, @inventoryfull.bsky.social, @belghast.com, TAGN, Tobold, @anarchaeopteryx.bsky.social, @scripting.com, @dragonchasers.com and... me? westkarana.xyz

I've gone back to a static landing page for the #DailyBlogroll, should marginally improve page rank in listed blogs. I think the cache issue is fixed by the move to Github Pages. westkarana.xyz/daily-blogro...

Remember that app we used to use where we'd "check in" wherever we went. "Nimgimli is at Starbucks." "Nimgimli is at Barnes & Noble." "Nimgimli is at Miss Dom Delilia's House of Pain." Oops should've turned it off! It was like "There's not enough surveillance yet. Let's surveil ourselves."

Starting to go through books before the move. What to keep, what to donate. A weird aspect of being old is looking at the stuff you've collected over the years and knowing you won't live long enough to read it all or play it all (depending on if we're talking books or games). So why keep it!?

So Pax Dei is apparently out but I haven't heard anyone talking about it. Granted I'm not really as "in the loop" as I used to be, but is it a non-starter with folks? playpaxdei.com

Spent way too much time trying to debug why a new category wasn't showing on a wordpress site only to realize that as I was peering at the status bar to get the id I was reading 20& as 208 and thus using the wrong category ID. Guess I can't put off getting new glasses for much longer!! LOL

From the darkest corners of the Interwebz comes your #DailyBlogroll, with co-conspirators @inventoryfull.bsky.social, @belghast.com, TAGN, Tobold, @dragonchasers.com, Tofutush, @scripting.com and more!!! westkarana.xyz/daily-blogro...

If you hate AI just scroll by. Otherwise, this is a really nice little AI-generated short: www.youtube.com/watch?v=koOL...

TIL Kongregate is still up and running.. www.kongregate.com

Got a handful of new items up on the site! In related news, I found the neckwires! 😆 15% off this month with this coupon code: 25OCT15 shop.partpurple.com

Joargarrosh returns on today's #DailyBlogroll! They're joined by @sypster.bsky.social, me, Azuriel, @belghast.com, TAGN, Tobold, Stingite, @scopique.bsky.social, @scripting.com and more! westkarana.xyz/daily-blogro...

Once again, I am wrestling with the pre-move decision of "Haul the old consoles & games with me?" or "See if I can sell them somewhere." Apparently the Atari Jaguar is finally worth something, and I have a Panisonic 3DO, too.

I haven't yet read the blogs in today's #DailyBlogroll, but... does @dragonchasers.com have something against Count Rugen? Stories also by @stargrace.bsky.social, @inventoryfull.bsky.social, TAGN, me, @monsterlady.bsky.social, @belghast.com, @scripting.com and more! westkarana.xyz/daily-blogro...

Little Rocket Lab continues to delight. I LOVE when I find a game I've never even heard of and just end up smitten with it.

The latest update of Wuthering Waves has an event called "Lament Recon: Solaris Soldier" which is (to me anyway) a Vampire Survivors clone & I'm really enjoying it though there doesn't seem to be any point to playing through it more than once. Am I missing something? Can I replay for rewards?

In other news, I am still really enjoying Little Robot Lab. My only issue with it, which seems endemic in this kind of game, is that you can only save when you go to bed at night. Not sure why all these kinds of games get away with that. Be happy with 1 of those "save and exit" systems at least.

Proof the people who run our apt complex have no soul: They've scheduled power-washing of the buildings for next week so all items outside have to be brought in. Which means no one has done any Halloween decorating yet. Including @partpurple.bsky.social

A Warframe short rolled across my Youtube feed. One of my great regrets, Warframe. I love the idea of it, the company seems to do a great job supporting it, but damn it is just TOO fast for my senior citizen hand-eye coordination. :( I'm hoping (& it seems like) Soulframe will be a little slower.

Have you seen footage of this explosives factory explosion in Tennessee? Multiple people day, more injured. Some missing. Horrible accident. (Assuming/hoping it was an accident..cause not determined yet.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=VY-M...

Saw a video of the Figure 03 robot doing chores around the house. This is a humanoid bot & all I could think was that I'd be uncomfortable ordering this thing around all day. But I'd be happy to have a Roomba That has me wondering where the dividing line is for me.

Friday's #DailyBlogroll is ready for your enjoyment, with stories from @heartlessgamer.com, @inventoryfull.bsky.social, @pixelone.bsky.social, @belghast.com, TAGN, @scopique.bsky.social, @scripting.com and more! westkarana.xyz/daily-blogro...

Things are getting beyond bizarre when I find myself in agreement with some of what MTG is saying. Certainly not everything, but some of it: www.cnn.com/2025/10/08/p...

I don't want to say I've been distracted by this apartment hunt, but my boss had to remind me that Monday is a holiday for us. I am usually counting down the minutes to a holiday from about a month out! But hey, what a nice surprise that was, finding out I'm about to have a 3-day weekend!

My fellow hot-weather denizens, are you finally cooling off? It was pretty warm here yesterday but now I'm looking at the forecast and don't see a single 80F+ in sight. (Tho Monday is close at 78F) Fall may have finally arrived! Woohoo!

The rental system is so full of scams. We had to pay $110 on an application fee for the 1st place we looked at (and eventually walked away from). The 2nd place had a fee too, but at least it was only $25.

New (to me anyway) game hit Game Pass; called Little Robot Lab. I've only played for 30 minutes or so, but it's like Stardew Valley if instead of farming you were crafting stuff, including automations/assembly lines. Steam has a demo: store.steampowered.com/app/2451100/...

Welp, we went and looked at this new apt complex and now we're signing a lease. Woohoo, can't wait to get out of this run down old place.

My dudes, is running water like this a first in survival box games? Check in this video I stumbled onto for an upcoming Enshrouded update: www.youtube.com/watch?v=62DM...