The abyss of the darkness

Still Alive

2025-03-01T18:20:30Z

As the title of this post suggest I'm still alive. I did not post anything for NaNoWriMo last year because I did not participate. Don't worry though I have ongoing writing projects that get worked on daily. Anyway the world's going to hell but I'm still here.

We do indeed live in interesting times, eh? If you need something to distract you for awhile perhaps watching someone playing the I'm On Observation Duty series will help?

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New Season, New Theme

2019-05-13T15:12:46Z

With winter over and my sinuses assuring me that it is spring it thus becomes time to change the blog's theme. I've settled on colors that I can more or less tolerate. Who knows how long they'll last.

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Summer 2018

2018-06-15T15:20:27Z

While the start date for summer hasn't yet come in the US as I write this the heat has certainly arrived and with it all the "joys" of it being broiling outside.

But enough about that. I long put off getting caught up on Civ4 AI Survivor season 3 because the matches run for so long and Twitch is often a pain in the rear for me to access. That has been rectified which is part of the reason I got nothing done on Beyond the Beyond update 113 (#worthit!). For anyone who has seen season 1 or 2 but like me put off season 3 well let me just say many interesting things happened: Troll Kon is back with a vengeance, Justinian Trudeau wields the maple sword of justice, and De Gaulle actually managed to do something competent.

That said I'm just enjoying what I can of the season and progress in updating Beyond the Beyond will be slow. There's no reason to hurry anyway. It's all bonus content from here on out. I've got other stuff to tend to.

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Progress Report on Beyond the Beyond Update 110

2018-04-21T04:11:31Z

Progress has been slow and steady. It's something that got split off from Update 109 because it got so long and time intensive. I thought I should give a heads up that it won't be ready by this Sunday, April 22nd. It's not even at the proofreading stage yet.

That's just the way things roll sometimes. It will be done when it's done.

As far as starting a new LP I have given it some thought but there are some loose ends that I really should dedicate some time to finishing up. I haven't made any concrete decisions just yet though. At the moment Beyond the Beyond still has my full attention and that isn't going to change in the immediate future.

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Winter 2018 (part 2)

2018-02-03T17:11:55Z

So again here I sit on the third day of February and it's in the low 40s (Fahrenheit - 5 degrees Centigrade for those accustomed to that system). That's pretty warm for February where I live. Tomorrow the forecast calls for snow then it'll possibly get above freezing on Monday just so the temperatures can plunge back to the teens on Tuesday for more snow.

Oh and California is back to continuing that drought they were having.

But rest assured that there's no climate change and pumping more money into our fossil fuel overlords (while doing everything possible to destroy other means of energy production) will totally have no harmful ramifications!

Yes, I am starting 2018 on a bitter, sarcastic note.

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Winter 2018

2018-01-17T17:48:20Z

So where I'm sitting we're about to exit a cold snap (a.k.a. normal weather for winter) and become abnormally warm with temperatures more fitting for early spring. Mmmm, isn't climate change fun? That's a rhetorical question, of course.

In other news work on Beyond the Beyond's epilogue is coming along slowly. I'm not in any great rush since the story as presented in game is complete.

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What to LP Next?

2017-12-16T20:52:29Z

With Beyond the Beyond wrapping up I keep asking myself that question and getting nowhere. I'd prefer a game I've already played several times before. It has to be something I can play on my tablet.

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Summer Seems to Have Vanished On Me

2017-08-13T20:19:12Z

Well first off I hope those who have been in summer the last few months have been able to wrestle some enjoyment out of it. Personally I'm glad to be seeing the tail end even though autumn means hay fever season. I've been waiting for things to calm down and stabilize before resuming Beyond the Beyond (I'd be done with the game most likely if I hadn't stopped). I am tentatively shooting for September 3rd to post the next update.

Yes I know NaNoWriMo is coming up fast but there's not much game left and maaaaybe I can finish it before November. If not I will try to continue through NaNoWriMo.

No, I have no idea what I might do after Beyond the Beyond.

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Hello Dreamwidth

2017-04-19T20:58:03Z

So I decided to go ahead and import my blog from LiveJournal over to Dreamwidth. I do a lot of internal linking so apologies if you're reading a series of posts and clicking a link shunts you over to LiveJournal. Or if video embeds are messed up. Or just general wonkiness. It will take time to get sorted out.

EDIT 1: Things are going slowly. I did get the Beyond the Beyond intro stickied and the links for act 1 in the ToC have been updated. Individual posts have been slow because I can't just edit the internal links. I also have to contend with the way the imported HTML is treated by the editor. Disabling auto formatting just means I have different problems, not that I avoid them entirely.

I went ahead and deleted all of the Ivory 9 entries. Those just aren't tenable for updating. There are better ways to handle that stuff.

EDIT 2: I got the Let's Challenge round-up post updated as well as all of the Rune solo write-ups. The video embeds for Rune should be working now. I had one issue with the CUT tag causing the tables in parts 4 and 4.5 to freak out when the entries are not viewed as single posts. Therefor I deleted those tags and the tables are no longer hidden behind a Read More link. I do that to save page space when viewing multiple entries and to save bandwidth. They're small posts anyway. it's all the coding for the tables that eats up the character limit.

As for Beyond the Beyond I've edited the links through act 2 in the table of contents and made it through update 20 in editing the posts themselves.

EDIT 3: Beyond the Beyond's ToC is up to date through act 3 and the posts themselves up to update 28. The Phantasy Star 4 solo challenge posts have all been updated. Video embeds should all work now.

EDIT 4: Beyond the Beyond's ToC is complete and I've edited posts all the way through update 64.

EDIT 5: editing Beyond the Beyond entries to update links (and fix errant typos) is now complete. I also forgot to mention in an earlier edit that the links in the Dark Wizard resources post have been updated. There might be some things scattered around the blog that don't work as they should but that's all the major projects.

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