Good Morning Folks! As is often the case in the lead-up to Blaugust I occasionally give update posts. We’ve had a flurry of activity for initial sign-ups but there is still quite a bit of time before the event starts. As of writing this, there are roughly thirteen days left before the start of the event. If you have not had a chance to sign up but wish to participate, it is as simple as filling out this form. This will eventually cause your blog to get updated in the various spreadsheets that are shared out of participants as well as the OPML file that I will release closer to the event that allows you to add all of the participant blogs into a news feed reader. As always if you want a one-stop shop for Blaugust-related information, the Media Kit stays updated with relevant links.
As of the time of writing this post, we have had forty-one blogs sign up for the event. This is a far cry from the outrageous 103 blogs that we had last year, but like I said there is still plenty of time. We’ve often gotten a burst of activity as the first of August rolls around and folks wish to be included. Here is what our list looks like currently:
As I said above, I will be updating information a bit closer to the event as more folks sign up. So far however it is looking like a really good crop of new folks. Mastodon/Fediverse had introduced our little community of bloggers to a whole new group of folks. Many of them are already joining and becoming active on Discord. Out of the list above, sixteen of those blogs are participating for the very first time. While my personal energy level is a bit lower this year, I am excited that folks are still wanting to do this nonsense.
Good Morning Friends! It is that time again, time for another Blaugust. Last year represented the tenth running of the event and it was an extremely successful time. It was the first time running the event in our currently deeply fractured social media landscape. Blaugust was an event born largely on Twitter, and it was a little weird entering a post-Twitter world where while the platform still exists… folks like me have spread out and adopted other platforms. Things seemed to move forward without a hitch, and I think in large part this is due to our thriving Discord community that we have cultivated over the last decade. I am hoping in part for this year’s Blaugust to be a little bit more low-key, at least in the amount of stress that it places upon me. It’s been a busy year and as such I have not actually created new assets yet for some of the things like Blaugcheivements. That said as always I am extremely excited to see who all decide to participate this year.
What is Blaugust?
For anyone arriving here for the very first time Blaugust is a month-long event that takes place each August which focuses on blogging primarily and has started to include other forms of serialized content over the last several years. The goal is to stoke the fires of creativity and allow bloggers and other content creators to mingle in a shared community while pushing each other to post more regularly. Above all the goal of Blaugust has always been to prove to folks that they can in fact sit down every day and create something fresh and then share it with the world. Posting regularly builds a community and in this era of AI-slop content, our voices are needed even more than we ever have been at any point in the past. Our hope is to create a nurturing environment where Veteran bloggers can help those just getting started and the cross-pollination of ideas can create something truly spectacular. Your blog gives you a permanent foothold on the Internet that you own and have complete control of, and that is a really good feeling in the midst of shifting trends.
Why Blaugust?
In April 2013, I made a decision that would ultimately dominate the fate of this blog for the last decade. I decided that I would force myself to write something and post it every single day. It wasn’t necessarily an easy challenge but for roughly three years I posted something every single day without pause. This forced me to get over some of the self-doubt that had kept me mired for years. I started this blog in 2009, but would often go upwards of six months without a single post. Each time I would lapse… it felt like I had to do something really special when I started blogging again or at least apologize for my absence as though there was some imaginary person out there disappointed in me. Forcing myself to “just hit publish” got me past a lot of those hangups and now I can bang out a post in my sleep… and often do consider I write around 6 am each morning. Blaugust came about originally because I wanted to share this revelation with other bloggers, that forcing yourself to write something every day can be liberating.
So I hatched the idea that if I challenged folks to make 31 posts during the month of August, and called it Blaugust… it might help others get over their own fear by immersing them in a pseudo-competition. The thing is… I learned that this maybe wasn’t the brightest idea in the world. For some folks writing 31 posts is a rather daunting feat and failing to accomplish it was just one more setback in a line of setbacks that were keeping them from blogging. So nowadays the original concept is still there, but mostly I just want folks participating to focus on “blogging more” not necessarily conforming to some mad schedule I devised. After three years of daily blogging… I needed a break and eventually landed on the schedule that I have now of trying to knock out a post every single weekday. Even then there will be times when I give myself a pass because I am just not feeling it… but the key is to get back on the schedule as soon as you can.
The Core Challenge of Blaugust
Blaugust at its heart has always been about celebrating the creation of content on a regular schedule. The original challenge was to post 31 times during the month of August which is 31 days long. This can be posting every day or doubling up on some days to make the schedule a bit easier. However, we also want to award anyone who starts down this path, because deciding to blog in the first place is a victory in itself. As such we give out awards based on the number of posts that you manage to knock out during the month of August. Again the idea is to spark creativity and get folks to create more content, not necessarily grinding them to dust on the millstone of some lofty goal. Here are the guidelines for each of the awards that we give out as part of this original challenge:
Newbie Blogger Award – You did it! You joined Blaugust for the very first time and we are extremely happy to welcome you into this raucous community. As a result, we are going to recognize your efforts just for signing up.
Bronze Award – You made at least 5 posts during the month of August 2024.
Silver Award – You made at least 15 posts during the month of August 2024.
Gold Award – You made at least 25 posts during the month of August 2024.
Rainbow Diamond Award – You beat the original challenge and posted 31 times or more during the month of August 2024.
The First Post of Blaugust
Something this year that I am really wanting to focus on is the community aspect of Blaugust even over the number of posts that are being made. That is the piece of Blaugust that lasts long after the final day of August has finished and all of the posts have been tabulated. We have created this community of bloggers and it gives us an interesting group of folks that we can rely on. In order to support this effort this year I am creating the “First Post of Blaugust” initiative. The idea is that for your very first Blaugust post you take a bit of time and introduce yourself and your blog. Granted this can feel a bit odd if you are one of us who have been doing the same thing for a few decades, but realize that not everyone knows who the heck you are. While I am not going to make you wear nametags to orientation, it would be lovely if you spent some time with that very first blog post to introduce yourself and the kind of content that you create.
Scaffolding for Success
Over the years we have added a bunch of features of Blaugust and the goal behind all of them is to create a structure that folks can lean upon when the well of inspiration runs dry. These are of course completely optional activities and only serve as some general guidelines that you can follow if you feel you want a bit more structure. Everything from this point forward until the recap below should be considered voluntary content. I will be honest there are folks who seem to thrive on this structure and then there are folks like myself that completely ignore it. Which path you take is entirely up to you.
Weekly Themes
These were created many moons ago, and the idea behind them was to template out some general themes for blog posts. As Blaugust outlived a number of similar initiatives I adopted some of the focus of those into themes and began publishing them each year. Generally speaking August spans five weeks and as such we have five different broad theme categories. Again no one should feel under any obligation if they do choose to write about the themes, to actually make an entire week’s worth of posts. Here is a quick rundown of the idea behind each of the themed weeks:
Welcome to Blaugust Week (August 1st – August 3rd) – The idea behind this week is to give a specific time to be actively talking about Blaugust and welcoming new members to the fold. This could also count as promoting Blaugust for the “Spreading the Madness” achievement. The hope is that drumming up some heavy activity of talking about the event might allow us to pick up a few more stragglers.
Introduce Yourself Week (August 4th – August 10th) – The idea behind this week is to have some structured time around getting to know the other bloggers. I realize that those of us who are veteran bloggers might have already written half a dozen introduction posts by now, but it is a great time to share anything interesting you might have in your arsenal.
Creator Appreciation Week (August 11th – August 17h) – Developer Appreciation Week or the D.A.W. was an event that took place in the blogging community independent from Blaugust but eventually died out. The more modern idea is to show appreciation for the things and creators that we love. This could be authors, musicians, developers, artists, or even other bloggers, with the focus being on sharing something that we love so that maybe others might appreciate it as well.
Staying Motivated Week (August 18th – August 24th) – As we get towards the end of the event, the activity can often trail off a bit. The goal of this week is to share some of your own tips surrounding how you keep motivated and stay focused on creating content. If you are new to the event, you might share some of the things that have helped you stay engaged during Blaugust.
Lessons Learned Week (August 25th – August 31st) – This week is a reminder that the goal of Blaugust is to refresh the content creators out there for the coming year, and not to burn them out in the process. Some folks are going to cross the finish line and immediately go dormant and others will want to process their thoughts about the proceedings. This space is reserved as a bit of a cooldown lap so that you can share your own experiences.
Prompt List
2020 was a weird year in which we technically ran two different Blaugust events… largely as a way to distract ourselves from the awkward locked-down state of the world. The Promptapalooza event that took the place of the normal Blaugust, was a bit of an abject failure. However, it did create a list of topic prompts that I have recycled and moved forward to help anyone needing inspiration. This is absolutely optional content, but feel free to grab one of these topics and write about it when you find yourself particularly low in inspiration or motivation.
In 2022 I wanted to spice things up a little bit and add something new to the mix. Some folks are deeply motivated by achievements, specifically in video games. I have one friend who obsessively tries to 100% every single game. I am not one of these people. However, in an effort to create new objectives for folks to focus on in order to make their way through a month’s worth of posts, I introduced “Blaugchievements“. These represent a series of optional objectives for you to check off, and with them comes a little toast image that you can use on your blog if you are so motivated. I’ve not created brand new ones yet this year, but who knows I might feel particularly creative before the month is over. You can find the full list and images associated with them over on the Blaugchievements page, but here is a quick rundown of what they entail.
Reading the Manual – Read the introductory blog post with the rules of the event.
Grats if you are reading this blog post you have already gotten your very first Blaugchievement.
Welcome Wagon – Write a blog post based on the first week’s theme of Welcoming Folks to Blaugust.
Introduce Yourself – Write a blog post based on the second week’s theme of Introducing Yourself.
Creative Appreciation – Write a blog post based on the third week’s theme Appreciating the works of some Creative or Company.
Staying Motivated – Write a blog post based on the fourth week’s theme of how you have managed to Stay Motivated.
Lessons Learned – Write a blog post based on the fifth week’s theme explaining some of the Lessons you have Learned through Blaugust.
Going Platinum – Complete All of the Blaugchievements for Blaugust 2024.
The Recap
That my dear friends is a rundown of what Blaugust is and all of the associated kitsch involved with it. I feel like it is very important to state that Blaugust is what you make of it. If you want to sign up, make a few blog posts, maybe participate in a few threads on social media… and call it a day, we are absolutely cool with that. You should not feel the need to go for 31 or more, because there will absolutely be someone this year that does something silly like 60+ blog posts. Over the years I have de-emphasized the competition aspect because really this should be way more of a collaborative event than a zero-sum experience. When this event first launched Gold was the award for 31 posts, and I eased up considerably on that concept to make it a bit more liveable… then of course added in Rainbow to recognize anyone who really went for the gusto.
Anyways for anyone who is prone not to read all the things like myself… here is a quick recap and “call to action”.
The Sign-Up Form for Blaugust 2024 can be found here. Since logging in with a Google account has been a source of consternation for some, I have removed that functionality. If you still cannot for whatever reason sign-up but want to participate please let me know. Only those that I am tracking will be assigned awards.
The invite link to the Blaugust Discord can be found here. Participation in Discord is entirely optional but also a great way to bounce ideas off the existing community.
If you feel inclined to do so please use the hashtag #Blaugust2024 for tracking purposes and to make your content easier to find for those watching the proceedings.
We also highly suggest that you utilize the Share Your Content” channel in the official Discord.
We have an official Blaugust social media account over on Gamepad.Club a Fediverse/Mastodon server that I help admin. During the event, I will be watching the above hashtag and boosting all of the posts.
Mingle with the participants of Blaugust 2024. Get out and see the blogs, read the posts, and comment frequently! These folks represent a social structure that you can lean on for advice in the coming years. I deeply value the ties I have made with other bloggers and started this process as an attempt to cement those and build new ones.
If you are so inclined there is a “Gaming Together” channel on Discord for those impromptu grouping activities. I believe there was even some discussion of doing a one-shot D&D adventure this year.
If you find yourself getting stuck at any point feel free to rely on the weekly schedule or the prompt list for inspiration or you can hop on Discord and talk through your issues.
You can also check out the new Blaugchievements list for anything that might spark your creativity and check one of those off.
Welcome to Blaugust 2024. As always if you have any questions please feel free to ask. My door is always open but I might be slow to respond because I have a bad habit of idling on pretty much all the social platforms at once.
If you want an archive of all of the various logos and such from this year or past years of Blaugust, please check out the Blaugust Media Kit page.
The Official Social Media Account
Last year we created an official social media account on Gamepad.Club who is run by a Blaugustan named Gazimoff. I help Gaz administer the server and fellow Blaugustans Scopique and Aywren are moderators. So suffice to say Gamepad has some seriously deep Blaugust roots and as such it made so much sense for me to standardize on that server and platform. If you are on the Mastodon or any other Fediverse platform you can follow the account and I spend most of the event heavily promoting the #Blaugust2024 hashtag through it. However this year we have a few options that make things a bit more tantalizing.
Bluesky
If you are on BlueSky I am utilizing the Fedy Bridge and syndicating everything from the Blaugust Mastodon account over to the BlueSky Network through this @blaugust.gamepad.club.ap.brid.gy. If you are on BlueSky you can follow that account and see all of its content. If you follow @ap.brid.gy it will allow you to create a bi-directional communications path with the Blaugust account and everyone else on the Fediverse. This will essentially give folks who are most comfortable on BlueSky full access to everyone on the Fediverse and I will be able to promote blog posts on both networks through the bridge.
Threads
Threads is a little less than ideal, but technically it also has connectivity to the Fediverse. It is an opt-in service and you will have to go into your profile and enable Fediverse Sharing. Once you have done so you should in theory be able to follow the official account over on Gamepad, and I will be able to follow your threads account and promote your posts. The communication is read-only, unfortunately, but at some point, I believe Meta is planning on making this bi-directional.
Everything Else
You are of course more than welcome to use any Social Media platform of your choosing. I am focused on the Fediverse and the things that have connectivity with it. I will likely not be actively promoting posts on any of the other networks, because I just don’t really use them often enough.
Final Thoughts
I said this last year, but without you, Blaugust would be nothing but a weird word that I smashed together in my head. It still rings extremely true as I sit down this morning to make the annual post… that always seems to overstay its welcome. If you’ve made it this far in the post I commend you, because these just seem to keep getting longer. Blaugust is a lot of things to a lot of folks. If you just want to sign up to participate in a community of bloggers, that is absolutely cool even if you make zero posts throughout the event. If you want to grind away and try and complete every blaugchievement… that is also absolutely a way to experience this event. Blaugust is what you want it to be, and I hope you have as much fun during this event as I always do. You have all of my love and gratitude for keeping this as active as it has been over the last decade.
Good Morning Friends! It is that time again… Tabulation Day, aka the day in which I spent the morning counting up all the blog posts from all the participants. This year I want to give a huge thanks to a few people who helped out, most specifically GamerLadyP who organized a self-reporting thread on the Discord and MagiWasTaken for getting up well ahead of me due to timezones and providing me a full count of all 104 participating blogs that I could use as a verification method. I also want to give a huge thanks to everyone who got the word out this year and spread the news of Blaugust, because I am still fairly overwhelmed by the participation. I had wondered what my abandonment of Twitter would do to the event, but it is very clear that the Fediverse and Mastodon specifically have embraced this particular brand of nonsense. I mean I guess it makes sense given that anyone who is interested in DIY Social Media… is also highly likely the sort of person to host their own blog.
Let’s talk about some of the statistics from this year:
104 Blogs Signed Up for Blaugust.
Of those Blogs 100 Made at least one post during the month of August.
We had 56 folks sign up for Blaugust who had never participated before.
During this past month, Blaugust Participants created 1459 Content Posts.
That is truly wild folks. This is easily the most active year of Blaugust we have ever had, and that is pretty cool considering this is both the 10th time we have run Blaugust and the 10 years since the very first one. I’ve said this many times before, but over the years Blaugust has developed a mind of its own, and even if I dropped off the face of the earth… I think someone would follow along behind me to keep the initiative going. This is also the first time in years that I have actually done the daily posting thing… which is weird considering I was already posting six times a week but I made that little extra effort in honor of our tenth year.
Newbie Class of 2023
One of the things that has completely blown me away this year is the large amount of participation from folks who have never participated before. Each year one of the goals of this event is to cultivate new voices to join our community. Blogging has for years been called a dying tradition, but many of us who have participated in this event and the pseudo-predecessor Newbie Blogger Initiative have stood in constant defiance of that viewpoint. Now some folks that signed up are legitimately new to blogging, while others have been seasoned veterans that just never got involved in this process before. We welcome them all however as first-time Blaugustans and as such there is an extra special award for them.
Now we reach the moment where I talk about the various Awards associated with Blaugust. I tried to carry forward the general styling elements that I ran with during this event when I created the badges. These will all be available on the Blaugust Media Kit in the full-resolution version if you want to snag them for your blog’s sidebar. For anyone who needs a bit of a refresher on our rules, here are the guidelines that the awards are assigned based upon.
Bronze Award – You made at least 5 Posts during the month of August 2023.
Silver Award – You made at least 15 Posts during the month of August 2023.
Gold Award – You made at least 25 posts during the month of August 2023.
Rainbow Diamond Award – You beat the challenge and posted 31 times or more during the month of August 2023.
Before we get to the lists however it is time for my yearly disclaimer. I am a human being and as a result highly fallible. This year I had quite a bit of help in the tabulations, but if you feel that we made a mistake please feel free to reach out and let me know. Some blog layouts are much harder to tabulate than others… and we do our best to count them all. I am extremely thankful each year for the folks with much more standard layouts, those with self-tabulating calendar widgets, and at a minimum those who use hard date stamps rather than relative ones. Again if you feel like we made a mistake we are very open to negotiation.
The Bronze Club 2023
This year we had thirty-seven folks who managed the feat of posting at least five times during the month of August 2023. Since a lot of this event is about posting more often and finding your own schedule to follow. Five times during the Month of August would be around one post a week… which seems like a completely reasonable schedule.
We had a dichotomy emerge this year where folks either posted a little bit or a whole heck of a lot, so some of our other awards are a little sparse. This year we had seven blogs that managed the feat of posting at least fifteen times during the month of August 2023. To continue the theme of choosing a schedule, this would equate to posting at least three times per week. Especially if you landed on something along the lines of a Monday, Wednesday, and Friday schedule… this also seems completely manageable.
Now that we get down to Gold, we are oftentimes in the territory of folks who already have a predetermined schedule and just follow that. For example, I have been on the Gold Team for years because I tend to post at a minimum Monday through Friday, and due to the podcast on Sundays as well. This year we had two blogs post at least twenty-five times during the month of August 2023. Keeping the schedule thread rolling forward, this would be around five times per week.
This year we had a fairly massive Twenty-Nine blogs that managed the feat of posting at least thirty-one times during the Month of August 2023. There are always some folks who end up wildly overshooting the goal and we had ten of them this year. I actually put in the extra effort this year to join the Rainbows, but I will likely never match someone like Syp or Wilhelm who traditionally posts a truly outrageous number of posts on the regular. Everyone who makes it to this level truly deserves all of our admiration, which this time around… sounds weird to say considering I am actually sitting among them.
While the first awards category begins with five posts during the month, it still takes a lot of effort to sign up and put yourself out there with even one blog post. Sometimes the tyranny of the blank screen gets the better of us. Other times you really want to participate but life gets in the way. I feel like it is really important that we take the time to celebrate all of the folks who made that first step and give them the hope that they will return next year with even more content. I think last year was the first time I created a badge just for them, and I am continuing that new tradition this year. This year we had twenty-five folks who made that first step.
This year was a wild ride. Firstly I did not think we would have anywhere near the participation of a normal year given the turmoil that Twitter has been in. That platform was really the origination point of this event, and I thought we might get a number of the regulars back that just happened to catch my blog post announcing it, but I didn’t really expect much in the way of growth. I’ve never been so happy to be completely wrong about anything. The Fediverse is a fertile new ground for bloggers, and it tends to attract the type of folks who want to be out there expressing themselves… on their own terms. This gives me so much hope for blogging as a medium going forward. Sure we might be losing Twitter as a viable home, but we are also expanding out into new territories that are potentially going to be better in the long run.
In the lessons learned department… I think for the most part having an official Mastodon account on Gamepad.club has worked extremely well. I think next year I might need to script something that goes out and boosts posts rather than what happened this year. Essentially each morning I would log into the account and then proceed to flood everyone’s timeline with what had accumulated since the day before. I can’t say that this worked terribly well because it felt like I was a bit of a nuisance. The other big takeaway is that when you get over 100 participants… Tabulation Day aka this morning… becomes “a lot”. Next year we will be tweaking the rules a bit to require self-reporting your blog posts at the end of the event. This is going to make life so much easier for me specifically, but for everyone who helped me out in getting tabulations started.
As always I am so deeply proud of everyone who has participated this year. The tyranny of the blank screen is a real thing. So often it takes me pretending that I am writing to myself to hit the publish button each morning, so I understand what many folks have to overcome to put themselves out there. Again I am very fallible, and if you feel like I made an error in my tabulations, please reach out to me from any of the many platforms I use, and we can talk about it. By the time of posting this, I should have updated the Blaugust Media Kit page with all of the awards, so feel free to snag them and do whatever you want with them. I hope to see you all back for Blaugust 2024. Lastly, I encourage you to keep blogging and stay active in the community during the coming year. For many of us, this is a support structure that we can rely on, and while I may not say it often… I appreciate all of you greatly.
Good Morning Folks! As I am sitting here writing it is the dawn of the last day of Blaugust 2023. There was so much content generated, and tomorrow I will likely do a bit of a summary when I talk about the event as a whole. I wanted to start out this morning with a bit of expectation-setting. In an average year, the “tabulation day” as I personally refer to it is a bit of an arduous undertaking. Normally we talk around fifty or so blogs that I have to review and count posts on. This year we have one hundred and three… by far the largest participant pool I’ve ever seen. So please be patient with me as I undertake the task of tabulating everything and calculating the rewards. Tomorrow is the day when I get really grumpy for everyone who has a less standard blog layout without a clear monthly post index. Really it is the more Instagram-like interfaces that fluster me the most with irregular tiling.
I know of at least one blogger who I am going to ask to tabulate their results for me because instead of writing traditional blog posts they created their blog as threads on the Fediverse. It is just too damned hard to track these, and while I want to be super inclusive about this event… we gotta figure out a better way if this is going to be a thing that more people do. I think next year if we have anything even vaguely close to this number of bloggers, I am going to have to write something into the rules for self-submitting your blog post count for the month. I mean the entire event is already largely on the honor system and I am already scared to death that I am going to miss count someone’s posts and dump them into the wrong category. It has happened before. Some blogs are just harder to count than others and when you are doing a ton in a row in as short a time frame as you can… mistakes occasionally get made.
I am still delving around the 150 depth and having a blast doing so. I’ve upgraded my resistance and light radius in order to go much deeper, but for the moment this seems to be my happy place. I am not sure if this league’s RF character is stronger than the last league, but it feels at least as tanky. I know flipping Fire Trap to my chest piece seems to have increased my damage output significantly. I dinged 95 last night and am about a quarter of the way into the next level. I spent my passive tree point last night on some quality of life, and 10% more area of effect for Righteous Fire. I wasn’t entirely certain why, but my radius seemed really small to me… so anything to increase that would be pretty great. I know that I am missing the AOE Gems/Radius bench craft on my Necklace which I have not lucked into unveiling so far this league. I spent a bit of time last night running Jun missions on the Raider in an attempt to get it with no real luck so far.
I spent quite a bit of time on the Storm Brand Templar soon-to-be Inquisitor last night. I am still very much in the “ugly duckling” phase of this build and don’t have much in the way of defensive layers yet. I did pick up a pair of Call of the Brotherhood rings with Lightning to Cold conversion, giving me a grand total of 96% of Lightning Damage converted to cold. I am contemplating trying to work a Heatshiver into the build so that would add some fire damage as well. I still think I want an Inpulsa chest, which is going to be pretty expensive… but thankfully “Delve Provides” to borrow a motto from Jorgen. I already have more than enough currency to pick up whatever I need, but I do like to keep a buffer for more of my bullshit projects. Random comment though… the new Kirac’s Vault outfit is pretty freaking great minus the weird helm. I had this glowing eyes/black hood thing from a random cosmetic box and I think it goes nicely with it… and then matched it with some wings I had from a previous supporter pack and two wand graphics.
Anyways also on the docket this weekend, is Starfield. I preloaded it this morning and play on poking my head in when the early access begins tonight/tomorrow. I am not sure if I will give this a ton of attention, mostly because I am still fairly invested in the Path of Exile league. However, it might surprise me, and grab me in the same way that Skyrim did so many years… when I pretty much disappeared from raiding for a week because I could not stop playing the game. I am hoping for a great experience, but I am also trying to cool my jets when it comes to hype. I know Bethesda games can be a bit buggy, but honestly… I’ve enjoyed all of them. Hell, I even enjoyed Fallout 76 quite a bit at launch and had zero problems with Fallout 4 in spite of so many people lampooning it at the time.
It is weird… I can be super critical of games like Diablo IV, but completely give a pass to other games that people are memeing. I think it mostly depends on how important I consider the genre. For me the ARPG is just such a fundamental part of me as a player, that my disappointment got the best of me with Diablo. However, Bethesda games are just something I play for fun on the side from my more mainline MMO and ARPG games. They are just a fun goof rather than my main course. I think maybe that is also why I didn’t really have any problem with the DC movies that so many people lambasted… because I am just not super invested in them. Investment breeds contempt.
Now time for my second “Anyways” of the post. I hope you all have a great day and a happy last day of Blaugust. Remember… tomorrow will be a stressful day for me. Please give me some space to do the things needed to tabulate the posts.
