I’ve spent some time the past few weeks changing out the locations of a great many images here on Xadara, moving them from sub-folders on the site into the main WordPress image gallery. This is, of course, something you would think I would have just done anyway – it’s how most people run WordPress based […]
Just as the title says, I’ve had to re-enable mandatory HTTPS on this website. I didn’t want to, I’d rather have let the site be reasonably accessible from older computers lacking modern encryption, but at this stage, given how things are with the internet on a whole this just wasn’t feasible. The problem I was […]
This is another one of those entries I’ve been meaning to get to for what feels like forever – a bit of a look into how I view the nature of discourse or, more correctly, how I come to the conclusions and opinions I have about reality. Simply put, as the title states, I feel […]
I’m going to make this a short one, as not only am I writing it with a bit of a time crunch but I’m also pretty set on what October will consist of. I used September as a month to get back into the groove of writing, after several months taking a bit of a […]
Well damn, it’s about time Microsoft realized that maybe, just maybe, October is the perfect month to have a lineup of games that fit with a spooky, scary, or otherwise “Halloween” theme. Let’s dive right in. On the Xbox One we have Slayaway Camp: Butcher’s Cut and Maid of Sker. Okay, Slayaway Camp doesn’t look […]
For the past few months I’ve spent an incredible amount of time working on my own bulletin board system, or BBS. That’s right, a major project I’ve spent many days on has been my own implementation of an otherwise obsolete online communications method and it’s been one of the most fun things I’ve worked on […]
Can’t blame me for trying, right? This morning I got up and waited for the stroke of 10 A.M. central time for Xbox Series S/X preorders to begin, hoping there was a chance I might be able to secure one. I failed in that task. Trust me, I wasn’t seriously expecting to actually snag one, […]
The big news topic right now in gaming is Microsoft announcing this morning the purchase of ZeniMax Media and, by virtue of this purchase their acquisition of Bethesda, among some other smaller studios. Make no mistake, this is a major play on Microsoft’s part. Many, however, are wanting to treat this like it’s nothing special […]
Gaming is, very clearly from this site, a major hobby of mine, at least in the context of it’s very important to me. I actually don’t play games as often as one would think – I spend quite a bit of time working on various projects and rarely actually find time to sit down and […]
What a case of deja-vu: I feel like I wrote an article virtually identical to this one back in January. Oh, wait, that’s because I did. That’s right, the PlayStation fan base is already on the absurdity of somehow using social media reaction to judge something being better, or otherwise more liked on a whole […]
A few years ago I got bit by the “BBS” bug – a phenomena among some of us in the vintage technology scene to hunt down and experience the pre-internet culture of Bulletin Board Systems. Contrary to popular belief, these services are still alive and well in the 21st century, albeit adapted for and living […]
I had no idea the other day when Microsoft announced the Xbox Series S that so much information would be put out in such a short time regarding not only the S, but the final price of the X (499, as I and others expected once the S was announced) but also the launch date […]
I got an email yesterday evening from YouTube regarding their partner program and some upcoming changes to it — the long and the short of it is they will no longer be allowing people to pre-sign the contract associated with the program; you’ll have to wait until you meet their stupid threshold to monetize before […]
After waking up early this morning to learn of the announcement of the Xbox Series S’s existence it should come as no surprise that Microsoft put out a video today promoting the upcoming hardware. It’s quite a nice looking piece, to say the least – I’ve rather enjoyed the style that Microsoft has been promoting […]
While I haven’t been paying as close attention as one would think to the upcoming release of new Xbox and PlayStation hardware (blame work and the toxic nature of the online community for that one) I had been active enough to notice people discussing a product mentioned on Xbox gift cards and the like described […]