#blapril

The Labors of Blapril

April is over, more than two weeks gone at this point… not sure how that happen so fast… and with it went Blapril, which encompassed the book end weeks before and after April.  So it is probably time to sum that up and move on.  Belghast already has his event summary up, so I am lagging behind as usual.

The Blapril went

For the six week run that was Blapril I managed to post 43 times, which adds…

My Top Five Most Viewed Posts Year by Year

Something of a follow-on to last Saturday’s post about the top five most viewed posts over the life of the blog.  Something of a Blapril thing in this last moment of the official Blapril season.

The Blapril commeth

I started looking at this as I was writing the last post, but decided to hold it as a separate entry, in part because that post was long enough already but also because I think this…

[New Post] A Day of Impressions and Busted Barriers -- Tried three new (to me) things today. Doki Doki Literature Club. Greedfall. Old World.

I tried three different games today. Three that were new to me, and each utterly different from the others. Two of them I can’t even talk about terribly much yet, though I will tell you what each of the three were.

In the early wee hours of the morning (so for all practical intents and purposes yesterday, as it was before sleep) I at last gave Doki Doki Literature Cluba spin. If you’ve played…

[New Post] Long Live the Queen — Science and War (Turns 81-90) -- Over to @Rakuno3! Sure; we have a two front war going on. But pffft. MOAR SCIENCE!

Here we go! Back around to me, and the world has seen some exciting changes since I was last in the saddle. You can find a list of everyone’s turn stories here if you want to get caught up but the one most important fact: At the beginning of Kanter’s reign both France and Brazil declared war on us.

So before even hitting end turn on Kanter’s reign and starting my own — I need to get a lay of…

A Flawed Profile in Gamer Motivation

Another set of shared posts started in the Blapril Discord channel around the Nick Yee/Quadratic Foundry gamer motivation profile quiz, and I was going to simply give it a pass.  After all, I had done that back in 2015 and then again as part of Blaugust last year.

But then I read the post from Bhagpusson the whole thing and decided that I needed to take the quiz again right then and there if only…

[New Post] #Blapril2020 in the Rear View -- Well; almost. We have until Sunday and I will be continuing. Still; I talk about some of the learnings from the experience... Plus realise I might be a bit more down than I thought.

Alright, not quite in the rear view. We still have until Sunday, and I’ll certainly be aiming to keep up the cadence of daily posts until then. Within the timeframe of Blapril (March 29th through to May 9th) this will be my 39th post. If I carry on as planned through to Sunday, I will hit 42 posts in all. I had calculated that as 41 earlier, not quite sure where I made the mistake — but yep, 42.…

[New Post] Around the World in 80 Turns -- And 8 days! The Civilisation VI blogger succession game has made its way back around to me already. I'll play soon! But in the meantime; setup a page for it and future games. #blapril2020

Maybe not strictly true within the context of the game. In our Civilisation VI Blogger Succession Game while we do in fact have an exploring ship — we haven’t yet settled anywhere off the mainland after all. But it may be true in a player sense? We have representation from the US, Europe, and li’l ol’ New Zealand.

In any case, what I mean to say is — the save game has successfully navigated…

[New Post] Fixing The Comments by Removing 'Luv -- New in the trevails of a self-hosted blog; finding a plugin you've been running for yonks is causing invisible (to you) issues. Yay! (At least finally fixed this one!)

A bit of a short one today.

Recently Quietchisto brought to my attention a problem that I am now certain has existed a long time. Probably since very shortly after setting up last year in fact. It was pretty well invisible to me as from my side everything was working just fine.

The issue will also have been invisible to Blogger account holders, only really noticeable to other WordPress…