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Updated my Theme

As you can no doubt see, I have updated my website theme using the The Secret World wordpress theme provided by Funcom. No this isn’t strictly a TSW fansite, its still my own personal blog, but I love TSW and I love the way this theme looks, so I’m sticking …

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Things I hate:

‘that awkward moment…’ memes people that enter through the exit random encounters in old RPGs slow drivers seafood fast drivers being interrupted vests assumptions stereotypes people that complain without providing a possible solution infinately respawning enemies enemies that spawn out of nowhere that thing in games where you walk into …

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NaNoWriMo and why I failed

So back on 2nd September I was quite excited about National Novel Writing Month, and looking forward to it. Now that November is almost over, I can admit that I failed. Not totally… the goal was to get 50,000 words, and I got to 27654, which isn’t bad really. Over …

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NaNoWriMo

This year I’ve decided that, come November, I’m going to attempt National Novel Writing Month – or NoNoWriMo. I’ve never done it before, so I’m quite excited. NaNoWriMo is, as they say, thirty days and nights of literary abandon. The goal is to write a 50,000 word (approximately 175 page) …

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There are too many DEAD’s!

There are too many games with the word DEAD in the title, and its beginning to get a little annoying! IE: Dead Rising Dead Space Dead Nation Dead Island Dead Block Dead Horde Dead or Alive Red Dead Revolver Red Dead Redemption Left 4 Dead Never Dead Trapped Dead House …

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The “Ask where it is” theory

Through careful research I’ve discovered something quite remarkable. If I lose something, I have a fail-safe way to find it again. I simply ask somebody where it is, and a minute after I complain about losing it, I find it again. For example, I have a notebook where I jot …

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Assassin’s Creed

I’ve started to LP Assassin’s Creed, because its one of my favourite game series. I love the freedom of being able to go anywhere and climb on anything, and the storyline is great, very intriguing.    

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Literary feedback wanted: The Soul Sea

The Soul Sea is the name of the fantasy novel I’m currently writing. If you go here you can read the first four chapters. Ignoring spelling/grammer mistakes (because I can grab them later), I’d love any and all feedback you’d care to give, whether it be good or bad. I’m …

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Youtube Adventures

I love youtube and I love making videos. I started up again because I wanted to practise talking, and I think it’s helped me a lot. Plus, I enjoy making lets plays. However it can be depressing at times. Here’s a convenient graph.   This is from Youtube Insight, and …

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Rate the show: Doctor Who — Season 1

I think I might make this a regular occurrence. Lately I’ve been rewatching Doctor Who from the start, well the start of the new series, and it made me think. Note: This may contain spoilers. I’m going to rate each episode, as well as give a brief reason as to …

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