FFXIV: Finishing Dawntrail 7.4 (Again)
Posted on January 22
I’m somewhat back on my alt kick in FFXIV, working to move more of my characters through the Dawntrail MSQ. Now that I have the ability to gear alts up with the ilvl 770 crafted pieces, I’ve been somewhat motivated to buckle down and get some gaming done while I still have the time.
VR Gaming: Across the Valley Farming Sim
Posted on January 21
The first VR game that I tried out this year was a farming simulator called Across the Valley. I got this on sale when it was only 99 cents, and was excited to try out what a farming simulator experience could be in VR.
Learning How to Fish in Enshrouded
Posted on January 19
Back in November, Enshrouded launched the Wake of the Water update which added water and water mechanics to the game. Syn and I were quite excited for the update, for adding water environments to our base would make for something lovely! Not to mention including the concepts of fishing and swimming in an already sizeable exploration game.
Blogiversary: 12 Years of Blogging
Posted on January 16
Twelve years ago on this day, I launched this blog! This is the yearly post in which I reminisce a little about this long-term writing project I started all those years ago, not knowing how far into the future it would stretch. In a time when blogging isn’t as popular as it used to be, to have a blog last as long as this has is a pretty exciting milestone!
Steam Quickplays: January 2026 Part 2
Posted on January 15
I’ve been pretty good at playing through some of the shorter games in my Steam Backlog lately. I even spent time breaking out the super short games based on data from How Long to Beat into their own folder. While this is a Quickplays post, I’ve actually played through an entire “round” of all of the games I’m going to talk about today, and even finished one of them!