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Grinding in JRPGs
Ah yes, grinding. The easiest way to pad out the playtime of a game without actually creating more content. Though the exact definition of it is a bit unclear, as different people will perceive different things as grind. Really, it’s a very subjective term, the exact definition of which highly depends on what a player considers to be fun.
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Is this the Year of the Linux Desktop?
If you’re reasonably familiar with Linux based desktop operating systems you might’ve heard this phrase before in some form or another. It has been repeated every year for the past 2 decades or so. Well, looking at Google Trends, it first pops up around the start of the available data (2004), but the phrase might’ve been used earlier than that.
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Video Game Age Ratings Suck
As a child and young teenager, the USK ratings were the bane of my existence. I hated those little plaques on the covers of games with a passion. Now that I’m 26, I seem to still hold a grudge against them. I don’t really know why since they don’t actually affect me anymore. Maybe it’s just down to my personal experience with them.
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Retiring my ThinkPad X230
I’ve been using a Lenovo ThinkPad X230 as my general-purpose Laptop since about 2017. The X230 came out in mid-2012, so even at that time, it was already around 5 years old. This hasn’t bothered me, since I don’t do any heavy computing on my Laptop. It’s more or less just a machine for generally simple tasks, such as web browsing, chatting, programming, simple games and various system administration tasks.
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Hello World
Hey there. So this is a thing now. The first post on my personal blog.