- Detached – A Hobbits Journey – Mentor
- Aywren – Aywren Sojourner – Mentor
- Angie – Backlog Crusader – Mentor
- Syp – Bio Break – Mentor
- Roger Edwards – Contains Moderate Peril – Mentor
- Chestnut – Gamer Girl Confessions – Mentor
- Braxwolf – Gaming Conversations – Mentor
- Bhagpuss – Inventory Full – Mentor
- Izlain – Me vs. Myself and I – Mentor
- Paeroka – Nerdy Bookahs – Mentor
- Stargrace – NomadicGamersEh – Mentor
- Belghast – Tales of the Aggronaut – Mentor
- Wilhelm Arcturus – The Ancient Gaming Noob – Mentor
- Remus – ..in the mind.. – Newbie
- Tea – Cooler on the internet – Newbie
- TheRoyalFamily – Dating Sims on the Holodeck – Newbie
- Serum7six – Enjoying Overload – Newbie
- everwake – Everwake’s Internet Journey – Newbie
- Dan/Magimos/Magi – Indiecator – Newbie
- Kaylriene – Kaylriene – Newbie
- Sita Dulip – Synthetic Dulips – Newbie
- Quin – Where The Monsters Are – Newbie
- Sandrian – Aeternus Gaming – Participant
- Rohiaux or AllTheAmpersands or Ampersand – All the Ampersands – Participant
- Ammo – Ammo’s Rambles – Participant
- Ashgar – Ash’s Adventures – Participant
- Dragonray – Azerothian Life – Participant
- Rambling Redshirt – Beyond Tannhauser Gate – Participant
- rumorsmatrix – Blog of the Idle – Participant
- Jen – Book of Jen – Participant
- SunnyBunny – Can I Play Too – Participant
- Discgrace – Daily Creative Thing – Participant
- Data_Error – Dextraneous – Participant
- UltrViolet – Endgame Viable – Participant
- Stroeb – Galumphing – Participant
- Telwyn – Gaming SF – Participant
- Shintar – Going Commando – A SWTOR Fan Blog – Participant
- Beau – Home of Beau Hindman – Participant
- Kluwes – I’m Not Squishy – Participant
- Kabalyero – Kabalyero – Participant
- KnifesedgeGames – Knifesedge Blogs – Participant
- Kim and Phil – Later Levels – Participant
- UnwiseOwl – Leaflocker – Participant
- Krista – LeeksEverywhere – Participant
- Mailvaltar – Mailvaltar – MMOs and other stuff – Participant
- komorebi – MMOJuggler – Participant
- Krikket – Nerd Girl Thoughts – Participant
- Neri – Neri Approves – Participant
- Shintar – Neverwinter Thoughts – Participant
- Shintar – Priest with a Cause – Participant
- RandomGamerX – RandomX – Participant
- Shadowz – Shadowz Abstract Gaming – Participant
- Rakuno – Shards of Imagination – Participant
- AvvaN – TechJoy2Day – Participant
- Stingite – The Friendly Necromancer – Participant
- neschria – The MMOist – Participant
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- WelshFox – Whats Occurin’ ? – Participant
Happy Blaugust
Today is the first day of August and with it comes two things. Firstly my wedding anniversary. My wife and I have been married Twenty One years as of today, which is weird because like I have been married longer than my baby boomer boss. Then again he is on I think his fourth marriage and I only have the one, so even though the age difference it makes sense. We’ve been that “stable” couple in our families and in theory have been the most responsible of adults… even though adulting is occasionally super hard. I am very happy to have a steady partner in this journey.
The second thing is of course the official beginning of Blaugust, though technically on the schedule it goes into July and September a bit as a sort of ramp up and ramp down. However now is the time when the posting counts towards the goal of posting something every single day of August. What you make of it however is up to you. The first year it was a very super serious event and I only really gave credit for “winning” to those who made at least thirty one days. However that had the trickle down effect of burning a lot of people out, and I fear lead to more blogs closing as a result. From that point on we have had a more relaxed festival of blogging thing going on and focusing on simply posting more regularly than trying to meet a fixed target. There are of course awards to be given at the end of the event for people who meet even the most basic of posting requirements.
As far as gaming goes, I spent last night working on the new Solstice of Heroes event in Destiny 2. I decided to go with a gaming image because I have gotten tired of the Blaugust logo leading every post so far this week. I am not sure if I am going to be able to get everything done in order to get the fully upgraded set of armor, but I had some fun last night. The specific screenshot is of me apparently breaking Gambit Prime. We tied the first round and then went into a second round where we filled our motes quickly… and a primal never spawned. In fact nothing spawned at all during the event and we just stood around killing invaders as they came over and any blockers they happened to send. It did allow me to very quickly complete the “kill seven guardians in gambit” task because we legitimately just stood around waiting for someone to spawn in.
So far we have managed to gather up 60 players in this blogging game. One of them is a daily Vlogger but that counts too (we love you Wolfy). Generally speaking we still have a few trickle in after the first of August, so there is absolutely still time to sign up and participate. We are down a bit from our high of 90 participating blogs last year, but then again that makes a bit of sense given that we took a year off from the event and there was a bit of a nostalgic rush of folks signing up. I expect to see a few more sign-ups but I am not sure if we will make up the 30 player gap. The truth is… it isn’t for everyone and I am not going to shame the folks who tried it out last year and decided it wasn’t for them. Without further waffling about… here is the list as it stands today.