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First Full Week of Blaugust 2026 Recap

Almost ten days of August gone, time tends to fly really fast when I’m home and I hate it, but what can you do, at least there’s a lot of stuff going on all the time. Need to optimize the time usage and manage it better, because a lot of it just disappears somewhere completely and while maybe I shouldn’t keep productivity close to 100% I should spend it working out at least.

Pretty loaded streaming week, just had one day off, but still streamed for around 3 hours on my Kick channel, grinding SpiritVale to skip some time until dad arrived to go to the summer house. Didn’t get any updates on the plans, so that trip was a bit of a surprise and I did miss some blogposts, but here I am catching up a little now with second post today. Watching THQ Showcase together with chat also meant extra stream on Kick, got some nice grinding in SpiritVale this week, even though I’d love to play it even more on stream.

On top of SpiritVale grinding I continued my Gothic Remake playthrough and it’s already getting close to the finale, feels like it’s about time, I did spend way more time than during my first playthrough of the OG game. I guess it’s to be expected, because I didn’t level lockpicking and opened crazy amount of locks doing that nice little puzzle fair and square every time plus playing on Hard difficulty does make it a little trickier. Still need to write a dedicated post about Gothic Remake.

First Look Friday had Prelude Dark Pain and Liquidation this week, on Saturday I also tried ReStory:

Prelude Dark Pain is a tactical turn-based RPG with a nice art style that feels a bit Darkest Dungeon inspired. Grid based battlefield with edge tiles being lethal if you (or your enemy) have attacks that push. Seems like some decision making is involved, so maybe even a bit of non-linear progression or impact of your decisions on the story

Liquidation is a love letter to Warcraft 3. RTS with heroes that you level and gear up with loot obtained from Neutral monsters and quests, something I really did love in WC3 back in a day and something I barely saw in games since then (except Godsworn). Early Access, but already got some story campaign going – great choice, usually it’s just skirmish and multiplayer first, leaving proper campaign missions enjoyers starving.

ReStory: Chill Electronics Repairs is a cozy Lo-Fi simulator of early 2000s Japanese repair shop, where you need to fix a whole range of different recognizable (well for my generation it should be) electronic devices. Meditative experience, a little stories evolving in the background while you are buying parts and donor devices, farming money for another license that will allow you to fix more stuff and earn more to afford rent.

Will need to catch up with my VOD backlog and then I will be able to link my VODs archived on YT here, for readers to check those new games I tried for example. Catching up with the backlog is hard, due to some of the Twitch changes they implemented for Highlighting and because backlog became quite massive during travels. I’m always falling behind on the backlog, but maybe now I’ll get better at it with extra motivation.

Outside of streaming related things I did spend a bit of time at my mom’s place sitting with their cat and then went to my brother’s birthday. Mom decided to take us to a pretty fancy restaurant for it, so that was a nice culinary adventure that I thankfully didn’t need to pay for, because boy it was expensive. Spent some time home alone before grandma returned from the summer house, do miss that time just being alone since past years it’s either me travelling with my friend or returning to grandma’s place and living with her. Can’t really kick my brother out of my apartment, because he’s paying me rent (discounted of course) that I rely on a little – such is hobo streamer life.

Schedule updates for the next week coming tomorrow morning, might try to go for two posts tomorrow too, but might also try to go get some workout in the morning if weather allows. Living with grandma ruins my already bad shape even more, without some physical activity these four months will destroy the progress of past eight easily.

What I like About Being Home and Not Travelling

Writing the post about what I miss from travels somewhat inspired me to write the obvious follow up. I think I’ll return to both of these later during some active travels and write the reverse posts, need to remember that, will be interesting to see how different angle will affect my opinions.

Do I Miss Travels When I’m Back Home for Months?

Was supposed to be catching up, but ended up missing a couple of days instead, downside of being back home compared to travels – too much stuff that affects my plans out of my control. Even though most of my travels I’m not solo (sadly, mostly financial reasons), but it’s still just one person usually and it’s easier to discuss plans, besides I’m the one planning stuff mostly since travels are also my stream content.

Autoplay, Stamina, and Other Problems. Ragnarok Online Rant (but State of MMOs in General Too)

I love MMOs. Back in a day I was in every beta test and while paying sub and sometimes even buying the game was quite often out of my capabilities I still played a lot of MMOs. One of the main issues was the time consumption, which lead to me skipping a few years in single player games history and partially made me stop with MMOs. I just wanted to catch up with some other games and preferred to not lose touch with single player games and tried to touch grass some more, getting my life in the right place. Sometimes I could return to some of the MMOs of my past to scratch the itch for a bit, but I never felt like genre should be changed in any way to accommodate people like me with limited time. That feeling of going full degenerate mode grinding some levels or farming some resources, especially when done together with some friends is great. Being able to skip a few days of grinding, because you are busy, but then to go crazy during the weekend, grabbing some snacks and just diving in for a massive session, because you have time now. Flexing some rare item or mount that everyone knows is rare, getting ahead of competition with the power of grind and by getting lucky, getting the build going and optimizing your farm.

Streaming Schedule and Posting Plans for the First Week of Blaugust 2026

Usually post my streaming schedule on Mondays, but again was a bit of a busy Sunday and Monday, so I posted it late and why not share it here also, get some plans and recaps posted from time to time. Easier for people to navigate all the content on different platforms and in different formats this way plus easier to catch some of that live when it comes to streaming. Can always find my streaming schedule on Twitch (feature that barely anyone uses I feel).

Introduction Post for Blaugust 2026

Me and my SFF PC that travelled a lot in past 3 years

A bit late, but a very important post – introducing myself. I actually lost the “About me” page in the Backupocalypse that I mentioned before, so there’s no official introduction of me outside of a little paragraph in my Twitch channel description I guess. Will return that page with “official” introduction at some point, but today is a bit free format one, because I feel like it’s not going to be the first time introducing myself during annual Blaugusts.

First Day of Blaugust. Current Posting Plans and What to Expect

August started and that means Blaugust started too, right on the day I need to go to the countryside with my family, now I’m finally in bed with my laptop to write this post. A bit of a scuffed beginning for this marathon, but it is what it is, unfortunate timing of IRL plans and there will be more of these timings during the month too. At least next times I hope I will get some posts prepared in advance, this time due to all the tech issues I was dealing with last couple of days I couldn’t prepare much, so we are doing it live. I guess that’s kinda fitting for my livestreamer life and I also didn’t want to skip the very first day of the marathon. Have to say time pressure and challenging myself already works, need to fight procrastination and perfectionism.

Blaugust 2026. Participation Announcement Post

Been a while, since I posted here. Well, technically it’s been a little less time, but my previous hosting just broke all my websites together with backups and the only backup I had was quite old. I did manage to scavenge the database at least, so that whole one post that is missing I will add later (it needs some restoration work with pictures) just for the archives. Will be back to the topic of posting and archives a bit later in this post and introductions with other info I will leave for Blaugust, but first I’ll explain what it actually is.

Dungeon Bookshelf vol.5: Monday Begins on Saturday

And another book in review collection, last from my vacation binge, queue is slowly clearing and I’m not reading past week or so, trying to rest my eyes some more while in the bus, not sure if they are tired or it’s just heating season making air to dry, since I think it was the same last year. Wouldn’t hurt to let them rest anyway though and for reviews I still have plenty of books too.

Today it’s time to get to the fairy tale by Strugatsky, this one is a bit of a weird one for non-soviet person, even younger generations of Russians probably will not understand a lot of humour and messages here, honestly I potentially missed some myself, since I might be a boomer, but not that old. Still it’s a very good book and might be just interesting window back into that era (why I also like Strugatsky’s books). Now with more details… Continue reading “Dungeon Bookshelf vol.5: Monday Begins on Saturday”

Dungeon Bookshelf vol.4: The Final Circle of Paradise (Predatory Things of the Century).

Got some time this week so we are back to some book reviews again. My vacation selection has only a couple left, so almost done with it, but I’m also still reading on my swimming pool “commute”, so there’s still a lot of material.

More Strugatsky brothers and their soviet sci-fi, at this point I’m quite dedicated to just read all their works, because I’m already quite deep, enjoy it a lot and some of the books form a whole universe that would be nice to explore fully. This time we are full future (or well actually future for them, but we are almost in that future currently, a bit altered version, but close, which makes it more interesting) and on Earth, so no space travels and other races, just our own issues as a future society that achieved abundance and peace. A little bit of dystopia today, let’s go… Continue reading “Dungeon Bookshelf vol.4: The Final Circle of Paradise (Predatory Things of the Century).”