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Recap of the Week Four of Blaugust 2026

And last full week of Blaugust is almost over now, only one more day left. It did feel like weeks were disappearing really fast, but looking back at the whole month it actually wasn’t that fast – lots of stuff done, spent a lot of time with friends and family, posted a lot of blog posts.

Thoughts About AI in Blogging and Streaming

Hand-crafted with pure creativity and madskillz back in a day

Time to touch this hot topic a bit, today’s gaming news recap was full of AI related news, opinion pieces and interviews, feel like it’s a good time to look at it from my angles today. Not gonna do any moral and ethical grandstanding here, because I don’t think I’m a beacon of ethics and moral myself and I surely play/use/consume other things that aren’t clean from ethics and moral perspective.

Heroes of Might and Magic III Remake Opinion After Playing Early Creator Preview

So that secret appointment I mentioned last week was my HoMM3 Remake remote play session that Ubisoft invited me to. This week was a bit weird, since I had my plans with friends during Gamescom Opening Night Live show and for next couple of days too, so I returned streaming when it was all announced and discussed somewhat. Another issue is that my gameplay footage captured by demoists haven’t arrived yet, so I don’t have my own screenshots and video material to show and to talk on stream. For now just “trust me, bro”.

More Quick Little Reviews from Saturday’s Stream

As I mentioned, more new games that I couldn’t fit in my Friday segment spilled to Saturday stream. Just two games though, so not a big post here

Breathedge 2

First Look Friday Quick Small Reviews. Dystopicon, Exark and Blood Dungeon

Gotta keep up the pace of posting, planned to post on Thursday, but ended up returning home quite late and skipping it, but at least Saturday no plans so far, so I’ll have time then for a couple. Should succeed with the challenge if I post 2 per day for the rest of the month and I did this already earlier, so shouldn’t be a problem.

Blood Dungeon game character — Blood Dungeon Character. As SFW as possible with this one I guess

Got three new games in, even though one released some time ago, I just couldn’t fit it somewhere in the schedule, especially after I already played the demo before. But today I actually got it and even got to one of the endings, so quite a productive First Look Friday, all bangers too.

Three Year Anniversary of My Nomad Arc

28th of August 2023 was the day when I packed my suitcases and left home to return next time only two years after. Wasn’t an easy decision, not some “searching for life’s meaning” kind of trip, more like just diving into the unknown with questionable perspectives, pushed by circumstances. Most of the circumstances are still around and perspectives are still questionable with some new challenges rising regularly, but I got through 3 years of this life and enjoying it still.

MMO Gamers. Massive Dilemmas Before Opening the Door and Slamming the Door Loud When Quitting

Guess not listening to all the media in 2018 wasn’t a bad decision? (Bethesda Launcher was a thing first and ate a lot of playtime too)

Another post brought to you by my chatters, this time even first time chatter, even though it did happen before, but it didn’t form into big thought yet then. Really appreciate my chat always bringing up interesting thoughts, discussions, and giving me an inspiration to write these posts.

Blaugust 2026. Week 4 Plans

Time for the last full week of Blaugust. This time actually posting plans in the morning even. Maybe still 2 more posts in the evening today, because it seems like there might be 3 days this week when I won’t be able to post, need to keep up the double or more pace on other days.

Recap of the Week Three of Blaugust 2026

Holy, another week gone already, Blaugust you better relax, well actually September better start relaxing too, I need time to flow a bit more slowly, enjoying last weeks at home before travelling.

FOMO and Chores. Is Aggressive User Retention Necessary?

Don’t need to go far to cover this whole post with pictures, Fallout 76 covers all – here’s FOMO

Had a discussion on stream today about MMOs, started with one of the viewers saying that MMOs are usually pretty aggressive with FOMO and keeping you attached to the game. While it is a bit of a generalization and in case of MMOs it’s not as bad (except Korean and mobile MMOs), it is really bad with liveservice games and some MMOs are also affected. Technically from player’s perspective it is always bad when they are trying too hard to chain us to their game to keep playing, but I also think it might have negative effect in the long run.