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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).”

Trying Twitch’s own official subgoals implementation. Halloween Special

Not a book review today, gonna write some different stuff once in a while, since there’s plenty of books still to review, will take a while to cover it all and they don’t stop coming too. Let’s go with some sellout announcement.

Different goals that streamers set are around for a long while and I even did dono goals earlier this year for a few times, was big success actually, thanks to you, guys. But it always was some 3rd party tools used for it, now Twitch actually added something decent that allows you to set up sub/follower goals on their end with proper chat/channel integration. Since I don’t really do a lot of special streams, I figured it might be a good time to check this Sub Goal stuff now for Halloween, because I actually have something in mind for it and well selling out once in a while for a good reason is good. For tl;dr: a little speshul Halloween stream with my Clive Barker’s Undying playthrough + some kitchen action if we get say +66 subs. But a bit more detail now… Continue reading “Trying Twitch’s own official subgoals implementation. Halloween Special”

Dungeon Bookshelf vol.3: Prisoners of Power (The Inhabited Island)

Ayyy, we back from degen life, or maybe surfaced for a moment and gonna sink again, you never know, but I hope not. Back to our 5Head reviews of quality soviet sci-fi that I’m still reading and enjoying.

More Strugatsky brothers, still catching up with my vacation books, this time The Inhabited Island (that’s direct translation from Russian, other name sounds kinda weird). Another bit of setting mixture, but this time not future-medieval, like in Hard to Be a God, but future-industrial, with some dystopian vibes. This book actually even got a movie not long ago in Russia, it was shit unfortunately, but quite popular. But we are going to discuss a book rn though, let’s go… Continue reading “Dungeon Bookshelf vol.3: Prisoners of Power (The Inhabited Island)”

Dungeon Bookshelf vol.2: Hard to Be a God

Ain’t no rest for the wicked, time for another episode of my little scuffed book reviews. Strugatsky brothers again, there will probably around 10 more reviews (if not more) until I’m kinda done with everything I want to read out of their books and I have full collection, so might as well binge that, but we’ll see. In any case I’m currently at 7 books finished and you only had one review, so yeah.

A bit different kind of sci-fi in today’s book, it overlaps with medieval world in a very interesting setting that in my opinion could fit some good videogame (there was one actually, but not very good, might actually be good Eurojank RPG material for my stream later). Let’s go… Continue reading “Dungeon Bookshelf vol.2: Hard to Be a God”

Dungeon Bookshelf vol.1: Roadside Picnic

Time for first scuffed book review post that I planned after all the reading during my vacation. Five books from Strugatsky brothers were consumed during calm days when I was alone at the summer house between my friends and relatives arrivals.

Strugatsky brothers are Russian sci-fi authors and aren’t super huge worldwide, but main thing that puts them on the big picture is “Roadside Picnic” book that was an inspiration to “Stalker” movie by Tarkovsky and then both inspired Stalker the videogame that we all know and sequel to which is a very big thing currently. Great sci-fi writers and totally worth reading even just for Roadside Picnic especially if you are a Stalker fan, you sure will see a lot of familiar things and even words (at least Russian book and game uses a lot of same slang), Ela already read it btw, haven’t heard his opinion yet though. But enough intro, let’s start… Continue reading “Dungeon Bookshelf vol.1: Roadside Picnic”

Post vacation report. Summer 2021

Yo, very delayed, but didn’t have any day offs since I returned and getting back in my work mode with some clown fiestas on the background is a bit chaotic still.

Great vacation, very “variety” vacation this year, satisfied with everything except for weather, next years if I plan summer house action it would be better to do it few weeks earlier to catch warmer days for more activities outside. Already did my “recap” stream, but gonna go a bit into detail in this post too, little diary in a way… Continue reading “Post vacation report. Summer 2021”