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this post is in response to this post by lwgrs and this post by donthave2sting. I am also not going to talk about shortwave radio in this post as it's outside the scope of these two but historically speaking it predates FM radio and was crazy. Google it. It's crazy. I have probably mentioned this before when I talk about listening to podcasts in the car. I am the same age as lwgrs so I grew up with the world of radio that he describes. We listened to the radio in the car every morning because…

I have to preface this with the fact that I am objectively bad at shooter games. Worse when I am on a team where my job is to assist. Last week my husband was playing ARC Raiders after work and mentioned the fact we never play videogames together. We really haven't played a co-op game since Diablo III and even then it wasn't too often. Before that we joined a WoW server in college. I did try playing some Counter-Strike/Call O'Duty type war games back then as well and did poorly. To be good at…

In 2009 I started my first little zine. Back then I still did art full time and kept up with my artist friends and such. The zine was online, just a self hosted Wordpress site (It's all I knew how to do.) on a $5 a month cheap host. I would do a few posts here and there and try to get artist friends to check it out but we were all busy at the time so it ended up being just me art-blogging. I called it Dioxazine after the purple paint. So of course it was a white background with purple…

I have a couple of episodes sketched out for the next season of Y2KFM and was checking out what is popular in the podcast world. I have my handful of go-to podcasts to listen to in the car when dropping off/picking up kids and going to the store. Radio Lab Decoder Ring The Retroist Darknet Diaries The Empty Bowl and of course, Mark Rosewater's Drive to Work Now, Drive to Work and The Retroist are both solo shows. The Retroist uses audio clips from commercials or shows but doesn't really talk to…

I'm taking a quick break this evening from my RPG story to air out my head a little. So as with any story I write I do a bunch of research and refresh my memory on how things were or are. What I remember about a video game from twenty years ago might not be correct. Like, I wanted to reference the onboarding for a typical fantasy RPG where you select your class/race/sex/hair color. It's different on every game but still something I wanted to make sure the reader understood because who knows,…