[Life] Steam Replay 2025

My steam replay this year wasn’t an accurate telling of the games I played, because most of my games are not on steam. There’s Wurm Online – does have a steam client, but I don’t use it since my characters are not grandfathered in. Only newly created steam characters can play through that client. Then there’s World of Warcraft, also not a steam game. Probably my actual most played game this year, though EVE Online might be close.

I hear we didn’t play new games in 2025, but instead opted to play older ones. That is absolutely correct in my case, new games made up 2% of my playtime. In fact classic games came in at a whopping 94% which makes sense since again, EVE Online? Classic.

A lot of games that made the list (for me at least) were idle games, since I tend to leave them running for a few days at a time. Euro Truck Simulator 2 was also pretty high on my games played list. No surprises there, I love it. I think I’d love it more if I had a wheel to play it with, but for now I’m still holding off. I’m just not good at playing with a controller.

EQ2 did also start making the list, but not until later in the year, so it didn’t have as big an impact as I was expecting. Wobbly Life is there since I play that with the family, and a few new games like Whisper of the House, and Urban Jungle. Enjoyed them both. Project Zomboid is also listed, I played that briefly, along with Necesse. Erenshor, Date Everything, Tropico 6, Captain of Industry – lots of games, just not a lot of time, unfortunately. Life has kept me pretty busy this year, and I haven’t really had a lot of time for gaming. Plus, other hobbies keep fighting over that elusive ‘time’ and this year (for the first time in forever) art in all of its various forms was at the forefront.

So here’s to 2026. May it be filled with as much, or as little, gaming as you wish.

[EVE Online] Even Explorers need a Holiday

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I told myself it was just a break.

Not a retreat. Not giving anything up. Just… stepping sideways for a bit. There’s no Winter Nexus out in j-space this year—apparently shattered wormholes don’t get festive snowstorms, which feels like a personal slight—so I let myself drift back to highsec for a while.

I’m flying my Endurance, quietly mining faded volatile ice in a system that barely remembers what danger looks like (Until Safety is in the system, at least). The ice glitters as the harvesters bite into it, soft and fractured, like the universe decided to be gentle for once. It’s a far cry from collapsing connections and living out of bookmarks and instincts.

I should feel relaxed.

Instead, I feel exposed.

There’s no cloak-and-wait here. No safes that only I know. Local chat scrolls by in plain sight, and CONCORD feels like a very strange substitute for situational awareness. I keep flicking d-scan out of muscle memory, even though nothing ever changes. Old habits cling hard.

Still… the Endurance feels right. Built for cold. Built to endure. The rhythm settles in—harvesters cycling, hold slowly filling, the quiet hum of winter NPCs minding their own business. For once, the universe isn’t asking me to be sharp or fast. Just present.

I catch myself smiling at that.

This is good. A pause. A chance to let the constant edge bleed off before I throw myself back into j-space, back into scanning chains and rescue pings and beautiful, dangerous emptiness. Highsec doesn’t feel like home anymore, but it makes a decent place to rest your boots and watch the snow fall.

I’ll go back soon. I always do.

But for now, I stay right where I am—mining ice, feeling a little exposed, a little safe, and quietly grateful for a softer stretch of stars.

Even explorers need winter holidays.

[WoW] Gold Making (Week 51) – 2025

Holidays are finally here, but my gold making has been pretty stagnant lately – which I’m actually OK with. I periodically posted to more than the base 10 servers I find myself on, but if there were no sales the day after I would just let the items lapse and collect them from the mailbox without reposting. Casual gold making seems to be working well for me, and helps prevent burnout. I know everyone is busy grinding holiday stuff and working on Legion Remix while they can.

The big sellers of the week (notice I’m not selling furniture or doing any current tier stuff, I’ll talk about this in a minute) included more ‘random’ items than usual. For once, recipes were not at the top of the list. Transmog wasn’t, either. This week I sold a very small number of expensive battle pets, and a large number of mounts and toys, for whatever reason. I also didn’t sell anything especially expensive, maybe folks are spending all of their gold on furniture these days. The most expensive item I sold ended up being 190,000 gold. Still, sales are sales, and I don’t mind the slow down. None of my items are in demand or are even from the current tier of the game, which is something I tend to do on purpose so I can avoid a majority of the competition. I don’t especially enjoy AH PVP – some people are all about that, and that’s great for them.

In any case, I hope everyone has a very happy, safe, holiday. No matter where you spend it. I’ll hopefully be spending most of mine in Azeroth, trying to finish the remaining class halls I need to get done and maybe doing some decorating, finally. We’ll see!

As always, happy gaming!

[Life] Tracking all of the things (TV Series) related

I’ve never really been much of a movie or TV watcher, but some days my multiple sclerosis prevents me from doing much, and I like to have something to watch in the background other times while I knit, spin, draw, or game. Unfortunately I’m also horrible at remembering what I’ve seen, and I leave off on some shows depending on my mood / interests – only to completely forget I was even watching them when I eventually return.

So I stumbled into a discord conversation about this exact thing, and someone mentioned a website called ‘Serializd’ (which I believe is a TV series version of Letterboxd). I signed up, and spent an evening browsing through my netflix/crave histories attempting to remember shows that I’ve seen over the years. I love tracking statistics, and I really like the minimalistic view of this one, for now at least. Whether or not I keep up the tracking, we’ll just have to see. I also wish that both movies & tv were tracked together, but I imagine that’s a whole other ballgame to handle.

Anyone else using a website to track like this? How do you like it? How long have you used it? Let me know in comments!

Now back to your regular scheduled gaming posts…

[Warcraft] Gold Making – Week 50 (2025)

Another week of gold making – but as a heads up, I did take wed/thu/fri/sat off this week from the daily posting happenings. I needed a bit of a break, the holidays are just about upon us and real life has been busy with all that entails. So, no posting happened then.

I made a grand total of 23 sales, for just shy of 3 million gold in-game. Most of those sales (as you can see in the screenshot above) came from recipes, although there were a handful of transmog scattered in there too. Normally I check my statistics on the tradeskillmaster website, but this time I opted to just take a screenshot of the in-game ledger. Either way the information is the same since TSM syncs with the in-game data. I have to say, part of the reason I enjoy gold making is because I just love data / statistics / charts / graphs. Who doesn’t!

I’m debating whether or not I want to do a year at a glance type of post at the end of the year, the TSM website doesn’t seem to go past 6 months, and I am pretty sure I wiped the in-game TSM data when I returned to the game because the files were gigantic. Plus I have information scattered across various accounts as it’s still pretty recent that I consolidated all of my auction house characters to one ‘account’. I’ll think about it more and then see what I can manage. It has been fun posting these weekly gold making posts, and I hope to continue doing it in 2026, that much I know.

As always, happy gaming no matter where you find yourself!