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Sar @elderlogs.net · 27/09/2026

This is the #GTA6 "Collector's Edition". Comes in a box, and has about £50 of cheap tat in it plus a pair of Oakley sunglasses. It has a price of **£400** And the kicker? ***There's no copy of GTA6 included with it*** That's right, £400 for a "Collector's Edition" with NO GAME. WTAF?

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Sar @elderlogs.net · 13/09/2026

So Fedica should still work with the new GTS account, so I've removed the old Mastodon instance address as it's now just a redirect. Looking forward to GTS incorporating the likes of media cards, quote posts etc, but as long as I'm not murdering my VPS resources anymore then I'll be happy! 😄

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Sar @elderlogs.net · 13/09/2026

World of Warcraft: Forever. Classic+ finally becomes a reality, and it's glorious. www.elderlogs.net/wo... #WorldOfWarcraft #WoWForever

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World of Warcraft: Forever

Classic+ finally becomes a reality, and it's glorious.

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Sar @elderlogs.net · 03/09/2026

Finally time for a new blog post about WoW! Season 2 begins! #WorldOfWarcraft

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Midnight Season 2

It begins!

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Sar @elderlogs.net · 27/08/2026

Another great gone, this time Peter Cullen, *THE* voice of Optimus Prime. Rest in Peace man 😟

Peter Cullen, the voice of Optimus Prime, holding an action figure of Prime.

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Sar @elderlogs.net · 27/08/2026

And after a slow start last week, this reset has seen me pick up the pace a bit better in Midnight Season 2! And it's been a season or two, but I finally got a few global Rank 1 kills again, this time on Normal Mode Nymrissa and the final boss, Ula'tek! AotC should come Monday! #WorldOfWarcraft

Screenshot showing a global Rank 1 kill for the normal mode endboss of Midnight Season 2: Ula'tek

Screenshot showing a global Rank 1 kill for the normal mode lair boss of Midnight Season 2: Nymrissa Wavecaller

Screenshot of my Normal mode kills at the start of week 2 of Season 2 of Midnight: 99% parses for all bosses except 3: a 97, 98 and a 100% parse, averaging 99.3% overall.

Screenshot of my Heroic mode kills at the start of week 2 of Season 2 of Midnight: 5 bosses with orange parses ranging from 96% to 99%, and an overall average of 89.4%

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Sar @elderlogs.net · 21/08/2026

Got the Fabled achievement done for Azta'rec yesterday afternoon. Fun fight, but the only hard part was the memory game. Thankfully the Az Helper addon helped my ADHD-riddled brain cope with that. After that it was all about downing the intermission add in time. At least it was pet-tankable! #WoW

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Sar @elderlogs.net · 21/08/2026

I've decided to go for a Haaland-free #FPL team this season. Big risk, but that price difference up to Haaland means at least £6-7.5m that improves the rest of the squad immensely. £15.5m for 1 player is just way too much, esp if he blanks consistently. Far better to improve the whole squad IMO!

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Sar @elderlogs.net · 03/08/2026

Quick warning for other Arch Linux users - the AUR is under attack, AGAIN. More packages have been infected. They've since been deleted and the AUR is now locked for submissions until security can be tightened. Reports of the affected packages can be found here: lists.archlinux.org/... #AUR #Arch

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🍵𝐿𝒾𝓁𝓎🐉 @mistweaverlily.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Exterior at nighttime! 🌙

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🍵𝐿𝒾𝓁𝓎🐉 @mistweaverlily.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Here's a full showcase of my mage's home! A home filled with magical decor and gnomish technology! ⚙🔮 Many parts of the home are in a thread! Check them out! This was first built from the very beginning of WoW Housing (early access)! 💙 #worldofwarcraft #wowhousing

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Sar @elderlogs.net · 19/07/2026

Presented with context: www.bbc.co.uk/sport/...

Englishmen over celebrating finishing 3rd, despite the 4th place team, France, not bothered about even competing for half the game...

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Sar @elderlogs.net · 15/07/2026

So I think I've changed mains in #GW2 after a month on the Ranger. At best I was getting 13-14k dps with Longbow, and about the same with the Greatsword. So today I rolled up a Mechanist Engineer, gathered enough Hero Points to fill the tree and got some gear. Result? Easier rotation and 27k DPS!

My Guild Wars 2 Engineer, a female Norn clothed in Black except for a pair of tactical specs which are green visors.

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Sar @elderlogs.net · 10/07/2026

And finally, after a full grind for well over a week, the work is done. I have finally unlocked my very own Skyscale in #GuildWars2 :D NOW I can start in on Living World Season 1 and onwards! :)

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Sar @elderlogs.net · 07/07/2026

I started playing #GW2 exactly one month ago, and I've already pumped 100 hours into it! That's an average of 25hrs per week! That's nearly as many hours as I work in a week 😂 Yeah I'm definitely enjoying it 😄 Onto the collections part of my Skyscale mount journey now... #GuildWars2

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Sar @elderlogs.net · 05/07/2026

Must have been an out of season inclement Sharknado approaching...

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MassivelyOP @massivelyop.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Obituary: MMORPG blogger and community leader Mark ‘Belghast’ Temple has passed away

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Obituary: MMORPG blogger and community leader Mark ‘Belghast’ Temple has passed away

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Sar @elderlogs.net · 21/06/2026

And exactly 2 weeks after I started playing, I'm now max level in #GuildWars2 😁 Time to start looking into endgame systems, and gearing up! Also, to think about which profession to look at next, maybe a Necromancer? But glad I can start picking up other mounts and explore everywhere now! 😍

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Sar @elderlogs.net · 18/06/2026

With every other form of social media becoming increasingly beholden to political interests and coercion, the one form that the masses rejected looks like being the only one that is truly free of all that noise: Mastodon. Ever picked an email provider? You can use Mastodon.

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Look, just fucking use Mastodon already

A short, unnecessarily profane rant about modern social media, not really serious but not really a joke, either. With apologies to McSweeney’s.

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Sar @elderlogs.net · 17/06/2026

And at long last, the work is done... Mythic L'ura is dead, and Midnight has Fallen! Toughest boss in a long while, and everything after this on re-clears now should be a doddle! Just to farm for the mounts now... :) #WorldOfWarcraft #Midnight

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Sar @elderlogs.net · 13/06/2026

So we went to see He-Man today, and I have to say we both came out of it saying we'd loved it. Funnier than I expected, and both pays homage to the series whilst acknowledging (and explaining) some of the more absurd aspects of the series (Fisto! Ram-Man!). Jared Leto as Skeletor was the star tho.

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Sar @elderlogs.net · 13/06/2026

Up to level 35 or so now in #GuildWars2, and fitting in some levelling and exploring when I can. Off shortly to see He-Man, which looks like a fun time! :)

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Sar @elderlogs.net · 10/06/2026

We finally got to Phase 4 of Mythic L'ura! One of the most difficult end-bosses in memory, this has been a helluva slog. But the end is now in sight, and we just need to get back to P4 again next raid night with more people alive and we should have a kill! #WorldOfWarcraft

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Sar @elderlogs.net · 08/06/2026

"If the companies do not act within three months, the government will bring forward legislation to force them to activate blocking technology, it says" "Those over 18 would still be able to take, share or view nude content through an age verification process, it says" Well... 1/2

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Sar @elderlogs.net · 08/06/2026

"Starmer says today he is calling on tech companies operating in the UK to introduce device controls that prevent children from sending and receiving explicit images." I would love to know how, without scanning ALL images on ALL devices, and not breaking E2EE on ALL devices to scan ALL messages...

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Sar @elderlogs.net · 08/06/2026

Part of Keir's speech about tech regulations today: "But now that [shut down] factory is being transformed into a new AI data centre[...]. "Young people can look at that site and see not what their community used to be but what it can become," he says." Sounds more like a threat...

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Sar @elderlogs.net · 08/06/2026

This entire speech (and approach) just shows how incredibly out of step and touch with general public sentiment Old Kid Starver is...

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Starmer says tech firms must stop children sending and receiving explicit images or face new laws

The prime minister is speaking at the London Tech Week.

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Sar @elderlogs.net · 08/06/2026

Well turns out it's quite fun. So much so I bought all of the expansions and intend to play this long-term when I'm not playing #WoW.

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Sar @elderlogs.net · 06/06/2026

I guess I'll give this another go, what with the 3rd one announced. Can't remember how many expansions I've bought over the years (if any), so this should be an experience...

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Sar @elderlogs.net · 21/05/2026

So I spent a bit of time this morning publishing my archive of blog posts, and may have spammed followers of the Ghost account's Mastodon feed 😲😂 All up and working now, but some of the older posts are ugly and not likely to get fixed any time soon...

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Archives: Fully Published — The Elder Logs

But ugly as hell.

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Sar @elderlogs.net · 11/05/2026

I'm quite sure promising to not brick people's hardware because they bought a 2nd hand game would be a bigger re-assurance.

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Sar @elderlogs.net · 03/05/2026

So I changed the theme for the website, finally reflecting my love of the small web! 😄 www.elderlogs.net/a-... 1/3

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A Smaller Web — The Elder Logs

Changing the site theme to reflect my small web admiration, finally.

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Sar @elderlogs.net · 02/05/2026

So I got a new 4K QD-OLED monitor yesterday. It's been challenging to get it to play nice with Linux. I'm currently using Gnome 50, and getting it to play nice with different scaling on my now 3 monitors (1080/1440/2160) has been a challenge. WoW at 4K looks REALLY crisp though 😄

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Robert Simmon @rsimmon.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

One thing I noticed about this astonishing #artemisii photo of a solar eclipse — it’s the first photo I’ve seen from the Nikon Z9, which means an enormous 8,256 by 5,504 pixels. 😍 There’s some noise at 100%, understandable given the extreme lighting! www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2...

Imagine the coolest thing ever, then make it twice as cool. That is this photo.

Captured by the Artemis II crew during their lunar flyby on April 6, 2026, this image shows the Moon fully eclipsing the Sun. From the crew’s perspective, the Moon appears large enough to completely block the Sun, creating nearly 54 minutes of totality and extending the view far beyond what is possible from Earth.

We see a glowing halo around the dark lunar disk. The science community is investigating whether this effect is due to the corona, zodiacal light, or a combination of the two.
Also visible are stars, typically too faint to see when imaging the Moon, but with the Moon in darkness stars are readily imaged. This unique vantage point provides both a striking visual and a valuable opportunity for astronauts to document their observations during humanity’s return to deep space. The faint glow of the nearside of the Moon is visible in this image, having been illuminated by light reflected off the Earth. Credit: NASA

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Sar @elderlogs.net · 30/03/2026

Tonight, we stepped into Mythic for our first kills of the season in week 2, and not only did we kill the first boss in Voidspire, we also killed Chimaerus, the single boss in Dreamrift and as a result ended up in Hall of Fame! This is my first HoF kill too - so stoked! #WorldOfWarcraft #Midnight

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Sar @elderlogs.net · 24/03/2026

So my personal standings after week 1 in Heroic: 247 iLevel: Averzian: 3rd EU (3rd Ally) Vorasius: 5th EU (2nd Ally) Salad Bar: 12th EU (8th Ally) Chimaerus: 3rd EU (3rd Ally) 256: Dragons: 17th EU (12th Ally) Vanguard: 3rd EU (1st Ally) Closest we got Alleria was 12%, so it'll go down on Weds!

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Sar @elderlogs.net · 17/03/2026

I think that's me ready for S1 of Midnight launching tomorrow in the EU! Race: Pandaren (max dps race for BM & SV atm) Gear: iLevel 243, Fully Enchanted & Gemmed Professions: Alchemy 100 and double duration flasks Cooking 100 and double strength food (Panda trait) Leatherworking 1 :D Let's go! :D

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Sar @elderlogs.net · 14/03/2026

So recently #MyFitnessPal updated their app, and the UI/UX now is god awful. So I cancelled my premium sub and started to look around for something else. Notonly did I find something much better, but it's over 30% cheaper per year! I'm using #Cronometer now, which seems a lot more detailed. 1/4

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