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OberstKrueger @oberstkrueger.com · 06/03/2026

Defending Quel’thalas from the Void with us Void Elves at your side!

OberstKrueger @oberstkrueger.com · 20/02/2026

So… do I get my $100 of import fees back? What do you mean the ruling today doesn’t address refunding past payments? #scotus #tariffs

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OberstKrueger @oberstkrueger.com · 19/02/2026

I'm very curious to see if all these Discord shenanigans will lead to a true exodus (to... Fluxer? Stoat? Matrix?) or if everything will return to status quo in a month.

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OberstKrueger @oberstkrueger.com · 08/02/2026

Tron Ares is a frustrating movie. Visually and musically, it's fine. But Legacy has a solid story with a small but great cast of characters. I can't say that I care for anyone in Ares. I don't have any desire to rewatch Ares ever again, unlike Legacy that I am always happy to watch.

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OberstKrueger @oberstkrueger.com · 05/02/2026

Offline, non-gacha, and a better name. I'm curious to give it a go when it releases.

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OberstKrueger @oberstkrueger.com · 04/02/2026

Not that it was ever high on my list of moonshot jobs to aim for, but SpaceX is definitely off the list now.

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OberstKrueger @oberstkrueger.com · 02/02/2026

Writer's block sure is fun.

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OberstKrueger @oberstkrueger.com · 31/01/2026

I didn't spend a ton of time with it due to it being unlikely to get the game anytime soon, but the character creator in Nioh 3 is pretty good. Aethmal and Seralin both turned out nice without too much effort.

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OberstKrueger @oberstkrueger.com · 30/01/2026

I wish I felt comfortable enough to try a Hetzner IPv6-only server. User support should be there mostly nowadays. But I still worry about the random people it might cut off. Would probably get rid of a *a lot* of bot traffic to my servers though.

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OberstKrueger @oberstkrueger.com · 28/01/2026

“The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

theatlantic.com

Minnesota Proved MAGA Wrong

The pushback against ICE exposed a series of mistaken assumptions.

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OberstKrueger @oberstkrueger.com · 28/01/2026

I've had many gripes over the years about the inefficiencies of Element/Matrix. But maybe now sentiment to move away from US-based companies and tech, especially within the EU, might give it the push it needs. I would love for my currently negative outlook on it to be turned around.

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OberstKrueger @oberstkrueger.com · 25/01/2026

The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.

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OberstKrueger @oberstkrueger.com · 22/01/2026

Lemix is done. I didn't get to do everything I wanted in it, but had fun regardless. Can't wait to see the next remix event!

World of Warcraft interface dialogue window stating: "The Remix event has ended. Your Timerunner characters have been transported to the main timeline. Remix event items have been removed."

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OberstKrueger @oberstkrueger.com · 15/01/2026

Maybe I need to sit down sometime and really think about what is appealing about that and how to best bring it forward. It's not like a more peaceful and mentally healthy computing life is impossible nowadays... right...?

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OberstKrueger @oberstkrueger.com · 15/01/2026

There are days where I wonder if falling back to a command-line-only computing life wouldn’t be preferable. Forces a more focused workflow, quieter, and if there’s something I really need that doesn’t exist, it forces me to build it. Although I guess I’d just waste time in IRC instead of Discord…

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OberstKrueger @oberstkrueger.com · 08/01/2026

I certainly owe Dr. Becker an apology. All that time spent debating against him about the hope of technological advancement for our species, and he ended up being right with how it is now being used to tear us down.

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OberstKrueger @oberstkrueger.com · 08/01/2026

I studied political science and criminology for nearly a decade. Even with the brilliant professors I had to helped me throughout my education, it's hard to use those teachings to make sense of the idiocy that the world has fallen into.

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OberstKrueger @oberstkrueger.com · 07/01/2026

Even if my sleep has yet to quantitatively improve, I already feel a lot better now that I no longer work a graveyard schedule. Being awake during the day and able to go out and do things is wonderful. I’ll miss some aspects of graveyard, but the mental and physical costs of it were just too much.

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OberstKrueger @oberstkrueger.com · 27/12/2025

I do question the modern rationale behind it, given that HJKL was chosen originally simply due to the keyboard that vi was created on lacked independent arrow keys and used HJKL in its place. The other arguments for it seem to have come well after that fact.

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OberstKrueger @oberstkrueger.com · 27/12/2025

What kind of damn fool goes for an early morning walk in the rain and 37F temperatures while wearing Vans? Oh right. Me.

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OberstKrueger @oberstkrueger.com · 26/12/2025

Is it sacrilegious to unbind HJKL in vim and exclusively use the arrow keys? #neovim #vim

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OberstKrueger @oberstkrueger.com · 22/12/2025

I sometimes wonder about a world where "AI" was properly focused on the niche tasks it excels at. Not as a first step towards AGI that is worth burning the world down over, or a destroyer of the arts, but an efficient tool for specific fields. Altman and the rest really did the world a disservice.

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OberstKrueger @oberstkrueger.com · 20/12/2025

This is incredible. Already gave it a test run and it works just as easy as it sounds in the blog. Once more browsers support this, I'm going to find a few uses for it on my own websites. webkit.org/blog/17660/i... #html #css

webkit.org

Introducing CSS Grid Lanes

It’s here, the future of masonry layouts on the web!

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OberstKrueger @oberstkrueger.com · 19/12/2025

Blizzard, you're always finding ways to drag me back into the game. The paladin plays great! I'm having a lot more fun with it than I did the Crusader in Diablo 3.

Male Paladin with strawberry blond hair wearing red and gold armor, with fiery highlights across the armor.

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OberstKrueger @oberstkrueger.com · 13/12/2025

First graduate quarter done. Feels good to get a couple of weeks for personal projects before having to jump back into the grind for next quarter.

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OberstKrueger @oberstkrueger.com · 11/12/2025

Of course I had to choose the sentimental option for the first go around of this. Maybe I'll do a braggy one in the future, but the heartfelt goodbye felt the most appropriate given all of the emotional and sentimental (or not, in the case of Lidamorrutu) dialogue of everyone else at the camp.

NPC dialogue box with the following text from Moratari:

<Moratari abruptly shifts her attention to her clipboard and clears her throat.>
Speaking of data points, why don't you share with me what you've learned about the affect of artifacts on this timeline?

(Quest) I found this Blank Doomsayer's Pamphlet among the remains of the Lost Legion Infernal.

NPC dialogue box with the following text from Moratari:

How peculiar. This must come from a nearby timeline.
The latent temporal energy in this parchment is bursting with potential. I recommend you burn in at our bonfire.

If you'd like, you can write a message before you burn it. With that much energy, I expect it would echo to your fellow Timerunners.

But choose your words wisely--unless the physical laws of time itself start breaking, I expect that you'd find something this rare only once per week.

(Quest) One a week. Got it.
(Quest) I will think hard about what I want to say to my fellow Timerunners.
(Quest) Whatever.

NPC dialog window for the Infinite Bonfire:

‹Before you cast the Blank Doomsayer's Pamphlet into the bonfire, you consider writing a message on it. What will you write?>

<Reflect on the power you've gained.>
<Reflect on the demons you've slain.>
<Reflect on your quests.>
<Reflect on the Heroic World Tier.>
<Reflect on your infinite research accomplishments.>
‹For the Horde!>
<Write a heartfelt goodbye to your fellow adventurers.>
<Write something silly.>
<Write nothing.>

Chat window text:

The infinite bonfire echoes as Seralin wishes you everyone a hearty farewell. Though we depart from this timeline, we will surely fight for Azeroth in the next one, wherever and whenever that brings us together again.

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OberstKrueger @oberstkrueger.com · 10/12/2025

A few loose ends to tie up over winter break, but Legion Remix has been so much fun. Looking forward to the next one! #wow #lemix

Quest window from World of Warcraft given by Moratari with the following text:

UNTIL OUR NEXT HELLO

There. That was not so bad after all.

This is not goodbye. It is just a pause until our next hello.

I look forward to it, Seralin.

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OberstKrueger @oberstkrueger.com · 05/12/2025

At some point we’re going to talk about whether so much of the internet should be centralized behind Cloudflare, right?

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OberstKrueger @oberstkrueger.com · 04/12/2025

This is a big reason why I never get more than a few days in each year. And yet, for reasons passing understanding, I still keep trying...

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OberstKrueger @oberstkrueger.com · 04/12/2025

Every year, I sit down to do Advent of Code and am reminded how much I dislike having to deal with input parsing every single day. I have finite time to dedicate to this, and spending anymore than 10 seconds in string manipulation and regex patterns is more time than I want to spend on it.

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OberstKrueger @oberstkrueger.com · 03/12/2025

I've been waiting literally more than half my life for this moment. I'm going to spend months playing The Sims in Azeroth. #worldofwarcraft #wow

A redhaired Void Elf standing in front of her new home

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OberstKrueger @oberstkrueger.com · 30/11/2025

Eversong, my beloved... I never thought I'd get to explore a new version of my favorite section of the game. 19 years later, and here we are. youtu.be/ELteqGtpLJc #worldofwarcraft #wow #midnight

youtu.be

World of Warcraft Midnight Alpha - Flying Over Eversong

YouTube video by OberstKrueger

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OberstKrueger @oberstkrueger.com · 27/11/2025

I find myself more out-of-step with the Swift community with each passing year. Every time I look at some new framework or template, it's just abstraction upon abstraction upon abstraction, and forgetting so many lessons I thought were understood. I miss what Swift drove towards 3 versions ago.

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OberstKrueger @oberstkrueger.com · 23/11/2025

I remember thinking it was cool that the game had no software renderer, as it was one of the early games to require a GPU. Those requirements really take me back though. 8 megs of VRAM is incredible by modern standards.

Screenshot of the system requirements listed in the original manual for EverQuest. They are as follows:

Minimum Configuration
* Windows 95/98/2000
+ 200 M H z or faster Intel® Pentium" processor
+ 64MB RAM
* 2X o r faster CD-ROM drive with Windows-compatible 32-bit driver
* Direct3D" o r Glide-compliant video card with 8MB RAM
+ 600MB free hard drive space (includes space fo r Windows swap file)
+ Internet connection with 28.8 Kbps or faster connection speed
* DirectX-compliant sound card
* DirectX 7.0 (included o n the game CD)
• Microsoft-compatible mouse
Recommended Configuration
+ 266 MHz o r faster Intel® Pentium II° processor
* 128MB RAM
* 4X o r faster CD-ROM drive

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OberstKrueger @oberstkrueger.com · 22/11/2025

Cat. What the eff. Quit chewing on the wifi antenna. This is what I get for putting her bed within biting distance of the router...

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OberstKrueger @oberstkrueger.com · 19/11/2025

Incredible how we let so much of the backbone of the Internet get centralized to just a few companies. AWS has issues like a few weeks ago, half of the web goes down. Cloudflare has issues like it did yesterday, half of the web goes down. I say to a centralized social network...

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OberstKrueger @oberstkrueger.com · 13/11/2025

Whenever there is an aurora far enough south for me to see, PNW weather says "no". #pnw

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OberstKrueger @oberstkrueger.com · 12/11/2025

Got to attend a fascinating talk the other night by Brent Boswell from Nvidia discussing design inside CPUs and GPUs. It was especially interesting to hear the differences in approach between Nvidia and Intel, such as Nvidia working to add new features right up until tape-out for a product.

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OberstKrueger @oberstkrueger.com · 11/11/2025

Second Legion Timerunner complete. Aethmal has had quite the journey through WoW. Human Paladin -> Undead Warrior -> Night Elf DK -> Void Elf DK. But despite his RP history, this is the first time I've spent any time with him as a Blood Elf. It's been fun experiencing the character this way.

Blood Elf Death Knight wearing dark black/blue tier 3 armor, with glowing skulls, standing in a dark hallway.

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OberstKrueger @oberstkrueger.com · 10/11/2025

It's depressing that I need to be extra vigilant for AI-generated academic articles. Was checking the references on one paper and most of them did not exist. Not even all of the journals listed seemed to be real... Is there any place left that AI slop has not infiltrated?

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OberstKrueger @oberstkrueger.com · 05/11/2025

Not a bad night. Not a bad night at all.

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OberstKrueger @oberstkrueger.com · 05/11/2025

I need Blood Elf Druids to finish out the last open slot on my OC family tree. So close to being done, but I worry this will be a long wait.

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OberstKrueger @oberstkrueger.com · 03/11/2025

These deathmasks they added for this year's Day of the Dead are really cool. Although they do highlight how Blizzard needs to figure out that hair morphing tech they were talking about previously, as they clip through a lot of hairstyles pretty bad. #warcraft #worldofwarcraft

5 image collage of different characters wearing a skull deathmask. Each mask has different colored gems on the forehead.

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OberstKrueger @oberstkrueger.com · 01/11/2025

I guess if you wait until the early morning, let the fog roll in, and then squint and tilt your head, it might look like a war zone here. #pdx #portland

Early morning photograph of the shoreline in Portland, with yellow street lamps and fog covering the hills.

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OberstKrueger @oberstkrueger.com · 01/11/2025

First Legion Timerunner complete. Back during TBC, Seralin was a Blood Elf alt meant solely for experiencing Quel'thalas. It remains one of my favorite areas in the game, and since Aethmal was stuck being an Undead, she provided the perfect view into that part of the world.

Screenshot of a female Blood Elf with red hair and green eyes, wearing the red and gold Blood Elf heritage armor and dual wielding the yellow variant of the Warswords of the Valarjar artifact weapons. She is glaring into the camera with her head tilted to the side.

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OberstKrueger @oberstkrueger.com · 01/11/2025

There's a lot of switching to Linux going on right now. Love to see it.

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OberstKrueger @oberstkrueger.com · 31/10/2025

I created Aethmal in 2001 and Seralin in 2002. They both started out as characters for EverQuest, but have been my main OCs for most everything since. There's also an extended family tree of characters that I dip into regularly, but never with the frequency that I come back to Aethmal and Seralin.

A four panel collage show the transition of two characters from EverQuest to World of Warcraft. On the top is Aethmal, a white haired elf. In the left shot, he is wearing blue armor and wielding a gold and silver sword in the game of EverQuest, while in the right shot, he is wearing dark grey and blue armor with skulls in World of Warcraft. On the bottom is Seralin, a red haired elf. In the left shot, she is wearing red armor and dual wielding two small swords, while in the right shot, she is wearing grey armor with glowing green skulls on the shoulders and two large swords sheathed on her back in an x position.

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OberstKrueger @oberstkrueger.com · 31/10/2025

Of course, after finally beating Chronos for the first time, the story decides to go in a direction that hits a particular soft spot for me at the moment. So I guess I have to finish it now...

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