The Ancient Gaming Noob

The Ancient Gaming Noobby Wilhelm Arcturus·24d ago

It is Thursday and I am still catching up on what happened last week. That includes checking out Valheim, which left early access on September 9th.

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The Ancient Gaming Noobby Wilhelm Arcturus·25d ago

We left off last time with Aqualis being well on its way to being terraformed. Potshot and I, having arrived with just some food and water built up a base and a terraforming infrastructure to make...

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The Ancient Gaming Noobby Wilhelm Arcturus·26d ago

While I was away last week Hello Games popped up and finally launched the long expected 10 year anniversary update for No Man’s Sky. Welcome to Cosmos!

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The Ancient Gaming Noobby Wilhelm Arcturus·28d ago

The calendar sweeps forward relentlessly and we find ourselves once again facing elections. No, not those election. We’ll get to that real world pending disaster on our own.

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The Ancient Gaming Noobby Wilhelm Arcturus·28d ago

Vacation is over and the whole 20 year thing is now in the rear view mirror. Time to get back to it. The words won’t just vomit themselves onto the page.

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The Ancient Gaming Noobby Wilhelm Arcturus·11 Sept 2026

I do regard people who loudly declare that they have no regrets in life to be a bit tedious. I certainly don’t believe them.

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The Ancient Gaming Noobby Wilhelm Arcturus·10 Sept 2026

Welcome to anniversary week here at TAGN. Come Saturday the blog will turn 20 years old, so I am calling this week the TAGN 20th Anniversary Collector’s Edition.

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The Ancient Gaming Noobby Wilhelm Arcturus·9 Sept 2026

Foolishly Potshot let me name the first base we established on the planet Aqualis and I chose to name it Sumatra.

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The Ancient Gaming Noobby Wilhelm Arcturus·8 Sept 2026

I did my in character reflections on playing EVE Online back on my actual anniversary date at the end of August.

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The Ancient Gaming Noobby Wilhelm Arcturus·7 Sept 2026

Sixty years ago yesterday, on September 6, 1966 for those of you who cannot do calendar math, the first episode of Star Trek aired. I was about one and a half at the time, so missed the premier.

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The Ancient Gaming Noobby Wilhelm Arcturus·6 Sept 2026

BlizzCon 2026 will be arriving at the end of the week. On Saturday September 12th we’ll get the big keynote speech that will reveal the plans for the company for the next year or so.

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The Ancient Gaming Noobby Wilhelm Arcturus·6 Sept 2026

We are back with some more actual video game releases here in week thirty-six. We had four titles lined up for release in the league this week.

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The Ancient Gaming Noobby Wilhelm Arcturus·5 Sept 2026

Blaugust 2026 is over. It wrapped up on Monday and here it is Saturday and I am finally summing up. I used to sum up very quickly after the event. But the gap has grown.

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The Ancient Gaming Noobby Wilhelm Arcturus·4 Sept 2026

I stuck around in Blackburrow until I hit level 14. At that point I felt like it was time to move on. It wasn’t that the xp had run dry or that things had gotten too easy.

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The Ancient Gaming Noobby Wilhelm Arcturus·3 Sept 2026

I am, once again, stuck for milestones to report on when it comes to Planet Crafter because they all zip by too fast. This time, however, it is somewhat our own fault.

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The Ancient Gaming Noobby Wilhelm Arcturus·2 Sept 2026

The climb to level 80 carries on for us in Pokemon Go. My wife and I made it to level 75 back in May. Now, here at the start of September we have arrived at level 76. Well, I have arrived.

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The Ancient Gaming Noobby Wilhelm Arcturus·1 Sept 2026

Yesterday saw the launch of the second of the two EverQuest Time Locked Progression servers slated for 2026. The first was Frostreaver, which landed back at the end of May.

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The Ancient Gaming Noobby Wilhelm Arcturus·31 Aug 2026

The Site Blaugust is coming to a close today and soon we’ll be down to just the counting. I managed to over fulfill my quota by just enough to be a hero worker without straying into the...

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The Ancient Gaming Noobby Wilhelm Arcturus·30 Aug 2026

Twenty years ago I was born into New Eden as Wilhelm Arcturus. Not literally born. A capsuleer does not begin their journey as an infant.

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The Ancient Gaming Noobby Wilhelm Arcturus·30 Aug 2026

I trolled people in both the leagues I am in this year by picking Squadron 42 in order to tempt them into a possible bidding war to get it as a counter pick.

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