The Elder Logs

I've been fairly quiet on socials for the past few days to a week, as I was down the rabbit hole practicing for a job interview.

Recently I've talked about what will happen when I inevitably retire from high-end raiding in Modern Retail World of Warcraft, and Guild Wars 2 & 3 are big options for me, for many reasons, chief among them being horizontal progression systems...

For the past 10 months I've run my own Mastodon server.

How many games do you own?

Season 1 ended, and we got everyone their Mythic L'ura mounts, the Ashes of Belo'ren: Ashes of Belo'ren So that got finished and was satisfying to get done, especially given how difficult Mythic L'ura was, at least initially.

It's just over a year since I transitioned away from my previous, ostensibly World of Warcraft focused blog, Nerdrooted.

When I was bemoaning the state of my setup in Linux last time out, I was pinning my hopes on the release of Wine 11.12 bringing with it vaunted fractional scaling in games that needed it.

So yeah, I had to re-install Windows again.

WoW at the moment is in a serious lull.

Ok, so first up, apologies to anyone following this Ghost account on Mastodon, because this morning you will have been spammed to hell and back, as I've just published nearly 200 posts of content going back 11 years!

Let's get the current progress info-dumped first up: Mythic 6/9, and currently working on Crown of the Cosmos (the Alleria fight).

As regular readers know, I love the small web, and have until now been running a theme on the site that, while fast, isn't exactly in keeping with the entire small web aesthetic IMO.

So for the past few months I've been feeling tired.

Discord launched just shy of 11 years ago (May 2015), and brought with it a revolution in gaming communities and how they interact, both with each other and amongst themselves.

For the last while I've been developing a strong love of the small web (and the smolweb).

I first came across the above Latin phrase over 25 years ago in The Matrix.

I mentioned self-hosting previously, and there I talked about one of my goals for 2026 being to self host my social media presence online, becoming entirely self-reliant.