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A screen laid out to look like an old fashioned TV, with the game Castlevania VI playing in the main part. In a round window onthe right, a black woman with colorful braids gnaws on a SNES controller in frustration *blows the dust off* August 23, 2020 by ARBT - A long delayed news update from ARBT, with new Twitch schedule.
An open Mac laptop displays the game Minecraft on the screen. Solving the Bedrock Edition Problem for MacOS November 23, 2018 by ARBT - How to run Minecraft (Bedrock Edition) on MacOS using BlueStacks.
Screenshot from Minecraft, showing a large gray stone tower complex. Stuff and Things and My Gods That Build is Huge and double servers and Hi everyone! November 21, 2018 by ARBT - Been gone awhile! Will catch up soon. Meantime, I at last have achieved running two maps at once.
Screenshot from the game Minecraft, depicting a mostly empty landscape with a few buildings here and there. Brave New World Order June 10, 2018 by ARBT - I've been playing quite a bit since server reboot. In this post I give you a picture heavy tour of The Server Thus Far and talk a bit about the large build I'm working on, and the subway connecting it to the center of the world and Spawn.
screenshot from the game Minecraft, depicting forested terrain with a house and a tower in the distance. Starting all over June 3, 2018 by ARBT - In light of the Update Aquatic, I've decided to reboot the Minecraft server. Old map has been archived, "new" one (same seed, but freshly generated) is live.
Update for January January 22, 2018 by ARBT - Allo and Happy new year, beautiful game related people! Server Mama has had a January. Eaten by projects, work, Animal Crossing Pocket Camp (no, really) and 50 ft anxiety hamsters. As a result, game stuff went a bit by the wayside. Rust and Minecraft (Bedrock) are open for play again! Definitely feel free to drop …
screenshot of the game Rust depicting a snowy landscape and a red tinged sky. Rust offline for December December 1, 2017 by ARBT - Happy Holidays everyone! It’s December 1st so as far as I’m concerned, it’s now okay to start with that. 🙂 Just a general announcement that Rust will be unavailable until the January 4th wipe for Reasons. (Translation: I and my computer need a break.) More posts to come – I’ve been playing games, just not …
No one warned me about the adorable dogs! November 21, 2017 by ARBT - So I finally FINALLY had a few minutes of uninterrupted downtime today to play Super Mario Odyssey on the Switch. I hadn’t gotten out of the Sand Kingdom yet and both the Beasts are WAY ahead of me so putting in some catch up time was overdue. So I finished up with the boss (That …
…and of course, kill Dracula. November 20, 2017 by ARBT - So the RCA to USB thingie arrived on Saturday. Installed and test ran it, and pleased to say that while the picture feed isn’t the sharpest, it does work pretty well after you tinker with OBS a bit. So for my Monday night stream, I’m going to be doing a nostalgia run of Super Castlevania …
A section of the splash screen from Tetris (Original game boy edition) Some thoughts on retro gaming, nostalgia and childhood stories November 18, 2017 by ARBT - So after a few weeks of streaming some of my current PC games, I’ve been trying to think of what sort of overall theme I want my Twitch/YouTube presence to have. I could keep mostly streaming Minecraft * but really there are a million MC streamers out there. Really there are about a millionty-one PC …
I should probably announce my Twitch schedules here too, huh November 6, 2017 by ARBT - lol, yet another “lookit me, I’m bad at game blogging” post. Tonight’s Twitch schedule! (all times Eastern US) 7pm: Stardew Valley This one was a request from one of my friend’s kids who just started playing. I think this is a good opportunity to show off the main game and the big farm, which I …
Two characters, Pearl and Marina, from the game Splatoon 2. Pearl is glaring at the camera, Marina looks excited. Some news type things October 29, 2017 by ARBT - Open a gaming blog, immediately neglect said blog; that seems to be my general M.O. I’m thinking scheduling content time might be the only way to keep me posting regularly, so I declare Sundays are news post days… starting now! ARBT gets a Switch One of the major reasons I’ve been absent the past week …
WW2 era gun bunker on a hill with "Come see my cat" spray painted on one side Kitty Trap October 17, 2017 by ARBT - So noodling through Tumblr I discovered the above picture. After having a chuckle and mostly agreeing with the notes under it (my favorite being “this would be the horror movie scenario which gets me to leave my car and get murdered” because yep) I looked at it again and went “hey, that might be fun …
Bizzy. Baksun. October 11, 2017 by ARBT - Being eaten by another non-gaming project at the moment. Servers are still up for now, but probably won’t get back to content/streaming until next week. Have fun in the meantime!
Screenshot from the game Rust, depicting the interior of a church. The First Church of Obi-Wan October 9, 2017 by ARBT - Time to give my Rust island a little love! Every wipe cycle I take the time to paste in one or two builds to liven up the landscape a bit. (Considering the island is usually empty, the landscape needs a lot of livening.) The first one is always the First Church of Obi-Wan, named for …
screenshot from Minecraft with overlay at top for twitch streaming Baby’s First Twitch Stream! October 9, 2017 by ARBT - So as a procrastination project from what I’m supposed to be doing until next weekend (I know) I’ve been working on this blog and also slowly setting up my Twitch channel for For Realsies streaming. I finally got all my ducks in a row and went live last night. As a test run, I noodled …
Screenshot from minecraft, depicting a pixel art rendition of the Cromulon from the TV show Rick and Morty I like what you got October 6, 2017 by ARBT - Well considering I found this on the Minecraft server right when I was wondering how I was going to kick off Blog 2.0, it seemed like a sign. (also thanks for the laugh, EvilPenguin!) But yeah, this is the second incarnation of my gaming blog. It will mostly still be minecraft based, but I’m hoping …