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A new approach to updates

By Iain 12 September 2014Music, Site Related, VideogamesNo Comments

I've decided to take a new approach to these weekly updates. I like the idea of doing an update once a week on a set day, so that aspect is staying. The whole "Friday update" thing is getting old - it's quite boring to look down the recent posts and basically see the words "Friday" and "update" repeated twenty times.…

This is what Dark Souls has taught me about death

By Iain 25 April 2014Reflections, Site Related, VideogamesNo Comments

Death is different in Dark Souls. Echoing the advice Dave gave me when I first started playing, that death is not a failure state, I mean, sure, you did fail, either by being utterly outclassed and over-powered by a massive demon, by being over-confident in your abilities at taking on all three of those bad-dudes at once, or simply falling…

Dividing up the Currently playing thread

By Iain 25 April 2014Reflections, Site Related, VideogamesNo Comments

It has produced some interesting results. Not only are there a lot more topics in the main Videogame chat folder now, but some of the more popular ones are now even bigger. For example, I split a four page Resident Evil topic out of the Currently Playing thread. Zelda = 3 pages. Street Fighter = 2 pages. Half Life =…

Friday update 25/4/14

By Iain 25 April 2014Internet, Reflections, Site Related, VideogamesNo Comments

We've got the 20 week ultrasound on Monday, I'm super excited for that. We've decided that we're not going to find out if Flipper is a boy or a girl until they are born - it's going to be an awesome surprise! I mean, I know it could only be one of two options, but still, it's gonna be a…

Friday Update 7/3/14

By Iain 7 March 2014Creativity, Internet, Reflections, Site Related, VideogamesNo Comments

Hello again, it's Friday, and that means it's update time! Jane and baby are well - we went to Toys R Us one day last week to look at prams/pushchairs/buggies - so many different styles! I think we've decided on the one we're going to go for, it may be a little pricey but we've done our sums and worked…

I’m in two minds about this one, but:

By Iain 30 January 2014Site RelatedNo Comments

Please note, none of the websites mentioned in this post are still active. Soon there will be adverts throughout randomfury.co.uk. I really don't mind throwing £15 a month at the website, for a few reasons. I earn my own money, and I feel proud to pay for my own website. In the early days of rf.co.uk, Jane subsidised the site…

So here’s the plan for the main site

By Iain 27 October 2013Internet, Reflections, Site Related, VideogamesNo Comments

In terms of what is going to happen to this blog - it'll pretty much stay the same. Personal stuff will continue to be exclusively posted here, whereas videogame stuff will also on the main RF blog in a cross-posting fashion. As for the forum - It's important to me that the integration stuff happens - I have realised that…

Under the weather

By Iain 22 October 2013ReflectionsNo Comments

I've felt like proper shit for the last few days - I have this viral thing affecting my upper respiratory tract - Paraflu, Jane says. She's smart like that, knows all the names of the diseases and stuff. All I know is that I've barely slept for the past couple of nights because my throat is so sore, and I've…

600th post spectacular – Questions galore

By Iain 9 October 2013Books, Creativity, Internet, Reflections, Site Related, VideogamesNo Comments

Ok, so the numbers say that this will be post number 600. I feel like I want to do something special for it, and after having a little think, I remembered that I’m currently reading a book on my Nexus called “Be creative” by Infinite Ideas – it was free and has so far given me a few decent tips. In one chapter it had a list of questions you should ask of yourself in order to understand yourself, because how often do you actually stop and question things?

So, here we are with the questions and answers. I endeavoured to be as brutally honest as I could be and I gave each question a lot of thought. I ended up spraying my thought process on to the page as I was typing, and I did repeat myself a little, so be warned!

WARNING!!! VERY LONG POST!!!

This post is going to have the most tags ever.

What is community?

By Iain 4 October 2013Internet, Reflections, Site RelatedNo Comments

Karl and Hannah came to visit us in the Summer. During their visit, I said to Karl that I've not taken an active role in promoting Random Fury for a long time, to which he replied "Maybe you should". This is me taking an active hand again. The website, randomfury.co.uk, will soon be transformed. Our existing phpBB forum will be…