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I just noticed that this blog has an RSS feed: https://argothald.com/feed/. This link is automatically part of every post in this blog. It's in the Meta section, with the name Entries feed. I've used Wordpress for this blog for years. Only now did I see this feature. Who says I'm not observant? (Really, who says this? Because…

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Last Night’s Game – Citizens of the Spark, Pina Coladice, The Fog

Yesterday, I told Real Angela that I was going to have an extended afternoon-to-evening game session with J, M, and A. (As an aside, they all knew each other from game events like the masquerade party I threw in 2019.) She asked the obvious question, "What are you going to play?" I explained that I couldn't answer.…

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Adoption Day: Year Four

Four years ago today, two teeny kittens chose to share their lives with me. There's been a shift in their behavior over the past year. They've become less social with each other. I understand that this is normal for cats as they grow older. The principle issue that has emerged in the past year is their increasing…

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Welcome to Real Angela!

Let's not get confused about the identity of the new blogger on the Argothald Journal. Over the years I've occasionally talked with people about sharing my blogging platform with others. Real Angela is the first to accept the offer. Although her first post is about a Baldur's Gate 3 playthrough, I put no restrictions on what she…

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BG3 – Don’t mess with a cultural ethnologist

While doing some bookkeeping work associated with my Baldur's Gate 3 blog posts, I came across a prediction from a cultural ethnologist. Background that you'll already know if you read any of my BG3 posts in the past year: back in playthrough 8, I named a hireling after a friend of mine. The hireling was Arctic Druid…

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Baldur’s Gate 3 – Playthrough 1/14 – Problems and Plans

Multiplayer technical problems Playthrough 1/14 was marked with a number of technical problems. I hope that by going over them, I can spare you from the same difficulties in your own multiplayer BG3 playthroughs. Here's the TL;DR version, if you want to skip this section and move on to the next: According to Larian, and our own…

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