Thinking of switching to Single Player Games

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From Multiplayer Online to Single Player Games

I have been an MMO player for well over 20 years.  Last Chaos, Archlord, Runes of Magic, World of Warcraft and Elder Scrolls Online.  I love WoW and ESO a lot.  But I work A LOT 😩

So when I do get the time to play; I’m either doing my dailies before heading off to work or just before bed.  Or… I’m scrambling to do the in-game events.  Losing sleep just to do that.  I haven’t actually played ESO or WoW in nearly 2 years.  I’ve done no actual quests based on the lore in the games.  I buy the new expansions just to basically ignore them.

In WoW I’m boosting my characters just to do events and hunt mounts 😳  Boosting is expensive for 10 toons.  Every new expansion.

In ESO I buy every new expansion and every new house.  I love ESO way more than WoW and yet I can’t seem to get time to play either and I admit I’ve spent thousands of dollars doing all this.

And lets talk about In-Game Events.  Has anyone else started to think these things are getting out of hand?  Seems like there is a new event every other week!  Who has time to do all that and do quests, dungeons and raids?

Thankfully it’s not hurting my income.  I work so I can afford my enjoyment.  Games, new computers and new instruments/recording equipment.  Problem is, now I work and do nothing else.  I force myself to practice drums and guitar just about every day.  Games now take a back seat.

However I still love gaming and would like to get back into streaming.  But if I’m to actually play a game, I may have to give up my love of open and expansive worlds filled with other people to actually be able to play a game properly.  Do quests and enjoy the story.  Just have never really done it much.  I need suggestions.  Like I do have Skyrim and have yet to really play it.  But I hate the UI.  Hope there is a mod for that.

What do you guys think?

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Low Carb Cornbread Muffins

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Low Carb Cornbread MuffinsIt’s cold weather season here in the great white nowhere.  During this time of year, I love to whip up a big batch of Low Carb Chili and Cornbread Muffins.  Yes you can pan fry or bake it in a pan to cut into squares if you like.  I prefer muffins as I can put in baggies (2 per) and freeze them.  Along with portions of the Chili so I can eat them on cold days I want to stay in and wrap up doing whatever I do.  (movies, gaming or playing my instruments)

Here’s how I make the muffins:

  • 5 cups Blanched Almond Flour
  • 1 tbsp Baking powder
  • 1/3 cup monk fruit sweetener (use 1/2 cup for sweeter cornbread, or 2/3 cup for extra sweet)
  • 1 tsp Sea salt
  • 2/3 cup Butter (or coconut oil for dairy free option) – maybe some extra to grease if you decide put in a baking pan or skillet
  • 2/3 cup Unsweetened almond milk
  • 6 large Eggs
  • 1 1/2 tbsp Sweet corn extract as I love the flavor to come through

Preheat the oven to 400 degrees. Use a muffin pan and baking cups/liners.

Then mix flour, baking powder, sweetener, and sea salt in your favorite mixing bowl.  Stir in the melted butter, almond milk and eggs, until smooth. Stir in the sweet corn extract.

Scoop batter into the cup/liners until just over the top. Bake for 25-35 minutes.  Check completeness with toothpick or I use a butter knife.  Of course it’s up to you if you like the top more yellow and muffins are more moist or darker and more for soaking up butter and chili 😋

Modified from: Wholesome Yum

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Linux is for Everyone!

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Linux is for Everyone!In the past 5 years, Linux has come an insanely long way.  At the same time, Microsoft Windows has gone insanely off the rails with their telemetry tracking, data harvesting, pushing ads on your operating system.  Straight-up recording your private data including banking and passwords with their CoPilot AI bologna!!  Even more, you’re like millions of other computer users not willing to give your life to the AI that’s being forced upon you 😡

Enough is enough.  It’s time to take your privacy back, choose freedom and stability in your computing experience.

About 4 years ago, I realized how every person on the planet is a target for security threats, constant spying on us and the uncomfortable feeling of having AI doing the things I enjoy doing for me.  At that time, I was a life long Windows user.  However, I like thinking for myself, and creating my own content the old fashion way thank you very much.  That with my already 6 years plus of taking my personal privacy seriously; I finally left Windows for Linux.

To make my change more comfortable, Linux Mint as the Cinnamon Desktop is so familiar feeling, the OS is known for being damn good for gaming.  A little of poking around and I am now able to do every single thing I did with Windows before.  But now I have no AI, no tracking and my computers all run like rockets all day long with no slowing down 🙂

I’ll never return to Windows or use anything on my computer that uses AI.  To me AI is just dumbing down the world in general.  AI is touted as a “help” tool.  I don’t agree.  It’s more like “I’m too lazy to learn it so AI can do it for me” tool.

In this past few months, I have convinced several other people in my life to give it a try.  All of them were sold and are faithful Linux Mint users now too!  They found the change to be extremely comfortable.  Including my some of my friends.  My son.  Even my 75 year old mother is totally comfortable using Linux and I couldn’t be happier!

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Leaving PIA for Proton

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Leaving PIA for ProtonThe world is changing.  I’ve been a fan of privacy for well over a decade now.  But thanks to the world embracing AI at a disturbing rate, we now have governments seeking to end privacy once and for all with pre-encryption scanning on the client (your) side.  Also world-wide age verification.  All under the guise of protecting children.  When in fact we all know it is just governments spying on and wanting to control every citizen.

Part of the reason I left Windows for Linux long before Recall was implemented.  I just don’t like the world interested in what content I check out.  If I want to buy a movie on Fandango, I don’t want some data broker pushing ads based on the fact I was dupped into trying to watch Sucker Punch.  (God awful movie 😣)

In my hunt to be left the hell alone, I started using a VPN.  First was NordVPN.  Then Private Internet Access.  Then I found out recently that several VPN’s are owned by the same company and may actually be selling your data rather than protecting it by not only owning multiple VPN companies, but owning the independent company proving their no-log policies are legit.  It could all just be a huge scam.

While I can’t fully say for sure, I am led to believe that Proton VPN is pretty much one of the few good options left that aren’t trying to screw you over.

Though this came with the need to tweak it.

Firstly the “VPN Accelerator” that promised 400% boost in speed seems to be a myth.  For me personally and several YouTube reviewers.  I do have it on, but doesn’t seem to do much.

Instead I did have to put in custom DNS servers as the default ones actually slowed everything down.  Mostly because of Proton DNS offers a Net Shield that is supposed to block ads and trackers.  I already have that on my Brave browser.  So I used OpenDNS servers instead.

208.67.222.222 · 208.67.220.220

Doing this automatically disables the Net Shield.  Though now I barely loose any of my gigabit internet service speed 😁

I also specified the server I’d like to connect to.  The “fastest” option isn’t always the fastest.  Not sure why that is, but whatever.  I also like that I can finally use streaming services without too much hassle.

So, I am currently backing and promoting Proton VPN.

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My 2025 PC Build

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My 2025 Gaming Rig

My 2025 Gaming Rig

It’s been 3 years since my last computer build.  This is my first build with an AIO.  I decided on not using the latest AMD GPU, but the previous generation 7900 GRE.  The price to performance difference just isn’t worth it.

Yeah it’s insanely overkill for the games I currently play.  Though all new games I choose to get should run just butter smooth too!

My 2025 PC Build My 2022 PC Build
  • Musetex K2 ATX Gaming Case
  • Musetex 120mm Case Fans aRGB 6x
  • ASUS TUF Gaming 1000W Gold ATX 3.0 Compatible Fully Modular Power Supply
  • MSI MAG B650M Mortar WiFi Gaming Motherboard
  • AMD Ryzen 9 7900X 12-Core, 24-Thread Unlocked Desktop Processor
  • ARCTIC Liquid Freezer III Pro 360 A-RGB AIO CPU Cooler
  • 32GB Silicon Power XPOWER Zenith DDR5 RGB Gaming Series 16GB 5200MHz (x2)
  • Crucial P310 2TB 2280 PCIe Gen4 3D NAND NVMe M.2 SSD
  • XFX Radeon™ RX 7900 GRE 16GB
  • Linux Mint
  • Logitech G203 Mouse
  • Logitech Pro X USB Headset
  • Logitech G213 Keyboard
  • ASUS TUF Gaming 32″ 1440P HDR Curved Monitor (VG32VQ1B)
  • Antec Constellation Series Draco 10 Mini-Tower M-ATX Gaming Case
  • Antec 120mm Case Fans RGB 5x
  • EVGA SuperNOVA 850 Ga, 80 Plus Gold 850W, Fully Modular
  • MSI MAG B550M Mortar WiFi Gaming Motherboard
  • AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 6-core, 12-Thread Unlocked Desktop Processor
  • Zalman CNPS 10X Performa Black, Extreme Performance CPU Cooler
  • 48GB XPG GAMMIX D45G RGB DDR4 3600MHz 32GB (2x16GB) plus 16GB (2x8GB) Gaming Series 16GB 5200MHz (x2)
  • SAMSUNG 980 SSD 1TB PCle 3.0×4, NVMe M.2
  • MSI Gaming Radeon RX 6700 XT MECH 2X 12G OC
  • Linux Mint
  • Logitech G203 Mouse
  • Logitech Pro X USB Headset
  • Logitech G213 Keyboard
  • MSI G32C4 Curved Gaming Monitor

This is what my 2022 build looks like.

My 2022 Gaming Rig

My 2022 Gaming Rig

It is now going to be my streaming computer while the new machine rocks the games.

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