August (or should I say Blaugust) 2024 has ended so lets take a look back.
The Blog
Blogger provided number (last 30 days graph so a bit off a full month): 30,300
This is up about 1,000 from July. I do not know what the big spike was in late August as I could not zero in any posts that had that much traffic.
In other metrics:
- Posts:
- Target: 31 (Blaugust Rainbow Award level)
- Posted: 32
- Difference: +1 because I can't let a reward go unclaimed!
- Search Trends
- "new world roadmap 2024" surged to the top spot this month. Ironically it appears so often that I created a post for those exact terms with the 2024 roadmap which is just continuing to gain traction.
- "best battlefield game", "best battlefield", "best battlefield games" still all are near the top but not the top dog anymore: Best Battlefield!?
- Once Human searches filled out the third spot with searchers looking for more details around the season resets. This makes sense as the first launch servers recent changed over. Unfortunately searchers will find nothing of value on the blog as I've not gone through myself or commented about the actual mechanics of the resets... yet!
What I Played
Once Human dominated my August playtime as I made it to level 50 and set up my Frost Vortex build. I also built a proper base finally (it looks like an airplane hanger). I posted about none of these accomplishments because I had other ideas for Blaugust posts that took up my blogging time. I have had to take a break from gaming for the past week due to real life stuff (trip, work, kids stuff) so I have yet to transition from my first scenario into a new one (likely moving to a PVE hard mode server with some folks on Sept 8th).
Years Ago
1 Year Ago
August 2023 brought my introduction to Blaugust (check my Blaugust 2023 tagged posts) and I jammed the month full of posts.
The most notable game launch was Starfield (early access started late Aug) and it's hard for me to believe that was already a year ago. Too bad that game landed like a dud, but they finally added vehicles a year later so I guess I should fix my old post.
5 Years Ago
Aug 2019 was in the 'no blogging' era and nothing comes to mind.
10 Years Ago
In
Aug of 2014 I was not blogging regularly but I was thinking about it as evidenced by: Long time, no post. My nonexistent heart was warmed by all the commenters that stopped by though! 6 comments; probably the most of any post in the last 10 years... ha!
15 Years Ago
August of 2009 was the month I became a father and my life was forever changed. That kid is now 15 and about to start learning to drive. He may, and this is a BIG may, also be better at video games than me now. Speaking of comment counts; this post garnered 40+ which was heartwarming but it also shows how much commenting on blogs has died off over the years. I'd have a crazy smile on my face if a post these days hit 10 comments; let alone 40+!
20 19 Years Ago
Technically I have 20 named years on my sidebar, but mathematically 2005 is only 19 years ago.
In Aug of 2005 I was posting on Google Videos (before this thing called YouTube). Sadly I think the video "CS:S video released - Two of the gReatest things eveR" and "Battlefield 2 Video - Lets go!" are lost to history as I am not sure I have copies anywhere and they did not make its way to YouTube when that took over for Google Video. It is crazy to think had I just stuck with videos in that early era I could have been a YouTube content creator instead of annoying my team at work about getting stuff done.
With that said; one video from that Google Videos era did get saved to YouTube. A World of Warcraft video I made while playing with the guild behind the Taverncast podcast: The Pod People invade Westfall.flv
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