Leave a Comment Thousand Year Old Vampire Alan Bollinger April 12, 2022
This is my journal for 1000 Year Old Vampire Memories I am Samuel Jefferson of the Massachusetts colony. I own a large swarth of agricultural land near the coast of Boston. In a fit of blood thirsty rage I killed my sibling and...
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Learn how to manage your MySQL server from the command line. This beginner-friendly guide covers starting and stopping MySQL, creating users, managing databases, and performing backups and restores using real-world commands.
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Thousand Year Old Vampire is a solo roleplaying game of memory, loss, and vampires. In Thousand Year Old Vampire you chronicle the many centuries of a vampire’s existence, beginning with the loss of mortality and ending with inevitable d...
Read More »Leave a Comment Gaming Alan Bollinger January 20, 2022
Twitter is a great platform to run a realtime, texted based, adventure using pretty much any system. In this example I'll be talking about D&D specifically, but you can easily change it for any RPG system. What is a text based adventur...
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The updated 2021 list of my gadgets, computers and software I use on a daily basis. Computer: MacBook Pro I continue to use my Mid 2014 MacBook Pro 13" with an attached 23" monitor. It's fast, has crazy long battery life, and works perfec...
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I'm very excited to share that I will be speaking at Laracon EU 2021 from January 18th-22nd, 2021 and cannot wait to (virtually) see everyone at the event. I will be discussing Choreography vs Orchestration in serverless microservices usin...
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From the blighted depths of Ishraq's sub-hive, a desperate mission unfolds. Lord Astric, a planetary governor isolated by his own paranoia, dispatches expendable mercenaries to intercept a horrifying Chaos artifact: a Dimensional Key. Carve...
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This is a game I ran for my kids... just some fun in quarantine! The gang notice that the carnival Funland appears to be operating by itself, so they go to investigate. They soon discover a crazy robot running loose, but when they notify t...
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This guide covers modern approaches to sanitizing Microsoft Word HTML Special Characters using PHP 8 and above. Learn how to clean Microsoft Word artifacts, smart quotes, en-dashes, and non-breaking spaces in PHP using strtr and Unicode cod...
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