Month: September 2025| scopique.com
I think I've managed to cobble together a solution which will let me run my own streaming service. I just need to get off my own home wifi to try it out.| Scopique’s
My takeaway from trialing several desktop media players, and ultimately, which one I'm going to use.| Scopique’s
I guess if you have media you need to play, AIMP will work, but it's one step above Windows Media Player and only just.| Scopique’s
MusicBee is simple yet offers a decent array of tools for organizing your media library.| Scopique’s
Looking at MediaMonkey, a powerful tool for managing very large media libraries, and a pretty good player to boot.| Scopique’s
Helium is a clean looking media player seemingly geared towards file maintenance, but doesn't look to offer as many bells and whistles as some of the other players.| Scopique’s
I'm test driving a bunch of desktop music players. In today's episode: Crates, a music player-slash-organizer that also lets you source plays from online services, all in one place.| Scopique’s
After having taken a few days off from writing this adventure module for The Secret World TTRPG, I sat down this morning to pick up where I left off and after making some grammatical and “voice” fixes, I was suddenly struck by a narrative idea, except that it was an idea that would require me to up-end the entire plot and focus of what I have done so far. | Scopique's
What's there to do in space when game universes are so large?| Scopique’s
In honor (and ahead) of their new album release tomorrow, I start off strong with my experience with The Beths album "Expert in a Dying Field"...now one of my all time favorites.| Scopique’s
I don’t do these regularly, so here’s a catch-up post. I might throw out another one later, because I have Thoughts on a Thing that I want to get out ahead of tomorrow, but we’ll see how that goes. | Scopique's
Month: August 2025| scopique.com
I have never done this in the past, but then again I’ve never worked on a TTRPG adventure which leaned on NPC interactions being a critical part of the plot. | Scopique's
I guess this isn’t so much an official grab bag as it is a post with a common thread running through several different areas of interest. | Scopique's
I’ve given up posting during the week; my lot now lies with these weekly summaries, and only when I remember to do them or feel that I have enough to talk about to make writing it all down worth while. | Scopique's
