November 2021 Update

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I'm back after taking another month off this blog in order to deal with a bunch of typical problems outside of Internet. It has been a wild ride, but right now everything seems well and calm enough for me to step back into my Hall and talk to you about many things. Hopefully, monthly updates like this will become more regular (as much as the word "monthly" allows me to) in order to help me open up more to the word and not limit myself to nonsensible rumblings on Twitter that portray me as paranoid idiot in constant meltdown.

In this update, I'll just go over my current plans for blog in next month or two, thoughts on my personal endeavours and updates on some things mentioned in previous posts.

Further Renovations.

As was the case with the first update, I wanted to come back with another string of additions to Ilko's Hall. My scuffed ideas for Categories seem to work just well enough to stop bothering me, but there's still some room for improvement that I hope to address until the end of this year. Therefore, I think I can safely say that this classification system is no longer in "work in progress" state... Unless I suddenly come up with yet another type of posts, which isn't something I'm planning or desire to do any time soon.

This time, I would probably focus on creating a few addition pages similarly to "FAQ" and "About" ones. Search bar and sidebar in general could use a few touches as we're getting closer to the first anniversary of Ilko's Hall. Mostly importantly, I really want to come up with some basic and nice logo thing for site's header instead of plain text. Nothing too fancy as I sadly can't draw, but some type of pixel font will probably do the trick just fine.

Projects & Thoughts.

While I'm not promising weekly posts anytime soon, I'm determine to continue this nameless series of "articles" focused on Warcraft 3. So far there're three more posts planned for the next month with much more coming up over the course of January. As I've mentioned in "Bold Advancements" post, I have some unfinished business with this game and there's a lot I could write about this classic game that started all of this. Great conclusion to all of that should happen on Reforged's second anniversary with an extremely lengthy post that I really should've started writing a long time ago due to its subject.

Another thing I want to mention is "A Little Chat": an interview series I hope to continue in 2022. I'm really glad that Revae was humble enough to allow me to try myself in this type of thing and there's more indie developers and modders I would like to bother in the future. Perhaps I would be able to "catch larger fish" later on, but I'm keeping my head low with that. For now, I want to write down a list of cool people and message them ahead of time to see who would actually be up for an interview in scuffed and obscure personal blog.

Lastly, I hope to write more varied posts in the future. Potentially more "Just an Idea" posts as there's been a lot of dumb ideas floating in my mind and I need to get rid of those for now. Less Warcraft and more classic, retro & indie things. Hopefully. Not sure if I would actually go back to some kind of definitive schedule, but you never know what future holds and that's something that both excites and really concerns me. There're a few reasons why...

Tip of the "Iceberg".

Reason I'm leaving my blog in this somewhat "maintaince" mode for now is pretty simple: reality doesn't show any signs of becoming prettier. There're some glimpses of hope on the horizon, but those are always present right before another dark period. I want and need to get it together and make some proper steps forward instead of staying stuck on planning phrase. Hopefully, this week will be different in a good way and starts off this journey.

I need to take care of health as I haven't really seen any doctors in some time now. Especially I need to address my current mental state as there's obviously something wrong there, but that doesn't mean I must undergo a check-up just for the sake of it: my body and spirit both require some healing. That shall leave me to dealing with anything else, pretty much. While future promises a decent writing sidejob thanks to my school friend, I must get an actual job and I have a couple of suggestions I need to try out in the near future.

Financial issues for my family are still crucial and it's a regular source of anxiety for me. Perhaps there's going to be another post similarly to "Low Spec Breakdown" that goes more in-depth about that, but to keep it simple: we are in deep shit... Well, technically everyone except me. It's strange, but that's how it seems to be right now. That leads me to addressing my Ko-fi page: it'll probably stay as is for the rest of the year, but I've been thinking about alternatives and I don't know whenever I would end up closing it or leaving that as an option. Either way, perhaps I need to be as desperate as possible...