I just went through a very long, extended period of burnout, largely caused by how absolutely intolerable that my job had become towards the end of 2021! That, combined with the fact that the computer I paid $1500 for last summer doesn’t work as well as it used to since I had to clean and wipe the hard drive.

Thankfully, I was able to find a relatively inexpensive desktop computer with about the same specs, and am now in a position at my job that causes me significantly less stress.

So that brings me to the below announcements:

1) Clearly I need to have some kind of schedule, so I’m bringing back Mythology Mondays. That way I update on at least a semi-regular basis.

2) I’m restarting my Star Trek recap project. The new posts will be labeled Star Trek Redux and I will not be charging for them on my Patreon until I catch up. This is because I was never super happy with the ones I posted because it felt more like I was posting them to get them done than anything else.

3) Now that I have a new computer, the Lets Play series I’ve been planning will go forward, starting with the original plan: the first Silent Hill game. This will be in October, to coincide with spooky season.

4) I am going to be putting out a couple of game reviews in the near future.

So that’s the plan, and I shall be doing my utmost best to stick to it.

So, I was supposed to do a let’s play series of Silent Hill. Then I was having trouble getting the recording software I use to work with the emulator. Then I suffered an allergy attack that lasted waaaaaaaaaaaay too fucking long. Then my computer upgraded to Windows 11 and now I can’t really get any of my PSX emulators to work at all. Needless to say, plans have changed, since this is not something that I really want to deal with right now.

So here’s what’s going to happen instead: because I’ve had it a bit on the brain lately, what I’m actually going to do is a playthrough of the Mass Effect series. I’m downloading the Legendary Edition of the games as we speak, and will most likely begin recording it either later this evening or tomorrow evening after I am done with my normal job. I know that my recording software works with games that I have actually installed on my computer, so I’m really hoping that I won’t run into any more issues.

I am very tired.

So, do you all remember how I was saving up for a new, more powerful laptop so I could dostreams and what not?

Well, I ordered it, it arrived on Thursday, and I have to say that it is niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice.

For several years, this blog was called Wrath Of The Bitch Queen, which was inspired by the title of the second World of Warcraft expansion, Wrath of the Lich King.

So, if you’ve been following gaming news recently, you would probably know that WoW’s developer and publisher, Activison Blizzard, is in a bit of hot water with the state of California. It has been found that the company allegedly fosters an environment of sexual harassment. I’m not going to get into it too much, but let’s just say that it’s really bad.

I actually stopped playing WoW a little less than 2 years ago, but kept the blog name. Well, with these allegations I’ve decided that I really don’t want to have any kind of association with Activision Blizzard.

So this post is to unveil my blog’s new title: Katethulu’s Cave Of Mysteries! Honestly, I like this name a lot better too. The new url is katethulumysterycave.com, but the old url should redirect to the new site for the time being.

I look forward to this new chapter, and I hop that you do too. In the meantime, my Patreon, Ko-Fi, and PayPal are still around, if you would like to support the blog. I am inching closer to my current goal of buying a more powerful laptop to do streams and stuff.

So, I haven’t been updating the blog as much as I used to recently, and a pretty major part of that is that I’ve been feeling kind of burnt out on it. I had implemented a policy that, if I feel physically or mentally unwell, I wouldn’t work on it since all that really causes is stress and shit writing. The fact that the area I live in was in the midst of a horrifying heat wave for over two weeks certainly didn’t help in that regard.

Seriously, my room AC was running almost non stop during that time, and I really don’t want to think about what my electric bill is going to be like next month.

Anyway, I think I’m largely out of that slump now, and am going to at least try to get this stuff out on a regular basis. I’m probably going to drop the Short Story Saturday posts, though, instead publishing my short story reviews/analyses to when I see a story I want to talk about. This, I think, will reduce the amount of stress that I feel trying to work a day job and update this blog. The Mythology Monday posts will still be coming at a regular schedule, since those cause me less stress and generally don’t take as long to put out. The Star Trek recaps will continue on their own sporadic schedule, though I will do my best to get those out a little more frequently as well.

That said, I also wanted to branch out a little bit more as well. To that end, I’ve decided to start doing Lets Plays within the near future. By “near future” I mean at some point within the next couple of weeks. At this point it’s a toss up between whether I want to do Silent Hill or Dragon Age, though I’m leaning a bit more towards the latter since I think it’s a little more accessible. Tell me what you think, or if there’s any other games that you would like me to do.

And that’s about it, really. Currently I’m working on a review of Miitopia that I’m hoping to get out by the end of the week. In the meantime, if you wish to and have the means to do so, please consider donating to my Patreon, which is linked below. Or, if one time donations are more your thing, please consider donating to my Ko-Fi. I would really appreciate it, since I would really like for this blog and my other projects to be my full time job

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Thanks, and hey, continue to kick ass.

Hello, everyone! So there’s not going to be a Short Story Sunday this week; instead I’ve decided to have those be every other week alternating with other posts the other weeks, mostly so that I can try to clear out some other projects I want to do (i.e., the Silent Hill retrospectives and Star Trek recaps). So the next one is going to be next week, and this week I’m doing this post instead.

In other news, I am actually getting a rather substantial pay increase at my full time job, which is a very good thing since it means I’ll have to rely less on Patreon to help pay bills and whatnot. To that end, I have actually set up a separate bank account for Patreon/Ko-Fi/PayPal donations to go to instead, which will be used solely for running this blog (i.e. obtaining media for reviews, paying to keep up domains, etc.).

Which brings me to my new goal: while my laptop is fairly decent, I’ve had it for a few years and it doesn’t run quite as well as it used to. It also isn’t all that ideal for stuff like streaming and capturing game footage. So my goal, for right now, is to try and raise money to buy a new, more powerful computer so that I can do gameplay videos and, perhaps eventually, streams on Twitch or YouTube. I’m also eventually hoping to add some original fiction pieces to the blog, or perhaps starting a spinoff blog dedicated directly to that.

So, if any of that sounds interesting to you, you can donate to my Patreon,Ko-Fi, and PayPal pages to help out with that goal. Of course, if money’s a bit tight interacting with and sharing posts around also help me out a great deal!

Thanks, and I shall see you again soon!

So, the way that my work schedule is set up makes working on the blog on Fridays kind of difficult. Basically, I have to work very early on Saturday mornings, which means I have less time to just chill out after work on those days.

For that reason, Short Story Saturdays will become Short Story Sundays. I’m hoping that by doing this I’ll be better able to work on these posts, since a) Saturdays at my job are usually very quiet so I can work on this stuff at the same time, and b) I don’t work on Sundays so have a bit more time to decompress after work and work on blog stuff.

So the next short story post will be on Sunday going forward, starting on the 24. Of course, if you subscribe to my Patreon, you will still get to see these posts early, as patrons get to see posts a day early. Just something to think about. 😉

So, just to let you know, I will be taking this week off from writing in this blog. This is because I will be moving in a week and really need to start getting ready to do that.

I should be back to writing the first week of November, so I shall see you then!

So, no new posts this week. There’s been some not-great stuff going on and I’ll be taking this week off from the blog to keep from burning out. I shall return next week, though.