Fourth-Year Anniversary Giveaway Results!

Well, the 23rd of August has come and with it comes the end of the giveaway. Thank you very much to the various people who entered! I'm very happy with the turnout, and I'm very pleased to say that everybody who entered got something that they wanted! Without further ado, the prizes go to:

Arrangement: Luxury Spa: Shintar!

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Koensayr Monocycle: Phil!

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Overlord's Command Throne: Unknown!

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Revan Reborn's Armour: Νικος Μαρινος!

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Revered Master's Robes: Shintar!

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Sensuous Dress: Pineapple!

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Shae Vizla's Armour: Pineapple!

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Temple Guardian's Armour: Brallig!

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A huge congratulations to the above six people. Phil and Unknown, I'll need you to notify me of your characters' names so you can get your prizes; if you don't feel comfortable putting them in a comment on this post you can e-mail them to me at galacticantics@gmail.com or via Twitter. Whatever you prefer is fine by me.

Thank you all once again for sticking with this blog for the past four years. It's been a good ride thus far, and I'm looking forward to seeing where it goes in the future.

~Cal

Milestone: 4-Year Anniversary!

So this rustbucket of a blog has survived its fourth year, undoubtedly the roughest of the lot so far. It can't have escaped anyone's attention that I haven't been posting at all frequently over the past 365 days, but regardless, the fourth year is in the can.

Much like the last two years, this heralds a look back over the past twelve months' worth of posts, seeing which the most popular were and allowing me to provide a commentary of them. This will purely be looking over the posts made after the Third Year Anniversary post, and I feel the need to make this distinction because otherwise the Curing Bergola Post would top the list in two ways; firstly, for still being the most-read post on the blog, and secondly for managing to acquire 700 views over the past twelve months - more than twice that of the most popular post written between the previous August 9th and this one.

Not that that last detail is particularly impressive; this is only the thirtieth post in all that time. Still, it's nice to know when my peak-blogging was.

Milestone: 3-Year Anniversary!

So again the time comes to celebrate another year of running this blog. Three years ago on this day, the blog's initial incarnation, Spawn of the Dread Master, was released unto the world. It was just a bit of a mess, something which probably hasn't changed in three years, but it's certainly been an interesting ride.

As with last year, I still find it rather incredible to say that this thing is still going after more than one year, although obviously compared to last year the amount of blog posts has been reduced significantly for some reason or another.

Regardless, it's certainly been an interesting year. Those of you (un)fortunate enough to have been following the blog since its inception may recall that last year I made the transition from WordPress to Blogger due to my frustrations with certain elements of the former platform (e.g. the scheduling system) finally getting the better of me. Thankfully, a complete transfer of all data, posts, etc. to Blogger was possible, so nothing important was lost.

Although the formatting is still woeful on all those old posts and the comments didn't transition properly (replies aren't staggered but instead all comments in their own right), so this is something that will need to be fixed at some point. Maybe.

The point is that this isn't just a standard anniversary post but also an anniversary of my and the blog's time on Blogger. Let's get started, shall we?