My 2026 BloodStrike Wishlist

 I’ve been an avid FPS player for over 25 years. Doom, Duke Nukem 3D… Half-Life, Counter-Strike… Then, over the last few years, I jumped into Battle Royale–style shooters like Call of Duty, PUBG, Valorant, and many more… including BloodStrike.

And yeah… I have a serious love/hate relationship with BloodStrike.

On one hand, the gunplay is absolutely fantastic. Weapons are punchy, responsive, and satisfying. On the other hand, the game is fucking sweaty. 

So I figured I’d put together a list of improvements that could make the game less exhausting, more readable, and way more enjoyable for casual players, without killing its identity.

Let’s get into it.

My WH40K: Warpforge Farewell Rant

Disclaimer: I genuinely had a great time with Warpforge. This is a post-mortem-rant kind of thing—why I’m walking away, and what I wish had been done differently. This is not written in anger alone. This isn’t a call to boycott.

I’ve played a lot of CCGs over the years and Warhammer 40K: Warpforge is one of my favorites. IMO, it used to be better than most other similar games on the market. But not so much nowadays, mostly because of intense corporate greed.

Warhammer 40K is dope, man. And it’s an excellent IP for a digital card game. At release, the game had interesting components and felt very streamlined. Simple yet effective mechanics. Starting the game at 2 power. Ephemeral cards acting as hero powers. Each turn you have something interesting to do, decisions to make. That was good.

On Slowing Down to Write

 Man, do we live in a world designed for the “scroll.” Everything we consume (mostly online) is in fifteen second bursts. Clickbait headlines, comments, reels… You name it. 

But what about writing? I mean… Real writing? 

The creative process behind writing good stuff demands a serious gear shift. You gotta slow down and think. Slow down and write. Man, is it hard nowadays. 

Even if you’re writing short poems. Pretty simple, right? No overarching narrative, nothing special. Still, you gotta focus and invest time and effort to create something legit and genuine. 

You can’t “life-hack” your way into writing. Let alone use AI to fill the gaps and save some time. What do you want to create? Something real? Or yet another bucket of stupid AI sludge? 

In our day and age, slowing down to write and create feels like falling behind. There’s a constant pressure to go fast, post stuff and move on to the next thing. It makes it kind of unthinkable to close down everything, sit at a desk and write… And ONLY write. 

This is something I want to work on in 2026. 

To be continued… 

FlatPress needs to move towards native Markdown

 I've been reading a lot on Markdown blog engines recently. I even considered moving this blog to GitHub Pages, so that I could blog natively in Markdown. Why? Let's see... 

Consider this:

• Blogger is an outdated platform that’s barely maintained by Google.
• WordPress is a greedy, unsecure platform that everyone and their mom are using.
• Medium.com, Substack… do you even own your content anymore?
• GitHub Pages and Jekyll are awesome, but building and running a blog with them is more complicated than it should be.
• Don’t even mention Tumblr.

Don’t get me wrong, the classic blogging platforms aren’t going away… In fact, they’re not going anywhere… and that’s mostly the issue. They’re stuck in 2010 when hacking together a blog was cool. The result? Most blogs are old and look old…

Writing about Writing Part 3

There's nothing like coming back full circle. And I did, again!

Last time, I was excited to share how I created my own custom writing environment by enhancing Dropbox Paper with the Stylus Chrome plugin. As you’ll see below, the final result is pretty rad and I love it. It's a good setup for long-form writing.