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Happy Holidays 2024!
With the year coming to a close, it’s the perfect time to watch the annual Happy Console Gamer Christmas special. Oh, and once you’re done with that… it’s also a great chance to listen to the Christmas episodes that the All Gen Gamers put out way back when! Episode 21: Christmas 2010 Special The first…
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An exciting mail update!
All Gen Whale Rocks has received its first mail from the contact form! This is quite the milestone. It makes me feel like I’ve built a real website. I was so delighted to see a real message pop up in my inbox tonight, from another fellow AGG fan. I’ve not told anyone about this site…
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The conclusion of the Pier Solar saga
Remember when YouTube had tags? No, not the #hashtags. Good, old-fashioned tags that channels could manually put on their videos to help aid YouTube search results. You know, back when YouTube actually returned relevant search results for their search results feature? And not an unbalanced mixture of somewhat-relevant results, irrelevant popular videos, and general recommendations…
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Beta version of “Jason’s Soundboard” is live!
This was one of my first “fun” ideas for the website: let anyone play the whale sound effect at their own leisure. It’s in the very early stages, but I couldn’t help but release some initial version on the site. I needed to access this on my phone ASAP. The following sound effects are included:…
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The unreleased thumbnails of All Gen Gamers
During my process to recover the missing episode thumbnails for the All Gen Whale Rocks episode list, I came across two “unreleased” thumbnails. What is a thumbnail? The episode “thumbnail” is the featured image you would see when you view the podcast episode on their website. They are not true thumbnails by the traditional definition,…
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Episode thumbnail repairs are complete!
It was a much more manual process than I anticipated. But after a few hours of poking around in the Wayback Machine, I have finished tracking down all the missing All Gen Gamers episode thumbnails. The episode list on the home page is updated now, too. Let’s call it version 1.1 of the list. I’d…
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Taking a break from thumbnail archaeology
Today, I began my task of tracking down the 32 missing thumbnails. I made some good progress — locating roughly half of them — without even using the Wayback Machine! But I can’t get this done all in one night, so I’m taking a break. Of the episode thumbnails I’ve recovered so far, this one…
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The complete episode list of All Gen Gamers is now available!
I am happy to announce that version 1 of the episode list is up, with the following features: And most importantly of all… EPISODE THUMBNAILS!!! Some of these really are memorable. Maybe I’ll get around to a “Top 10 episode thumbnails” post one day. Why the blank thumbnails? You may notice there are a few…
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All Gen Whale Rocks website is live!
Time to get your whale on…