I know I said I'd be blogging more regularly, but it's been an insanely busy season at the park. We had major construction going on to update some very old infrastructure, and that cut our parking down from 80ish parking spaces to 40ish parking spaces. We're one of the ten busiest state parks in the state now, and I spent most of my time doing traffic control. Yellow safety vest and all. Anyway, back to 80ish parking spaces, a new entrance booth (with electricity!!! Never had that before, lol), and a new bathroom building. Both were desperately needed. And now I have 17 days left of my season, then it's off to work in the local, independent pet supply store down the road, after a well deserved sanity break.
Well Good Morning Pixlpeeps! I just finished breakfast and I thought I would update you all on the games I’ve been playing.
Good morning Pixlpeeps! It is a very breezy Friday here in Sunny Southern California…and Happy New Year goes out to you happy folks who are celebrating right now. I ate breakfast, watched WandaVision and currently I have Sports Radio from Hawaii playing. My morning radio is odd: 6am listening to San Diego Sports Radio, 7am-9am Las Vegas Sports Radio, 10am-whenever I get bored Hawaii Sports Radio. Let’s get started!
My earliest years in gaming was a magical time. Every new game I discovered pioneered a fresh mechanic I hadn’t seen before. I'll never forget the moment when my brother's best friend came over with his NES games to show off Blaster Master. I marveled as the story elements unfolded while melancholic music played in the attract mode. Pressing the start button then transitioned me to the opening shot of an armored vehicle speeding off while the triumphant music swelled to a crescendo as I journeyed into the unknown. Never had I witnessed anything like that at the time. While everything I just described is nothing spectacular these days, Blaster Master still has a few gameplay elements that still hold up quite nicely.
Good morning Pixlpeeps! Hey I’m typing away in the morning, I haven’t done that in a couple of days. It’s a breezy Southern California day and while I am waiting for my Brita Water Pitcher to clean some water I thought we would do our usual and catch up…from a safe distance.
Taking a step deeper into our beloved hobby passed history and the broader gaming scene leads us to how individual games are made. Blood, Sweat, and Pixels is a delightful read that covers an interesting spread of games, including The Witcher 3 and Stardew Valley. I am interested to see how Jason Schreier follows it up. Making Fun is a recent acquisition that I have not started yet. The author, David Craddock, is quite prolific in the game space and does not usually get his due, I feel. He does good work.
Not much to report in my little corner of the world. I was supposed to buy a used XBox One from a kid who comes to the market, I even had the cash in my pocket for a week, but he never showed. When I asked him how much he wanted for it, he said $50. I think he rethought it, but I was planning on paying him $100, because I thought it was kind of a low figure and he's a nice kid. Oh, well. Jason's little brother is selling me his for $100, and I can pay him in installments instead of all at once. So yeah, there's going to be an XboxOne in my near future.
I just took the trash out because I’m that house that doesn’t drag the cans to the curb the night before. I have a weird phobia that the cans will be knocked down and I have to pick up all that garbage right before the truck gets here. Anyways I am here sitting, typing waiting for my breakfast to be ready so I can get started with the rest of the day. I knocked a game off Mount Backlog, which is nice, anyways let’s get started.
A couple days ago, Mark had The MEG and we watched it. Fun movie. Totally rediculous but not as wacky as Sharknado. Effects were pretty great. Jason Statham was good. I spotted a woman who was in one of the John Wick movies as a badass martial arts villain. The love interest of Statham's character was in Pacific Rim. I don't know what else to say about it. Popcorn movie. Get it while it's hot.
If you thought the last episode of Nerds Without Pants was super-sized, you have another think coming! This is our longest show so far, but every minute of it is pure gold. We have the host of the Clickbait Update podcast (and NWP super contributor) to tackle a massive AMA for Stage Select. So go do a bunch of chores and let us entertain you!
For all the retro-inspired indie titles out there, the genre seems mostly earnest, even deferent. There may be a small jab, such as Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon regulating the whip to a sub weapon, yet these are smaller details as opposed to poking fun at the original retro titles. Granted, the goofy nature of many retro games renders parody harder to accomplish, as even Shovel Knight feels like it could have once been an earnestly made game from the '80s or '90s. Enter Old School Musical, a rhythm game which pokes fun at an entire smorgasbord of games.
At a time when I really shouldn't be spending money on things I don't need, what do I do? I buy two new games. I should feel remorse and guilt, but I don't.
Last week we looked at some games on the SEGA Genesis Classics collection out now on consoles. But there were so many games on this collection, that I had to split it into two parts! So here are the second half of the games found on this massive 16-bit collection. Do be sure and read the first part, too, if you haven’t already!
So I've been playing two games recently, and those games are in the title of the blog. Don't think much more needs to be said.
Sorry I've been among the missing. I've been recovering from one of the worst cases of the flu I've ever experienced and the pneumonia that followed it. Good times!
It's been too bloody cold for too long here in Maine (and most of the rest of the USA and Canada), and the only time I've left the house in the last week has been to go to work. It's been so cold the dog's been switching which hind leg he stands on mid-pee. Today, however, a heat wave erupted and it got up into the mid-twenties. So I drove to Portland, picked up Jason, and we took Beau to the beach. And after the beach, we hit the mini mall with one of the book stores we got gift cards for, and it also has a Goodwill, and down the street is a Bull Moose Music.
Hi, I'm Jason Ross, you might remember me from PixlBit's PB & Jason, PixlBit's Playbits, or just various articles from some time ago around the site. I'm back! But not quite in the same way. I've got myself a fancy PC built to stream just about anything! And... as it is such, so it is such, you're all invited to join me.
Another short blog coming in late in the evening. Closing shifts at the market throw my timing off, and guess what? I pretty much only have closing shifts! At least I get to do stuff with the pup before I go to work.
This is a quick and not quite under the wire blog. In my defense, I was trapped under a cute, snuggly, sleeping cat who couldn't be disturbed. So I entertained myself by watching High Noon while trapped. Great movie, by the way, if you haven't seen it.
That's right, friends. I failed to post on either Saturday or Sunday. I think my focus on those days were devoted to work (the last pee-wee basketball game on Saturday, as well as regular cleaning duties at the middle school) and other activities on Sunday (sleep, church, gaming, rest, some of Super Bowl, more sleep). I got distracted and then I got lazy. But, that rough weekend is over and I feel revitalized so my blogging continues:
It’s after midnight, but I haven’t gone to bed yet. That means this BaD entry counts for today, right? RIGHT?
Good morning Pixlpeeps! It is a gloomy Southern California day because we are waiting for the second rain storm. We are supposedly going to have at least three days of rain which we don't usually get but we are in a drought so the rain is appreciated. Later on today President Obama and family will be visiting and if it wasn't so gloomy I would make the trip out to the local airport to see their motorcade and of course Air Force One, which will be called I believe SAM 28000 (tail number) because the Air Force One designation is for the sitting president. Like all previous presidents, the things I hope for: Don't f**k up, and leave the place better than you found it. Once again I don't care about who you voted for, we now have a new President.
Took a damn year to get the ONE trophy I needed to get Platinum in Arkham Knight (Brutality 101, where Batman performs 15 different moves without stopping or getting hit), but yesterday it finally happened. ... And it was a bit anticlimactic in all honesty.