Today I played a bunch of Peggle Nights, Gears 5 Hoard mode, a touch of Batman Arkham Knight and just a skosh of Kingdom Hearts III - like a desert on a four course meal.
Yesterday while getting supplies for my little Super Bowl lunch the local grocery store was full of Rams jerseys. I live in Southern California, which I like to call the Bandwagon Capital of the USA because during the NBA Finals there were a ton of Golden State Warriors jerseys. Anyways after yesterday’s game I will probably see the same amount of people back to wearing Cowboys/Raiders jerseys. Congrats Patriots fans!
By turning the little moments of downtime at work (and also lunch) into reading moments, I got through more books in 2018 than I ever have. I've blogged about books on occasion but with KnightDriver branching out in his blogs, I thought maybe I'd do the same. So first let's hit the novels I read last year.
I keep telling myself I'm going to be better at blogging, and I write a blog post, and then I disappear again. But then again, up until a few months ago, I hadn't been doing much gaming. And then I was too busy gaming to be bothered to blog. So, here's what I've been up to:
I didn't have a NES growing up, but my best friend at the time did, so I spent almost every afternoon at his house playing his NES with him until it was time for me to go home to dinner. I'm pretty sure his parents got tired of me hanging around so much.
As I come to the home stretch of Blog-a-Day, I was distressed to discover that Three Wonders, released in 1991, was three games! Time has caught up with me and I'm typing this up the night it needs to be posted. Three games? Ack! I don't have time for this!
So here I am on Friday night and well I really don’t have anything to write. I reserve Monday and Friday as my regular blog day items and do the BaD stuff during the week but for today’s Quick Hits I have no idea what to write but I should write something because it is Friday and well the Opening Ceremonies are on and I’d like to see the the 100s of athletes that make up Team USA. Instead of doing my usual of Quick Hits I will talk about something else I really don’t collect anymore but I still love and occasionally buy….Jerseys.
That's right. BaD is approaching. And while I know we are all busy it's always great to get people participating even if they don't blog every day. I'm trying to think of a theme to do for the blogs, but I haven't come up with anything yet. It's pretty amazing we've been here on Pixlbit for what - five or six years now? Life is crazy. And while we don't have the traffic like 1up, I feel this is a more intimate place, and I've gotten to know all of you much better.
Every month, another year forward in my life. I started 2017 with my birth year of 1967, and now I'm about to enter the 80s in 2018. I'm using this method to choose all types of media, but I'll focus on the games here.
Going back to 1978 this month in my personal retrofest. Here's a list of stuff I want to see, hear, read, play from that year.
Well, as I said I finished Mario, so I bought and preloaded Skyrim for the Switch, and have been playing it since it unlocked. I've played it in bits before but never really sucked the marrow out of it, but having it in a handheld form makes it easier for me, cause I prefer that method of playing games most of the time. I created a High Elf Mage, but I'm too lazy to post the pic here. I've done one dungeon so far, and am thinking of heading off to the College of Wizardry next, to supe my guy up. I like using magic in games. Lately I've been using fire magic on the bad guys. I cook them until they drop. Poor bastards.
I'm drinking wine and listening to loud music, one of the supreme joys of human life. It's still a bit warm outside and the air conditioning is on. Boo. I've mostly been working on my book which is coming into shape nicely. In other news, I'm up to the Ruined World in Mario, which looks like a Dark SOuls level. Hmmm. I imagine ghosts are around. We'll see.
So I think the novelty of sorting/organizing my digital crap has worn off. For the past couple of days I took a break from organizing the Photo Drive, and I jumped on the Media Drive to do the same. Like I said in Monday's (or was it Tuesday) blog, I found more pictures so I threw those into a folder named Sort Photos and then I was off to clean up the Media Drive. The Media Drive was a lot easier because most things I could just toss, like I had copies of my micro SD Cards from my first Smart Phones. Yeah I don't know why I kept them, especially after I made the jump to iPhone, but I kept them, along with a ton of random documents, and other interesting yet unneeded items.
So this is the usual morning routine: I wake up an hour before my alarm goes off. I have that extra hour in case I wake up late, which has happened, and I am not rushing to get things done so I can get going with my day. During this hour of just laying in bed, I have the local news playing, and I am on the iPad reading Twitter, checking Facebook, and maybe looking through Slickdeals. Over the past 24 hours I have had to use the “Hide All” feature on a couple of friends and this is why. Over the past year or so I have called people “Political Bandwagoners” because all of a sudden they have become so into politics this is all (most) that they post. Just like sports bandwagon guy, political bandwagon guy is just as annoying, and is only around for the ride until something else comes along.
Update: Before you read this...
This is basically a rant about how I think the new Ys 8 feels a bit slower somehow in comparison to the older games and also compared to new Toukiden which I feel are very similar. My impressions of Ys 8 come from the latest demo on JPN store and I noticed in a trailer video that there DOES seem to be some kind of super sprint ability for the character, so I might have a bad impression from the demo. Also consider the game demo is in Japanese so its possible I didn't notice a sprint feature. Either way, it's late! I'm tired! Play both games! I'm making a bid deal about nothing. They are both great! But if you've played older Ys games, what do you think of games new fuller 3D style?
I'm talking the years 1977-1979. These were my pre-teen years and the beginning of my education in everything nerdy. I saw Star Wars; I played Advanced Dungeons & Dragons; I watched Star Blazers (or Battlestar Gallactica, if you're not into anime); I read The Silmarillion; I went to arcades and played Space Invaders and Asteroids; and I played handheld systems by Mattel Electronics - Baseball being the one I owned. But most importantly was the Atari VCS (later the 2600) I got for Christmas, the first really succesful home video game console.
Wow what a weekend...what an incredible game yesterday. I thought the Patriots were done....buried. Down 28 to 3 in the 3rd to come back and win 34 to 28...astounding. Whether you hate em or love em...there's no denying that 4th quarter was incredible. But I could go on and on... I have games to show!
Well, not really, just not sure how I want to grade some of these short answer questions. Going back and forth on a system allowing for half points or one where they either got it right or wrong altogether. I'm not taking points off for minor spelling errors, just correcting their mistakes.