I've been away far too long. Where'd everybody go? Now that I'm in a better headspace, I'm hoping to be back to blogging regularly. Maybe we can lure some of the others back. Anyway...
For June I am playing from the top games of 04-06. It's been fun so far.
Wow, 2023 has been an incredible year for gaming, one of the very best! And here we are at the end of the year, so let’s look back at some games, shall we? You guys probably know that I’m a big Nintendo guy. In fact, I don’t even have the other consoles (mostly because I don’t have time to play them all). This was a great year for Nintendo, we got so many fantastic games on the Switch. This year I beat a total of 26 games! (I was hoping to beat 30, but you know how it goes)
Hey here is a documentary on Shinji Mikami, the Japanese creator of Resident Evil.
I started writing blogs for 1UP in 2010. That's about all. The rest is contained in this list of media I enjoyed that year.
Recently, Netflix launched High Score, a new documentary series on the history of video games. I thought it was entertaining enough that I wanted to discuss and review it here on this blog. So here’s my thoughts on the six episode series!
Here are my media picks for 2005. They're not CSI, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Resident Evil 4, Green Day's American Idiot or Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code, but I like what I like.
2004 was more pizza and music, but I do remember going to my dad's summer beach house in North Carolina. We had fun fishing, going to book stores and eating out. The drive from Philly was fun too. 7 1/2 hours with a stop on the Cheasapeake Bay Bridge/Tunnel. I also enjoyed the following media.
I've organized this according to my usual routine when I sit down to play stuff on the weekend.
It’s been awhile since I have done one of these but welcome back to Quick Hits with Chris! Yes this is where I ramble on about nothing really, just stuff I’ve watched, stuff I’ve read, and any other some what interesting things that are happening here. Let’s get started!
So with spring nearly over and summer almost here, I thought I’d go over the movies I saw in theaters this past spring. I’ll try to keep the spoilers to a minimum, but one or two may seep out here and there, so you’ve been warned!
I get excited to get a bunch of new books and see what's coming in the theaters and in gaming for the coming month. I make a list and try and do it all. Here's what I'm focusing on for May.
I finished two books: America 1900: The Turning Point and Decades of the 20th Century: 1900s. Among other things, they gave me an idea for a video game to play.
Watched a flick, played some Forza Horizon 4, and returned to Banner Saga 1.
I will admit to consulting a guide on Clossus #3 in Shadow of the Colossus. This one I felt kinda bad about, because the answer was fairly obvious, but I got tired of the hints constantly saying to knock off the guy's armor and me saying, "I GOT IT! I HEARD YOU! I'M TRYING TO FIGURE OUT HOW I DO THAT!" I learned later you can shut those hints off, which, thank God.
I just finished Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice and holy Hela, it was an ordeal. I honestly feel drained, as if I really was with Senua down in Helheim. I paused the documentary feature that comes with the game to come here and type some comments, and it's interesting having some of my story suspicions confirmed or fleshed out a bit more clearly by that.
So yesterday I had this blog planned out where I was going to write a bit, get my thoughts out there and then hit the gym. Instead I got halfway through it, decided I could do better, and then went to the newly reopened neighborhood gym. My gym has been closed for a couple of months because some yahoos decided to break the fire sprinkler system which caused the building to flood and ruin the entire clubhouse space. Its open 24 hours a day and when business hours are over the employees shut the door that leads to the rest of the space leaving only the gym, ping pong room, and pool room with mini library open along with a couple of bathrooms. Anyways it reopened last weekend and yesterday was my first shot at it. The gym is back to normal except the two treadmills are still down, and it seems like two pieces of equipment haven't returned. Also the card entry pad isn't working yet so the gym door is still open. It was fun getting a sweat on, realizing how long it has been since I stepped foot in there and I ended that trip with a couple of laps in the pool. That's what kept me from finishing my blog. Good excuse? Cool, let's get back in the swing of things with what I played.
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.
So I've been busy all day, a mix of playing some games, and sorting through my digital hoarding pile. Yeah so in the past I've said I'm a casual digital hoarder in that I like to keep random files, programs, and other digital goodies that I've collected for years. I have old (I mean OLD) papers and graphics projects from college still on some old CD-R's and now on a couple of external drives. One drive is for photos and video that I've taken...and some of my favorite memes from Reddit. The other drive is all documents, programs, zip files, and the like. When I wasn't playing some random PC game earlier today I was moving files from my laptop (and the laptop external drive) to the documents drive as well as pulling items off that drive to add to my laptop.
Well, I had too much sugar this week and last night was faculty/staff appreciation night at the basketball place on campus, so I used getting in free as an excuse to spend $9 on a couple hot dogs and some bottled water. Then today, feeling like garbage from having stayed up too late and negating all the workouts I did Tuesday through yesterday, I made the executive decision to order and eat an entire ... I'd say medium pizza and have hard root beer before my therapy appointment at 4pm ... which was after teaching 4 classes straight from 9am to 1pm. Needless to say, I had to get some water and was offered and accepted a couple Ibu profein at said appointment. Basically, I had a hangover without ever getting drunk. I still feel like shit.
Just a quick one today, I think. I had a much better day than yesterday. Did some errands, went for two walks, and got some stuff done around the house I needed to do. I still didn’t cook my meal prep stuff, but that’s at the top of the list for tomorrow. I wish I had more of a taste for fruit and veggies. I can do salads, but snacking on fruit or eating lots of vegetables with meals has never been easy for me, and that’s so important for being healthy and losing weight.
This will be a continuing theme for quite a while. You see I own 250 or so wii games (I've lost track by now), and will probably get more and more. Why? Well I can't pass up a cheap game for $5 and bargain bin buys bring out the crazy game collector in me. As such with 250 games and being expanded upon in the future I haven't played em all. But here is the start of a descent into collecting Wii games madness that I embarked upon!
