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Wednesday Action Log 03-26-25

By Issac Young Posted Wednesday Mar 26, 2025

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This week I’ve been playing more Deep Rock Galactic, and R.E.P.O.

R.E.P.O. continues to be fun. I’ve been having fun tumble launching myself at enemies to stun them. then I am promptly killed by that enemy, while my sibling try’s to collect the recourses to revive me. I’ve also realized you can stun the duck by flushing it in the toilet.

Deep Rock Galactic, on the other hand is mostly just me farming for levels so I promote all the dwarfs. Engineer and Scout are already promoted and I’m currently working on the Driller. He’s fine but I miss having my grapple hook or the turrets, maybe I’ll miss his equipment when I move on to the Gunner.

What’s everyone else doing this week?

 

Issac Young Youngest child of Shamus Young. He/Him

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So Much Dirt

By Paige Francis Posted Monday Mar 24, 2025

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The last few weeks have been awful, weather-wise. See the splash image above? That’s the sky. That’s dust. And the image pictured is on a good day. We’ve had a couple of 40 – 60mph days and probably six 20 – 40mph days. A dozen or more 15 – 20mph days. I’ve been dusting most of the house every couple of days. Running the vacuum a lot, and pulling pounds of dirt out of the carpet. It’s tiring. This also has been awful for everyone’s health. People are literally sneezing dirt. I am so looking forward to moving away from here.

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DM of the Rings Remastered CXI: You Can’t Take it With You

By Peter T Parker Posted Sunday Mar 23, 2025

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Wednesday Action Log 03-19-25

By Issac Young Posted Wednesday Mar 19, 2025

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This week is more of the same, Deep Rock Galactic, and R.E.P.O.

nothing new with Deep Rock Galactic, just bugs and minerals.

R.E.P.O. on the other hand continues to be delightfully silly. The game has remained spooky despite its silly nature, and there is a lot more skill involved than I previously thought. It turns out you can get significantly better at hiding under tables and throwing lawn gnomes

Anyway, what’s everyone else doing this week?

 

Issac Young Youngest child of Shamus Young. He/Him

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Spring 2025 Around My Gaming World

By Paige Francis Posted Monday Mar 17, 2025

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General news update. Probably one or two other things. The latest Galactic Season has started in Star Wars: The Old Republic. As expected and understood, there is no real story for this season and no voice acting; a facet of the game that has been a prominent feature until the last year or so. There is an ongoing SAG-AFTRA strike against performing in video games, and a handful of attempts to “go around” the strike have been caught by the strikers. It has been interesting to watch Reddit discussions on this feature, as it shows how many people are actually noticing the lack of voice acting AND how many players of the game seem to know *why* there is no voice acting already. The primary functionality of this season is playing “Uprisings” with new stimulants that have unknown effects. SWTOR Uprisings are four-player, existing-open-world short missions that essentially work like those “survive X waves of assault” and/or “while moving from point A to point B.” They are meant to be kind-of “short” Flashpoints for multiplayer content. I don’t play them myself, although I don’t rule out maybe trying them in the future. I have a couple of characters geared up and playable enough to not embarrass myself, I think; but I just don’t do hardly any multiplayer. The biggest prizes of “beating the season” so-to-speak seems to be the same combination of mounts, pets, appearance armor, Cartel Coins, etc.; so I’m taking part of course. It’s free appearance stuff!

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DM of the Rings Remastered CX: Roleplaying, at Last

By Peter T Parker Posted Sunday Mar 16, 2025

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Wednesday Action Log 03-12-25

By Issac Young Posted Wednesday Mar 12, 2025

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This week I’ve played more Deep Rock Galactic. I kind of assumed I would be done with it by now, but it turns out shooting bugs takes a lot longer to get bored of than I thought.

I also played R.E.P.O. there’s something so delightful about being silly little robots, trying not to break every valuable item, while running away from various things that want to kill them.

What’s everyone else doing this week?

 

Issac Young Youngest child of Shamus Young. He/Him

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