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Thoughts of the Almost-Healthy
I am back from the hospital after spending the better half of a week being poked and prodded. They listened to my lungs a lot, and asked if I was a smoker every ten seconds. I am not a smoker, and have never been a smoker, so I’m a little offended I seem to have the effects of smoking without the edgy vice out of it. If I’d known this was going to happen I obviously would have been sucking cancer sticks down like boba just for the hell of it, but noooo, I had to go the old fashioned genetic way. What was it that landed me in the hospital?
Covid? Flu? Some new allergy? Nope.
A cold. I got the old fashioned cold and now I’m glued to a nebulizer like regular air has gone out of style. I didn’t realize I needed to go get me an old Victorian nightgown and candle to go with my historical ailments. Please sir, may I have some porridge, the poorhouses frown upon my cough, sir, but I do my best, sir.
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Wednesday Action Log 2-21-24
This week I played A Little to the Left. A delightful cozy puzzle game which consists of tidying up with a cat making occasional appearances. It’s not always clear what about the objects you are trying to organize by, But the nice music and cute style make up for it. I also played Exit the Gungeon, it’s fine, the jump to 2D from top-down isn’t really appealing to me as I had hoped, the enemies attacks seem to be simplified and slower due to the smaller level size, but other than that it’s more or less the same game.
What are you guys playing?
Years of Infamy
I have posited Gojira as the culmination, and arguably the pinnacle, of the giant monster movie genre for decades. While arguments can be made for various titles in the Twentieth Century, you really have to wait for the new millennium to see movies that credibly achieved the same effect as Gojira, but also upped the level of achievement or quality in some substantive way. And yet, there were dozens, if not hundreds of monster and giant monster movies through the 1950’s and 1960’s, even into the 1970’s. The movie that set the pattern for many of these, at least in America, was
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DM of the Rings Remaster LIX: Disorder of the Stick
Oops, Hospital
Hey all, I wanted to put up a quick notice post. No Sims 4 Overthinking today. Bay’s been admitted the hospital for difficulty breathing. They’re alright, and more serious health concerns have been eliminated, we’re just wanting their oxygen to be steady before they come home.
I’m confident they’ll be feeling better and getting discharged in the next couple of days, hopefully with some tools and medication to help us better manage their asthma day-to-day.
Wednesday Action Log 2-14-24
Happy Valentines Day. This week I have been playing The Ship: Murder Party. It was a Source Engine, murder-each-other, multiplayer game from 2006. Each player is given someone to kill, while knowing that they themselves are also being hunted. With each murder, players are rewarded with sums of cash. You change clothes to keep your hunter off your trail, and gather weapons which have different values if used. The more a weapon in used in the round, the less valuable it is to kill with. It was also one of the games in the early 2000’s which experimented with needing to eat, drink, sleep, shower, pee, and poop, for some reason. Another strange choice was to have two entirely different releases, one single player and one multiplayer.
All things considered, I’m still enjoying it. A lot of the choices made wouldn’t be made today, but it was also a bit ahead of it’s time. Party games didn’t truly get bigger till the 2010’s, and I wonder how it would have been received now, in the age of Among Us, Fall Guys, Lethal Company, ect.
It’s a shame there doesn’t seem to be dedicated servers anymore.
What are you guys playing?
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The Best of 2017
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Was it a Hack?
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Overused Words in Game Titles
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Why The Christmas Shopping Season is Worse Every Year
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The Brilliance of Mass Effect
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Philosophy of Moderation
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The Mistakes DOOM Didn't Make
How did this game avoid all the usual stupidity that ruins remakes of classic titles?
Why Batman Can't Kill
His problem isn't that he's dumb, the problem is that he bends the world he inhabits.
Marvel's Civil War
Team Cap or Team Iron Man? More importantly, what basis would you use for making that decision?
The Game That Ruined Me
Be careful what you learn with your muscle-memory, because it will be very hard to un-learn it.