PixlBit

Well what do you know, I got hooked into playing Minecraft even though I'd finished the achievements. I took a pitstop to delete a bunch of games off my hard drive but then right back to Minecraft. 

Minecraft - The lure of gaming with a friend was too much and I jumped in his game to mess around. I stumbled upon loads of diamonds in the mines. I made a full suit of armor out of them and frustrated my friend to no end by showing up so donned at his doorstep. I continued to forge forward and build a nether portal, enchantment table and a brew stand. All I needed now was books for the library. The key element, I discovered, was not paper but leather, 140 of it. That's a lot of cows (I don't kill horses for leather, that's just not what a gentleman does). So I started breeding them. Yawn. 
A sometimes easier path is to find the Stronghold and rob it of its library, so I traveled very far from the town. I eventually came to another town way off the map I carried and while chasing the Eye of Ender (the means to finding the Stronghold - you have to throw it and then chase it as it falls) I fell into a very deep chasm and died. Who puts a chasm in the middle of a town, or more importantly, who builds a town on a chasm? Sometimes the randomization in Minecraft is a little zany and unpractical. Well, I'd had enough and left the game. My friend eventually had enough too and started a new world. I did several things before returning to his game. 

Shadows Awakening - Started this action RPG in the style of Diablo but soon died in a corridor full of firey traps. I had pulled a switch before entering so I thought it safe. Seemed super unfair, and in my bad mood, deleted the game. The game does have a neat mechanic where you switch dimensions on the fly, at one time seeing the normal world, and at another the spirit world. I may try it again sometime. 

Injustice: Gods Among Us - I got in, didn't see a character I liked, and so deleted it. 

Tannenberg - The free trial expired so I couldn't play it. From trailers, it reminds me of those old budget-priced History Channel FPS games from the X360 days I used to play. I think it's kind of an MMO too which kind of ruins it for me but I wanted to give it a shot. Maybe on a sale someday. 

Earth Defense Force 2025 - So wanted to play more of this but with my old saved character (I noticed I had logged 227 hours with him) I had done just about everything I could do in the game. Further progress seemed impossible without recruiting more than just my one friend. He was playing Minecraft though, so I went back to that. 

Minecraft - At first I created my own world and explored it until I happened upon a Mansion. I was thrilled but I still needed a town to settle down. I found a zombie-ridden one which was no good and then I found a normal one and staked my claim on a house. I saved the world and joined my friend in his. Solo tends to bore me after a while. 

In his game, I kept things simple. I found the town he was in and started making new beds for the villagers. This is a neat way to increase the population. I put a second one in every existing house and then started building a communal building in which I was going to put ten beds. Then the Illigers arrived.
What a battle! I had no armor and so had to play scout while my friend did all the fighting. It was a hoot. I hid in buildings and ran for my life on several occasions. We were beset by crossbowmen, witches, axemen and giant horned beasts. He got them all eventually and we became heroes of the town. Now everyone sells to us at lower prices.
I decided my next move was to build facilities for the soon-to-be new villagers like a blacksmith building and whatnot, but time ran out.
I think my friend is keeping this world for long-term play. That was my idea for my own world too, but I'd much rather play in his world if he's going to keep it. I am considering getting Realms (a perminent world stored on Mojang servers) but it costs $7/month. I'm mulling it over.