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This is a games convention local to me here just outside Philadelphia, PA. It’s usually in a big expo center but this time it was in a Hotel with very limited space. There were no celebrities, no stage for a cosplay contest, and a very limited room for game playing with no arcade cabinets, only consoles. But it was better than nothing. I bought some stuff shown below.

I like to figure out a 12 part study of some sort to cover an entire year. This year it was all about history, and I was able to divide western history into 12 parts. I can't help thinking about next year already and one of my ideas is console generations. The only problem is that there are only 9 of them. So how to make it 12? Any ideas? I'll list the 9 I got so far.

Short game day but a fun one. 

I am going through my installed games list on Xbox One from smallest file size to largest, uninstalling ones that I finish or just get tired of. I also added a few by buying them on a sale. 

Games for sure but I also participated in Record Store Day and went to a PA Dutch Smorgasborg. There was a harvest of peas too and texting with a friend I haven't seen for a few years. What else? Think that's it. Here are details on gaming. 

I make lists. It's a thing. Here's a few I made for this month, books to read, music to listen to, films to watch, games to play, For June, I'm thinking about the years 1900 to 1949. Two world wars, the roaring 20s, big band era, and many other things come to mind. Here's what I'm starting with. 

I'm playing with Melvil Dewey's ideas about simplified and phonetically relevant spelling for Borderlands 3 and Deadspace, the two games I played today. 

I didn't mention I played some Fallout 76 last weekend. I had the same problem I had with Fallout 4, I couldn't find the pip-boy menu to do simple stuff like change gear or eat. I'm some kind of stupid, I guess, or the particular U.I. in these games baffles my simple mind. I must've tried every button combination to find out how to eat something when it was suggested, and I still couldn't find the pip-boy menu like I was shown earlier in the brief tutorial as you leave the Vault. WTF.

Still obsessed, and so is my friend, with Borderlands 3 and the last few achievements, but I got in a half-hour or so of Walking Dead: A New Frontier for a Game Pass quest. 

My friend bought some modded weapons for us both to use in Borderlands 3 and now we are virtual gods running around with impunity on True Vault Hunter, Mayhem 11 difficulty. It's kind of fun, actually, but really makes gear gathering pretty much meaningless. We still had to work to get some of the new achievements, however.