I couldn't pull myself away from this game on XBO the other day to make a blog about it. Right now, I've in a kind of glitch where an animal won't move from the helicopter landing spot, so I can't add a new animal. What the heck!
So today hasnt gone to well. Its been kind of bleh. I was gonna have my review/feelings about Dragon Quest 8 posted today but that will have to wait. I dont know if ill be able to work on it this weekend so it might have to be for monday.
For those of you who listen to Retronauts, this is old hat but I thought it was so cool that I wanted to share it with those of you in the dark. (And if you're not listening to Retronauts...what's wrong with you???) Metroid Resynthesized is a fan arrangement of the original Metroid soundtrack done on a Korg MS20 Mini. Basically, any synth music you hear today that's done on a computer is digital but this project was done with analog synths, giving it a '70s-ish sci-fi sound. It's really cool!
I had something gaming to write about today, but then I remembered what day it is. I’m losing time lately. Not in a blacking out kind of a way, but in a days running together kind of way.
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.
I keep wondering about that. Sometimes I get bored and other times I hate the direction gaming has taken and the fact that AAA games are written more for 12 year old kiddies than they are for mature gamers.
Okay, so I've been watching the show after a decade long hiatus. I've watched episodes here and there on broadcast TV but very sporadically over the years. I have never really binge watched anything because I don't have the patience or time to do that, (except Stranger Things because its 8 episodes) and I've been watching at least 2 episodes a day for a couple of weeks now, thats 22 episodes total.
I have nothing to say today accept I'm tired of going to work before the sun is up. I need the time change to come sooner for my sanity. I should be working on the next chapter of my writing project but meh. I should have went to the gym, but I got to work so early that I crashed when I got home. Hopefully tomorrow will bring some more motivation.
So Im pretty much at the final dungeon/boss. I tried to beat him last night and while things were going okay at first, everything fell apart upon him putting Angelo asleep and killing the Hero. They both have my best healing abilities. Angelo learns Multiheal at level 30 naturally while the Hero can learn Omniheal in his Courage skill set at 82 points. If you also get it to where his Mp cost is 1/2 with that same skill set it only cost 18 mp per use compared to 36. Anywho Im gonna give it another go after I finishing grinding a little bit more.
Woaah we're over half way there. Here's some games! Enjoy today's batch!
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.
Time to get focused on 1968 and actual video games rather than related stuff. What was released that year? Well, nothing commercially, I guess, but games were being made for the early computers at various institutions. Apparently there were a lot of business sims being written in the early programming languages and some people got creative with it like Doug Dyment and his game Hamurabi (misspelled, whether by accident or not I don't know, with one "m") which attempts, in text, to simulate the economy of a 3000 BC Sumerian city. It was also called The Sumer Game for some versions, and it was later rewritten for BASIC by David H. Ahl and put in BASIC Computer Games, published in 1973. The 1978 edition became the first million selling computer book. This version of the game is thus the best known.
Not trying to steal from Jimmy Kutts with the title, but I bought sale candy yesterday for less than $5.
So...yes. I've already missed out on the past 4 days to write another post. I'm not proud of it. So I'll cover what's happened since then.
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