Hey, hey, hey. Listen, listen. Can you hear that? That sound of keyboard being tapped away at by fingers? You know what that means it's time for BaD! And while I have hopes that I will write something extremely long and amusing read or review...I must say that I actually...completely had a brain fart.
So for this year, my gaming resolution is to beat atleast 1 game a month. Im starting the year with Harvest Moon apparently. This was a shock for me too.
The month of February isn't starting out too well for me. As of Friday I am unemployed. I thought I got past all that 4 years ago but the company I joined in January of last year is not doing well and so I was let go.
I may or may not have waited until 6am this morning to finish grading papers I was supposed to hand back Monday. Really gotta check this professorial senioritis of mine before something I do looks bad on a resume. We're good for now though, I got those handed back today. Might have been less careful with time cause they all got 100s either way, just marked up their writing and showed them what they WOULD get were it later in the semester.
So, I tried the Blog a Day thing last year, and like so many of us, I petered out before the end of the month. Not sure why, besides time being a factor. I’m back this year, and my goal is to see this through to the end. I have more time on my hands now, and I have a lot of things to write about. I also think that the key to BaD is writing smaller, easily digestible pieces instead of every blog turning into a thousand-word essay.
My music listening project for this year is to listen to as much music as I can from each year starting with 1968. I'm slowly adding music to my iPod playlist every night, month by month. So far I have stuff like Blue Cheer's Vincebus Eruptum (with the song "Summertime Blues"), Iron Butterfly's debut album Heavy, Steppenwolf's debut album containing the hit "Born to Be Wild", Blood, Sweat & Tears debut album Child Is Father to the Man, Mothers of Invention's We're Only in it for the Money, and Joni Mitchel's debut Song for a Seagull. I mention this because I'm also investigating what games were out that year. Here's a breakdown:
Judging from the records, the last blog post I made was late July of last year. As to why it's been so long since I last posted, well....I suppose I feel out of favor of updating my status on this website or most sites, content to keeping it on mostly Twitter or Instagram. It was more laziness on my part as well as the fear that I had nothing to contribute. It's been a trying year for most people and I just didn't know what I could add to the conversation when others were way more active. If my heart wasn't in it, I just didn't engage. Along the way, my posting (and typing) muscles atrophied. After all this time, I just felt kinda sick that I wasn't generating anything in the way of content.
Well good morning Pixlpeeps and it is back, Blog A Day. Now of course for some like myself I will only take part in this during the week because weekends you don't want to read my randoms. Anyways to kick off BaD I thought I would give you an explanation of what my theme will be. I've always liked to make mixtapes of various songs depending on how I feel and one of them was always a Deserted Island mix. You know, what songs would you have on a tape/CD/iPod/mp3 player if you were stranded for a bit. I thought it would be fun to take 20 songs that I would love to have while waiting on this island before I started talking to a volleyball. So in no particular order let's get started.
My plan was to have both of the Metal Gear msx game ports finished by Feb. 1. That's not going to happen. I try to play every night but being that I still work 50 plus hours a week and I am a Grandfather to a 21 month old boy, it's hard to stay on schedule.
I'll be reading and commenting and maybe blogging at a regular pace in February. I just can't afford to participate in BaD seriously. Maybe I'll end up posting short blogs every day anyway, but with the potential workload, I'll probably just be active the first few days and then get buried in grades ... and then disputes about grades that range from "I see where you're coming from, I did overlook that; I'll review it again and maybe add a couple points" to "You cannot be f%$#*ing serious. HOW do you think this deserves better? If it wasn't my policy not to do it, I'd lower your grade from what I gave it if anything."
But not before I spent an hour or so grinding on Claptrap's Robot Revolution in Borderlands 1 to see if I could pick up a few more collectibles from fallen claptraps. I got a few more of each type but didn't unlock any new achievements yet. I'll continue to just replay that DLC every week and see if I can't get those.
Good morning Pixlpeeps! The end of the month is here which means everyone is hopefully getting ready for BaD. I like this time of year because it can be silly, fun, interesting, and the best of all new content every single day...except the weekends unless you really want to write during that time. Last year I did a 20 days of minifigures post and for this year I have an idea that I want to write about. I may have started planning it out but you good people will have to wait until Wednesday.
I finally had enough of Borderlands 1 this weekend. I got the achievement for the 6 midgets in the General Knoxx DLC and the one for getting to level 61, but I'm leaving five achievements unfinished. Three are related to collecting random items dropped from Claptraps in the Claptrap's Robot Revolution DLC. Mark and I mined for that stuff by playing the entire DLC several times and busting up just hundreds of Claptraps; but I swear, I got maybe a half dozen more items, that's all.
Here at Pixlbit, every February is BaD--Blog A Day. The challenge is to post a blog about something (anything) every day of February (or, for me, every Monday through Friday). I like to do a theme with mine, a series about something video game-related. I was just wondering, who is participating this year in BaD? Are you planning on doing somthing? I've got a great series planned, and I would love to read your blogs as well this February.
This will be a short one. It's just the Playstation Themes I have purchased that are Metal Gear Solid.
If you're American, you probably know by now that your Country is maybe not doing so well. If you're a woman, you now have no control over your body. If you're a scientist, you have no control over your tongue. And if you're a Muslim... well, you're no longer American.
Kind of dead around here? What have y'all been doing lately? I've mainly been watching Netflix and reading in my free time. I'm sad I can't buy RE7 right now. Fuck I hate not having funds for brand new games. I'll eventually play it when it goes on sale I guess. I'll just play old RE games then.
As you know, I've had a YouTube channel for a minute now. Although I've pasted what I thought were some of my cooler exploits on PS4 via the PS4's built in video capture software, I've recently been doing videos of old arcade games. As I explained before, I've generally stayed away from videos of well-known games like Pac-Man or Super Mario Bros, because most people know those games very well, and doing a video of scoring 70,000 points on Pac-Man is pointless when you could watch a video of someone getting to the "kill screen" or finding some new game-breaking bug in SMB. I've instead stuck with more obscure games. Today, here are two obscure games from well-known publishers, plus a bonus.
I am a long time mix tape creator. Magnetic tape gave way to a laser and compact disc and I made mix CDs. Then the internet and ipods came on the scene and now I rip all sorts of formates to my PC and arrange them how I will on my iPod to take on the go. The arrangements have gotten more and more complex as access to more music has happened. My latest arrangement has me focusing on one year for a whole month. This month it is 1967. I collect as many albums as I can get my hands on and shuffle it all on my iPod while I drive at night for work. Well, why stop there, I said to myself. Why not include games as well and go super retro, or, at least, play stuff that may be related. So I researched board games and arcade machines that were released in 1967. Then I realized comics are closely related to all that stuff, so I researched what was new in comics as well. Thanks to wiki, I now have a pretty cool list of stuff to check out. Here's the list:
I miss the rain. It was a nice change of pace here in what is usually Sunny Southern California. The rain is gone and it looks like that week of winter maybe over because we are going back to 70 degrees. Oh well it was fun while it lasted. Good morning Pixlpeeps! It is Friday and I am ready for the weekend. I have my sights set on starting the last game in my play through of the Batman games and that is Arkham Knight. I already played through it once on the PS4, but last summer I saw a deal on PC where I could buy all the Batman games (except for the funky Blackgate Vita game) for under $20 with all the DLC. I said once I play through all of them I would probably go back and check out the extras. Anyways more on this on Monday. Today it is all about the random things I watched, read, saw, etc. Today its Quick Hits With Chris!