Good morning Pixlpeeps! August is here and I am excited because the summer is almost over and I am ready for the return of cooler weather. Since this is a new month it’s time to look back at what I did in July
Mark and I finally went and saw Star Trek: Beyond today. I thought it was really good. I got a strong feeling of the original series in this one. It's still very different from TOS, but I got serious nostalgia goose bumps hearing the original music theme, Chris Pine looking so similar to a young Shatner, and all the Scotty, "It's impossible, sir, but I'll do what I can." attitude. It was kind of sad too. The actor for Chekov died tragically this year as did Leonard Nemoy (or was that last year?).
Hey folks, I’ve got a big announcement to make! This August, I will have been writing video game reviews semi-professionally for 20 years! Yup, it all started back in 1996. I bet most game reviewers don’t even last that long! So in honor of that, I decided to write an article about it, and share with you all how I got started, what I’ve done in the past 20 years, and some of my highlights and favorite memories. Oh, and I’d like to apologize in advance if this article sounds a little too self-absorbed and ‘braggy,’ as it is all about me. I promise I won’t be like this all the time in the future. But I figured that 20 years really IS a reason to celebrate, so I hope you don’t mind this, just this once.
I took screenshots of Xenoblade X on WiiU. Thought I might post them instead of generic images from internet. I tried to be artsy. **Please note that after the first image which is a cut scene, most of the pictures are from the sand continent Oblivia, which is the emptiest area in the game. However, there are much more colorful areas to photograph which I will follow up on later. 
I'm back to my backlog, playing through everything in order of shortest to longest play. I don't even want to think about that game that has to do with spelunking and fabricating.
I was going to write a quick blog about moving into a new apartment but long story short it's not going to happen. So instead I'll just have a quick update: I have a futon now.
Alright I guess I should start on my Quick Hits blog considering I stopped playing games. So how are you good people? I got sidetracked this morning when I was preparing for this entry and then I got caught up in creating another team in NBA 2K16, playing a half with them and realizing that I need to tone down the color of the road uniform (I was calling the color neon aqua) when it should have been a light blue. After that fun I had some lunch and then took a nap because after all this is the start of my weekend but now it’s time to get things done because I want to put my CDs in some kind of order in their genre books (I’ve been putting this off for a bit). Anyways let’s get started with Quick Hits!
When I have gotten time this summer I have been playing Dirty Bomb. But as me writing this I haven't had much but have forged my own time...to play Dirty Bomb and enjoy the beta for what it is.
Fuck it though, I like doing these, even if it's only for myself and like one other person. I know I have somewhat eccentric tastes and they won't appeal to everyone so that's somewhat okay.
I keep trying to finish more games than I acquire, but I am weak of will...
Classic Games: SimCity 3000 episode 7 (YouTube City) It's A disaster!!!!
Thought I was going to play Gears of War Ultimate Edition today, but Minecraft sunk it's teeth into me again, leaving me with a kind of sickness.
Good morning Pixlpeeps! Monday is back and I am ready for the week. I can say that I am at 90% but I am a little unsure if I should hit the gym. I do like my treadmill time but I don’t want to aggravate anything. Maybe I’ll spend time with the Air Conditioning instead. So yesterday morning I spotted some game deals on and well $17 later I added 14 games to my Steam library err Digital Mount Backlog. I installed a couple of them right away including this one
So, let's get my bellyaching out of the way: as of this posting, my custodial team and I are in the last week of stripping and waxing floors for 2 buildings of the school district where I work. The past month or so saw an uptake in work activity and the waxing has fallen mostly on my shoulders (long story, don't want to recount it here) so the nights have been longer and the majority of my time at home has been sleeping. I've fallen behind on housework, gaming gets regulated to the weekends, I haven't watched all the movies and tv shows that I've wanted to and honestly, I spend most of the time sleeping on my couch, falling asleep to Youtube videos (which has to be the new all-time low).
I jumped in Mark’s Minecraft survival game on XBO where he had accumulated a lot of resources. I made myself a suit of leather armor and dyed it red. Then I got myself a horse. All I needed was some iron horse armor so I could say I was riding my iron horse (Motorhead song title - I’m kinda of into motorcycles right now). I realized I could repair and enchant leather armor, so I did that. The suit held up pretty well as Mark and I took on the Ender Dragon and killed it. Then we tried to figure out how to respawn the thing. We figured out how to pick up the dragon’s egg but then we couldn’t figure out how to hatch it. Seems the rules for Minecraft XBO Edition are different than the PC version because there are lots of easy ways to do it on PC but not on XBO. Then I lost connection to Mark’s game and couldn’t get back on. I don’t know what was going on but I gave up after several attempts and built my own world instead.
Sega finally announced some new Sonic games in celebration of the 25th anniversary of the series and they sound pretty good. Sonic Mania is a new 2D game with all the benefits of modern technology but it looks old, and you can only play as Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles. Most encouraging of all, Sega seems to have realized that they don't make the best Sonic games anymore and have brought in outside help with this one, particularly Christian Whitehead, who did absolute technical wonders for the mobile versions of Sonic 1, 2, and CD.
Good afternoon Pixlpeeps! I’ve been lacking this week when it comes to my usual posts, and replies here and I almost thought about skipping this edition of Quick Hits but I’m taking a break from playing some NBA 2K16 (my team is in the Western Conference Finals) and at some point I’m going to eat some lunch. So in the meantime why not update you good people on what’s been going on.