More Minecraft this weekend. I ticked off two more achievements with six to go. Mark's got more left to do but he'll catch up really quickly when he wants to. Right now he's winning the diamond hunt. He digs down to bedrock and clears out gigantic areas. I have a different method. I dig channels about every three blocks. That way I don't have to mine out every single block. It can get tedious doing every block. Now that we both have diamond pickaxes enchanted to the max, though, it's a lot faster. Not only that, but we discovered that the enchantment "fortune" on a pickaxe increases the yield for certain mineral types. The most important one is diamond, of course. Use a Fortune II or Fortune III enhanced pickaxe on a block of diamond and you'll usually get twice the normal amount of gems from it. In this way we've been able to get plenty of diamonds for equipment. Mark has gotten so many that he made a full suit of diamond armor. I'm close to that, but not really.
Finally after all these months I finally get a chance to sit down and type out an honest to goodness blog in all of it’s life boring-ness. Once again I apologize to all you eager readers (yes all 1 of you) in my lack of content as of late. Alot has happened once again in my life that has taken me away from one of the few precious joys I can still indulge in without it being mired in controversy, social justice activism and general tomfoolery that seems to plague many hobbies as of late. Despite my best attempts to embrace the newer formats of social expression in the microblogging forms of the twitter, instagram, tumblr and the like, I still see myself as a tried and true blogger. Someone that still tries to interact with other humans by means of word expression than just bit-sized nummins of what passes in the microblogging world. Not that there is anything wrong with that for it serves a purpose. I’m just to set in my ways in being use to writing how I feel and sharing it on a wider, long winded format.
With that said though I fear that given how my life has become I can no longer partake in the usual social interaction that comes with blogs and now can only find myself having the time to write them (if I’m lucky) but not the time to read other blogs, let alone comment to all comments if I’m lucky enough to have someone ready and wish to share their thoughts. It’s even bad enough that I’ve been further hampered in my bloging exploits by having my MS Word program lock me out of using it due to me not having purchased a subscription to use it. (Apparely the version offered on “NSonicus Prime" was only a 1 year free subscription) I tried to use "google docs" like my "Little One" suggested but frak that the moment I found out I had to be connected online to use it, something I loath to do in case I have a service interruption and I lose all of my work. I'm sure most of you know where I'm coming from with this due to back in the olden days if we tried to write a blog on the webpage of the site we freqent and the web paged reset, there was a good chance all your hard work went up into digital oblivion.
Hey guys, it's my birthday. I'm 24, which I find utterly insane. It's been a somewhat mixed couple of years, as becoming an adult tends to be. It's even weirder for college students, since college acts as a further adolescence, not really teaching you anything about the outside world apart from stress and how important a support circle can be.
Good afternoon Pixlpeeps! I am finally getting around to typing up today’s Quick Hits because earlier this morning I’ve been busy cleaning, and running around doing errands. Finally I have some time that I want to get some use out of it and update you good people on what is going on with the stuff I’ve been watching and listening to. Sounds like fun? Good, let’s get started!
Just a quickie. If you have a 3DS and enjoy JRPGs download this demo now.
Well Ive finally decided to just wait and see if we will get the Pokemon themed New 3DS's. There still only announced for Europe and Japan. However Im gonna take the risk and wait instead of buying the Monster Hunter Generations 3DS. The 3DS itself looks great, I really like the shade of blue they used. However
It was a busy, busy week for me at the park last week, both in terms of getting the park ready for the holiday weekend and dealing with the huge number of people enjoying the park on the weekend. More on that in the Ranger Stuff section. In other news, I bought a new-to-me car yesterday. I am the happy owner of a 2007 Subaru Forester in a lovely sage green, it's the LL Bean package, so it's loaded with all kinds of goodies. But not the weather radio, which I will miss. Told the salesman at the dealership that it would be happy going to live in Freeport, which is where LL Bean is headquartered. Most of us in the area have worked there at least once in our lives.
This is going to sound coming weird coming from me. On 1up, I was that idiot who would whine at everyone who liked Dead Space, proclaiming that it wasn't scary and therefore wasn't a valid form of horror. If you learn anything from this blog, let it be this: 19 year old Blake was a fucking idiot. He didn't like Mass Effect. His favourite game was books. And he totally thought he was better than you as he meandered his way through his first year at college.
Good morning Pixlpeeps! For you folks in the US, I hope you enjoyed your July 4th Weekend and got to watch some fireworks, and eat tons of food that was grilled. There were a couple of shows that I could see from the house: the local casino put on a heck of a show, and then on the 4th the city had a show at the local muni golf course. The neighbors in my neighborhood were quiet and just had some parties, while the neighborhood across the street sounded like a war zone. Thank goodness there were no dumbasses who decided to shoot their guns in the air, because you know gravity. Since we are in a new month it is time to recap what has happened gaming wise for June
I'm sorry for not posting much here. Real life comes first.
Mark and I are still chasing achievements for the XBO version of Minecraft. This day was like a mini lifetime.
Though as hard as 2016 has been trying to kill me, I'm starting to think I might be a celebrity.
Can you believe this year is already half over? What I like to do this time of year is write about the best games of the year so far. Everyone is all excited over recent E3 announcements, and most of the really good titles come out during the Christmas season at the tail end of the year, and the games that come out earlier tend to be forgotten. So this is where those games get their due.
It always seems like I die in Minecraft for the dumbest reasons. It's usually not dying at the hands of a ghast or wither skeleton but just backing into a pool of lava, falling off a cliff, or drowning. My deaths are a long list of accidents. The Three Stooges theme should be playing at all times. Aside from those recurring and very annoying moments, I did a lot of things in this game over the last few days.
I bought this in the Steam sale, had a chance to check it out with some frendly coworkers during some downtime. Some quick impressions to share, since Steam's sale is almost over.
Well this new unit made it 6 days before the not starting thing kicked in. I also found out from my son that it has shut down twice without warning.
So, I have been busy with school hence my absence here. I hav'nt really gamed much the past 5 weeks but no I have Odin Shpere on my Vita I am back at it.
Good morning and Happy Friday Pixlpeeps! It is a humid morning here in Southern California, and I’ve hit the point where I no longer walk to the neighborhood gym. I take the minute drive to the clubhouse gym because it has become either too hot or now too humid. A couple of days ago we had a lot of thunder but little to no rain while the surrounding mountains got hit. Since its July we only have maybe a month of this funky weather before it goes back to just being hot. Sounds fun doesn’t it? Anyways let’s get started with this edition of Quick Hits!