Happy Monday Pixlbit Nation. So we are starting August and the summer is almost over. Of course here in my little piece of Southern California that means crazy triple digit heat and I’m at the point where I want to start knocking out more games off Mount Backlog. Since I haven’t given a games played update in a couple of weeks its time to catch up and see how July went.
I only played some Minecraft on Monday and nothing else the rest of the week. I was at a car show all day Sunday, so nothing on the weekend either. Actually, I did bring my 3DS with me to the car show for street passes, but I haven't had time to check it yet. I'm looking forward to Tuesday when I pick up Etrian Odyessy Untold 2 and Rare Replay. I think I might pick up an Xbox One later in the week too.
I have to say that I'm pretty impressed with the PS4 so far. The experience with the interface, PSN store downloads, and free games like The Crew, War Thunder have been pretty good. I need to check out Planetside 2 I suppose. I think the Free to play options are quite good for a new console purchuse, coupled together with PS Plus, its quite a good experience. I really wish that PS4 had more content though. I feel like some of their sale games on PSN are still too high, and I would love to have access to PSOne or PS2 games, or even PS3 games at this point.
I just haven't tried out Streaming yet which is my next test. Also Destiny plays like a dream, but I only played the demo and it's actually quite boring in my opinion. I like my horror and indie games, or JRPGs.
Sorry that I haven't been active much; I'll try to change that. The good news is that I've finished another solo episode that focuses on my top 5 summer blockbuster films!
Well Pixlbit this is my newest games off Steam my favorite two are Farming World and Braveland the very top three pics are the new expansion for Panzer Corps.
Yesterday, I provided this link to a Cracked article about addictive gaming habits (which also has a fun little Easter Egg about why most will accept longer articles in listicle form). Nick and asreal were gracious enough to respond.
...Yeh,so I haven't updated here in a while...Life and stuff..Though I have been on a bit of a roll with doodles..Especially with a small sketchbook I started sketching in more..Funny enough some of them kinda reflects life..
You know what I hate? Nostalgia hounds. Nostalgia can be great, don't get me wrong. When it clouds your ability to enjoy modern things that kick ass, something is wrong. Now, prog fans tend to share this mindset often. “Oh, nothing will ever top King Crimson, Rush, Yes, or Peter Gabriel era Genesis. “Doesn't have mellotron? It's not prog,” they say.
So things this week haven’t been so good. Friday morning was no exception. I was working on assembly when around 6 or 7 in the morning the panel that operated the order screen fell apart. Either someone went to town with it or just dropped it so hard it broke the problem was the interior of the casing where the screws go in broke. To make things more difficult the connector with jack ports wired to it was pulled loose from the circuit board when it fell from the mount, and just to piss me off even further business was relentless. With what little time I had in between orders I had to figure out which way the connector plugged into the circuit board, align the jack ports with the case, remove the back of the case from the mount (which was a pain in of itself since the metal plate that attached to the mount was bent just to get snugged.), keep the ports aligned while putting both parts of the casing together, align the casing, and then use something to keep it together. At first, since I work at a restaurant, I thought of using plastic wrap. And then I thought to myself, “Dave, there’s an office to the left of you, with office supplies, which includes RUBBER BANDS.” So I undid the plastic wrap, picked two rubber bands, binded the casing together, and remounted the damn thing. And this was all while making orders at what seemed like a non-stop rate.
Good morning Pixlbit Nation! It is Friday and everyone should be ready to enjoy the weekend. I don’t know what it is but I’m a bit tired but I do need to run some errands after I type this up which isn’t too bad. Anyone have any plans for the weekend? I think I’m going to take it easy this weekend and not do much, maybe play some games, catch up on a bunch of TV shows I’ve missed and maybe watch some baseball. So since we have that out of the way let’s get started with Quick Hits With Chris!
I am going to have to give up my HP Pro 12 Android tablet in a couple of weeks because it's only a demo and HP will charge us for it if I continue to hide it. :)
So here's a short list I made of the games I played back then and some I didn't but would love to now.
I'm doing this happiness challenge thing I heard of from TED Talk, so if you see a compliment in your inbox any time soon, don't take it sarcastically. If you don't see one, don't get offended and feel free to ask me for one if you're feeling down.
Happy Wednesday Pixl Peeps! As I currently wait for the mini PC to get the Windows 10 lovin’ (let’s see if it happens) I figured it was time to go Part 2 of my second day-cation. In the first part I went up the Aerial Tramway to check out some mountain life, so my second trip would naturally have to be something Southern California, and that is a trip to the beach. Yep the beach. I didn’t go swimming because I wanted to take pictures, and enjoy the breeze plus the family wanted to go fishing. My plan was to walk around take pictures and enjoy the day, and luckily for me a surf competition was taking place. Anyways lets get started with Part 2 of Chris’ Day Trips Around Southern California!
Doesn't sound as good as nineteen eighty-four probably because it doesn't have the literary reference of Adolus Huxley's [George Orwell dummy] book to make it sound important, but I like it well enough. This year I was doing temp office work and hated it. I got offered full-time jobs but turned them all down. In retrospect, it was stupid, but then I was still in my twenties and didn't want to commit to anything. Sound familiar twenty-somethings out there? This below is the music I listened to. I made a list of 77 albums I want to hear now, but these were the 14 I heard then and liked, in no particular order.