Pixlbit Nation, Happy Freaking Friday! It is a nice 70 degrees here in Sunny Southern California. I do miss the week of winter weather but it is nice to have the windows and doors open. As I type up the latest entry in the Quick Hits blogs I’m listening to the playlist that is full of the CDs I’ve been buying recently. It is an 800-track playlist, and currently I’m around 150 songs in. I’m listening to find tracks that I find catchy, that I’d like to listen to again. While syncing this playlist I found that iTunes needed to make room so it removed my Podcast playlist. That sucks but at the same time I have a ton of new content to listen to anyways if I want to achieve my goal of listening to everything in my iTunes library. Alright Pixlbit enough with the talk about what’s on the iPod, let’s get this Quick Hits Party Bus started!
Hotline Miami 2 is banned in Australia. I wrote an article about it here: http://plus10damage.com/blog/2015/1/19/hotline-miami-2-social-taboos-and-piracy
More riffing on Dragon Magazine 81, January 1984. The rock group, The Police, played their last tour in 1984. The only video game connection I can think of is that drummer, Stewart Copeland, over a decade later, did the music for Spyro the Dragon and its three sequels. Here's a track I liked from the first game.
Good morning, Pixlbit Nation! How is everyone this lovely Thursday? I am fantastic, after being so poor I couldn't afford coffee for the last two weeks, my first unemployment check came in yesterday and I went food shopping. My larder is no longer bare, and I am once again caffeinated. Life is good.
The hacker group Lizard Squad, which claims responsibility for theXmas blackout on Xbox Live and PSN, has discovered its own network has been hacked.
Happy new year everyone! First blog of 2015 HYPE! Sit down, get naked if you have to, and let's discuss everything that actually matters in the world today.
Prepare for Blake's longlasting affair with video game photography! No I don't know why I'm referring to myself in 3rd person!
Between last night and this morning it got a lot smaller. It's only 1/3 as big as was mentioned. LOL
So they are discontinuing club nintendo, there gonna replace it with a new program which they haven't given any details yet on. You earn coins up until March 31, 2015. They will still rewards for elite members but I believe it will be digital stuff like last year. They will have them up in April to choose from. They will be adding alot of rewards apparently in February for users to spend their coins.
Can you dig it Pixlbit? Can you dig it? Random Warriors quote. Anyways what's up everyone! I hope you all have been doing well. So lately I've been going crazy with video game purchases. Just can't get enough of those sales. Let's get started.
and I'm waitin', waitin' on the day to change.... :)
Deflategate a trending story the next morning.
Pixlbit how are you doing on this warm Martin Luther King Jr. Day? I’m not going to lie, I didn’t know today was a holiday until I turned the TV on this morning and the local news was talking about different celebrations going on today. I think the only thing I had planned was to later on today start prepping my the games for pictures because since I hit 3,000 I was going to do an up to date group of blogs about my game library, and since Blog A Day is coming up, that would be the perfect place to post my stuff. This past weekend I scratched another game off Mount Backlog. I have to say I’m on a crazy pace of finishing games I started. The game I took down hasn’t left my 3DS XL. I really should start other games but this one is too much fun.
So I just found out that Origa (Ol'ga Yakovleva) passed away today at the age of 44 due to lung cancer. She sang the theme to Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, among performing other anime and game music and voicework. What's weird, and the reason I'm writing this, is that before today, I didn't even really know who she was.
I spent the majority of my Sunday evening writing, recording, editing and finally posting a new episode for the Past & Pending Podcast, my first in 4 months! In it, I discuss memories of a hometown video rental store and 5 modern day classic (late 80s-early 90s) action films that I repeatedly rented too many times. It's a brisk 40 minutes, I fixed the channel separation problem that I had with the last episode, there are a lot more music drops, I reveal embarrassing things about my childhood.....
This weekend has been more productive than usual as far as computer projects go (I have an associates degree saying I’m skilled in the field so I might as well put it to practice). I’ve played around on my laptop out in the living room and managed to get a few service to work with Chromecast through Chrome, except for Hulu because for some reason there is no web function for the device or Chrome. I couldn’t go all out because the app for Chromecast is only compatible for Windows 7 and up, but at least the Googlecast extension made things easy. Another little project I wanted to try was getting Steam Big Screen but since Vista SP2 does not react to Toshiba machines very well that function is kind of out of the question. Another issue that stopped me from playing Steam on the projector TV was trouble finding the VGA cable we had before. So in short Steam TV is on hold.
This will be the first blog in 2015 about games I’ve reviewed lately over at GamerDad.com. Please click on as many links as you can to read the reviews and maybe even post a comment or two. I’d really appreciate it. Thanks in advance.