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This week I’ve still been busy.

I’m probably going to be busy this whole month, so I’m probably not going to have time to play much more than one or two games.

What time I do have, I’ve spent playing Binding of Isaac: Rebirth. I think I’m doing good, I’ve fought through the chest area. I’m still confused why I went from a Womb, to a Cathedral, to a chest. Not the standard lineup of areas. Idk how I ended up in the chest, but it was certainly a place.

I’ve been mostly avoiding the wiki and just going in blind, with the exception of checking what some items do. It bugs me when I pick up an item like Rosary Bead and it just says “Faith up”.

What’s everyone else doing?

Girls und Panzer: The Battle We Can’t Back Down From!!!

A title that seems more appropriate for the second episode of the Pravda battle, after Miho and the other Oarai students learn the Sensha-do team MUST win the National Tournament to prevent their school from being closed. Although of course, what was true then is still true: if they don’t defeat Kuromorimine they lose their school. Oarai has fought better against Kuromorimine than they did any other school (assuming the battle against Anzio went as we would expect. We don’t know…yet.). Their actions have been planned and controlled. Despite starting the battle disadvantaged in numbers and sheer firepower and armor per tank Oarai has managed to pick off Kuromorimine assets while only losing their newest team. Until the Panzer Maus appeared. The Maus has removed two more Oarai tanks, the Oarai team has no way to counter the Maus beyond hoping it breaks down (technically, this would be likely; but as it was never tested let alone used in combat its capabilities are speculative). And the main force of Kuromorimine is rapidly approaching their position. The situation looks hopeless.

Continue reading ⟩⟩ “Girls und Panzer: The Battle We Can’t Back Down From!!!”

Paige Francis He/him

I’m guilty of hypocrisy and what I consider a grave crime. I buy the newest EA sportsball game or MLB: The Show. As I hit that “Confirm Purchase” button I have a wave of regret and shame every time. I’m an informed consumer of an industry that I genuinely care about immensely, but I still keep doing it because I dearly love the sports being “simulated” and want to be able to participate. Even if only digitally.

Continue reading ⟩⟩ “Sports Game Commentary Sucks. My Spicy Solution”

Ethan Rodgers

Everyone has that one game. It doesn’t always make sense why it reaches into your brain and pokes the dopamine button so easily. It just does.

Mine is ‘Last of Us’. Though the reason why isn’t hard to figure out. Continue reading ⟩⟩ “We’re probably going to disagree…”

Patrick Young The race of insects that excavate the ruins of our civilization will determine we segmented time not by solar cycles but by aroma. Cinamon season. Pumpkin spice season. Sweet baby Rays BBQ sauce season....

This week I only had time to play The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth.

I keep going back and forth on whether I’m having making progress or just playing to no avail. I’m probably making progress all the time, but it’s hard to tell because of how vague the game is with unlocks and progress.

That’s about all I did this week, but what about everyone else?

Issac Young Youngest child of Shamus Young. He/Him

WitcherIII has been remastered, which isn’t significant. That seems to be the thing to do these days. Making new games is so enormously time-consuming and expensive, it’s easier to slap a new coat of paint on an old game, sell it at a reduced price and squeeze the last few drops out.

What’s significant is CDPR isn’t selling it. They’re giving it away. Like… for free. Continue reading ⟩⟩ “First hit is free”

I was going through my morning video queue, and noticed right before stopping to write a bit an upcoming video was titled “I hope your old plane crashes!” Some context; this video was from an aviation channel that does historical commentary as well as current aviation stories, hosted by a pilot instructor with extensive flying experience on the 737, as well as other aircraft. Now, being from West Texas (the region, not West, Texas the town) I am VERY familiar with the video title, as it is an anecdotal quote provided by Waylon Jennings, deceased country (and technically rock) star. He was from this neck-of-the-woods, you see; as was the person this quote was (allegedly) said to: Buddy Holly. And of course this is in reference to February 3rd, 1959; colloquially known as “The Day the Music Died.” I wrote extensively about this many years ago, although given the state of the internet I’m sure that article is long gone. I know I don’t have *my* copy of it anymore. But, knowing I would very much like to watch that video, I knew I needed to get that out of my system before writing about anything else.

So, we return to the final battle of Girls und Panzer (the television series, not the final battle ever done in the *franchise*) with Episode 11: The battle gets fierce!!!

Continue reading ⟩⟩ “Girls und Panzer: The battle gets fierce!!!”

Paige Francis He/him