I only had an hour of sleep today, and ended a full work shift by spraining my ankle…
Long Story Short: I’m declaring an Open Thread.
Not The Mushroom Kingdom I Was Looking For
After going through and mapping out what areas I can’t get to, I’ve finally covered more ground in Castlevania: Circle of the Moon. This time in Circle of the Moon, which out of all the ones in the trilogy I’m lagging on the hardest. Out of the three Advance games this one is probably the most grindy with the most cumbersome sprinting. Want to run? You have to double tap the direction you want to run in. I’m glad they did away with that in the other games, where you at least move at a faster pace instead.
Carnage Of The Cuddly Kind
I picked up Gori: Cuddly Carnage a couple days ago during a sale. It’s a game I only recently discovered after a few posts about it on BlueSky and Mastodon. It’s a unique Hack n Slash where you play as a synthetic orange cat named Gori, and your sidekick is a hoverboard named F.R.A.N.K who is not only your primary mode of transportation, but also a murder weapon! The game also has a style scoring system similar to Devil May Cry. I had a major blast murdering hundreds of evil unicorns, and even severing a couple of giant hands.
I’m actually surprised I didn’t hear anything about this one until recently! From what I’ve played so far I really like it.
Factory Resetting a Closet
A couple days ago I suffered a wardrobe malfunction… when the rod in my closet broke and left my shirts on the floor. Of course, that gave me an excuse to continue my clothing purge. I still need to get a few things under control, but now I no longer require a crowbar to make things fit into place.
Clearly I need to celebrate getting my shirts back into the closet without them spontaneously combusting. Maybe a game on the couch is in order…
Soul Grinding Work
I settled on Aria of Sorrow tonight, at least for awhile to do a bit of soul grinding. I’m trying to beat the game with all souls obtained, so far I’m at 65.7% souls. It can be a bit of a grind depending on which souls you’re mining for. After some previous grinding to get the soul eater ring it does help ease the grind for everything else… it’s still a grind though.
The Kung Fury 2 Trailer(s) Looks Hella Rad
I know this is a leak, and the actual movie is currently in Legal Hell, but I hope we get to see this in its completion someday, especially now in our current fascist environment here in Amerikkka. Seig Fail.
Our Best Batman Fever Dreams!
A montage of Batman paying us a visit during our gaming videos!
Context: I sometimes add animations to my gameplay videos, especially when I have friends that invoke the voice of Batman. Most of the audio in this video was taken from past livestreams and game recording sessions.
I’ll have something more special down the road for a milestone video. But for now, heeeeeeeere’s Batman!
Open Thread: Brain Fog Edition
Sleep only visited me for a brief time last night before leaving me to wake in a bad flare of anguish. It was fun going to work today on fumes… I laid down for a bit when I got home, but I still didn’t nod off. It was nice to rest my eyes for awhile though. Tomorrow starts later, so hopefully I’ll catch some extra rest. Nothing in my endless library is really enticing me to play tonight, even on my Steam Deck. The pain is at bay for now, but the brain fog from it lingers on. Hopefully it blows away for the start of my weekend, ugh.
Open Thread.
Just A Lil’ Portalin’
Only had about half an hour of game time tonight, and I decided to spend it advancing through Portal Stories: Mel. I’m still early into the game, but I got my hands on an old school Portal gun and through the first “test”. Now I’m in the first “official” test chamber! Perfect point for me to leave off at.
Late Night Open Thread
Work was surprisingly chill today. Came home and did some closed captioning for a video releasing this weekend! I’ll work on the title card tomorrow nite. I went through some Palworld footage. It’s over two hours, but I’ve already picked away at the first hour in under an hour… funny how that works.
Haven’t decided what game I’ll be playing on the TV tonight. Last night I tuned in for another episode of Horizon Forbidden West, though I might give HFW a small nap, switch it up and do something else tonight.
No promises.