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November Rain Open Thread

I woke up, got dressed, had breakfast, started feeling unwell, watched the rain pour down, and promptly returned to pajama mode. Despite my stomach’s uneasiness and motion sickness I did manage to persevere through some video footage. Mostly Palworld footage before taking a break. On the upside there will be a video next Saturday! Preferably with more to follow if allotted the time. My collection of various gaming footage is taking over one of my many hard drives, and I’d like to get it under control. It’s only a couple of terabytes… nothing major.

Anyway… Open Thread!

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We Performed The SIGIL

We attempted SIGIL in coop, and it was very much destructive. Probably the hardest campaign we’ve done together, and that’s without the DOON II level monsters. Which makes sense, since this episode takes place right after “Thy Flesh Consumed” in the original DOOM. It definitely took more tactical thinking than we usually do in a DOOM WAD. We made it about halfway through the campaign, it’s only a matter of time before we finish, just to get settled into SIGIL 2!

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Another Game Nearing Completion

It’s looking more probable that I’ll finish Order of Ecclesia soon! I finished all of the side-quests in Order of Ecclesia last night. Now all that’s left is fighting with Dracula! I haven’t decided if I’ll do that tonight, or check out more of SIGIL for DOOM. I played a bit of it the other night and already know I’m going to enjoy it!

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Rated A For Annoying

I’m a little irritated tonight. I’ve been animating a scene for our halloween projector, went to work on it tonight, and when I try to refine the animation on the models I’m using it looks like fucking stop motion. I’ll probably have to shelve this one for next year. Fucking annoying. At least I added one new video into our collection, but I wish there were at least one more.

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Monday Night Open Thread

My weekend is coming to a close, but once Halloween graces us with its sweet spooky candy presence I’ll have a five day weekend for plenty more self care. I caught up with a friend I hadn’t talked to in awhile, we both talked about games we’ve finished – and also shared some spooky fashion ideas that would work in and out of Halloween season from places like Killstar or VampireFreaks. I’ve been having fun buying random things from both. 😀

Anyway… Open Thread!

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Fly Me To The Moon

Order of Ecclesia and Portrait of Ruin are currently neck and neck for second place in my playthroughs of the Castlevania Dominus Collection. I’ve buffed up Shanoa enough to trudge through the rest of the game, and last night I found a few new glyph abilities! I earned my wings, and have been doing some backtracking for the unobtainable (as is tradition in metroidvanias). Tonight I found the secret exit that lead to a large training hall reminiscent of the trials you run in Circle of the Moon. After dying a few times I decided to take a break from it, but I’ll probably practice more later on the big screen. It is the weekend after all!

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Autumn Reminiscing

I spent the evening wrapping gifts to celebrate a friends success in making it another year around the sun. Every time I wrap gifts for this person I keep thinking back to when we were kids. It doesn’t even feel like it was that long ago, but the crick in my neck yells at me otherwise. The weather was particularly autumn, especially tonight while wrapping. As I listened to music while crafting the care package I couldn’t help but think back to when we used to go on local adventures in forests and other wooded areas we may or may not have been allowed to go.

When I was out on a walk the other day I went by my old neighborhood, so much of it has changed. The landscaping has changed considerably, but seeing kids going up and down the street on their bikes and scooters made me nostalgic. I didn’t have a perfect childhood, and there are some things that I would do differently if I could relive it. But the few moments that were enjoyable, they would be worth experiencing again.

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Halloween Science!

I haven’t really looked at community made maps for spooky season for any of the games I’ve been playing, and I feel kinda bad since we’re half way through Spooktober. So tonight I righted this wrong and checked out a spooky map in Portal 2. I’d do more, but tonight is a shorter one for me.

One common thing I see in the Halloween themed Portal 2 maps is a common use of mannequins, and it makes sense. Mannequins can be pretty creepy, especially in a testing facility… or if they spontaneously combust like Cave Johnson’s lemons.