It’s been a week since I last played with my Steam Deck. I decided to give it a little love tonight by playing a bit of BloodRayne. Defeated the Queen of the Underworld and unlocked Blood Rage Lvl 3. It’s definitely been the right weather to play tonight. Dark, foggy and plenty of wind. The perfect way to end a quiet evening of video sorting. Even deleted a few hundred gigs!
Playing Down By The River Again
We continued our fabulous adventures in Baldur’s Gate 3! Covered more ground, completed some quests and freed a prisoner or two, and made friends with a really hot babe.
It was an excellent escape for a rainy weekend. I’ve mostly been taking it easy and sipping tea today. I’ll probably do something a little more productive tomorrow, now that I feel my stamina returning to me. I also have some story writing I’d like to finish up, and another Open Source video editing program I want to revisit and learn – a topic for a future post. 🙂
Under The Influence of Life
Continuing where I left off last week in High on Life. I earned the ability to use warp discs to get around, completed a paperwork game that went on a little longer than it should have, and decided to call it a night at the Boss Battle.
I came close to defeating him, but the light on his candle was only .1% harder to snuff out than the likes of mine. Called it a night before motion sickness sat in. This game, and a few other Unreal Engine games are making me consider upgrading my SSD/NVMe storage. The prices have been amazing for a few months now, and with more games using more resources and drive speed it would make sense to upgrade soon.
That and 4K rendering is far better on an SSD than a mechanical drive.
Soaring Along
Went on a semi-peaceful flight this evening, semi-peaceful because of the chance of crashing into shit. When I wasn’t running into objects and fixtures at high speeds I did better on each flight, and even earned a couple achievements for it!
I’ve been feeling kinda out of it this evening. Something tells me this weekend will need to be a chill one for me, feeling a bit under the weather and only one day of work left. I foresee a long winter nap in my weekend future.
I Got Mooned Tonight
Well, she only made it to Half Moon… Show some decency ffs. This level took me almost an hour to finish, but I forced myself to finish it.
You start out fighting this cartoon girl, who shape-shifts into a plane, a blimp, and draws on the power of the stars to change into the physical form of various star formations.
As annoying it was dying time and time again, it was oddly addicting. Being able to fly made it even more interesting. Each time I died I tried different patterns to thwart her, and after almost an hour I finally finished the damned thing. I was tempted to play one more level, but I know it would probably take another hour… minimum. 😛
Kiss My Asgard
Channeled a bit of my inner Gun-Toting Valkyrie in BPM: Bullets Per Minute tonight! I haven’t played it in almost half a year, and surprisingly I had my longest run yet!
In case you never heard of it before; BPM: Bullets Per Minute is an FPS Roguelike where you battle your way through randomly generated paths on each run to the rhythm of music, obtaining coin, health and power-ups along the way with the occasional boss battle and challenge at the end of each level. Tonight was the furthest I made it tonight! Not bad for not playing for almost half a year. I passed Asgard, Vanaheim, and Svartalfheim and eventually getting beaten to death in Helheim. That said, it did get me some new achievements!
Normally I can only seem to get out of Asgard II before inevitably dying, but tonight I managed to get a good selection of stats. I’ll have to see if I can beat the game sometime between now and six months into the future!
My Weekly Dose Of Rainbows
Finished the first three levels of the Autumn Hub World! We’ve been having warm-ish weather here the last few days, but it’s been hella gray… THIS is where my weekly dose of Spyro comes in handy, with its colorful world ready to sweeten my eyes with its visual candy.
Went on a flight, did some pest control, collected some bones and saved some cavemen. Good way to spend the evening, a good game and some tea as per usual. I’m almost tempted to play a little more tomorrow!
Almost…
Each game in my library is screaming at me to play it, and with only so much time in an evening you can only advance your catalog so much. 😛
A Thirst For Blood… And Maaaaaaybe Milkshakes
Finished the last bit of the evening playing a bit of DOOM 2! Currently on E1M9. It was fun watching the demons ripping each other apart, made it easy to kill the survivors…
Other than that I did a little bit of story writing earlier, and even went out for malts with a friend! We were going to check a look at the local tea house, but they were closed today. Oh well, it’s been awhile since I’ve had any milkshakes and the same went for my friend. Between the long walk around town and the bleu cheese burger I’ve been nibbling on I’ll be getting a good night’s rest.
Sunday Night Fun: A Lil’ Work & A Lil’ Play
We had our weekly BG3 session tonight. I drank some bad well water, pissed off a Swamp Karen and collected sausages and other odd swag.
Also managed to frame a future scene for one of the next Skyrim videos. It’s going to be a gaming montage from one of the past livestreams, it’ll probably be awhile before it sees the light of day. I have everything pretty much posed in place, now I’ll just need to draft a story together to tie into the gameplay. I already have a few ideas, just need to put them into a format involving words.
Other than that I’ve been enjoying fine wine and creamy choco-hazelnut tea lattes. Tonight I made a spicy tuna tomato pasta tonight with olives, and last night I made my own rendition of Beef Burgundy Stew. I say my own rendition because I had to change a few things in the recipe to make it more tolerable. Like, not using four fucking onions. I traded two of them for some quartered red baby potat’s. A stew without potat’s?! That’s a fucking crime! The stew tasted even better today when I had some with a breakfast sandwich. Between those two meals I won’t have to worry about making anything for a few days. 🙂
Deep Thoughts Around The Campfire
Three friends share a book and some deep thinking exercises around a campfire! Original audio taken from one of our past livestreams!