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Giving My Steam Deck Some Love

Got to spend some quality time with my Steam Deck today! During lunch I progressed a little further into Grim Fandango Remastered, and managed to snag a few achievements by accident. It was a refreshing 20 minutes before returning to reality.

Then later on this evening I had an SFM render going on my main desktop, which left me with more alone time to fondle my deck. 🙂 This time I decided to revisit Cuphead, after abandoning it a couple years ago for other worlds in my library. It took a lot of slamming my head against the wall, but I did clear 3 levels, and even splurged on a couple of character upgrades! I’m pretty proud, in fact I’m proud enough to take a break and move onto something else. 😛 I might return to Race The Sun tomorrow. That one also runs real nicely on Steam Deck!

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I Walk Amid The Evils Of The Black Labyrinth

It’s been over a month since I’ve continued my trials in The Black Labyrinth, but the time away didn’t slow me down any! I made it through The Hole, and at the start of the next level! It was fun climbing giant swords, and as usual I made sure all enemies were slain… now I just need to to a future playthrough to find all the secrets. 😛 More pics can be found over at Masto.

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This Post Contains No Baldur’s Gate 3 I Promise

Actually managed to be productive today! Thanks to preemptive pain management, a good breakfast and about a gallon of tea I powered my way through some cleaning today. Not as much as I wanted to do, but enough to feel less claustrophobic.

Other than that I got a good chunk of animation done and played a tiny bit of Crash Bandicoot: Warped! Collected a few gems; two silver, one gold. Also did some time trials, managed to get gold status on a couple of them. I’m at 62% completion, one hour earlier I was at 58% Now that I’m a little over half way there I’ll probably visit a different game world tomorrow night. 🙂

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Silent Sunday: More Adventuring!

Now that I’ve figured out how to disable the UI I’ve been able to take some really decent photos! This game has so many beautiful sights to take in, and we’ve barely scratched the surface.

I helped a bard and was treated to a private concert. We also helped a child escape a few annoying harpies at the beach, and even attended Burning Man.

Of course it wasn’t ALL fun and games… in Baldur’s Gate 3, anyway. I did refine some animation today, and even played a little bit of Neon White for the first time in months. 😛 Mainly trying to Platinum a couple of levels I had Gold Rank on. I might actually finish that game at some point this year! 😛

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Saturday Night Gaming

I decided to give my Steam Deck some attention today, just to kill off the rest of the battery before doing a recharge. Returned to BloodRayne after a long reprieve, and actually made it a couple levels further. The fighting seems a lot easier compared to the second game, but then again I am only a few levels in. I think in BloodRayne 2 I left off a few levels away from the end. I vow to return to it when I’m done being pissed off at it.

Towards the evening I met up with Yutram again to continue our long journey to rid ourselves of the dreaded cthulu parasites. We lost a couple battles, won some unexpected ones, saved a couple NPC’s from flames, and met my watermelon colored guardian and got a little digital shut-eye.

Now to go and follow suit. 🙂

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Accept Loviatard’s Love HURR DURR!!!

We had another fun evening venturing the world of Baldur’s Gate! This time at a more leisurely pace, though the glitched gods did smite Yutram with a game crash we did manage to persevere.

Of course, they did bless him with a charming performance.While my character was partaking in BDSM to earn a special blessing, the Dom was facing the wrong direction on Yutram’s screen, resulting in an extremely derpy dominatrix facing away from my severely albino half high elf. I actually kinda envied his POV. Other than that, we survived a few battles and freed a bard. Also emptied our collections of random junk to a trader for some extra coin. I’m already looking forward to the next session!

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Race The Sun & Shoot For The Moon

I got Race The Sun as a freebie I can’t remember how long ago, and I only remembered it when I started getting into Whisker Squadron Survivor when I realized they were the same devs. A few sales ago I even picked up the additional night flight DLC, it was cheap and given that I got the base game for free I figured, why not?

My day lacked much sun. It was a film noir kind of day, fit with the sound of rain and the perfect atmosphere for sloshing down warm beverages. So the idea of racing the sun was an illuminating idea to me. It takes some getting used to, especially since I’m used to the Whisker Squadron layout. But each round I always made it a little bit further! Each new attempt was a new chance to explore the vast landscape of blocks and collectables. It was a nice way to end the evening.

Fun way to kill an hour. 🙂

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An Hour Of Play Takes The Stress Away

During the work week I like to try and give myself at least one hour of play time before bed. It calms my nerves, gets my mind off things, and gives me a chance of having some form of weird assed dream. Tonight Yutram and I did an impromptu hour of Baldur’s Gate 3. We covered quite a bit of ground, rescued a gnome and found some adorable animals.

Methinks I’ll probably play more of this when the weekend hits. 🙂 It was hard enough to pull myself out of it, but an hour is an hour. I need to sleep so that I may play another hour another day.

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Today’s Lunch Was So Last Year

But only because it was leftovers from my New Years Eve Brunch. I made a rice pilaf with peppers, onions and cherry tomatoes. Then I placed a fried egg on top and added sliced olives and feta with some bacon on the side. As an added bonus I had plenty leftover to bring some to work today!I have a three day weekend coming up and I’m already brainstorming what my next batch of poison is going to be. I’m sure it’ll be fab either way.

Spent a little over an hour playing more of Crash Bandicoot Warped, and up’d my gem count to 22! Gonna celebrate by taking a break from the game and pondering a different one to play tomorrow. 😛 Maybe one of my new games? Or perhaps something with music? Either way I have options…

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First Post Of The 2024!

I doubt that I’ll beat my gaming streak from last year, but I am already making progress on one of the many adventures that have gone unfinished. I played the third boss battle in Crash 3 Warped, and I actually had a lot of fun with it! To be honest I wasn’t expecting Coco to take the helm and fight off N.Gin, but I managed to make it through without taking a single hit. I showed this screenshot to a friend, and they were surprised this was from a Crash game at all.

It will probably be awhile before I release any video content. I’m still toiling away at two particular projects with no end in sight, at least for a couple of weeks. I ended last year with a game video, and now I think it’s only right to begin it with something more polished. 🙂