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Leisurely Monday Open Thread

Today was pretty therapeutic! I woke up, made a nice breakfast, animated for a little, gave myself a small spa treatment and came out to a care package from a friend! The weather was also nice today for a change. It felt nice to sit out side, sip a little white tea and enjoy my Steam Deck for a bit. Played a bit of a Pac-Man game, and finished off the evening with a little of Crash on Desktop.

There was a lot of dying involved, despite all the times I said FUCK but I was patient about it. I managed to knock out a couple of levels. This is one of those games I like playing with a controller, even when I’m at my desk. Not all games feel right on a Keyboard and Mouse setup.

Gaming

Sunday Slice n Shoot

We did our Sunday Wonderland romp as per current tradition. Helped some Goblins, and killed some Goblins, found more dice and other huge loot receptacles to destroy. I’m Level 39 with up to 60 backpack slots. This was probably our longest run so far – we played from early evening to twilight, it’s just so magical!… literally! Think I’ll be able to make it till next Sunday for the next part of our journey.

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Too Wicked To Rest

I don’t get it… I went to bed on time, had a good meal, a hot shower and home spa treatment… and yet I couldn’t get to sleep last night for work. I haven’t even napped yet. I’ve been awake since Wednesday Morning! Hopefully I’ll have better luck tonight. I don’t have the energy to play anything, but I haven’t been tired enough to lie down… until now.

Think I’ll go lay down before I break something.

 

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Wednesday Evening Open Thread

Well, tomorrow I return to reality… The tea is prepped and my clothes are at the ready! But it was nice to get away from it all for awhile, I needed it. I feel like I have enough energy to make it to the Weekend, which is just a few days away for me. :v

I didn’t go anywhere fancy, and I didn’t even get to finish my games or finish my video! But it was nice to just relax, get some things done around the house and let my body rest a little. I might take some time off again next month, but just a smaller bit. I’ve racked up a lot of time that I haven’t used over the years and my body is telling me to have a little fun!

Gaming

Where Lord of the Rings Meets Spinal Tap

I have a problem. I want to play games on my 4K Desktop, but when I go through my library my eyes have been landing games that make me think “This would be fun to play on my Steam Deck…” dammit!

Eddie meets his welcoming crew.

One thing I did find interesting about launching Brutal Legend on Steam Deck was that it launched with Proton instead of the native Linux build. For the heck of it I launched the native build, and it seemed alright apart from teleporting NPC’s in a couple of cutscenes, and it was getting a nice solid 30FPS. Not bad I’d say, right? Then I replayed the first chapter again through Proton and there were no teleporting models AND the framerate doubled! Translating it from Direct3D 9 to Vulkan instead of using the native OpenGL build seems to give it a nice boost! Pretty interesting since I’ve played this before under regular Linux desktop, that was quite awhile ago though.

Some guitar magic.

Maybe now I’ll actually finish this title! It supports cloud saves, that seems to be helping me in between devices.

Gaming

Booty Quake!

A couple nights ago I learned the art of Booty Quakin’! I’ve been making another lap around the entire island, still finding things that have yet to be found until finding them.

Aside from uncovering gems and abilities, I’ve also been tasked with finding buried statues with my new found power. That always seems to be the appeal with any of the Metroidvanias I’ve played thus far; you learn new things and then you get to go allll over the world again to find all the things that were juuuuust out of reach from you before.

I almost opened up Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon on my Deck, but slapped my hand and continued onward through Seven Sirens. It makes sense for me to continue while I still remember all the controls. Maybe if I get stuck at a certain point.