Kitties

Update On The Chucken

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Chuckie during healthier times.

We took Chuckie to the vet today. They managed to help bring the little guy back to life a bit – they put him on an IV and put him on antibiotics. He’s still a little slow, but at least he’s grooming himself a bit more and he’s started purring again! He granted me access to his belly a few minutes ago. I’m just glad he’s feeling better, even a little.

Stray Sunday

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My cat adventures are officially over… for now. I beat Stray! I still need to go back and find some missing memories and some other achievements/trophies, but I finished the game AND had fun trying out a couple of mods:

One of the mods you can get from Stray’s Nexus is photo mode! Which is something that should have shipped with the game. It’s a little buggy, and I did crash the game a couple of times, but that only seemed to occur if I Alt-Tabbed one too many times. This mod alone will make my next playthrough of the game all the more worthwhile! Now I can go through the game pretending to be tourist cat. 😛

I also tested the split screen co-op mod. It looks really nice on a big 4K TV! But it’s even buggier than photo mode; If you walk into an area you’re not supposed to the second controller will stop functioning partially, and only Player 1 has the robot and HUD button prompts. It was fun to play with, but this mod still needs some time to mature. It has really been nice seeing all of the different mods popping onto the Nexus for Stray! Now if someone could just add a level editor so people could make their own platforming puzzles that would be purr-fect.

One of these days I’ll play through it again, perhaps when my Steam Deck finally arrives! Until then it’s back to fighting off the rest of my gaming backlog! 😛

Overdue Kitty Post

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The little orange fireball known as Chuckie has managed to survive a couple weeks, as well as the two older boi’s. Though I would be lying if I didn’t say there have been some growing pains. Stewie, our oldest cat has been taking a new addition to the family really well, in fact he doesn’t seem to attack Morty anymore. Morty on the other hand, while being tolerable of his nephew, is still going through some growing pains trying to endure a bouncy rubber kitten.

Morty has taken to hiding in my bedroom whenever he wants to have a break from his little nephew. I snapped this shot the other day while working on website related stuff — I just turned around and saw him sitting up, eyeballing the out of reach drawstring on my green screen dangling from the ceiling. With those eyes I couldn’t help but pull out my camera. 🙂 He pretty much sat like that for 20 minutes, probably trying to think of a way to float up there to play with it.