May 2020 archive

07
May
2020

Since I have the time to make this post…

categories: personal, RPGs; word count: 263 words

I am continuing to look for video games to get Bub for his birthday, even though I am mindful of the fact that our Nintendo Switch’s microSD card… is low on space, and since it has Animal Crossing on it, I definitely do not want to do anything to that and wind up corrupting the data on the save file for that and messing up our island. I just don’t. So I am not even going to take the remotest of risks there, at least not until the interest surrounding Animal Crossing dies all the way down and it’s not even a game that he is remotely interested in. And to be honest, I do like the game as well! I’m a bit less interested in it than I was when it first came out (aren’t all of us? doesn’t this happen to all of us at some point?), but I do like it, and I do like this one better than New Leaf, I’m not even going to lie. But the same people who used to push me into playing games for longer than I wanted to aren’t in my life right now… which may contribute to a lot of why I enjoy this more.

In my spare time, I’ve joined a few other Discord servers (an Animal Crossing one for players over the age of twenty-five, and a Satanism server for members of The Satanic Temple). I am not the best at managing multiple Discord servers, but I am trying here. Right now, The Satanic Temple’s server is my favorite server.

06
May
2020

Can we blame the pandemic for this one here?

categories: personal; word count: 357 words

I’m not sure if this happened as a result of COVID-19, or it just… happened because we’re almost the middle of the way through the year, but I can’t find any video games for Bub right now that I haven’t already pre-ordered for him. I’ve been looking for some more games to get him since his birthday is coming up, and I’ve already pre-ordered the ones that I want to get him, which is making the whole “get him more games for his birthday” thing a bit more difficult than I had originally anticipated it would be, but in good humor I am continuing to manage. (I am also beginning to look at the virtual reality set for the PlayStation 4 since we do not actually own one of those and he will turn ten soon, which means that he will actually be able to use one if he would so like for a few hours a day, and I don’t mind the kids having or using one if they would like to…)

Surprisingly, there aren’t that many virtual reality games out for the PlayStation 4, so I don’t actually know when I’m going to make this purchase. It might wind up being something that I get them for Christmas, because if I do get this for them, I’m not going to do it for only a few games. I’m going to want this purchase to matter in the long run and I’m going to want to have gotten several games for it. Fun for the whole family.

I mean, it’s a small thing and I am definitely not complaining about it on a large scale, but I’m wondering if the video game industry will be affected by this on a much larger scale depending on how long this goes on.

I know that some states are trying to rush headlong into “going back to work” and “revitalizing the economy”, but there are things like these where people are obviously not going to want to rush back to work on if they can avoid it (obviously not essential services, not in the least), and that really got me wondering.

05
May
2020

I’m glad we patched up those two holes.

categories: first-person shooters; word count: 202 words

Bub didn’t own Wolfenstein: The New Order or Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus, and I found both of them for affordable prices, so I fixed that for him. I’m thinking about giving them to him before his birthday (at the end of June), because the entire point of both games is to kill Nazis in a world where they emerged victorious from the second World War, and… I mean, what’s not fun about killing Nazis? You tell me. Because everything is fun about killing Nazis. Truth be told, I have never been the best at first-person shooters, or even remotely good at them, but work with me here: we get to kill Nazis in these games, so I will find some way to get good enough at them that we can play them to completion when they arrive and we get to them.

I just need to see if there are any other (smaller) holes in our collection and plug them appropriately.

In addition, I need to add things to our Amazon wish list, like some of these games, when I do find them…

I would actually have played the newest Fallout game with him if playing the PlayStation online didn’t cost.

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