Category: Gaming

Observations,mistrust chronicles and exploits

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Coming out of retirement

I put down Star Wars Battlefront after 129 hours, 25 minutes and 53 seconds of game time, ending with 5,321 kills and 7,505 deaths.

Now, after over a year of retirement, I’m coming back for Part 2.

I was kinda fooling myself into thinking I could just be satisfied with watching from the sidelines, clearly, the Dark Side is too strong to resist.  I’m be joining the Public Beta on 6-9 October and no doubt there will be over 5 million players doing the same thing.

EA Public Beta is a bit of a nonsense as the company probably has an army of professional gamers, developers and streamers willing to test at any time.  I guess the argument is to load testing the server network but I suspect the real motivation is to hook players into buying the game, pure “try before you buy” marketing.

EA Earning results

EA Digital net sales of $3.034 billion for fiscal 2017; this represents 61% of total net sales, up 20 % year over year.
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What a Wonderful World

I’ve jumped back into the bizarre apocalyptic world of FallOut 4. Every time I start this game I get crazy real-world distractions but this time I’m into it.

There must be over 100 hours of gameplay here.

I fought and struggled to get to a sanctuary City but at only level 7 I can’t do much enemy damage plus I’m super low on in-game cash.  I’m thinking this game, excluding the DLCs, will take me 12-15 months to complete.  A nice slow grind pace with a focus on quality and detail, exploration and creativity.

My Fallout 4 persona

Haven’t been to the gym this month

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I want to break free

My games library contains more filler and incomplete games than usual.  Time to delete some.

inFAMOUS Second Son
Just Cause 3
God of War® III
Retro Library – PacMan etc.

Open Worlds games at least give the illusion of choice

These button-bashing teenager games are brilliant but far from my usual Open World Player Verses Environment (PvE) setting.

I still need to complete Tales from the Borderlands and Until Dawn.  Re-living the BioShock series is excellent but I’m waiting for FarCry 5 (early 2018) and Horizon Zero Dawn: The Frozen Wilds (Nov 2017).

Star Wars Battlefront II (17-Nov 2017) is going to be hard to resist but Last of Us 2 and Days Gone are still nowhere to be seen.

Had my last 60mg of Pyridostigmin (Mestinon) today

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Please don’t follow me

05:35 am – Enjoyed a nap on the early morning sand and welcomed in the Day. This is the best kind of solitude and reflection time for me.

I’m embracing the simplicity of the shoreline, now how do I build that into my actual life?

Daytona Beach, Florida USA

Definitely no meds today, feeling great.

 

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A Year of Updates

It’s been over 12 months since my last visit home, my US home Orlando, Florida.

On arrival, my GPS freaked out and failed to load any maps demanding an update, soft re-boot failed…. failed to connect to power, failed to connect to laptop WTF.

After tinkering for a while and even resorting to connecting to one of my offline Windows XP tablets I got desperate and pissed off.   I did a hard-reset factory restore hidden method and Boom all maps loading and I’m on the road again.

So long as there’s Pancakes I’m happy

I’ve neglected my son duties for a while now so loads of chores to catch up on.  But first off to Walmart and iHop to get my day started.

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Too busy for Candy

In a few days, I’ll be enjoying some downtime in Florida.

After years of stepping on people’s toes attempting to do the Candy Dance, I’m gonna work on my dance moves on the beach.

Here’s how to

 

If they can do it, I can do it