2023 Log

Welcome to 2023. New Year, New Log. Lets see how I keep busy in 2023 (I usually publish this early and update it almost daily).

1. Start of April ended up rear ending someone and causing enough damage to total that barely 6 month old vehicle.
2. Replaced the 2022 with a 2023 of the exact same make and model and add-ons, with a slightly better deal payment wise. Still really sucked overall though.
3. Got a pretty nice 6% raise, Boss who had been there 25ish years quit though.
4. Spent 2 weeks around Halloween at Disney World and Universal Studios.

Games Played:

1. Sea of Thieves (Including Insider Time) – ~199 Hours
2. Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed – ~5 Hours
3. Monster Hunter Rise + Sunbreak – ~82 Hours
4. Dead by Daylight – ~52.5 Hours
5. Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga – ~2.5 Hours
6. Xenoblade Chronicles 3 – ~100 Hours (Completed 149:05 total)
7. Dragon Ball: The Breakers – ~189 Hours
8. Pokemon Scarlet – ~44:34 Hours (Completed)
9. Double Dragon Neon – 7.1 Hours (Completed)
10. Battlefield 1 – ~2 Hours (Campaign Complete)
11. Terraria – ~4 Hours
12. Grounded – ~61.4 Hours
13. Castlevania Aria of Sorrow – ~21:47 Hours (100% Completion)
14. Castlevania Circle of the Moon – ~19:46 Hours (100% Completion)
15. Star Wars Jedi: Survivor – ~18 Hour
16. Lost Ruins – ~11.8 Hours (Completed)
17. Deep Rock Galactic – ~85 Hours
18. Metroid Dredd – ~13.5 Hours (Completed)
19. Momodora Reverie Under the Moonlight – ~5.2 Hours (Completed)
20. Rocket League – ~4 Hours
21. Friday the 13th – ~3 Hours
22. SNK Heriones Tag Team Frenzy – ~6.3 Hours (All Unlocks)
23. Vampire Survivors – ~12.7 Hours
24. Tomb Raider (2013) ~18 Hours (Completed 100%)
25. Bioshock Infinite – ~24 Hours (Completed + Burial at Sea)
26. Monster Hunter World Iceborne – ~39 Hours
27. The Legend of Zelda: Tears of The Kingdom – ~30 Hours
28. Divinity 2: Original Sin – ~13 Hours
29. TemTem – ~3 Hours
30. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge – ~7.5 Hours
31. Warhammer 40,000 Space Marine – 11.4 Hours (Completed)
32. Phasmophobia – ~64 Hours
33. Balders Gate 3 – ~21 Hours
34. Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor – ~25 Hours (Main Story Completed)
35. Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy – 14.5 Hours (100% Complete)
36. Hogwarts Legacy – ~26.5 Hours
37. Shadow Warrior 2 – ~3.5 Hours
38. Among the Sleep – ~3.5 Hours (Completed)
39. Lethal Company – ~2 Hours
40. Mythforce – 3.4 Hours
41. Remnant II – 4.1 Hours
42. Robocop Rogue City – ~4 Hours
43. Warhammer 40,000 Boltgun – ~1 Hour

Movies Watched (I did not pick all of these, sometimes I just watch something to see what it is):

1. Beyond White Space
2. John Dies At The End
3. Freaks! You’re One of Us
4. Devotion
5. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
6. The Ridiculous 6
7. Captain Nova
8. Vivarium
9. The School for Good and Evil
10. Ant Man and The Wasp: Quantumania
11. My Hero Academia: World Heroes’ Mission
12. Planatarian: The Reverie of a Little Planet
13. The Girl Who Left Through Time
14. Krull
15. 65
16. Outlander (2008)
17. Shazam! Fury of the Gods
18. IT (2017)
19. John Wick 4
20. We Have A Ghost
21. Kick Ass 2
22. Nope
23. Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
24. Velocipastor
25. The Super Mario Bros. Movie
26. Freddy vs. Jason
27. The Adventures in Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
28. Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare
29. Monster Family
30. Wagons East!
31. Hellraiser
32. Hellbound: Hellraiser 2
33. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
34. Kentucky Fried Movie
35. Knights of the Zodiac
36. The Time Travelers (1964)
37. Pokemon Detective Pikachu
38. The Wrong Missy
39. Blood & Gold
40. Terminus
41. Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
42. Maniac Cop
43. The Flash
44. CutThroat Island
45. The Worlds End
46. Indiana Jones and The Raiders of The Lost Ark
47. Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade
48. Indiana Jones and The Dial of Destiny
49. Water Gods of The Deep
50. Tales From The Darkside: The Movie
51. Warm Bodies
52. Annihilation
53. The Giver
54. Murder Mystery 2
55. Haunted Mansion (2023)
56. Evil Toons
57. The Expendables
58. The Pope’s Exorcist
59. Saw
60. Saw II
61. Saw III
62. Saw IV
63. Saw V
64. The Expendables 2
65. A Haunting in Venice
66. Expend4bles
67. The Monster Squad
68. Resident Evil: Death Island
69. The Creator
70. Saw VI
71. Saw: The Final Chapter
72. Renfield
73. Jigsaw
74. The Fifth Element
75. National Treasure 2
76. Evil Dead Rise
77. Asteroid City
78. The Marvels
79. Spider-Man: Across the Spiderverse
80. Violent Night
81. Cocaine Bear
82. Trick R Treat
83. Elf
84. Drifting Home
85. King Solomon’s Mines
86. Love and Monsters
87. Die Hard with a Vengeance
88. Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom

Anime Series Watched (Start to finish):

1. 7Seeds (Season 1 & 2)
2. The Fruit of Evolution: Before I Knew It, My Life Had it Made (Season 2)
3. By the Grace of the Gods (Season 2)
4. Bofuri: I Don’t Want to Get Hurt, so I’ll Mad out My Defense (Season 2)
5. Tomo-chan is a Girl!
6. Reborn to Master the Blade: From Hero-King to Extraordinary Squire
7. Handyman Saitou in Another World
8. Chillin’ in my 30s after Getting Fired from the Demon King’s Army
9. Saving 80,000 Gold in Another World for my Retirement
10. Onimai: I’m Now Your Sister
11. Ningen Fushin: Adventurers Who Don’t Believe in Humanity Will Save the World
12. She Professed Herself Pupil of the Wise Man
13. Farming Life in Another World
14. Endo and Kobayashi Live! The Latest on Tsundere Villainess Lieselotte
15. Full Dive: This Ultimate Next-Gen Full Dive RPG is Even Shittier than Real Life!
16. My Hero Academia (Season 6)
17. KamiKatsu: Working for God in a Godless World
18. Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury
19. Summoned to Another World for a Second Time
20. My Love Story with Yamada-kun at Lv999
21. Tonikawa: Over The Moon For You (Season 2)
22. Konosuba -An Explosion on This Wonderful World!
23. The Legendary Hero Is Dead
24. The Ancient Magus Bride (Season 3)
25. Vinland Saga (Season 2)
26. Demon Slayer (Swordsmith Village Arc Season 3)
27. Otaku Elf
28. Level 1 Demon Lord & One Room Hero
29. The Most Heretical Last Boss Queen: From Villainess to Savior
30. Helck
31. The Vexations of a Shut-in Vampire Princess
32. The Demon Sword Master of Excalibur Academy
33. The Faraway Paladin (Season 2)
34. The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, REALLY Love You
35. Goblin Slayer (Season 2)
36. The Rising of Shield Hero (Season 3)
37. Shangri-La Frontier
38. Spy X Family (Season 2)
39. I Shall Survive Using Potions!
40. Dr. Stone (Season 3)
41. The Saint’s Magic Power is Omnipotent (Season 1 & 2)
42. My Daughter Left the Nest and Returned an S-Rank Adventurer
43. I’m Giving the Disgraced Noble Lady I Rescued a Crash Course in Naughtiness
44. A Playthrough of a Certain Dude’s VRMMO Life
45. I’m in Love with the Villainess
46. The Family Circumstances of the Irregular Witch

Shows Watched:

1. Willow (Season 1)
2. La Brea (Season 2)
3. The Wheel of Time
4. Cursed
5. IT Crowd (Seasons 1,2,3,4 and 5)
6. Aggretsuko (Season 5)
7. The Ark
8. The Mandalorian (Season 3)
9. Picard (Season 3)
10. The Sopranos (Season 1, 2 and 3)
11. Rick & Morty (Season 6)
12. Shadow and Bone (Season 2)
13. Mulligan
14. Futurama (Seasons 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10)
15. Fubar
16. Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (Season 2)
17. Solar Opposites (Season 4)
18. Manifest (Season 4)
19. What We Do in the Shadows (Season 5)
20. Marvel Secret Invasion
21. Ahsoka
22. The Wheel of Time (Season 2)
23. Loki (Season 2)
24. Invincible (Season 2)
25. Good Omens (Season 2)
26. Gen V
27. The Expanse (Season 1)
28. Ms. Marvel

2022 Log

Another year ended and I get to start a new log, they got quite long didn’t they. Now I’m working a new job and will have less time for games and shows, so maybe this years log will be shorter. It’s neat to look back at what I played and watched. I still intend to keep it up for the foreseeable future anyways. So here is the 2022 log.

1. New Years Day started off with a major snowstorm and subzero temperatures. I hope this isn’t a sign of what the year will bring. XD
2. I have succesfully put custom firmware on both a PS Vita and a 3DS. Using this to digitally install my entire physical collection onto SD Cards, my portable gaming needs are definitely met.
3. October. Traded in the 2015 Dodge Dart with coolant leak engine block issues for a new 2022 Subaru Forester.

Games Played:

1. Sea of Thieves – ~326.5 Hours (Including Insider Time)
2. Dead By Daylight – ~238 Hour
3. Rocket League – ~9 Hour
4. Pokemon Brilliant Diamond – 34:01 Hours (Beat Elite Four)
5. Phantasy Star Nova – 15:02 Hours
6. Halo Infinite – ~10 Hours
7. Friday the 13th – ~19 Hours
8. Pokemon Legends Arceus – ~45:42 Hours (All Missions Except Arceus, so main game beat)
9. Doki Doki Literature Club Plus! – 15 Hours (Complete 100%)
10. Genshin Impact – ~4 Hours
11. Shining Resonance Refrain – ~8 Hours
12. Silent Hill 2 – 1:40 Hour
13. Until Dawn – ~8 Hours (1 Playthrough complete)
14. Assassin’s Creed Valhalla – ~43 Hours
15. Star Wars Battlefront 2 (2005) – .5 Hours
16. #Drive – ~1.5 Hours
17. Alien vs. Predator – ~1 Hours
18. Monster Hunter Rise + Sunbreak – ~166 Hours
19. Roller Champions – ~1 Hours
20. Fall Guys – ~10 Hours
21. Sega Vintage Collection: Streets of Rage – 2 Hours
22. Elden Ring – ~15 Hours
23. Xenoblade Chronicles 3 – ~49:00 Hours
24. Guardians of the Galaxy – ~21:43 Hours (Completed + All Achievements)
25. Splatoon 3 – ~50 Hours (Story Mode 100% Complete)
26. Road 96 – 7.7 Hours (Complete All Achievements)
27. Dragon Ball The Breakers – ~53.5 Hours
28. Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed – ~20 Hours
29. Costume Quest – 1 Hour
30. Blair Witch – 8.5 Hours (Bad Ending reached)
31. Battlefield 1 – ~4 Hours
32. Monster Hunter World Iceborne – 14.5 Hours

Movies Watched (I don’t pick all of these, sometimes I just watch something to see what it is):

1. Don’t Look Up
2. Army of Thieves
3. Encanto
4. The Last Action Hero
5. Army of the Dead
6. The Forgotten Battle
7. The Grand Budapest Hotel
8. Munich The Edge of War
9. Moonfall
10. Child of Kamiari Month
11. The Colony
12. Death on the Nile
13. Agatha and the Curse of Ishtar
14. Uncharted
15. The Ring Two
16. Paradise Hills
17. Destination IO
18. Just Like Heaven
19. The Adam Project
20. Scream
21. Scream 2
22. Joker
23. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
24. Everything Everywhere All At Once
25. Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
26. Venom
27. The Toxic Avenger
28. Dark Angel: The Ascent
29. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
30. Top Gun
31. Alien
32. Chip ‘n Dale Rescue Rangers
33. Senior Year
34. Sonic the Hedgehog 2
35. Rogue One
36. Ragnarok (2013)
37. Top Gun Maverick
38. Suburban Commando
39. The Evil Dead
40. Jurassic World: Dominion
41. Evil Dead 2
42. Halloween
43. Operation Mincemeat
44. AVP: Alien vs. Predator
45. Alien vs. Predator Requiem
46. Halloween II
47. The Amazing Spider-Man
48. G.I Joe The Movie (1987)
49. Ender’s Game
50. Blood Vessel
51. Forbidden Empire
52. Thor: Love and Thunder
53. The History of Time
54. Cherry 2000
55. Spiderhead
56. The Addams Family 2
57. Barbarella
58. Lightyear
59. Valley of the Dead
60. Bullet Train
61. The Meg
62. Office Invasion
63. Willow
64. Dragon Ball Super: Super Heroes
65. The Babysitter
66. Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance
67. Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart at the River Stix
68. Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart to Hades
69. 10 Cloverfield Lane
70. Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in Peril
71. Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons
72. Morbius
73. The Munsters (2022)
74. The Sea Beast
75. Hocus Pocus 2
76. The Blair Witch Project
77. Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2
78. Blair Witch (2016)
79. Evil Dead (2013)
80. Black Adam
81. Venom: Let There Be Carnage
82. The Amazing Spider-Man 2
83. Wakanda Forever
84. Goosebumps
85. The Bad Guys
86. All Quiet on the Western Front
87. This is The End
88. The Space Between Us
89. Lone Wolf and Cub: White Heaven in Hell
90. The Happening
91. Santa Jaws
92. Avatar
93. A Boy Called Christmas
94. Avatar: The Way of Water
95. Die Hard 2: Die Harder
96. Sing 2

Anime Series Watched (Start to finish):

1. My Next Life as a Villainess (Season 2)
2. Demon Slayer (Season 2)
3. World’s End Harem
4. The Strongest Sage With the Weakest Crest
5. In the Land of Leadale
6. Life With an Ordinary Guy Who Reincarnated Into a Total Fantasy Knockout
7. Demon Lord Retry
8. How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom (Season 2)
9. The Dawn of the Witch
10. The Rising of Shield Hero (Season 2)
11. Love After World Domination
12. Don’t Hurt Me, My Healer!
13. Spy x Family (Season 1 and 2)
14. The Greatest Demon Lord is Reborn as a Typical Nobody
15. Skeleton Knight in Another World
16. Trapped in a Dating Sim: The World of Otome Games is Tough for Mobs
17. Science Fell in Love, So I Tried To Prove It [r=1-sin0]
18. Ascendance of a Bookworm (Season 2)
19. Violet Evergarden
20. Rent-a-Girlfriend (Season 2)
21. Harem in the Labyrinth of Another World
22. My Stepmom’s Daughter Is My Ex
23. Black Summoner
24. The Devil is a Part-Timer (Season 2)
25. Overlord (Season 4)
26. Call of The Night
27. Is It Wrong to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon (Season 4)
28. Romantic Killer
29. Beast Tamer
30. Legend of Mana -The Teardrop Crystal-
31. Chainsaw Man
32. I’m the Villainess, So I’m Taming the Final Boss
33. Love Flops
34. Reincarnated as a Sword
35. I’m Somehow Stronger When I Improved My Farm-Related Skills

Shows Watched:

1. The Witcher (Season 2)
2. Cobra Kai (Seasons 4 and 5)
3. Star Wars The Clone Wars (Season 4, 5, 6 and 7)
4. Lost in Space (Season 3)
5. The Silent Sea
6. Santa Clarita Diet (Season 1, 2 and 3)
7. The Book of Boba Fett
8. Disenchantment (Season 4)
9. Rick and Morty (Season 5)
10. Star Trek Discovery (Season 4)
11. Space Force (Season 2)
12. Another Life (Season 2)
13. Star Wars: The Bad Batch
14. Star Wars Rebels (Season 1, 2, 3 and 4)
15. Star Trek Picard (Season 2)
16. Obi-Wan Kenobi
17. The Umbrella Academy (Season 1, 2 and 3)
18. Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
19. Stranger Things (Season 4)
20. Solar Opposites (Season 3)
21. The Boys (Season 3)
22. What We Do in the Shadows (Season 3 and 4)
23. Moon Knight
24. The Orville (Season 3)
25. Locke & Key (Season 3)
26. Ash vs. Evil Dead (Seasons 1, 2 and 3)
27. Resident Alien (Season 2)
28. The Lord of The Rings: The Rings of Power
29. She-Hulk
30. Star Trek Lower Decks (Season 3)
31. Tales of the Jedi
32. Supernatural (Season 10)
33. Kim’s Convenience (Season 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5)
34. War of the Worlds (Season 3)
35. Inside Job (Season 2)
36. Andor
37. Wednesday
38. Cabinet of Curiosities
39. Rogue Heroes

2021 Log

Well, it happened. 2020 ended and I’m still on work from home. Either way, I liked having my log so much I intend to keep it up for the foreseeable future anyways. So here we go, the 2021 log.

1. Right at new years, I’m starting to broadcast some of my gaming on Twitch. I even picked up a capture card to stream Switch games.
2. The Reddit stock market drama is pretty fun. I had $12 sitting in my investing account, not in any stocks or anything, just leftover. I yolo’d $10 of it into NAKD on Jan 27th for 9 shares when Reddit was dropping names. I woke up on the 28th to sell it for $22 just before it started to dip again. I’m not an investor, I just have a few long-term stocks for various reasons. Will I try to take my $22 higher before the shenanigans end? Yes, I’ve got it to $26, nothing crazy. The whole thing seems to have died out now and I’m waiting for the market to normalize before I try to raise my bank further.
3. End of March I have begun a bitcoin mining adventure. I finally learned how to get it going after years of wanting to.
4. August, we replaced my parents water softener. Very minor plumbing and learned something about water softeners.
5. First week of September was spent at my sisters family’s house in Colorado Springs. Spent time with my niece, went to castle rock outlet mall, fixed their fence gate, took a day to go up and see the cabin my father spent summers at as a kid, went to Cheyenne Mountain Zoo.
6. October, I bought a bicycle cheap off Facebook marketplace for $50, for now it’s better than the $250+ alternative new bikes which I can always trade up to later if I decide. I know it’s about to get cold. I’ve been repainting the frame since it was scratched up pretty bad.
7. Wound up going Disc Golf Oct 10, enjoyed it and will probably go again. (Definitely have been back a few times)
8. Definitely riding that beginning of the year stock meme high and continuing with crypto investments. Shiba and Saitama. Diamond Hands Army lets go.
9. End of November I finally got hired for a new job, as it seems the final stretch of my old job going out of business draws nearer. Just in time I would say. From what I wasn’t supposed to hear, I don’t want to be at the old job much longer. I even managed to luck out with the new job and get something better than I imagined. Now I just have to do it well enough to keep it.
10. Finally finished painting 4 D&D miniatures I started years ago and was doing off and on. Trying to finish as many unpainted miniatures as I can. So I can stop replacing inks and move on. I don’t know if I’ll ever play again, I’d like to, but since I’m not playing I just want to finish what I have and not worry about painting any more. Got 3 more finished after that, still like 4 or 5 in my storage unpainted.

Games Played:

1. Sea of Thieves – ~487 Hours (Including Insider Time)
2. Animal Crossing: New Horizons – 8.5 Hours
3. Destiny 2 – 6 Hours
4. Call of Duty Modern Warfare (2019) – 1 Hour (Veteran Complete)
5. Dead by Daylight – ~118.5 Hours
6. Monster Hunter World: Iceborne – 158 Hours (Combination of PC, PS4, XB1)
7. Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity – 24 Hours (Completed)
8. Monster Hunter Portable 3rd – 1 Hour
9. Star Wars Battlefront 2 – 3.6 Hours
10. Scott Pilgrim vs The World – 4.5 Hours
11. Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate – 20.5 Hours
12. Vader Immortal (1, 2, and 3) – 2 Hours
13. Fallout: New Vegas – 19.5 Hours
14. Yoshi Crafted World – 12 Hours (Completed)
15. Xenoblade Chronicles – 57 Hours (Completed, I had 51 hours on it from a few years ago and continued from there)(Future Connected Compete – 12 Hours)
16. Halo: The Master Chief Collection – 11 Hours
17. Friday the 13th – 1 Hour
18. Valheim – 120 Hours
19. Dragon Quest 3 – 38 Hours (Completed)
20. Monster Hunter Rise – 120:20 Hours
21. Borderlands 3 – 6 Hours
22. Rocket League – 28 Hours
23. Bloodborne – 5.5 Hours
24. Elder Scrolls Online – 4 Hours
25. Little Nightmares – 5.8 Hours (Complete + DLC)
26. Super Mario 3D World + Bowsers Fury- 11.5 Hours (Completed)
27. Resident Evil 7 Biohazard – 16 hours (Completed)
28. Monster Hunter Stories – 27.5 Hours (Completed, This is also picking up from an old save from a few years ago, I had 21 hours on it already)
29. No Man’s Sky – 5 Hours
30. Sonic & All Stars Racing – 1.5 Hours
31. Phantasy Star Online 2 – 62 Hours
32. Bravely Second: End Layer – 9 Hours
33. Mario Golf Super Rush – 6 Hours
34. Ys IX: Monstrum Nox – 38.5 Hours (Completed)
35. The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword HD – 34 Hours (Completed, Motion Controls)
36. The Outer Wilds – 2:26 Hours
37. Deepest Sword – 45 Minutes (Completed. what, it’s a short freebie game)
38. Dauntless – 4 Hours
39. Love Esquire – 18.5 Hours (Completed 1 Playthrough)
40. No More Heroes 2 – 11:10 Hours (Completed)
41. Chronos: Before the Ashes – 12 Hours (Completed)
42. Swordsman – 5 Hours
43. Samurai Jack Battle Through Time – 3 Hours
44. Hotwheels Unleashed – 4.5 Hours
45. Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order – 18 Hours (Completed)
46. We Happy Few – 6 Hours
47. Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic – ~15 Hours
48. Doom – 1.5 Hours
49. Forza Horizon 4 – ~31.5 Hours
50. Fatal Frame: Maiden of Blackwater – ~2 hours

Movies Watched (I did not pick all of these, sometimes I just watch something to see what it is):

1. Rogue One
2. The Midnight Sky
3. The Highwaymen
4. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2
5. The Croods
6. Mary and the Witch’s Flower
7. Deadpool
8. Deadpool 2
9. Jupiter Ascending
10. Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl
11. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest
12. Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End
13. Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
14. The Titan
15. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
16. Treasure Island (1950)
17. The Truman Show
18. Escaflowne
19. Space Sweepers
20. Paranorman
21. Onward
22. Wonder Woman 1984
23. Big Hero 6
24. Tenacious D and The Pick of Destiny
25. A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
26. A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master
27. Sonic the Hedgehog
28. Boondock Saints
29. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
30. Dead Poets Society
31. Hercules
32. Star Trek: First Contact
33. Waterworld
34. The Mitchells vs The Machines
35. Shazam!
36. Charming
37. Over The Moon
38. Stowaway
39. Yes Day
40. The Death of Stalin
41. Shrek
42. Deadpool 2
43. Your Highness
44. Scarface
45. Battleship
46. 6 Underground
47. The Ballad of Lefty Brown
48. My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising
49. The Big Lebowski
50. My Spy
51. Shadow in the Cloud
52. Bright
53. Wish Dragon
54. The Outlaw Josey Wales
55. Sherlock Holmes: The Sign of Four
56. Hancock
57. Blue Miracle
58. Finding Ohana
59. The Silence
60. Skyrunners
61. Bill & Ted: Face the Music
62. America The Motion Picture
63. The Tommorow War
64. Infinite
65. A Quiet Place
66. A Quiet Place Part II
67. Seventh Son
68. Cosmic Sin
69. Black Widow
70. Yes Man
71. Horns
72. Munster, Go Home
73. Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins
74. The Ring
75. Major Grom Plague Doctor
76. G.I. Joe The Movie
77. Jungle Cruise
78. Congo
79. Monster Hunter Legends of The Guild
80. The Transformers: The Movie
81. Crimson Peak
82. Porky’s
83. Free Guy
84. Midsommar
85. Cool World
86. Arq
87. Saturday the 14th
88. Spawn
89. The Vault
90. The November Man
91. John Dies at the End
92. Knights of Badassdom
93. A Fistfull of Dollars
94. For a Few Dollars More
95. Masters of The Universe
96. Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
97. Labyrinth
98. Osmosis Jones
99. The Croods: A New Age
100. Castaway
101. Ghosts of War
102. The Village
103. Signs
104. Nightbooks
105. Muppets Haunted Mansion
106. Hubie Halloween
107. In the tall grass
108. No Time To Die
109. Nobody sleeps in the woods tonight
110. Atlantis The Lost Empire
111. Fear Street 1994 Part One
112. Fear Street 1978 Part Two
113. Dune
114. Fear Street 1666 Part Three
115. Eternals
116. Green Lantern
117. Extinction
118. Inside Out
119. Ghostbusters: Afterlife
120. The Matrix
121. Red Notice
122. Matrix Reloaded
123. Matrix Revolutions
124. Dark Shadows
125. The Christmas Chronicles
126. Green Snake
127. Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale
128. Jack Frost (1997 horror)
129. The Knight Before Christmas
130. Spider-Man (2002)
131. Spider-Man 2 (2004)
132. Spiderman: No Way Home
133. The King’s Man
134. Jack Frost 2
135. Spider-Man 3
136. Die Hard
137. Matrix Resurrections
138. Fire & Ice

Anime Series Watched (Start to finish):

1. Redo of Healer
2. Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki
3. Dr. Stone (Season 2)
4. RE:Zero Starting Life in Another World (Season 2)
5. The Hidden Dungeon Only I Can Enter
6. That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime (Season 2)
7. How Not to Summon a Demon Lord (Season 2)
8. Seven Knights Revolution: Hero Successor
9. Zombie Land Saga (Season 2)
10. 86 Eighty-Six
11. World Trigger 2nd Season
12. I’ve Been Killing Slimes for 300 Years and Maxed Out My Level
13. To Your Eternity
14. Higehiro: After Being Rejected, I Shaved and Took in a High School Runaway
15. So I’m a Spider, So What?
16. Joran The Princess of Snow and Blood
17. Nomad: Megalobox 2
18. My Next Life as a Villainess (Season 2)
19. Seirei Gensouki: Spirit Chronicles
20. Peach Boy Riverside
21. I’m Standing on a Million Lives (Season 2)
22. That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime (Season 2)
23. Remake Our Life!
24. Battle Game in 5 Seconds
25. My Hero Academia (Season 5)
26. Mother of the Goddess’ Dormitory
27. Takt.OP Destiny
28. The World’s Finest Assassin
29. The Faraway Paladin
30. Sakugan
31. The Aquatope on White Sand

Shows Watched:

1. Cobra Kai (Season 3)
2. Another Life (Season 1)
3. Disenchantment (Season 3)
4. Star Wars: Clone Wars (Season 1)
5. The Watch (Season 1)
6. Wandavision
7. Solar Opposites (Season 2)
8. Resident Alien
9. The King’s Avatar
10. Sherlock (Seasons 2-3)
11. The Falcon and The Winter Soldier
12. Travelers (Seasons 1, 2, and 3)
13. Supernatural (Seasons 1, 2, 3 ,4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9)
14. Debris
15. Shadow and Bone
16. King of the Hill (Seasons 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5)
17. Loki
18. Resident Evil: Infinite Darkness
19. War of the Worlds (Seasons 1 and 2)
20. The Boys (Seasons 1 and 2)
21. Good Omens
22. Invincible
23. Gravity Falls (Seasons 1 and 2)
24. Community (Seasons 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6)
25. Manifest (Season 1, 2, and 3)
26. Star Trek Lower Decks (Season 2)
27. Norsemen (Season 1, 2 and 3)
28. Inside Job
29. Locke and Key (Season 2)
30. Aggretsuko (Season 5)

The Wonders of Sea of Thieves Rejoin Session Feature

I just want to stress how awesome the rejoin session feature is after an experience I had today.

Recently, I have been running the Tall Tales in Sea of Thieves as a solo player, I always wanted to get each on done the five times you have to do them for max completion, Quarantine work from home is still going for me so I have had time to finally sit down and do one two or three a day. I am finally on the final one Shores of Gold. I ran it once today already and mysteriously gained 20k gold for the Gold Hoarders skull instead of the normal 10k gold. Turns out this is a double gold and reputation weekend. Such a revelation spurred me on to do it two more times and complete it once and for all.

On the second run, I sailed up while finding a collectors chest along the way to make collecting tokens quicker. I had already grabbed two tokens and was on my way to the third when disaster struck. The power in my apartment went out long enough, a second or two, to shut down literally everything. I was pissed, and rightfully so. dreading the half hour to sail back and start over. I really wanted to finish my tall tales while the Gold Hoarders skull was worth 20k, so I turned my Xbox back on and logged back in.

To my surprise, the game asked me if I wanted to rejoin my session, I have seen this option when playing with friends and getting disconnected, an easy quick back in to my crew and ship. My heart began to show hope, but surely the few minutes I have been off now were enough to lose my ship and server, so I clicked yes to rejoin session with hope in my heart.

Success, amazing wonderful success, I was placed back on my ship unmoved in the Shores of Gold, it took me a few minutes to run back over and find where my collectors chest was dropped and I happily continued on my way through my Tall Tale having lost absolutely nothing except maybe 5-10 minutes of time.

The Rejoin Session feature is valuable and indispensable, and I wish many other games both single and multiplayer would make use of how it works because sometimes autosave just isn’t enough.

As a side note, due to the double gold and reputation weekend, I received 16k gold for completing the tale and 20k gold for the skull. That’s 36k gold for each time through. I was originally planning to do this at one run a day and finish sometime next week, but there is no better time to do the final Tall Tale than a double gold weekend so I might as well just keep running it today.

Animal Crossing New Horizon’s Designs

I have been making designs for New Horizon’s, it’s finally time to get some of them off of the switch and post them. I redid my old Invader Zim designs for New Horizon’s with the new movie ‘Enter the Florpus’ alternates. An Original FF7 Aerith. A Kimono I had made a few weeks ago during the Cherry Blossom Festival, and a few custom designs I use such as the face I use on my character (with eyebrows matching the orange hair color and beauty mark) and a phone case that looks like a Game Boy. Designer Code: MA-0193-2120-5265.

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  Original Aerith Final Fantasy 7

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  Dib – Enter the Florpus

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  Dib – Invader Zim

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  The face I made my character with eyebrows matching the orange hair color

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  The Phone Case I customized to look like a Game Boy

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  Gaz – Enter the Florpus

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  Gaz – Invader Zim

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  A Kimono I made during the Cherry Blossom Event

Animal Crossing – A Look Back

Here we sit about a month into New Horizons being out. Today I decided to load up the old games and check on town’s that I haven’t touched in years. I wanted to see how the games and my old houses looked and basically reminisce. If you want to know more about the games, look them up further, I’ll only have basic house-related information here, I’m mostly just showing off my houses of past games here.

Animal Crossing (GameCube):

The Original Animal Crossing for the GameCube, this came out in 2001. I didn’t play this one much, I think I bought this after playing Wild World for a bit, I didn’t have many items and only one room at my house. I have no memory of this town name or what it might relate to. Saving was done at the Gyroid outside the house. This game was split up into screens instead of one big scrolling outdoor area. If you don’t play for a long time, weeds grow throughout town and roaches infest your house and you have to walk on them to kill them.

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  What a mess.

Wild World (DS)

This was the first Animal Crossing I really played, Wild World came out for the DS in 2005. Back in these days, my main character was always named Sasuke, man I was really into Naruto back then. Apparently, I couldn’t even spell the town name correctly. At this point, there were 4 rooms on the main floor, a second floor, and an attic that was where all the characters slept. Beds were where you went to save. There was no basement here. I seem to have had a tendency to cram each room as full as I could. In Wild World bed head hair was added to roaches and weeds as a result of not playing for a long time.

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  I had made all 4 characters.

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  OMG, the bed head after sleeping for over a decade.

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  Haha, I remember this spot where I berried items temporarily.

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  First Floor, Main Room

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  First Floor, Left Side

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  First Floor, North Side

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  First Floor, Right Side

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  Second Floor

City Folk (Wii)

I was incorrect on when this came out, I thought it was before Wild World. City Folk came out for the Wii in 2008. At one point in time, I stopped liking Sasuke as a character name and switched to Kuro, which has been my screen name and such since. Apparently, that happened sometime during City Folk since I have characters with both screen names. More references, Trandr was actually a reference to the Dr Tran animations. City Folk Had 3 floors not counting the attic, there were no side rooms on the main floor. The internet tells me this is how it was in the original game.

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  Trandr was a Dr Tran reference.

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  Again, the bed head after a decade asleep.

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  Main Floor

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  Second Floor

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  Attic

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  The Coolest Basement Ever

New Leaf (3DS)

New Leaf came out for the 3DS in 2012 and is probably the one I played the Most. Isabelle came along in New Leaf to assist the player in the mayor duties. She would take care of things like weeds when you didn’t play for a long time, it’s been about 7 years and there were no weeds when I logged in, I guess Isabelle is the mayor now. I named the town Pokke after the village in Monster Hunter Freedom Unite, one of my favorite games I used to play with some great people. I went all out with decorating the town and using patterns, like the waterway pictured. A lot of my designs you can find in other posts here with the QR codes for them, they can also be transferred to New Horizons (I have moved them over myself). I also hope the Nintendo themed items find their way into New Horizons at some point. I need to stop packing my rooms with items just to show them off and actually make some nice-looking rooms for once, although my New Leaf house doesn’t seem that bad compared to the others.

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  Pokke is a reference to Monster Hunter

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  I’m so sorry Isabelle

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  You have done a fantastic job.

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  I definitely made use of the patterns this game.

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  First Floor, Main Room

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  First Floor, Left Side

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  First Floor, North Side

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  First Floor, Right Side

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  Second Floor

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  The Other Coolest Basement Ever

COVID-19 Corona Quarantine 2020 Log

I live in the Midwest, and we aren’t under official lockdown yet. I have been off since March 16th and I have now decided to make a small log of the things I have been doing while I stay home during this time.

This started as something I thought would only last a few weeks and then maybe through summer, now it’s almost turning into a 2020 log. If this continues past December before I go back to the office or find a new job, then I might make a second post for 2021 just to split things up because this is getting long (looks like a second 2021 post is going to happen, except for pre-march I enjoyed doing this list this year and might continue these every year regardless).

1. I spent the first week doing a deep spring cleaning of my apartment. I removed every object from my shelves and dusted. I cleaned the kitchen and bathroom top to bottom bleaching surfaces. I vacuumed everywhere, and the entryway was recently steam cleaned. I started washing every piece of clothing that needed to and had been outside, like the hoodies I wear to work.
2. Two days after being let off work, my washer died and I had to head on over to Nebraska Furniture Mart to buy a new one so I could finish washing all my clothes.
3. I spent one full Saturday getting my car washed and cleaned inside and outside. It also has a full tank of gas from right when we got sent home (just in case).
4. Since we aren’t on full lockdown yet, I was trying to go on almost daily walks to continue getting a minimum of exercise. Almost daily, it’s hard to force myself to go do that, I’ve never liked exercise or sports. Working a Pokemon Go stop into my circle.
5. I’ve been to my parents a few times since we are all still healthy. Helped dad with yard work after we cleaned cars, went for dinner and to watch the latest Star Wars movie one time, etc.
6. The first video game I have completed during this time was Death Stranding, I spent 80 hours on it and have all but 3 trophies. Death Stranding is an excellent game with an interesting story about life, death, people, and the connections that bring us all together with a somewhat weird science fiction story holding it all together. It also has an amazing soundtrack I keep listening to.
7. I spent a few hours cleaning up 2 decades worth of bookmarks in my browser. Checking which sites still existed and deleting bookmarks for those that don’t or were not relevant anymore, etc. Basically, deleting dead links and reorganizing everything.
8. A Month into Corona-Break, I tried to go to the bank drive-through to cash a check, and my car battery was dead. I spent my afternoon and about $100 replacing it. I did at least get the check cashed.
9. I spent a day helping dad clean out the shed.
10. Last Fall I spent months ripping my DVD collection to my computer so I could stream them to my TV and not have to pull out the DVDs when I want to watch them. I have started ripping my father’s DVDs for him. I also have been able to chop up every cartoon series that ripped off into hours long cuts down to their individual episodes.
11. Spent Mothers Day at My Parents House. Yep, Still off work and distancing at home 2 months later…
12. Put together parent’s new patio furniture.
13. At the beginning of June work finally contacted and had us start writing up some plans. What seems to be the beginning of an attempt to get us working from home, or hopefully back to work soon.
14. My birthday comes and goes and we haven’t returned to work yet, even though we are kind of doing some reports from home. As much as I like having a 3-month break, I kind of hate not going anywhere and this is getting ridiculous. Also, I got a new phone for my birthday because the battery was draining fast and sometimes calls weren’t coming through.
15. Fourth of July was interesting without going to a fireworks show, but many more people shot them off at home this year which kind of sucks if you hate the noise.
16. Sister came to visit, so everyone could meet her kid. We went to the zoo one day, that was weird with half of it being closed and everyone in masks. wasn’t as empty as I thought it would be though.
17. End of September and I helped my father re-level the tree ring bricks and put up gutter covers on the house.
18. Went to my sisters for thanksgiving for just over a week.
19. Merry Christmas, had a nice day with just my parents and grandma instead of the big family gathering at my aunts.

To further expand on my quarantine adventures (I will update this as quarantine goes on)…

Games Played:

1. Death Stranding – 80 Hours (Completed)
2. Sea of Thieves – ~382 Hours
3. Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night – 21:53 Hours (Completed)
4. Switch NES/SNES Online – 4 Hours
5. Animal Crossing: New Horizons – 335 Hours
6. Final Fantasy XV – 71:34 Hours (Beat Story at 55:30), Episode Gladiolus 1:15 Hour, Episode Ignis 2:20 Hours, Episode Prompto 2:12 Hours, Episode Ardyn 2:49 Hours (Completed)
7. Monster Hunter World: Iceborne – 247 Hours
8. Final Fantasy 7 Remake – 51 Hours (Completed, except hard mode stuff)
9. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt DLC Expansions – Hearts of Stone 10.5 Hours, Blood and Wine 21.5 Hours (Completed)
10. Dragon Warrior NES – 15:50 Hours (Completed)
11. Dragon Warrior II NES – 25:50 Hours (Completed)
12. Borderlands 2 – 49.5 Hours (Completed including DLC)
13. Phantasy Star Online 2 – 11 Hours
14. Borderlands GOTY – 41 Hours (Completed including DLC)
15. The Hunter: Call of the Wild – 14.9 Hours
16. Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate – 14 Hours
17. Chrono Trigger – 33.5 Hours (Completed, all endings)
18. Everspace – 7.6 Hours
19. Sekiro – 6 Hours
20. Ghost of Tsushima – 16 Hours
21. Treasure Hunter Simulator – 9 Hours (Completed)
22. Elite Dangerous – 1.5 Hours
23. Deep Rock Galactic – 11.5 Hours
24. The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel – 5 Hours
25. Super Mario 3D All-Stars: Mario Sunshine – 4 Hours
26. Half-Life 2 – 10 Hours (Completed)
27. Friday the 13th – 14 Hours
28. No Man’s Sky – 82 Hours
29. Monster Hunter Tri – 5.5 Hours
30. Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity – 24 Hours
31. No More Heroes – 13 Hours (Completed)
32. Half-Life 2: Episode 1 – 4.3 Hours (Completed)
33. Halo: The Master Chief Collection – 18 Hours
34. Call of Duty WWII – 18 Hours (Completed)
35. Call of Duty Advanced Warfare – 10 Hours (Completed)
36. Destiny 2 – 32.5 hours
37. Dying Light – 6.2 Hours
38. Call of Duty Modern Warfare (2019) – 15 Hours (Completed, now playing warzone)
39. Dead by Daylight – 5.5 Hours

Movies Watched (I did not pick all of these):

1. Star Wars I: The Phantom Menace
2. Overlord
3. The Blues Brothers
4. Star Wars VIII: The Last Jedi
5. Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV
6. The LEGO Movie 2
7. John Carter
8. The Pirates! Band of Misfits
9. Elysium
10. Fury
11. Star Wars II: Attack of the Clones
12. Star Wars III: Revenge of The Sith
13. Snow White and the Huntsman
14. The Huntsman: Winter’s War
15. Zatoichi: Darkness is His Ally
16. Kelly’s Heroes
17. Master and Commander
18. The Mummy Returns
19. Dick Tracy
20. Red Green’s Duct Tape Forever
21. Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
22. The Big Red One
23. Doctor Strange
24. Valerian
25. Illang The Wolf Brigade
26. Train to Busan
27. Ready Player One
28. The Green Hornet
29. Repo! The Genetic Opera
30. Stargate
31. Knives Out
32. The Incredible Hulk
33. Ant-Man
34. Ant-Man and the Wasp
35. Jumanji
36. Spider-Man: Homecoming
37. Spider-Man: Far From Home
38. A Whisker Away
39. A Knights Tale
40. The Postman
41. Minions
42. RE:Zero The Frozen Bond
43. Stargate Ark of Truth
44. Palm Springs
45. Despicable Me
46. Geostorm
47. The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then the Bigfoot
48. Solo A Star Wars Story
49. Mad Max
50. Mad Max: The Road Warrior
51. Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome
52. Goblin Slayer: Goblin’s Crown
53. Tucker and Dale vs. Evil
54. Gemini Man
55. They Live
56. Prometheus
57. Alien: Covenant
58. Alien
59. Secondhand Lions
60. Aliens
61. Alien 3
62. 1922
63. Australia
64. Double World
65. The Old Guard
66. Legends of the Fall
67. Spaceballs
68. Back to the Future
69. Back to the Future 2
70. Back to the Future 3
71. Stardust
72. Timetrap
73. Code 8
74. The Vast of Night
75. The Addams’s Family (2019)
76. The Devil all the Time
77. Frozen
78. Kung Fu Hustle
79. Hocus Pocus
80. The Addam’s Family
81. Addam’s Family Values
82. Cirque du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant
83. Hotel Transylvania
84. Hotel Transylvania 2
85. Lockout
86. Yogi Bear (2010)
87. Sleepy Hollow
88. The Adventurer: The Curse of the Midas Box
89. The Aeronauts
90. Midnight Special
91. True Memoirs of an International Assassin
92. Easy A
93. Stranger Than Fiction
94. The Final Countdown
95. Spider-Man Into The Spider-Verse
96. Coco
97. Moana
98. #Alive
99. White Christmas
100. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
101. Home Alone
102. Home Alone 2
103. The Irishman
104. Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
105. Armageddon
106. Winchester
107. Klaus
108. A Goofy Movie
109. The Star Wars Holiday Special (You know which one)

Anime Series Watched (Start to finish, Plus we have made it through 2 whole Anime seasons):

1. Astra Lost in Space
2. Trigun
3. Hellsing
4. Hellsing Ultimate
5. Haven’t you heard? I’m Sakamoto
6. Tower of God
7. Ascendance of a Bookworm (Season 2)
8. My Next Life as a Villainess
9. Tsugumomo (Season 1 and 2)
10. Domestic Girlfriend
11. Erased
12. Midnight Occult Civil Servants
13. Deca-Dence
14. Appare-Ranman!
15. Rent-a-Girlfriend
16. Peter Grill and the Philosopher’s Time
17. Sword Art Online Alicization War of Underworld
18. Re:Zero -Starting Life in Another World- (Season 2)
19. The Misfit of Demon King Academy
20. Monster Girl Doctor
21. Fire Force (Season 2)
22. Wandering Witch: The Journey of Elaina
23. Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? (Season 3)
24. Tonikawa: Over The Moon For You
25. By the Grace of the Gods
26. I’m Standing on A Million Lives

Shows Watched:

1. Solar Opposites
2. The Good Place (Seasons 1 2 3 and 4)
3. Bobs Burgers (Seasons 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 and 11)
4. Space Force
5. Black Sails (Seasons 1 and 2)
6. F is for Family (Season 4)
7. Archer (Seasons 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 and 11)
8. Dark (Seasons 1 2 and 3)
9. The Legend of Korra (Seasons 1 2 3 and 4)
10. Cobra Kai (Seasons 1 and 2)
11. Sherlock (Seasons 1 and 2)
12. Arrow (Seasons 1 and 2)
13. Star Trek: Lower Decks
14. Star Trek Discovery (Season 3)
15. The Mandalorian (Season 2)

Animal Crossing Image Converter

I was playing around with this Animal Crossing Image Converter and QR Code Generator today https://acpatterns.com/editor. Whether it works or not completely depends on the image. You can also get amazing results by dividing images into 2×2 or 3×3 grids and producing multiple parts to make a larger image. I also like that the newest game lets you make part of the design transparent. Here are some of my results from messing around:

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  Android 18

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  Captain N

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  Captain N Box Art

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  Castlevania Box Art

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  Chrono

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  Darth Jar Jar

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  Dragon Quest 4 World Map

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  Dropkix 1 Space Dandy

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  Dropkix 2 Space Dandy

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  Epoch Chrono Trigger

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  Filo Shield Hero

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  Frank West Dead Rising

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  Frog Chrono Trigger

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  Game Boy

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  Goblin Slayer

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  Team Gurren Flag

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  Japan Wave Painting

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  Metroid Do Not Feed Sign

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  Miriam Bloodstained

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  NES Controller

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  Pokeball Logo

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  Pokemon Yellow Pikachu

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  Raphtalia 1

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  Raphtalia 2

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  Red Pokemon

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  Simon Castle Gates

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  SNES Controller

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  Aloha Oe Space Dandy

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  Link Thumbs Up

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  do you love your mom and her two-hit multi-target attacks

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  Zeal Chrono Trigger

Pokemon Sword

I am almost finished with my Pokemon Sword Living Dex and want to take this time to address my complaints with the game. I have put well into 90 hours into Pokemon Sword, and I don’t want anyone to think I didn’t enjoy the game, but I do have some issues as a long time fan who has been playing since Red and Blue. Honestly, Dexit isn’t even one of the thing’s I care about, I enjoy the chance to try new pokemon by being forced away from my mainstays.

• Lack of GTS – Global Trade was the best thing ever. To have nothing like that in this game is making it very difficult or me to complete my Dex. Surprise Trade just doesn’t cut it, and Link Trade is basically Suprise Trade 2. Please for the love of god bring back the GTS.
• Trading with Friends – A genuine lack of any way to connect to a specific person. Apparently, to trade with friends, you have to use link trade and set a link code which is 4 digits long. Sounds easy enough, but there is a possibility you can connect to someone else using that same code. The biggest feature of pokemon is trading and battling, why do we have to make specific non-random trading as hard as possible?
• Rivals – I’m just going to go ahead and say that Pokemon Sword doesn’t even have a rival. Rivals has been an ongoing problem for quite a few Gen’s now. Rivals have gone from threats to now Hop just outright loses to everyone. Bede was more of a rival than anyone in the last few generations of Pokemon. Bring Back Gary Oak who would always show up at the most inopportune times to ruin your day. Rivals and Gym Leaders were the only difficult battles, so in a way, we’ve lost most of the game’s difficulty.
• Gym Leaders – Never have more than 4 pokemon, I can’t think of a single NPC outside of maybe Leon who actually had a full party of 6. Just more ongoing issues in how these games have absolutely zero difficulty. This region even treats Battles like a national sport, I equated it to European Soccer Culture once, yet no one takes the time to flesh out a team. It’s no wonder Leon was undefeated.
• Trainers – Where did they all go? I’m used to routes being packed full of opposing trainers to battle, but every route in this game seems to have maybe 5 max. Are people not allowed to train and battle unless they are doing the gym challenge? Is every one of those trainers on each route a challenge employee? Is this the most peaceful region in the Pokemon universe?
• Bike Outfits – Like the pokemon ride outfits before them, they are completely ugly and I wish they didn’t exist. I understand the league uniforms but who seriously takes the time to change their clothes before a bike ride other than serious marathon competitors. I’d like to have the bike outfit removed or have better options for it rather than just a color change.
• Clothing Choices – I loved it when they added character customization back in the 3DS games. However, I feel like Pokemon Sword has the worst and least amount of clothing choices and hairstyles so far. I was barely able to find any I liked in this game. I’m not sure why they can’t add to the list instead of starting over each generation with a new list of clothing. I know they are trying to have each region have it’s own fashion, but I’d love to see the options continue to grow instead of dwindle. I’m sure the Pokemon world has online shopping and global shipping.
• Hallways – Every route is pretty much a straight line with little to no deviation. It is impossible to get lost. Let me also list Spikemouth as the most disappointing city ever, a literal alleyway and nothing else. Even the Wild Area is pretty small and straight forward. I saw a chart about all the wasted map space and have to agree. There are a couple of small open areas, but there isn’t much to any o them. On a side note, all the routes felt quite short to me.
• Lack of Touchscreen Use – Ever since the DS introduced a touch screen we have been able to select menus and attacks or whatever by touching the screen. The Switch has a touch screen, so why remove that option now? it’s hard to go back to not having a touch screen option after it existing for so long on the handheld games.

I do enjoy these games as a diversion from the normal as opposed to the way Sun and Moon did it. Sun and Moon had a nice region without gyms and a league atmosphere at least until they ruined it by starting a league at the end, they tried to deviate from the stale old story of villains and gyms but just wound up repeating that anyways.

Sword and Shield nicely ditch the evil organization route for a region where Pokemon Battles are a massive sport. I will complain about all the evil organization bits they dangle in your face and never let you go near because “that’s for adults”. Why dangle that in our face if you aren’t going to let us participate. I would rather it have been left out and just stuck to the Sports story, I do understand however with post-game that dangerous happenings become the job of the champion and I guess that is the story’s way of saying “let the champion handle it”.

My Weekend at the local Anime Convention with a Game Boy

I go to a local Anime Convention every year, this was my 8th year. I cosplay for this convention, I’m not going to post those here, that’s not the point of this. My first cosplay I did for two years, Kirito from Sword art Online, Kirito wasn’t common when I cosplayed him and I was the only one at my con with both swords, and when I saw him become common like Pokemon trainers and Misty I stopped. After that, I did a year or two as Frank West from Dead Rising with a friend as Chuck Greene. This was Followed by Dragon Ball Super Trunks with the blue hair, I cosplayed him three years in Conjunction with Frank West. Last Year I spent months putting together Monster Hunter armor I have always wanted, technically it’s not completed as I found some things to fix when I was actually wearing it around the con. This year I was lazy and still haven’t fixed/finished that monster hunter armor, I put together a lazy Sunday cosplay I have always wanted…Captain N the Game Master!

I know Captain N is extremely simple, I wore around my normal daily jeans and black/white sneakers, paired with a $5 yellow shirt and a varsity jacket I sewed an ‘N’ onto. Pair that with an NES controller belt and a Zapper and call it good. I took apart a Zapper and cleaned it up real nice, I learned some things about the inside of a Zapper during this…

Inside the NES Zapper

First of all, there are two metal weights inside the Zapper that give it it’s hefty feel. Up top, we have two half-circle pieces of metal taped together in the barrel so the light can still pass through. In the handle, is an inch-long brass weight. The second thing I learned is that the cable you plug into the NES itself has a connector on the end of the circuit board, this means that you can use one of these controllers for cosplay and reattach the cable later or that you could replace a broken cable if you found one that still worked.

Having cleaned up a Zapper for this cosplay, I finally motivated myself to buy some security bit screwdrivers to open up my Game Boy. I have two Game Boy’s; both have pixel lines that do not show up. I took one of these Game Boys and cleaned it up for use, one has a single-pixel line out, the other has multiple throughout the screen. Someday I will go and fix these, I have seen the fix online and it looks easy and seems like it can be done as often as necessary, from what I understand it is just reheating the solder without touching the board to reconnect the screen. At this point, I have a nicely cleaned up Zapper and Game Boy. I just used a silicon brush under running tap water.

You can certainly tell which one I cleaned up

I had planned on and started getting what I needed to be Captain N before I even started doing my weekly posts about the games I had as a kid. As time went along and I picked up the Jacket and patch, or as I cleaned up the Zapper…my weekly posts were reminding me how fun those games were and making me want to play them again. I still have to finish games such as Astra Chain, but I spent the last month being lazy and not playing many games. I spent most of the last month rewatching Captain N and Space Dandy.

BTW, check out the autographs I got this year

So, as I was doing all of this, about a week or so before the con I got this bright idea…”I’m only going to take a Game Boy and only play that during the con”. So, I got my Game Boy, my Flash Cart, a Game Boy Camera and a pack of batteries. I didn’t even need the pack of batteries; the initial 4 batteries lasted all weekend. Get this though, I played a lot between panels or in the autograph line, I went through almost all of Super Mario Land 2 and got a decent start on Final Fantasy Adventure. The Original Game Boy had amazing battery life, it was supposed to be anywhere from 10-30 hours depending on games and such. I would have to have charged my 3DS or Switch multiple times over the weekend, 3DS has a battery life of about 4 hours.

Now, like I said the first thing I played was Super Mario Land 2. I went most of the way through the game, I completed up to entering Mario’s Castle getting the door open. The convention, unfortunately, was not the place for me to focus on getting through the castle, I will do that here at home. Then I was looking for another game to play casually and landed on Final Fantasy Adventure, I never owned it as a kid but I tried to play it a few times and never reached the first town. The game is a bit difficult to start, it basically begins with two boss fights, and then forces you to get to the first town all with about 19hp. You can save at any time you want, but I couldn’t heal until the first town. Now, part of this is me just not knowing how to play the game and you have to realize I wasn’t looking up how to play either. I finally figured out about an hour or so in how to actually use items.

Aside from a few minutes in the way overcrowded game room playing an SNES Mini, I actually spent the entire weekend only playing my Original Grey Brick Game Boy, and it was the most fun I’ve had playing games lately. I played games from my childhood and game I would like to have had as a child. I spent the whole weekend between my cosplay, my game choices and the way I played those games like I was a kid again. A kid with a low-resolution blurry LCD screen you can’t see in the shade, with no internet help on how to get all the secrets or beat the boss.

I got more looks and questions about the Game Boy than I did my cosplay. A few people recognized Captain N, but I think most people, especially those under 30, just didn’t even know who he is. I saw on person I should have talked to who I believed was one of the virus Captain N’s from toward the end of season 2 where Kevin gets sick with a Videoland Virus, but I didn’t realize that until a bit later. More people, mostly those in my age group, were much more interested in what I was playing.

Oh yeah, remember how I said one of the things I took with me was a Game Boy Camera? I don’t have the fancy somewhat expensive contraption the download the images from my cartridge to my pc, but I have a cellphone camera…