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Yeah, I'm having surprising difficulty at times in Spider-Man. Thugs are a lot more willing to gang up on you all at once than in the Arkham games. But that's because Spidey can do air combos Batman couldn't, probably. And the prompt to dodge/counter is a lot harder to notice. It's white for dodge and light blue for the counter window.

Finished Destiny 2 to my satisfaction. It was very good. I could see myself running through it again another time. On to Spider-Man! I love the Scarlet Spider costume. The Advanced Suit seems a little too sporty. I keep expecting to see a Nike swoosh on it.

I wouldn't say I gave up to boredom, but I couldn't give you a better idea of why I did give up. Apathy? Like I don't remember what was even going on with the story and definitely recall feeling like there was no motivation.

Wait, I finished Warmind already? That felt like it just ended. On to Forsaken. Already got a new subclass spec and super. It's fun.

Just in time for the Forsaken expansion. :D Only Warmind in my way now. Finished the Curse of Osiris expansion. I swear Bungie has the best environment artists in the industry. Pretty good music guys. They still appear to need better writers. One of those Vanguard fireteam characters, the Warlock, says she'll be with us the final mission of the expansion and I think "finally!" She appears, opens a door, and then just waits while you do all the work. There's more personality in credit card mailers than in these characters.

I finished the Destiny 2 base campaign. Lots of fun, if completely flat emotionally. Halo had this great partnership with Master Chief and Cortana which got expanded as the series went along. Destiny has the potential for that with it's three fireteam members, but they did not do anything with them except serve as McGuffins you have to collect who occasionally throw out something on the radio. But still tons of fun and I look forward to more.

Did I mention I watched Upgrade over the weekend? That movie was surprisingly fantastic.

Sitting at work wondering why my blood pressure feels like it's up. Only to realize my blood pressure is still in the bag from the pharmacy. I took my cholesterol medicine this morning. Is this what it means to be old?

Destiny 2 So I started playing it because it was free with PS+ and I found that I really like it. It just feels like the Halo campaign I've been missing, with some extra bits and bobbles. So I went ahead and bought the whole package and fully anticipate regretting it before I'm done. I mean, I still never cared for Halo's competitive multiplayer, I still dislike lootfests, but it's very fun floating around shooting stuff. I miss running around in Halo campaigns shooting grunts and jumping around.

Yeah, I'm watching it now. It's not capturing the magic of his prequel analysis, I think it's too nitpicky to avoid going over the ground everyone else tread about what's wrong with it, but I'm always up for complaining about stuff I don't like.

I loved John Carter. Back when Blockbuster was around, I tried renting it from them and they told me they were out because people kept buying their copies. So I just went out and bought my own. Watched it twice within the first week.

Deadpool 2 Super Duper Cut I felt that the first act of the theatrical cut was pretty weak, with the movie only picking up with X-Force. The Super Duper Cut fixes that problem with new scenes of Deadpool in the X-Mansion and Russel in the orphanage. The only weak point of this cut is the early action scenes, the montage of him going around the world killing bad guys, is made too long. Overall, it's definitely my preferred version.

Whales seem to prop up these games. And it's getting so bad the games are built explicitly for them. People with more disposable income than good sense. Like those politicians who get caught spending thousands of campaign funds on Steam games.

It has level scaling? And it's Fallout 3 levels of broken? Fantastic!

Finished the main plot of Fractured But Whole. On to Casa Bonita! Apparently the stuff I unlock here can be used in future saves. That's a neat idea totally wasted on the game not really having any replayability.

Humble Horror Bundle I've had my eye on Yomawari for a while and Detention looks good. The rest I either have or looks like garbage, but it's a good deal for those two.

How does it compare to the Obsidian-made one? Is bigger an answer? It's a lot different overall, numerous character classes, crafting, collectibles. The story is also a lot safer than Stick of Truth was, with less jokes that would be considered offensive, but at the same time I like the inclusiveness they added too. I'm not comfortable being any more detailed. It's been a long time since I played Stick of Truth and I could easily misremember something and probably already am. Like I said this one was bigger, but something about it feels smaller at the same time. Like the story doesn't go to as many interesting places. This may simply be a consequence of it being safer.

South Park: Fractured But Whole Lots of fun and pretty funny, too. I think I'm nearing the end of the main game and will have the DLC to start afterwards.

I've played twice as much No Man's Sky with the NEXT update than I did at release. And might go all the way to three times as much. Building my fourth base, first in a new galaxy. Can't see myself doing much after I finish this base, though.

Chasing after fads. This one happens to be a very lucrative fad.

I finished The Red Tree by Caitlin Kiernan. Okayish for a horror novel. I'd definitely read more of hers, but I'm not dying to recommend it to anyone else. Now to decide whether I'm going back to my Weaboo nonse and read Re:Zero 7 or that copy of Welcome to Night Vale I got for Christmas.

No Man's Sky It's changed so much since release. I won't say it's a whole different game, but it's definitely a much better one. The first thing I noticed when I started a new game is my ship was nowhere in sight. The game wanted me to learn how to recharge my environment suit first before telling me where to find it. Elements and crafting have been completely revamped with a refinement system. Iron has ferrite dust, pure ferrite, and maxnetized ferrite, for example. carbon, concentrated Carbon. Copper, chromatic metal. I remember fueling launch thrusters with just red crystals, whatever they were, and now you have to build fuel out of like oxygen jelly stuff and iron sheets. Space stations are no longer what appears to be a bar with like two guys, but an airport with a dozen or so and like 6 traders. Using pulse engine to approach waypoints, the ship will stick to that waypoint, and even orbit around the planet to drop you on top of it. A great improvement over having to manually orbit and hope you don't miss it. Combat appears to be rebalanced. In 35 hours of my original playthrough, I never won a space battle. In 4-5 hours last night, I've won two, a tutorial mission that lead to my first freighter, and some quest a guy gave me. And then there's the base building and freighter ownership. And your starship can apparently come be summoned anywhere, assuming you have launch fuel to do it. That would have helped me so much that one time I got stranded on a planet that didn't have any of those red crystals, so I had to scrounge far and wide for them. And I forgot vehicles! I haven't even seen those yet. In the original game, all my time was spent hunting for backpack upgrades and ships with higher capacities. Well, I've not seen a single one of those once. My entire gameplay loop is changed and I'm spending more time focusing on just getting fuel to keep on until I find a fascinating enough planet to build my base.

I kept a tech support scammer on the line for 30 minutes. Pretending to play along, pretending that it didn't work, asking him if my cat was likely to blame for my computer issues. I also tried talking to him about if there were any cute girls in his office he fancied or if he'd listened to any interesting music, but alas, he refused to get off script. The guy he transferred me to was very rude. I had to remind him that Yahoo is a family establishment!

I've been playing Torment: Tides of Numenera and really liking it. At least until I got to the Bloom. I hate these sort of areas and it sucked all the interest right out of me to end up in a city that's just fleshy stuff everywhere. Played a little Red Strings Club and that seems neat, but not enough to get an impression. And Overlord, the game that first caused me to buy an Xbox 360 controller. And it's still a pretty good game.

I get enough horror in my daydreams that my mind doesn't bother doing it at night. It just gives me random stuff and I go on to extrapolate it into something terrible. I'm like Rimmer in Better Than Life. Which is how a dream where I'm walking around my old neighborhood when this random woman runs up and kisses me turned into the start of a horror novel about a dude being stalked by an eldritch monstrosity.