Jesus H. Onna Bicycle Christ Onna Stick.
That's my assessment of the last two weeks here in the United States. I'm not going to speak/write in hyperbole because that's not going to do anyone any good, but just know that we do not support Project 2025 or the current Presidential administration or the people who kowtow or prostrate to the current President as a way of saying "notice me!" Was that hyperbole? You also cannot convince me that Steven Miller isn't a massive racist and xenophobic piece of hyperbolic shit.
In other news, I have a handful of playlists for games that I've played coming to light in the next couple of weeks. All this week we'll be releasing videos of my playthrough from the recently released Stupid Cars, a VR game that involves getting vehicles safely across an ever-complicated area, culminating in a Game EXP article up on Friday. The following week we'll do something similar with Unreachable, an interesting first-person psychological thriller involving a cop and his kidnapped family. Probably towards the end of the month, I'll hopefully have a series of videos and an article (or five) for Mr. Goofer's Mini Game Arcade Party!, which is similar to UFO50 in that it's a collection of retro-styled games. There might be another game or two thrown in before the end of the month, but we'll have to see.
In non-Keymailer games, I started Everybody's Gone to the Rapture as a pallet cleanser to Unreachable and I'm loving it, which probably explains why the recent reviews on Steam are negative; it's a walking-sm after all with no option to run, so the Dear Esther debacle all over again. I'm also still uncovering more and more of Vvardenfell in the Morrowind expansion in ESO. I also realized that I haven't played Fallout 4 in a couple of weeks, as Jacqueline is now just hanging out in Far Harbor, waiting for me to return to maybe, finally, finish the majority of the quests on that island so that I can return to the Commonwealth and finish finding out what happened to her son. My head-canon is that after discovering that he's likely much older than he was when he was first taken and that he's in no immediate "danger" she's coming to terms with that information and after hearing about the family whose daughter went missing (which was the catalyst to the Far Harbor DLC), that that was something that she could immediately help with. That was my justification for my 30+ hour detour.
I also realized that I haven't played Triangle Strategy in some time, mainly due to how bad everything seems to be going in the story, possibly due to decisions I've made in the story and how some battles have turned out. But, the story is happening so it means that the writers had a plan for this possibly happening, and right now it's happening to me. But I guess I shouldn't get too downtrodden since I've gotten the bad-bad ending in the original Resident Evil and I find that ending to be so much more impactful than the good-good ending where you fight Tyrant on a helipad with a rocket launcher.
Lastly, I've been reading House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski and have been having a blast with that. Conklederp got the book for me for Christmas after blatantly hinting that it was a book I've been wanting to read for several years now. I tried explaining it in its most basic form to a doctor earlier in the week, and the best I could do was that it's a journal written by someone who collected the writings of an acquaintance who lived in the same apartment who recently died, and those writings were about a documentary movie that never existed. I then showed him several of the pages to show what I meant when I said that the book is a publisher's nightmare as the format of the text gets weird as the story progresses. Probably only second to "S." I also picked up nearly a dozen D&D novels from SecondSale, an online used bookstore after combing through several bookstores here in PDX. This means that I'll now be able to finish the Knights of Myth Drannor series and start the Shadow series once we get to the Time of Troubles. I also finally found a copy of Arcane Age: Sword Play that wasn't $50, but now I just need to find/buy the rest of that trilogy.
There's always something more.
~JWfW/JDub/The Faceplantman/Jaconian
Gute Nacht*
*P.S. NSFW
P.P.S. I also started up Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus on the Switch although it is pretty tempting to pick the whole deluxe package over on GOG since it's under $10 right now and comes with all of the DLC whereas the version on the Switch is just the base game.
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