What have I been doing these last 30 days? Huh. Stuff, I guess.
I've been plodding through Fallout 4 and at times wonder how and why I don' just b-line through the main quest and finish the damn thing so I can move onto another 170+ hour game that isn't The Elder Scrolls Online. Then I finish a quest adjacent to the main storyline, having to do with the Minutemen, and I get an achievement. Sure, there's the little serotonin boost when that bleep-bloop sound effect pops up and that's nice and all, but it really sinks in after I've turned the game off and look at the Steam Global Achievements page and see that only 29.8% of players of Fallout 4 have gotten the "Old Guns" achievement by creating artillery placements at Fort Independence. Or that only 14.8% of Steam players have completed the "Far From Home" questline that is the Far Harbor DLC. Don't get me wrong, it's not the rarity of the achievement that is driving me to play more, but more having to do with that, based on this one number for this one quest, 70.2% of the 15,200,000 who have purchased and started Fallout 4 have ever completed this far into the Minutemen quests; maybe they are that universally hated? To me, that's wild. Sure, some of it could be chalked up to people playing offline and the achievement not being recorded/counted, or some other function of the game not working, and that information not being recorded/collected by Steam. But yeah, wild.
I feel like I'm nearing the end of the main quest in the Morrowind DLC in The Elder Scrolls Online, and I wouldn't be surprised if I take a little break after that happens. Being able to explore Vvardenfell in a higher resolution than the original 22-year-old classic was one of the primary drivers behind starting that DLC in the first place. Maybe I'll also start the Elseweyr DLC, too, since that's a region that's never been explored in the mainline series outside of Arena. The same could be said for the Black Marsh DLC and the Aldmeri Dominion quest line, and it delves into both the Summerset Isles (not counting the Summerset DLC) and Valenwood. Shit y'all, I think I'm stuck doing another 300+ hours in this game.
As of this writing, no, I didn't snag a Switch 2 pre-order. I did briefly try when Best Buy went live on the 24th, but I seemed to have been sitting in a queue long enough that my phone timed out, and I got kicked back to the store page. I wasn't bummed since I really couldn't afford it at the time. I think if I do order one within the year, it'll likely be once Nintendo sends out their order form for people who signed up to register for pre-orders (although now it looks like they'll just be regular orders at this point), but I guess we'll find out by May 8th when order forms may or may not go out. I mean, I didn't buy the Switch until it had already been out for four months, so it's not like I've ever felt like I needed to buy a console at launch. I think it's more likely that I buy a new laptop since this one I'm using I bought back in 2020, although the only major thing wrong with it is that the sound driver is crap; always has been too.
I know I said last month that I wasn't really excited about the release schedule for this second season of Andor, but I would like to say that I've changed my mind on the three episodes dropped every Tuesday for four weeks. Granted, Conklederp and I aren't binge watching all three episodes at once, instead, we're spacing them out over three nights. So by the time this article goes to the proverbial printers, we'll have finished episode five (early night on Wednesday so we only watched the fifth episode on Thursday night). I do really like that each three-episode arc encapsulates a series of events that happen during a year, or at least that's how it's currently established.
Oh, and I just picked up the Watch Along edition of Godzilla Minus One because it contains both the -0 (or minus color) edition and a new commentary specific to the minus color edition. I figure that if I'm ever going to buy a Godzilla movie, it's going to be the one that nearly brought me to tears while I was donating platelets last year; not because it's not masculine to cry during a Godzilla movie, but because it would've been inconvenient to have one of the phelbologists constantly wiping away my tears while hooked up to the platelet machine.
Let's call it there for now. I'm sure I could think of more things that have and will happen, but there's plenty of time to mill that over for the next 31 days.
~JWfW/JDub/The Faceplantman/Jaconian
Riding the Grid, Riding the Word
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