Monday, June 2, 2025

Monthly Update: June 2025

 


Holy damn it's June already.  How did that happen?  Where did the time go?  When did The Squire level up again!?  

I almost feel like I could copy/paste May for June and it would probably work.

I'm still playing through Fallout 4, although I've started fast traveling between locations, mainly because I maxed out the Strong Back perk that now allows you to fast travel when overencumbered, and I'm overencumbered around 80% of the time.  I've also started the Underground Railroad quest line, which I think I was supposed to have started before doing most of what I've already done because there's a lot of character dialogue about your character, the Sole Survivor, not having met a synth before and talking about Dr. Amari in Good Neighbor as if I hadn't already spliced into Nick Valentine's brain.  There was one bit of dialogue from P.A.M. that hinted that I had done a lot more than previously thought.  I might be nearing the end of the main campaign, too, as I'm delaying "transporting" into The Institute, which feels like one of those points of no return I've been hearing so much about.

I'm also definitely coming to the end of the Morrowind DLC in The Elder Scrolls Online because stuff is now falling from the sky, but only around Vivec city, so it's probably nothing to worry about.  Also, RIP Chodala, since we all know the real Nerevarine is Valgrin of Markarth.

There were a couple of games I acquired from Keymailer, Silverpine Creek and Goblin Slayer -Another Adventurer- Nightmare Feast, and I think something I gleened is that is a helluva lot easier to get long-form video footage from the Steam Deck even with all of the video exporting and uploading and downloading compared to the 30 second clips from the Switch.  I guess I just have used OBS and the Steam Deck dock to record long-form Switch footage after running into so many issues with OBS.

Speaking of the Switch, still no Switch 2 pre-order yet.  I'm still kinda hoping that  I'll get a delayed email from Nintendo locking in that sweet-sweet-pre-Trump-Tariff cost of $499 because I'm not below paying $20 fewer dollars for a digital-only copy of Mario Kart World; and I don't need to have the Switch 2 on launch day.  Maybe just a couple of months after would be nice; kinda like when we picked up the Switch around July 2017.

I've also decided to go through my backlog of Switch games, and I'm handling this the easiest way I know how.  I'll sort the games by date of acquisition, and starting from the oldest, I'll look through the games and determine if it's something I can actually play and beat.  So now I'm jumping back into Car Quest that I picked up oh so many years ago.  So far, it's a low-stress puzzle game with an emphasis on exploration in a low-poly environment where you don't actually have to pick up everything on the screen, but you do have to pick up enough to unlock the next area.  Although I would still like to finish Triangle Strategy and that other queue I said I would work on.

I think right now we're TV show-less after finishing the second season of Andor.  My general, short-form thoughts are that knowing that each 3-episode arc this season was originally planned to be its own season (but then scrapped once Tony Gilroy realized how long it would take and how much specifically Diego Luna would age in an additional 8-10 years), that I wish that there was a little more meat in these story-condensed episodes.  Or at least, some storylines felt like they were condensed to get the important bits into each arc.  I also wasn't as excited about the acquisition of K-2SO, and not because I knew anything about the one-off comic, but because I felt like we were never shown Cassian to be interested in Imperial droids or his specific reasoning for lugging this one on his getaway ship when haste seemed more of a priority.  Even a quick, "What are you doing!?" "Its memory banks could have some useful intel!"  Simple as that, and I personally would've felt a little better.  But yeah, in the censored words of Marva from the first season, "Fuck the Empire!"


~JWfW/JDub/The Faceplantman/Jaconian
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