It’s amazing how little I cared about the original storyline. When something comes up, my wife will ask a question and I try my best to answer, but most of the time, I give her an “it’s new to me!” response.
I like it, but in a lot of ways, there are parts I have no interest in playing. I like that grinding just isn’t a thing, but I can’t clamp down on my desire to complete everything.
I am nearing the end of Final Fantasy VII Rebirth and I’m pretty unhappy with the amount of time I’m spending on fights as I walk through a single-path corridor. To fix this, I’ve set the difficulty to Easy. I think I’ll just leave it there for the rest of the game. It is so much nicer to be able to look around the screen during the game instead of frantically inputting commands.
Some of the racist characters are definitely “of the time”. I always show them to my seventh grade civics students to point out how propaganda works (and to make sure they don’t hold their heroes too close).
Before he could find work as an author, Seuss had a run of amazing political cartoons leading up to and during World War II. They are archived at some college web site called “Seuss Goes To War”.
Rockruff is my favorite, but I’m not into any of its evolutions. I remember getting Rockruff for the first time in that extra area in Sword and Shield. I was wandering around leveling it and a bunch of Pokémon from level one as a break from the main story. I was so upset when I beat the main story and suddenly everything everywhere was level sixty. I never played Sword and Shield again after that. Boo!
I bought it last night and left the Switch 2 controller where my youngest would see it before I left for work. I’m so excited to see what wildness he gets up to with his friends in this game!
More board games before I go out to see Spider-Man:
We had our framily over to celebrate a kiddo birthday and I got to play three games:
Magical Athlete is a simple roll and move around the track racing game except every wild-looking character has one special power. Those powers interact with each other in a rules-lawyer crunchy kind of way that makes your head hurt for a moment.
Trick to the Future is a trick-taking card game where you have these digital cards that you can alter with your fuel rods (that look like the lines on a digital display). In essence, you are editing your cards as you play them. Put with salt, it was top three game for the day by default.
Golden Goal was a quick two player injury time soccer simulation where you are moving players around and kicking and bending a soccer ball in the hopes you can roll high enough to score. It was about ten minutes of fun, but it was only $10, so I think it’ll earn its place in the games bag.
It’s the last weekend before teachers report back to school, so I’m trying to enjoy the end of FFVII R2.
I’ve been playing a lot of Dungeon Clawer on my phone. It’s a claw machine rogue-like where I feel like I’m just turning off my brain for a bit. Maybe it’s time for a new Picross to sharpen me up for school.
I’ve been playing a lot of boardgames at Boardgamearena.com: Formula D, Harmonies, Can’t Stop, and 7 Wonders. I prefer real-time matches, but the site also does play-by-email style games where you get an email when it is your turn.
I had to read a lot of paragraphs before they mentioned the study’s source and weak points. Thanks, School of Enterprise and the Environment. You sound like your funding depended on this study.
My dad shared his joys with me like this as well. I was as reluctant as Calvin.
I notice that every time I ask one of my kids to go out for a long walk I am doing what my father did: trying to share the things I care about. Every time I ask I get turned down, though. I’m blaming the rising temperatures of Earth rather than them not wanting to be with me.
The “staggered” enemies reminds me of Octopath Traveller. Having an eight person party is a lot like the Octopath mobile game, too. But I do appreciate the pixel art.
I really liked the Polaris representation, but man oh man, would it kill ‘em to do a little more exposition? I only recognize these characters because of the Cerebro podcast most of the time.
I love Rhythm Heaven Groove, but it has come out at a frustrating time. Summer vacation is so relaxation filled already that playing doesn’t feel like a break to me. I think my goal will be a little play every week so it can be a “blow off steam” with a new song and level as I need it during the school year.
Kingdomino is a simple concept. You are building your kingdom one domino at a time. Instead of numbers, each domino half has a terrain on it. Some have crowns. Each terrain group is worth the number of crowns times the number of terrain tiles. If you have any board game cafes near you, it’s a great way to spend 20 minutes with a smile.
It’s amazing how little I cared about the original storyline. When something comes up, my wife will ask a question and I try my best to answer, but most of the time, I give her an “it’s new to me!” response.
I like it, but in a lot of ways, there are parts I have no interest in playing. I like that grinding just isn’t a thing, but I can’t clamp down on my desire to complete everything.
I am nearing the end of Final Fantasy VII Rebirth and I’m pretty unhappy with the amount of time I’m spending on fights as I walk through a single-path corridor. To fix this, I’ve set the difficulty to Easy. I think I’ll just leave it there for the rest of the game. It is so much nicer to be able to look around the screen during the game instead of frantically inputting commands.
Some of the racist characters are definitely “of the time”. I always show them to my seventh grade civics students to point out how propaganda works (and to make sure they don’t hold their heroes too close).
Before he could find work as an author, Seuss had a run of amazing political cartoons leading up to and during World War II. They are archived at some college web site called “Seuss Goes To War”.
Rockruff is my favorite, but I’m not into any of its evolutions. I remember getting Rockruff for the first time in that extra area in Sword and Shield. I was wandering around leveling it and a bunch of Pokémon from level one as a break from the main story. I was so upset when I beat the main story and suddenly everything everywhere was level sixty. I never played Sword and Shield again after that. Boo!
I bought it last night and left the Switch 2 controller where my youngest would see it before I left for work. I’m so excited to see what wildness he gets up to with his friends in this game!
More board games before I go out to see Spider-Man:
We had our framily over to celebrate a kiddo birthday and I got to play three games:
Magical Athlete is a simple roll and move around the track racing game except every wild-looking character has one special power. Those powers interact with each other in a rules-lawyer crunchy kind of way that makes your head hurt for a moment.
Trick to the Future is a trick-taking card game where you have these digital cards that you can alter with your fuel rods (that look like the lines on a digital display). In essence, you are editing your cards as you play them. Put with salt, it was top three game for the day by default.
Golden Goal was a quick two player injury time soccer simulation where you are moving players around and kicking and bending a soccer ball in the hopes you can roll high enough to score. It was about ten minutes of fun, but it was only $10, so I think it’ll earn its place in the games bag.
It’s the last weekend before teachers report back to school, so I’m trying to enjoy the end of FFVII R2.
I’ve been playing a lot of Dungeon Clawer on my phone. It’s a claw machine rogue-like where I feel like I’m just turning off my brain for a bit. Maybe it’s time for a new Picross to sharpen me up for school.
I’ve been playing a lot of boardgames at Boardgamearena.com: Formula D, Harmonies, Can’t Stop, and 7 Wonders. I prefer real-time matches, but the site also does play-by-email style games where you get an email when it is your turn.
My wife wandered in partway through and thought it was neat that Spider-Man was in the X-Men show.
I’m terrified of underwater stuff, but I’m happy they are adding more!
I had to read a lot of paragraphs before they mentioned the study’s source and weak points. Thanks, School of Enterprise and the Environment. You sound like your funding depended on this study.
My dad shared his joys with me like this as well. I was as reluctant as Calvin.
I notice that every time I ask one of my kids to go out for a long walk I am doing what my father did: trying to share the things I care about. Every time I ask I get turned down, though. I’m blaming the rising temperatures of Earth rather than them not wanting to be with me.
The “staggered” enemies reminds me of Octopath Traveller. Having an eight person party is a lot like the Octopath mobile game, too. But I do appreciate the pixel art.
Just watched Time Travel is Dangerous. It was a pleasant ninety minutes. Thank you for mentioning it.
Tim Travers is next on my list.
I’ve been reading this comic wrong all this time! My eyes assumed Calvin said prodigy.
I thought that was him! Now that you’ve said it, I should have known. What a perfect cross-media villain!
I really liked the Polaris representation, but man oh man, would it kill ‘em to do a little more exposition? I only recognize these characters because of the Cerebro podcast most of the time.
I remember seeing the hammer and thinking “what is Thor doing in Cable’s origin story?” Morph always throws me for a loop!
I didn’t miss the opening, did I?
I love Rhythm Heaven Groove, but it has come out at a frustrating time. Summer vacation is so relaxation filled already that playing doesn’t feel like a break to me. I think my goal will be a little play every week so it can be a “blow off steam” with a new song and level as I need it during the school year.
Kingdomino is a simple concept. You are building your kingdom one domino at a time. Instead of numbers, each domino half has a terrain on it. Some have crowns. Each terrain group is worth the number of crowns times the number of terrain tiles. If you have any board game cafes near you, it’s a great way to spend 20 minutes with a smile.