Games I’ve been playing – February 2023

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The members of the After-school Sweets Club pretending to be delinquents. Airi says "O-Of course she is scared! We're bad, evil people!"

During February I felt like I was being stretched out as there was a mix of real life stuff I had to help with and stuff I wanted/had to do. Before I knew it the month was over and I barely did any of the gazillion things I wanted to do.

Another side effect of it is because of all the stress I kinda ended up looking for refuge in video-games which turned out to be another reason for me not doing any of those other things I wanted to do.

Oh, well. Such is life I guess. I’d like to hope for this month to be better but I doubt the storm is over. In fact I think it barely started and this year will be one of personal challenges. Hopefully I am wrong about it.

Anyway, here is what I’ve been playing lately.

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My Variety Gamer Score

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A cropped version of the variety gamer score just to serve as a banner for this post

It seems like the Variety Gamer Score is doing the rounds in certain circles of the internet again. If you haven’t heard about it before it is basically a list of 100 arbitrary game franchises that are a mix of PC and console games. You are supposed to mark the ones you’ve played, count them up and you will have your “variety” gamer score.

I believe I saw it first back in 2022 while it was circulating on Twitter. I was even sure I got my score too. However I looked at my blog and couldn’t find it. Even weirder is I couldn’t find any copy of it in my computer too!

This is probably one of those cases where I did it, posted to twitter then lost the original files at some point. It happens more often than you can imagine. :p

But just in case I am going to make a post about it so it doesn’t get lost again. Well, not unless the blog is gone but that is a different kind of problem. :p

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Games I’ve been playing – January 2023

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A chibi version of Cú Chulainn Alter on a forest saying "Hey, Master. I'm gonna bit you if you don't quit looking at me like a damn plush toy."

The month of January was just chaotic for me. Everything I wanted to do turned out to take far more time or be more complex than I was expecting. Or both.

To top it off there were also a few events in real life that just made me stressed. The end result was that not only I played less than I wanted to but certain things I wanted to complete this month remain incomplete.

I even missed the New Year’s event in Final Fantasy XIV and Expedition 8 Redux in No Man’s Sky! The first I don’t mind too much but the latter felt like a bummer.

The month of February though is at least looking a little brighter right now. Hopefully this won’t be one of those cases of famous last words! XD

Oh, I am also getting an itch to play Minecraft again which might derail everything even further!

Anyway, here is what I have been playing.

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Games I’ve been playing – December 2022

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Santa Karna with an angry expression, left fist up with a light green in the form of an eye glowing over it. He shouts "Santa Punch!"

Happy New Year!

I swear December felt like it just flew by in the blink of an eye. Despite not having accomplished every goal I set for myself I still got enough done that I am not feeling bad about it.

It almost got derailed though as I did get an itch to play Minecraft, even installed a modpack to test out but thankfully didn’t get absorbed by it.

I did however spend far more time than I expected in Blue Archive (more about it in a bit).

Another unexpected event was me moving fully from Twitter to Mastodon. My plan was to do it early this year but it was feeling like Musk was changing the rules of the service every week and I just couldn’t stand it anymore.

There is another important migration I am planning to do this year but I am still in the initial stages of studying it. I will post more about it when I have something to show because it is something concerning this blog.

For now, let’s talk about some games!

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Project 23 Visual Novels in 2023

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If you hang around in one of the Mastodon instances you probably have heard some talk about a sort of challenge that goes like “Do X in 2023”.

So far I have only heard of two of those challenges. The first one was the Dungeon23. It is basically a challenge for TTRPG enthusiasts to create one room for a dungeon every day until at the end of the week they have an entire level. By the end of the year you should have a dungeon with 52 levels. If you are curious you can read more about it here.

Another one that just started today is called #23by23 by Off Fleek Geek. It is a more open one where all you have to do is do 23 of something you want in 2023. It can be anything you want to improve or experience. For example it could be practice drawing, go camping in different places, play games in a certain genre. It is up to you.

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Games I’ve been playing – November 2022

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A bomb called the Millenium 60 Bomb. It says "You're probably wondering right about now what napalm is doing at the Beach Shack."

This years has been so weird. I could swear it felt like it just begun not long ago and now here we are in December already!

November pretty much encapsulated that feeling for me. It felt like it just started then I blinked and then it was over. /sigh

This of course affected the games I’ve played this month. I was hoping to at least finish The House in Fata Morgana by now plus a few other personal projects but a lot of distractions happened, both intentional and non-intentional, preventing me from finishing anything!

Anyway, I better stop rambling here before it becomes even more incoherent. Let’s just go to the games.

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Games I’ve been playing – October 2022

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A screenshot from Blue Archive Abydo's story. In the middle there is a drawing of Ayane looking angry and flipping a table. On the foreground there are Nonomi and Hoshino. Nonomi is saying "Ahhh! Ayane is in berserk mode! Everyone take cover!"

With the grip that Minecraft had on my mind being forcefully removed, my intention was to spend the rest of the month finishing some games that have been on my to do list forever.

Unfortunately that didn’t happen. The only game I managed to finish was Y’s Origin, with the Hugo route. That leaves only the third route left to play to be completely done with the game (unless I get insane and try to go for some achievements). But for now this game goes back to the proverbial virtual shelf.

What I did end up doing instead was to start some new games… Because of course my mind would want to do that! /sigh

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The Minecraft Logs #20: The usual machines, bugs and The End.

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Nowhere town seen from the rooftop of my house. You can see a lot of the buildings in there like the Townhall,the university, the enchanting tower and so on as well as the walls to the north.

My plans for this post were completely different than what I have to actually write about. Originally I planned to do a post when I finished the interior of my house and my machinery. The game however had other ideas and I just tried to roll with it for as much as I could.

Unfortunately rolling with it didn’t allow me to progress much with the colony. The post is a bit big regardless of that because there is a lot to explain. So, let’s get to it.

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Games I’ve been playing – September 2022

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Chen Gong from Fate Grand Order saying: There is no problem that can't be solved with an explosion which is why our victory is assured!

Sorry for the late post. To be honest I haven’t been in the best mental state lately. Plus I decided that instead of writing I wanted to play Minecraft instead.

Speaking of which, besides Fate Grand Order, Minecraft was pretty much the only game I played in September. I did intent to play some other games and demos but that never happened. Maybe in October it will be different. Or maybe I will just play more Minecraft again.

Anyway, let’s get to the meat of the post itself!

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The Minecraft Logs #19: Nowhere Town is reborn!

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As I mentioned in my last post my previous save was gone due to a small human error. In that post I said there were only a few buildings left to place before I got back to the point I stopped.

Well, figuring out where to put those huts were more of a pain than I expected. Even then I am still not sure they were placed in a good way. Time will tell!

Because of the restart and a change to my mod list everything is obviously different. Since everything changed anyway, I took this opportunity to try some new ideas, in an attempt to deal with some problems I ran in my first try.

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