I used to be a veracious reader and would buy a handful of books every month. Now I embraced my local library and check out most of my books (I can check out ebooks too). I also broke down and bought a 1st gen paperwhite ereader from a friend who had upgraded to the newest and greatest ereader and went to the project…

I keep a mini container of Ozium under my passenger seat.  Stuff is great for keeping things from getting funky, and to the people that keep saying only filthy cars stink.  I can assure I’ve been the filthy part of my car too many times after an all day hike or cross country skiing somewhere remote, but yeah... if…

I kinda gave up on xbox and playstation after the 360 and ps3. I’ve been PC gaming mainly now (also have a switch for some light hearted couch coop games). There are a handful of exclusives on playstation I’ve dearly missed. GranTurismo is still one of my favorite racing franchises. The Spider-Man games look fantastic…

Been playing The Riftbreaker with the Xbox game pass for PC. A few weeks back I saw a post about it on reddit and checked it out and it ate up all my spare time for nearly two weeks just to get to the end the first time. Now I’m thinking about upping the difficulty and trying again but going for a minimal setup where…

Funny you mention Atomicrops (totally a fantastic game). I recently tried out the xbox game pass on PC and it was one of the games offered I’ve been playing it off and on for about 2 months now. The first few weeks I just played Atomicrops now I return to it for a couple run each week, but the difficulty ramps up so…

Played it in early access and loved it. Came back to it about a year ago and was surprised by the new DLC available and all the additions to the game. Bought the DLC and a few other things just to support the devs as I’ve got my money’s worth and then some out of this game. This and Hades are two of my favorite games…

When I was 9 or 10 I got a 6 pack of faux turtle necks. In case you don’t know that’s a turtle neck shirt with just the turtle neck and a maybe 5-6 inches of cloth under it. For the person who wants to wear a turtle neck under a shirt, but hates wearing two shirts.

About a decade ago once us kids had all gotten old enough to have our own places and were hosting instead of the parents we had a thanksgiving dinner talk and we all came to the realization we love the turkey, stuffing, potatoes, rolls, and gravy the rest of the sides are kinda gross as leftovers. So we upped the…

In (totally) unrelated news Square Enix announces updates to a bunch of older games that will increase frame rate and reduce jitter and random crashing in their older games. /srcsm

Alt reality take: hit monkey is the old jogging monkey that tells Bojack it gets easier, but you have to do it everyday.

Microsoft has a bad history ignoring windows gaming for years then going all in for a few years and then since they didn’t rocket to the top of the list they give up on it and try again in a decade. The games that used GFWL couldn’t authenticate with the servers MS removed so without hacking the games they were just…

Having Xbox gamepass, I was looking at downloading this game to try out. I followed it for a bit when it initially released and the issues it had.  After reading this article I’ll pass and hopefully get to watch this game continue to crash and burn into obscurity. Not a fan of games that try to wring every cent they…

Been curious about this game as the graphics and style just look so unique. I’m a big fan of exploration-adventure games. I figured I’d try out the Xbox Game Pass for PC which I have enjoyed for the most part. I got to play The Ascent with a few friends on their new Xboxes and it worked well. I’ve been playing a…

This is one of those games that as a single player game it was “meh”, with very pretty visuals. This is a game that began to shine with a friend and get a few more and it becomes a mayhem simulator that is quite fun.

The backtracking does get a bit tedious, and while the Metro and Taxi services help, they can’t be…

I just toss some Sta-bil into the tank after cleaning the outside and undercarrage. It’s worked for my Husqvarna Chainsaws too, one of them was my fathers and is over 40 years old.   

FB is so much easier for that kind of stuff tho’

Glad to see this series is going to hit PC’s soon as I thought it deserved a larger audience then it had (I’d argue the same for the Disgaea series, glad it’s been on PC for a bit now at least) I had a few friends that went nuts for Default on the 3DS and I’m a sucker for unique or interesting battle systems in…

So about a year ago I went to my normal coffee shop and a new barrista was working the counter I queue up and wait my turn. When I get up to the counter I put in my order and go to pay. I didn’t have any cash on me that morning so I use my card, the machine automatically asks if I want to add a tip so I choose the 20%…

Working while on vacation for all but the most extreme situations is utter bullsh@t. I’m about to take a two week vacation that starts in another week and a half and am super excited about it since my last “vacation” was two years ago and it was for two weeks to clean out my dead aunts house down in Phoenix with some…

I don’t know about “anybody” I’ve seen some pretty horrible attempts at trying to get the distressed and used look that wind up looking horrible. Still with that said, yes most of the techniques are somewhat procedural, do this then this, then this to get the desired effect. Still, it takes some skill and a good eye…