Game Beaten

Super Mario Land

Randomly sat down with my brother and played through this game for the first time on a Super GameBoy (...SD2SNES actually, but in practice it was like playing on a Super GameBoy 2) Pretty fun game, very unexpected at times. Challenge is mostly due to the controls and everything being

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Twilight Princess

I've been meaning to play through Twilight Princess since... well, practically ever since it was released. Back in 2006 (20 years ago btw...) my brother pre-ordered the game and we had it on release, or very close to release at least. I played it then a little, I

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Far Cry® 3 Blood Dragon

After finishing the base game I could finally check out this one, which I've heard about for years. I don't have a lot to say. The game knows it's silly and it doesn't hide from it, and it's awesome because

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Far Cry® 3

I haven't played any Far Cry, since the original in 2004. I've completely ignored the series. I think I maybe tried to get the 2nd game running when it was new, but my PC was terrible at the time so I couldn't. Then I

speedrun

About my Metroid Prime 1:49 run

I am writing this as I am watching a modern speedrun of the game, and it reminded me that back in 2014, I was a Metroid Prime speedrunner. Or rather, one day, one time, in 2014, I was a Metroid Prime speedrunner. It was the only run I ever did:

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Portal 2

I finally played Portal 2. After years of people looking like at me like I'm weird, especially when I mention I haven't played Portal 2, I have finally played through it and now I know what I have been missing. Or not... Portal 2 isn'

Compilers are fun

For some reason, I find myself frequently talking about compiler optimization with friends, and I inevitably end up talking about an experiment I did 2-3 years ago, and then I have to dig up an old Discord conversation I had with a friend where I wrote about this originally. So

Cannot change folding@home resource settings after swapping motherboards

I swapped motherboards today, and got a really strange issue where I could not change any folding@home resource settings anymore on my Arch Linux (I use arch btw) machine. I would drag the CPU slider down, hit apply, and it just wouldn't apply. I could not find

self-host

How to migrate from Spotify to self-hosted Navidrome

Soooo... you saw the news that Spotify was increasing prices again and have had enough. Me too. Here's how I migrated out of it, into my self-hosted equivalent. Obviously, I already have a server running 24/7 so I had that part taken care of already. If you

2 TB in a softmodded Xbox? Sure, why not!

I've spent the past couple of days FTP'ing over ~1.7 TB of games to my OG Xbox. I believe it's the entire library, apart from a couple of duplicate football titles (where the only difference was the featured team) Why a couple of

Spooky

We are using Ghost now! I retired my ye olde lambblog, which was essentially just a Python script that generated a bunch of static HTML files. While that worked fine, I've gotten kind of annoyed with it. For one thing, I wanted to make it containerized, but that

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Games played this year, so far

I've been lazy with making my "Game beaten" posts this year. I've actually played a lot of games, but just haven't felt like making posts about them. Not because they were bad or anything, I've just been lazy. I'

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Skyrim

Do you ever really beat this game? No, you don't really, you can't get the credits to scroll. But I finished the main quest so I guess that will suffice. I have never actually finished this game before, but I got the vibe to play it

Half-Life 2 turns 20

20 years ago me and my brother were pissed at a thing called Steam. Today its the only place I wanna buy games on. Actually, thats a lie, it was 20 years ago tomorrow. I know that because thats how old my brothers Steam account is (Steam conveniently has a

GTA San Andreas Turns 20

Well, I guess I'm getting old because I remember when the game came out. I'm also getting old because I just realized that its this games 20th birthday at 23:30, so I only have an half hour to write this! Let's see how

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Astro Bot

Did you like Astros Playroom that came with your PS5? Great, this is more of that! I loved Astros Playroom so I was very excited when I found about this game coming out. And once the game was out, I didn't rush through it because I wanted it

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FF7 Rebirth (aka Remake Part 2)

I'm a bit torn on this game. On one hand, it's incredible, and my GOTY probably. During the first couple 10-20 hours there were moments that made me cry of joy... the music, the visuals, the areas, the nostalgia, the fan service, the story, the emotions.

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Crisis Core... One of the worst games I've ever played

Just finished Crisis Core. Or to be more specific, CRISIS CORE -FINAL FANTASY VII- REUNION (great title!) I know I usually put a screenshot when I make these posts but no... not with this game... I just cant bother. Lets get the good stuff out of the way: * Music is

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Final Fantasy VI

I finally finished FF6 yesterday. This is a game Ive had on my backlog for quite some time probably as long as Ive had the concept of a backlog. But its finally checked off. What did I think about it? It was great! Music is amazing, probably top 5 video

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Alan Wake 2

* Beautiful game. Very demanding on my computer though, almost felt like I needed a RTX 4090 to properly enjoy it... I ended up lowering resolution and other settings instead :( * Very weird and very interesting story. That's why I kept playing it. * Mediocre gameplay otherwise. I kinda liked the

Red Dead Redemption II - Still Incredible

I've been gushing over RDR2 lately. I played through it again earlier in the year, and it was incredible. And I feel like it gets better with age. I don't think we quite got how good it was when it released. But now its been over

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Spider-Man 2 (PS5)

Haven't done one of these posts in a while. Not sure why. I've been playing a bunch of games, albeit most of them have been games I already played before. But today I have a brand spanking new game that was awesome that I want to

Deactivated Twitter

I just deactivated my main Twitter account. Why now? I dont know. Maybe the doge logo was the final straw, though, I gotta admit I kinda liked it. Nah but Ive been on the edge of deactivating my Twitter account for a good while now. I just dont get any

Thoughts on Gaming Laptops

I got a gaming laptop earlier this year. I was moving and so I figured it'd be easier if I just gutted and sold my desktop and replaced it with a laptop, and so I did! I got a 15" Lenovo Legion 5 Pro with an i7

Elden Ring. It's a good game.

Figured I should make a post commemorating this game that took over my life for a couple of weeks. I wasn't planning on playing it, and was going to boycot it, because I hate the elitist "git gud" SoulsBorne community, I am not part of the