March 16-22, 2025
Alright, first week back in the office full-time. Verdict: not a fan. Game time was reduced as expected, and I didn’t have time for co-op gaming. My graphics card is en route, it should be here Tuesday. That’s a bit of good news at least. I thought of an idea to be able to use my new PC right away without having to rush the game I’m currently playing and compromise all the 32-bit PhysX games Nvidia dropped support for: game streaming. I can continue playing games from my old PC while recording and editing the footage on the new PC! It’s almost like what professional streamers do but in reverse. I’ll be recording gameplay from the more powerful PC while actually playing games on the less powerful one. It's gonna be a weird setup but hopefully I can get it to work.
Game Acquisitions
I actually spent a little bit of money on these, a whole $3! Fanatical’s cheapest tier of game bundles is 1/$1, 5/$3, and 10/$5. It’s hard to resist picking up five whenever they’re offered. This time I bought the Build your own Spring Bundle 2025 bundle. The games aren’t always the highest quality (hence the cheapest bundle), but it’s hard to argue with the price. I’m sure I’ll get some enjoyment out of them. The other acquisitions were freebies as usual.
# of Games: 10
Total Money Spent: $3
Price/Game: $0.30
Game Recaps
Like I said, not a lot of game time this week, mainly because of the return to office thing. Still, I managed to get a couple sessions of Torment in.
Unfortunately I messed up my recording settings for parts 4 and 5 of my playthrough. I was messing with Nvidia DSR which made everything on the recording zoomed in. I fixed it near the end of part 5 so 6 onwards should be good, barring the move to a new setup of course. The environments and some of the dialogue text is still visible so hopefully it isn’t a complete loss. Last week was all about exploring the first two areas of the first town in the game. I wonder how many hours it will take me to leave 😅
TV/Movie Recaps
Here is everything I watched this week:
· Snowpiercer Season 4 Episodes 1-7 (still watching, show ended)
· Family Guy Season 23 Episode 5 (all caught up, show ongoing)
· American Dad Season 21 Episode 21 (all caught up, show ongoing)
· Trainspotting
It was basically all Snowpiercer this week. The series finale is imminent! Season 4 feels the most different from other seasons, partially due to the fact it’s on a different network, it’s only 1080p instead of 4K HDR, and a lot of it takes place off the trains. I can’t say I’m liking it as much as the first two seasons but it’s definitely interesting. I wonder how they’ll wrap everything up. I finally got around to watching Trainspotting, a cult classic film with Ewan McGregor from 1996. Not technically before my time, but before I was old enough to watch it. I can’t believe he played Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars just three years later. Anyway, the movie was dark, violent, dirty, sexually explicit, and unapologetically Scottish. It's hard for me to say I liked it, but I don't regret watching it. If you plan on watching it, viewer discretion is advised. It earned the R rating.
Conclusion/Upcoming
I took Tuesday off work to sign for the new GPU, and I’m gonna work with my friend on getting it set up. I can’t wait to get everything up and running. I’m actually gonna finish a show this week! After Snowpiercer, I decided that Shadow and Bone will be next on my list. It was canceled after two seasons so it shouldn’t take too long. T2 Trainspotting will be the next movie, following the original. More Torment all week, and should get some Phantasia in if I get the PC all set up. Thanks for reading!
Backlog total: 3,168 (+10)
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