I've played #PokemonGo nearly every day for the past decade, lol

#AgainstTheStorm is free this weekend, it's great you should totally try it out. And while we're on the matter, its publisher @hoodedhorse.bsky.social is hosting a sale of tactical games in partner with the publisher @firesquid.games. I might need to grab a copy of Total War Attila...

Pro tip: before you start a new strategy game, check if an update will kill your run like the rain people in #AgainstTheStorm. I just went from "best recent" to "pretty meh", lol.

I started looking into upgrading my PC about two months ago...it was not a go time to do that. I'll probably just get a bigger SSD, because my current one is only 256 gigs. :/

I'm sure most people in fire-heavy areas of the world know this, but summer is a time to have your go bag ready.

I wish tutorials let me skip over the basic stuff. I know WASD moves me. I know E interacts with stuff. Let me play the actual game instead of forcing me to was a couple minutes on the basics.

Delayed by a year or so

Good #CanadaDay celebrations in #Kamloops! Round trip to Riverside Park before lunch (got doughnuts, don't worry!), plus a ride toward a double rainbow before sunset.

The devs of #AgainstTheStorm, @eremitegames.bsky.social, have said they're developing a new survival game in the AtS universe. The info is pretty sparse, but I'll definitely be talking about it on Novus in the future. 4 now check out these people waking up to a cabin. www.youtube.com/watch?v=121z...

Blizzards look pretty badass in #FarthestFrontier.

Excited as I am for Stardew Valley 1.7, I WANT ME MY CHOCOLATE #HauntedChocolatier

Is it me, or does #Paralives move too fast? My para walks one block and suddenly I've completed my goal of spending two hours outside.

The Saw Creek wildfire situation has rapidly escalated this evening in the Highway 1 corridor in areas north and south of Lytton. A formal Evacuation Order will be released shortly by the TNRD for Electoral Area "I," for an area east of Highway 1 from Florence Road north to near Skihist Park.

Pretty sweet day in Riverside Park as #Kamloops watched the #WorldCup this afternoon. And certainly a toasty one!

Okay, I'm talking about nothing but #Factorio lately, but uh...the addiction hits fast. Anyway, man do the tutorial maps run out of ore fast. Which is a kind way of saying I probably should be finishing the tutorials a lot faster, lol.

Getting back into #Factorio, I really like parts of the tutorial (I think this is my fourth or fifth time of it over the years). Like, all the boilers use burner inserters. Old "tell by showing" of one of the simplest but best tricks of the game. Good on ya, Woob Software.

Like I said, I started playing #Factorio again. When I plsyed the tutorial, I said to myself "why the **** is this so complicated?" The last of the tutorials was still selected. I started it three times.

Man, I forgot how crazily fun #Factorio is. I need to, you know, actually play again instead of just watching tutorials. And if you're new, check out @toadiezzz.ca and Xterminatior, they both have some great explanations for the game. #RideOnTheMagicMainBus

One Soccer: "Hot day today in Langley, 28 degrees C." Me: "Brah you better stay out of the Interior, that's 10PM temps." #CanadianPremierLeague

The latest issue of #LifeTheNecropolis, 6 Doomwrecked Knights, is out. Be sure to read it to get yourself spoiler-free (you can grab a copy at lifethen.com), and then head over to Novus to hear my thoughts on it and Life the Necropolis overall. @lifethenecropolis.bsky.social

I've been feeling the need to play #Factorio, which I haven't touched in almost three years, for a few months now. And now one of my favourite Factorio YouTubers is back after a long hiatus...uh oh, slight worry about how I'll spend my upcoming vacation.

I don't want to say say how many times I accidentally typed "Light" instead of "Life" while writing about #LifeTheNecropolis (it was 23). Is he going to beat the bad guys with a Death Note next issue? Anyway, I've got a review of the latest issue in the works, prob out by Friday.

I always love switching games and the keyboard shortcuts are different. I hit B so many in #AgainstTheStorm because that brings up the build screen in #FarthestFrontier. Building doesn't even have a single page in AtS, lol.

Whilst being tired af yesterday and having a semi-constant downpour today has cut off two days of bike riding, I'll definitely accept the rain. If there's one thing #Kamloops needs, it's definitely rain.

I have a slight...ly major worry that I'm going to start getting a spreadsheet out to calculate the fertility changes of my farms in #FartherFrontier. Slight.

I've never actually seen the Red Bridge fire, holy crap.

If you're wondering why your Para can't sit at their desk when there's clearly a chair, you have to put it in a blue square. Kinda the chair pushed in rather than in front of the desk. #Paralives

Okay, #Paralives is pretty fun. If you wannt to cheese a bit, clicking unstuck teleports you home. Good fast travel after work (if you want to cheese).

Just finished reading me some great new @lifethenecropolis.bsky.social! Now I just need to decide what to do with the souvenirs...

Time. For. #PARALIVES

This snorlax took so many retries to catch, I had to remind myself I did a wee bit of cheesing. I don't ironman when I'm playing #Pokemon!

So up, tip for #Victoria3, but if the landowners control like, 51% of the nation's clout, you probably don't want to end slavery. Oh well, Brazil 2.0 time.

Instead of yapping about video games some more...here are some little gooselings in Riverside Park in #Kamloops last week! Their parents are teaching them to be machines of pain, but now their nice.

Jokes aside, my new run of #FarthestFrontier had absolutely zero deer or shoals of fish anywhere nearby, and the wolf dens that were close were my primary source of protein.

Started a new colony in #FarthestFrontier, because the raiders are going to burn down my old one. This was the first (legitimately random) name I got, and it's probably going to be #Kamloops in about a week when the rivers are up.

Me yesterday: "I haven't played #AnimalCrossing in years, I need to make sure I don't get too obsessed again." Me today: "I'm going to start a graph of turnip prices."

Whilst I have about zero belief I'll nab myself a free copy of the latest #Victoria3 DLC from Paradox, I write a review of it, albeit a small one. And...probably poor, considering my skills in Vic. And as they say, nothing is impossible, just highly improbable.

Going back to Animal Crossing after a long time hurts...

When I started my next article, I noticed I hadn't written anything since October. And I mean...hot damn, I knew it had been a while, but that's A WHILE.

My net round trip commute today came to exactly 21.12km. Which I will definitely accept.

I haven't played much #EchoesOfThePlumGrove, but I quite like that it doesn't save when you sleep, and force you to play a full day to save. A rarity in farming games. JRPGs with a farming mask don't count, you know who you are.

They should make a sequel to The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air where Will overthrows the mayor and inserts himself as the de facto King of Bel-Air.

I'll be at #VernonComicCon in me dreams

My riding distance this year has (almost) been equal to one of the best albums on the planet. #Cycling #Rush

The bees are out

Does he even hear himself?