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Today was a game and grub day. Had burgers and dogs and meatballs in mashed potatoes while playing a lot of Borderlands The Presequel, Sacred 3, and Earth Defense Force 2025. 

Borderlands: The Presequel. I really like this game. I started off playing my Gunslinger character until I got the achievement for 10 Showdown mode kills. I got it entering the Robot Factory where a lot of small creatures attack you. Then I switched to my level 50 Claptrap character and attmepted to take out Deadlift in Ultimate Vault Hunter Mode. This is the hardest difficulty mode in the game, but I should be able to beat the first boss and get to the hub area called Concordia. Nope. Couldn't budge his shield or anything. WTF! Without getting to Concordia I can't respec my stats or get new weapons from the vault key chest. I don't understand why this boss is so hard. I'm clearly doing something wrong and it might be in the way I've allocated skill points and selected equipment, but I can't fix any of that without getting past this boss. That is, unless I go down to True Vault Hunter difficulty. Well, that's what I did and then played through part of the Claptastic Voyage DLC. It's a really cool mission but I noticed my experience points were hardly moving at all even though the battles were no cake walk. Most of the creatures were level capped at 49. Well, I should still be earning decent experience. It seems, to gain any more ground in this game I must figure out how to beat Deadlift on Ultimate Vault Hunter Mode. Anyway, I got fed up after a while and tried out some other games. 

Sacred 3: This is a very gauntley/diabloy style game I played for just a half hour to see how the controls worked and felt. They were good so I think I'll pick up a second copy tomorrow so Mark and I can play it co-op. Should be fun. 

Earth Defense Force 2025: I returned to this so Mark and I could play some co-op and I could work on an achievement for playing the Lancer character until he got to 1250 armor. I'm at 870 or so now. Along the way I unlocked the 50% all weapons achievement. I've played this game about 120 hours so far. That's a lot of time for only half the weapons. I think playing at various difficulty settings and with different characters is partly the key to this. Mark and I farmed for weapons last year and didn't get to 50%, either of us. Weird. Anyway, I want to get the achievement for beating the whole game (all 99 levels or so) on Normal difficulty with each character type. It's a long haul but doable. This game is so much fun in co-op, it won't seem like very long, I think. But tomorrow I'm picking up a second copy of Sacred 3 and will probably be playing that most of the day. 

I didn't get to my 1998 in film this week. I'll just say my favorite movie that year was BASEketball by one of the directors of Airplane! and stars South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone. The movie I haven't seen that I most want to is the Wes Anderson flick Rushmore.