PixlBit

Well Happy Tuesday Pixlpeeps. I’m starting to like this Tuesday blog day even though it makes more sense to write my random posts on Monday and Friday. We’ll call it being lazy for now. So how are you good people? Well I am ok but it would have been much better if I went through with my original plans.

On Friday I was supposed to leave my little piece of Southern California for a connecting flight to Phoenix and then on to Las Vegas. Well it turns out that my flight wasn’t meant to be. The airplane I was supposed to be on was having mechanical issues (this is also something you never want to hear especially about a flying tube a couple of thousand feet about the ground). Since this situation was going to make me miss my connecting flight my only options were to spend the night in Phoenix, or take a van to Los Angeles for a later flight. Both options had me losing my hotel reservation so either way I was screwed.

The employee at the counter was extremely nice and made sure I put in a claim for a refund on my flight and was willing to find me a ride back home (I already had a ride but I appreciated the effort). The hotel on the other hand was a pain. The hotel told me that since I used a 3^rd party I would have to call Priceline. It was a pain just getting a hold of Priceline but when I finally got a hold of them they said they couldn’t do anything about it until the next day and to call them at 8am Eastern (I am in Pacific Time). When I called around 7am Pacific I was then told by the Priceline folks that I needed to call them at 8am Pacific because the hotel (which is in the same time zone as me) was not open. An hour later everything was resolved but I didn’t get a full refund. Instead I got 50% of the room price but I lost on the Vegas Room Tax, which is $50 a day. Well it’s better than what I thought I was going to get so all is good. Hopefully I get my airfare refunded as well.

The rest of the weekend was spent locally but at least I got some awesome pork belly and mochi ice cream from Whole Foods. I’m anti actually buying groceries from there but damn their pork products are really good. Yup this was my weekend instead of going nuts at buffets and playing Bingo.

 

Lego Dimensions

Over the past couple of days I’ve been on the fence about picking up this game. Some days I question if I really want to jump into another game that needs little figures to play, making it the ultimate in micro transaction games while hiding under the veil of being a toy; And other days I want to have it in the library because it is a Lego product and I like the figures associated with the game. Yesterday after watching some game play video I was excited again to give this a go, but then the little question started to pop up, why am I buying this game? I have Lego Jurassic World sitting and I haven’t played it since the week I bought it. Heck I haven’t even fired up the PS4 in almost 3 weeks. What is driving me to purchase this game is the fact I can get the special booster packs with fun minifigures. As of today I have decided to not pick up the game but rather buy the booster packs because they are Lego. Most likely I will wait for a price drop on the actual console while collecting the sets I want. Sorry folks I don’t watch Dr. Who so I’m not caught up in that bandwagon that everyone seems to be in (it reminds me of when everyone hated on the US Office because it wasn’t as good as the English Office)

In games that I am actually playing

 

I bought World Search + on the iPad for my trip because I was enjoying the word search feature on the 3DS game Crosswords Plus but I didn’t want to stare at a smaller screen with a stylus. After playing through a couple of the extreme puzzles I paid the $2.99 for the full add-free version.

 

I played through maybe 10-15 of the Tiny puzzles. These are really easy and I was just going through the puzzles to see how fast I could complete them. I finished the Tiny puzzles and I have since moved on to the Easy puzzles. In all there are Tiny, Easy, Medium, Hard, and Extreme. The puzzles are not hard, but I figured I’d go through all the levels in order.

 

In Marvel Future Fight I unlocked a bunch of new characters through their daily freebies

 

I think I play this game more to unlock freebies and maybe throw in a level or two.

 

 

WWE Super Card had their Ring Domination event I got my first sweep against an opponent

 

I don’t play this game as much as before, but I do fire it up once or twice a day to get a couple of exhibition matches in.

 

Asphalt 7 is a game I played on my old iPad and Nexus 7. I started it up again and I enjoy this game much more than Asphalt 8. I might even complete the game. We shall see.

 

For Mortal Kombat X I completed the most recent event of unlocking Kold War Sonya Blade

 

In Simpsons Tapped Out I’ve been doing a bit of redecorating and I’m currently trying to recreate the Las Vegas Strip

 

iOS Stuff

Friday was the big day to update to iOS 9 and for the first hour I was having problems upgrading

 

Eventually I got the new iOS to update and I don’t know how to get that little side panel to pop up. Other than that I see a couple of new things. While browsing the AppStore I spotted this

 

Why? Just why?

 

 

This was funny especially after it blew up my NFL Pick’em.

Alright Pixlbit, I am off, have a good week!

 

That’s all for now, more later!

-Chris