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Just left my job the other day, so now I'm kinda down. So I went to Mark's and played games all day. It's what I do to recharge. It didn't work much. We're going to shoot photos tomorrow 'cause it's going to be some kind of warm and sunny. - like record breaking warm. I guess that's good but I'll likely still be down. Anyway, here's the breakdown of what I played today. 

Borderlands 1: Only because I had to wait for Halo Wars 2 to install and I have this digitally. I got frustrated with it right away though. I don't like the way the game levels up the enemies right with you. I'm a level 63 soldier and I should be kicking butt, but the game puts enemies at level 65 or 67 to give me a challenge. The problem with that is I'm fighting regular enemies like they were all minibosses. I feel like I'm still level 1. Anyway, I didn't even get to mining any Claptrap items because I quit out. 

Defense Grid 2: Tower defense game par excellance. I still don't have the final achievement of 100 gold medals. The achievement is somewhat glitched because I have over 100 gold medals but it won't unlock. I'm told it unlocks eventually. So I played some campaign levels on Normal difficulty to gain a few more gold medals. I kind of got bored of it after a few rounds though. Maybe it was due to my depression. 

Minecraft: Dove in and made a quick house out of dirt to survive the first night. A giant gelantenous cube was bouncing just outside my window trying to get in as the sun set. I built right around the spawn point. I like staying near that spot because the underground Stronghold ruins is always fairly close to it. Then Halo Wars 2 was ready. 

Halo Wars 2: I only played about an hour of it because I got tired of the rah rah military talk. The story is predictible and melodramatic. In my depressed state, I couldn't take it. But the gameplay is just like Halo Wars 1, so I was into the first few levels. Then I gave up and got back into Borderlands 2 because Mark was playing it. 

Borderlands 2: I returned to my level 24 Commando (almost the same class as the Soldier in B1) and started doing missions. It felt good to just roam and shoot at stuff. Then Mark joined in and my depression lifted a bit. We spent the rest of the day doing that. I ended up at level 32. I searched for Donkey Mong (a badass variant of the Bullymong enemy that's sort of like a giant ape). It appears very rarely at a particular location. You just go there from time to time and hope to see it. Then kill it, and get an achievement.

I got frustrated again with my loadout, as usual. It's crazy difficult to control your equipment. I'm always trying to stick to a certain weapon type or group of weapons, but when you pick up something different that is clearly better than what you have, you feel compelled to go with it. So my loadout keeps changing as the game goes on. I feel somewhat a victim of the random drops in this game. I'd like more control. I mean, I could stick to my guns (pun intended), but I always end up underpowered when I do that. It's super frustrating to me. I nearly rage quit from time to time. Like I did with my job the other day. It was similarly frustrating.

But, by in large, Borderlands 2 played co-op is still a blast and i felt a little better as Mark and I wrangled Goliaths and watched them fight each other. I took a video clip of three of them spitting streams of corrosive goo at each other while yelling wild obscenities. Hilarious. I wish I could share it here. 

Pocket Card Jockey: I'm still playing the demo on my 3DS, yes, in the bathroom. I played all of Mario & Luigi Partners in Time during bathroom breaks. It's a fine time to spend 20 or 30 mintues on a game. Pocket Card Jockey is pretty cool, combining solitare with horseracing. I'm losing a lot though, so I think I need to play the tutorial again. I think I've forgotten some of the techniques. 

And that's a BaD day, but sort of not so BaD at the same time. At least I have friends. Thanks Pixlbit friends for being here. It helps.