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I had an unexpected afternoon to play on Sunday since my work schedule suddenly switched to Saturday. I was in a casual mood and so, to the tunes of bucolic flute music, managed a crew of Gnomes around a pre-industrial town of mines, mills and mage towers. 

Gnome's Garden 2: This is a casual game where you gather materials to do various things like build buildings, fix roads, and other tasks to complete a given mission. You send your Gnomes around to do all this as fast as you can for the highest reward, a 3 star rating. I finished it and replayed levels for 3 stars. I got stuck on one and rage quit/delete. I was testy.

Bioshock remaster: I tried to go more serious and return to my save in the first third of Bioshock. I got the plasmid that turns a Big Daddy into your pet. I made one attack another Big Daddy. My Big Daddy lost but damaged the other one so much, I was able to finish him off quickly. Then I rescued the child. I’m rescuing them all this play through. It seems like the right choice because you get rewarded with a lot of Adam to spend on plasmids from their creator. But then things got too serious. 
      Playing on Hard difficulty is slow going and somewhat unfair. Enemies seem to have a laser sight on you at all times. They also react supernaturally fast. I had a big daddy recover so quickly from fighting my hacked turret and fire plasmid, that the half second or so I needed to hit the button to heal while he was occupied wasn’t fast enough. That, my friends, is BS.
      I’m thinking that next time I’ll lower the difficulty, load up on shotgun shells, and go through the game like it was Doom. To heck with all this trap setting and sneaking around - achievements be damned.

Gnome’s Garden 3: I returned to my casual play and started this third game in the Gnome’s Garden series. GG 3 is the same as 2, except for the story and new levels. There are only a few slight additions I've noticed so far like fire fences that need the fireman to put out.
     I'm playing for that 3 star achievement. I’ve gotten all but that last achievement on the previous 2 games. This time, I'm staying on a level until I 3 star it. I’d like to have 100% on all the Gnomes Garden games eventually. It's not an impossible task; not like carrying a toy all the way through Half-Life 2, Episode 2 so you can put it on the missile at the end - to heck with that darn achievement.

Oh, I should mention that while I was playing all this stuff, I was gaining Game Pass Quest reward points by opening the Game Pass app on my phone and downloading games. I’ve got over 5000 points now. I’ll probably turn them in at 6000 and get something close to $6 for online purchases. Whoopie. It's more for fun than actual great rewards.