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No, not real ticks, but THE Tick, the animated 1990s TV show based on the comic of the same name by Ben Edlund. I love this show so much: the big band swing style opening music, the humorous parodies of super heroes, the shear wackiness of the stories, and the loads of visual jokes that go on in the background or worked into a scene. It's smart, it's fun, it's silly; a perfect triple scoop icecream cone of a show. Oh, and I played a load of video games too. See below. 

Game Pass Quest Games: 

Serious Sam: Siberian Mayhem:  I finished the game. It's fairly short, 5 long chapters. Very fun. I'll be continuing with it as my goto for daily GP plays and achievements. Check out me riding a bull. 

Conan Exiles: I had to craft 20 items for GP rewards. This is a neat survival/adventure MMO but the game does not help you at all, not even a text tutorial. It was serious pulling teeth to figure out how to expand my range of craftable items (I had figured out the basics in a previous play). After a few deaths and one attempt to cook human flesh (hey, got try it once, right?... right?), I gave up and just crafted 20 shoes. Lame, but I don't like this game's confusing menus. 

Social Game: 

Earth Defence Force 2025: I worked on all four of my characters and made good headway. I'm around 55% completion. Online limits on armor and weapons can be removed at 70% I'm told, so that's my goal. It makes the game a little easier when you can use your best weapons regardless of level or difficulty. (I had another video but even though the previous one copied over easily, this one - with the same sort of url - wouldn't go. WTF!)

Retro:

Contra III: Alien Wars: Played this on Contra's Anniversary Collection. Still hard, better with a co-op buddy like I used to play it with my friend Mark. 

Shining Force: Discovered this in the Sega Genesis Collection and played through the first battle, where I died. It's a nice turn-based strategy RPG. I'm keen to return to it. 

Wolfenstein 3D: Messed around in this game for a while again going for an achievement which I failed to get. Darn if it isn't hard even on moderate difficulty. 

Mega Man 5: Maybe I got a little farther than in previous Mega Man's but not much. I'm not big on memorizing patterns and repeating them to perfection, just not my brain's joy button. 

I disovered that a Secret of Mana collection is being released later this year called Collection of Mana. I'll be looking out for that. 

Doom: Played through most of a region of levels before getting crushed by a totally unexpected ceiling trap. SERIOUSLY! This game just sent be back to the beginning of the level with no equipment whatsoever, stuff I'd accumulated through four or five previous levels. No way I'm putting up with BS! 

Discoverd that there will be a Jurassic Park Classic Games Collection coming out soon with the first three JP games. I'm interested in the NES and SNES JP games, but I'll also check out the Genesis one that's a 2D side scrolling platformer. 

Casual:

More progress made in MS Suduku, Mahjong and Wordament on Android. The end of the achievements for each is in sight. I think I might play my DS after I'm done, or undocked Switch. 

That's a week.