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Hello fellow Pixlbit folks! It’s Friday, I’m running on a couple of hours of sleep, and for many of you good folks, you’re going to be celebrating Valentine’s Day with your special people. I’m single so I’m going to be spending money on myself and I will probably be hitting the local mom & pop music store today along with a couple of thrift stores. Since it is Friday it is time for another Quick Hits with Chris. Today I thought I would go over my thoughts about the Olympics, Another game is knocked off Mount Backlog, and of course pickups, so let’s get this party started!

 

The Olympics

Yeah I’ve been obsessed with watching as much of it as I can, whether it be through the various television channels, on my phone, or on the laptop/tablets, I’ve been taking in a lot of Olympic coverage, and I do have some thoughts about some events

 

This was me early this morning trying to kill off my battery on my phone so I could charge it. I actually stayed up to watch Team USA vs Germany in Curling. It was a good match and there was some drama but Team USA came away with the win.

 

One of my favorite celebrations

 

Team USA sweeping Slopestyle

 

Katie Uhlaender uniform screams America.

 

I don’t know who he is but his helmet is badass Rebel Pilot helmet. I now believe Hoth is in Russia.

Speaking of skeleton, how crazy are these athletes? Let’s ride a sled going down an track made of ice, going 90 mph face first. As much as I like to think I could do some of these events, there’s no way I’m touching skeleton. Props to these athletes.

I actually turned away from this slopestyle event and what happenes? I miss a skier from Sweden reference the Wu Tang Clan. This guy carried an egg because he saw it on Cool Runnings, and now does this. He has been added to random athletes I'm rooting for.

What is up with Figure Skating? It seems like every other person is falling during their routine? Also the music is picking up with programs that involve AC/DC, Santana, Prince, and the Beatles. I like Classical but it’s refreshing to hear something different.

 

Required mentioning of Silje Norendal

 

Another Game Off Mount Backlog

So I bought this game last week, and spent last weekend playing through the storyline and now I am just trying to collect everything and get that elusive 100% and Platinum Trophy #4

 

If you have ever played any of the previous Lego games you know what to expect: fight bad guys, collect studs, find hidden items that unlock goodies, and search for red bricks. There are cut scenes from the movie and I think they could have been in a much higher quality but it’s not a big distraction. The characters in this game are varied, and spread throughout the Lego Universe. The characters from Ninjago, to the special released minifigures are represented, and any Lego fan will say “hey I remember X character from this set”.

While playing this game I made sure to not listen to any audio from the game, and tuned out the cut scenes. I know the actual gameplay was giving away some of the movie’s plot, it wasn’t a big spoiler for me. The one gripe with this game is once again there are some obvious bugs like having some characters not trigger an event, and being stuck in a loop, or your teammate not moving so you can progress. Unlocking most of the red bricks isn’t a problem, and searching for the extra goodies is always a plus. The one thing I do like is when you achieve “The Special” (when you fill up the Lego stud meter on the top of the screen) a snippet of Everything’s Awesome is played.

I enjoyed this game, but if you’re a casual fan you might want to wait for a drop in price before picking up this game.

 

Pickups!

 

Games

While walking around the GameStop earlier this week, I found another DS game to add to the library

 

It was in the bargain bin on the counter. I had to wait a bit because GameStop guy was there*

*I don’t know if you have these guys in your local GameStop, but these guys seem to camp out at the counter and want to talk games. It’s cool if for a couple of minutes, but it seems like dude has been there for a while. Don't be this guy. 

 

When he finally moved I swooped in and started looking. There are a lot of Nintendogs games, but I found Metroid Pinball after a couple of minutes and I knew it was time for me to bounce.

I wanted to play something Olympics because of all my Olympics viewing so I picked this up for a couple of bucks

 

So far I played some of the Luge and the Super G. Short Track is difficult for me for some reason, I might just need a lot of practice. The Skiing wasn’t bad and is similar to the Bode Miller game.

The local Big Lots is blowing out their video game section so everything there is 50% off. The only things left are for Wii and the 3DS/DS. I wonder if the employees bought all the 360 and PS3 games…or reseller guy. Anyways I picked these games up

 

I picked up my first Professor Layton game!

 Books

I added another audiobook while picking up some stuff at the Costco. What was odd was that this was my 2^nd trip there where I didn’t leave with a hot dog or a pizza.

 

Well Pixlbit I’m going to cut this short because I’m heading out.

 

That’s all for now, more later!

-Chris