PixlBit

You know Pixlbit Monday isn’t starting out as I hoped. First I’m supposed to do something another person could have done on their own, didn’t, and now expects me to do it with a classic response of “it’s easy”. Yeah if it was easy YOU WOULD HAVE DONE IT ALREADY! Then I look down at my laptop’s charging cable and it’s frayed. Apparently part of it got dragged under my chair. Great. I went on Apple, and Best Buy and yep that’s $79 I have to spend on a replacement.

 

You know what would be great is that the cable that goes from the little power box to your laptop was a magnet on both ends so if say a cable gets frayed, you could swap out the $10 piece with a new $10 piece instead of having to buy a whole new piece. Blah…and before PC folks chime in, I had something similar happen with my PC laptop and that cable was around the same price for a generic plug. Oh Monday, you could have been nicer.

 

So that is the start of this week. The weekend also piled on, and after a certain point I just said F it, and just camped out in front of the TV, not listening to anyone, just the sweet sweet sound of Football…and a rare trip to the weekend Swapmeet. I hope your Monday is going well. Tuesday you better step up!

 

The past Friday and Saturday I spent a lot of time sitting on the floor arranging my games in their hiding place. I actually returned the discs back to the cases for the disc-based games while keeping the current gen (last gen to you PS4 and XBox One owners) in the sleeves under the TV. I don’t know how I did it but I seem to have misplaced a couple of game cases and manuals. I’d like to blame that little bastard that hides in the dryer and takes my socks.

 

Yeah that guy.

 

So to drown out all this stuff I try to get a quick battle in on Star Wars Commander and I accidentally push the wrong button and I start a battle with a base I didn’t want to fight…and I take the L. Dang Tuesday hurry up already!

 

There were some bright spots. I found some new stuff at the local Swapmeet but I’ll share that on Friday, and in my go to Tablet games there was some updates, which I’m excited for

 

Since it is October, the Simpsons have their special Halloween episode and Tapped Out does a special game mode that goes along with it. Since I’ve been playing this game for 2 or 3 years now, it usually has something to do with Trick-or-Treating at your friend’s versions of Springfield.

 

This year you drop off these little alien eggs and they go searching around collecting these little green blobs. I’m assuming this will be part of the Simpsons episode. There is also a leaderboard among your friends on who is collecting the most. EA also updated the menu so you don’t have to constantly scroll to find something you want to buy within the game. This is a plus when you have to go through all the buildings just to find the a certain tree you wanted.

 

Wait my other go to tablet game just got better as well!

 

 

Plundernauts just added multiplayer. Yes finally you can put your ship up against other pirates in the Plundernauts galaxy and duke it out.

 

The thing is you have to spend a small amount of gold to look for other players…uhhh what? Yep, I think this is a move for you the player to also play through the single player missions, and collect gold, instead of stockpiling it and buying some nifty items to upgrade your ship.

 

The Pirate vs Pirate option is fun, and much like Star Wars Commander you are playing the AI using another person’s ship. So while you’re sleeping someone else can plunder ya booty. Right now the PVP is only open to players over the Level 20 mark, which means I’m looking at attacking everyone at Level 20-22 who have slow ships. That’s just how I roll. I’m looking at the leaderboard and some people seem to spend all their time on this game. I’m waiting for new levels.

 

In console gaming news it’s still the same old stuff. I had this grand idea over the weekend to jump in and make some progress in various 360 games I own, only to get sucked into Tombstone on Netflix and This Old House on the PBS app. I blame Apple TV from preventing me to try my grand idea.

 

Ooh did I tell you the new Walmart has those “remastered” consoles like the Atari, Intellevision, and Sega Genesis that are filled with a bunch of games and the Genesis can also play your carts for $40?

 

I was tempted to buy the Genesis because it came with 80 games but ultimately I decided against it because it’s just an emulator and my Wii is already the dedicated emulator (the Dreamcast will join it just as soon as I can find the power cables).

 

Alright Pixlbit I am off to fight Monday, and enjoy a bagel. Oh and for you keeping score it is a nice 71 degrees here in sunny southern California and it should top out at 95! Yay no more triple digits!

 

That’s all for now, more later!

-Chris

 

EDIT:

I forgot to mention I wiped my PC Laptop this weekend. The goal was to get it to be faster and to use it as my Budget Steam PC, and FLAC library. My dedicated FLAC player gave me some fits but other than that, I’m going to start installing some old games on my laptop later on today. Hopefully Command and Conquer will run smoothly on it.