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It crashes all the time, it takes ten minutes after waking to sign on to the wireless, the mousepad is broken, and the damn bottom is peeling off. Arg! What a mistake. Well, sometime this year I'm gonna get a new computer. I've been thinking of getting a new Mac Mini. They're not too expensvie, and I need dependability. We'll see. 

Gonna be busy tomorrow, so I wanted to wish you all a Merry Christmas and Happy Festivus! I hope you all get the games you want and Santa puts cool Amiibos in your stockings!!!

I don't usually do a Game of the Year, as I usually don't play games that can really measure up to that title. But this year I played some of the big games, so I thought I'd put my two cents in. I played a few games this year, but the big ones were Ni No Kuni 2, Dragon Quest 11, and Red Dead Redemption 2. While I don't think Ni No Kuni 2 counts, as good as it might be, I do feel Dragon Quest 11 and Red Dead are superb games. 

I promised myself when a real Pokemon game came out for Switch I'd buy it and get into the series but I haven't yet. But every year for Xmas my sister gives me a $50 Amazon card, and I'm gonna use it on Let's Go Pikachu. Casey's review on the front page of Pixlbit is pretty good, so I'm gonna fulfill my promise. 

I was riding around the country in Red Dead, as I tend to do, when I came across a man fussing with one of his horse's rear shoes. Deciding I'd help him, I came over, but as I got off my horse, his kicked him in the head, killing him. I looted the body.

I had an interesting mission in Red Dead the other night. I was supposed to steal an oil wagon from the local refinery to use in stopping a train to rob. But when I went to the refinery, it was quite heavily guarded. I tried to get in, but was killed, and I suddenly realized - "I'm gonna have to kill every damn fool in there!" So I rode back to town, bought a long scope and high velocity bullets for my rifle, rode back, found a good sniping place, and proceeded to kill every damn fool in there. 

I've been playing A LOT of Red Dead 2. I haven't binged a game like this for a while. I'm really enjoying a lot of aspects of the game, but what I most like - similar to the first game - is just riding around on my horse. There's something just so calming and soothing about it. The horse-riding is very well done, better than the last Zelda by far. I love Zelda, don't get me wrong, but I think the horse mechanics are better here. 

...but I bought Red Dead Redemption 2 anyway. I bought it digitally - I figured I might as well use that new hard drive I bought. It unlocked about 9PM last night, midnight on the east coast. I had expected it would unlock later, so I played some. I finished the first mission. I'm not far enough to judge much about it, but I will say the snow is REALLY done well, and the lighting affects and color is great. I loved the first game, so I'm expecting to enjoy this a lot.