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On a whim, I went to several stores on my way to Mark's to see if they had any Halo Hot Wheels. I found them at a Toys R Us. I couldn't resist and got all five. Here's a pretty terrible pic:

That's what I was doing today in Borderlands 2, or, at least in the second half of the day. The first half was me playing the main campaign again and getting super frustrated with it. Then I had Mark jump in the game and we finished the Mr. Torque DLC and began the Sir Hammerlock DLC. That part became fun. Here's some more detail. 

My weapons package in Borderlands 2 failed miserably today. First, I couldn't finish off Captain Scarlett's big, ultimate beast, and then I started getting knocked down by lower level minibeasts from the main game. I couldn't stop them from putting me on my knees, making me gasp for my second wind. Sometimes I'd get back in there, and sometimes not. It was so frustrating, I almost gave up for good. 

After a lot of frustration in this game, I think I've started to get handle on it. I failed in Mr. Torque's Baddass Crater of Bassassitude playing on True Vault Hunter difficulty, so I returned to the Captain Scarlet DLC to do the side missions I missed and grind for levels. I did fine there and rebuilt my equipment loadout to something better. Clearly each DLC is a notch more difficult than the previous one. Also, when I switched to True Vault Hunter after beating the main game, I didn't go back to the main game to play it again. So I may have been underleveled for Mr. Torque, or underequiped maybe. Point is, I'm enjoying myself again. 

I'm going to listen to a lot of music from 1969. I figured I might as well extend that to books, so I'm going to read Patrick O'Brian's Master and Commander. I saw the movie and thought it was great. What about the video games?  Well, there were several space flight sim computer games made on mainframes, which makes sense because this was the year of the Apollo 11 landing on the moon. I tried to play them and then any others I could find. The results are recorded below.

I was doing chores near Mark's place today, so after I was done, I went over there and played some Zoo Tycoon while he played more Borderlands 2. Who knew keeping a zoo would involve picking up so much poo. That should be a poem. 

All Gen Gamers had a rare podcast recently and they mentioned this web site Play DOS games online. It has thousands of old dos games that you can play right in your browser, no download required and no fee. I'm super excited because they have Wizardry: Crusaders of the Dark Savant, a 1992 RPG that I've always wanted to play. This is going to help me immeasurably in my slow progress through the past. In March I'm going to be looking at 1969, too old for dos games (MS-DOS is 1981-1995), but I'll get to them eventually.

Dear readers, this is what I played today.

I played Borderlands 2 via The Handsome Collection for part of the day and Zoo Tycoon the rest. Below be more, yar. 

A similar dumb joke was made in Borderlands 2, the game Mark and I played after visiting Longwood Gardens to take photos of orchids.