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I got up early enough today, so I went to see Suicide Squad in IMAX 3D. It's a much bigger action flick than I expected, so it looked great in 3D. I thought it was fine but I wondered why they had to focus so much on the one note of humanity in each of the squad members. These guys and gals are fun for their craziness. I want to see that unleashed. And maybe that's the word for this movie, the squad members seemed leashed up most of the time, either litterally, or psychologically. But it was fun; just could've been funner if it took a note from the Crank movies. That's what I was hoping for.

Oh boy, here we go again. I'm gearing up to play Skylanders Superchargers in a week or two. The buy-2-get-3-free sale is still going on at Gamestop, so I stopped by one today and picked up what's shown below:

I went to Gamestop today to chew the fat and check out Lego Dimensions and Skylanders Superchargers. Both of those are high on my short-play games list. I might get to one of them as soon as two weeks from now. The Lego Dimensions starter pack for XBO was $60 on sale, regularly $90. Too much for me to spend at the moment. I have Skylanders Superchargers starter pack and a handfull of vehicles and figures, but I'd like more. They had nothing used though, so I dug into the clearance bin. I bought what's shown below for $20:

Mark and I finally went and saw Star Trek: Beyond today. I thought it was really good. I got a strong feeling of the original series in this one. It's still very different from TOS, but I got serious nostalgia goose bumps hearing the original music theme, Chris Pine looking so similar to a young Shatner, and all the Scotty, "It's impossible, sir, but I'll do what I can." attitude. It was kind of sad too. The actor for Chekov died tragically this year as did Leonard Nemoy (or was that last year?). 

I'm back to my backlog, playing through everything in order of shortest to longest play. I don't even want to think about that game that has to do with spelunking and fabricating. 

Thought I was going to play Gears of War Ultimate Edition today, but Minecraft sunk it's teeth into me again, leaving me with a kind of sickness. 

I jumped in Mark’s Minecraft survival game on XBO where he had accumulated a lot of resources. I made myself a suit of leather armor and dyed it red. Then I got myself a horse. All I needed was some iron horse armor so I could say I was riding my iron horse (Motorhead song title - I’m kinda of into motorcycles right now). I realized I could repair and enchant leather armor, so I did that. The suit held up pretty well as Mark and I took on the Ender Dragon and killed it. Then we tried to figure out how to respawn the thing. We figured out how to pick up the dragon’s egg but then we couldn’t figure out how to hatch it. Seems the rules for Minecraft XBO Edition are different than the PC version because there are lots of easy ways to do it on PC but not on XBO. Then I lost connection to Mark’s game and couldn’t get back on. I don’t know what was going on but I gave up after several attempts and built my own world instead.

Started Monday playing Halo: Master Chief Collection. Mark and I are playing the cross game playlist that includes all four games. We were in the last parts of Halo 2 when the power went out in the neighborhood due to a storm. I'm feeling like 343 has tweaked gameplay in Halo 2 a little bit. It feels less like a run-and-gun power trip and more like a strategic cover based shooter. Weapons are less powerful and enemies are a little tougher. I used to melee enemies with one mjolnir powered fist, but now it takes several hits. It just doesn't feel right. A grunt should go down with one punch from a Spartan. Anyway, I'm feeling like Halo has gotten the COD treatment across all the games now and it disappoints me. This is not a realistic game. You're supposed to be a super soldier not just another vulnerable combatant. That being said, it was still fun, just not as fun as it could have been. After the power outage, Mark and I played Minecraft instead. 

Not much to mention so far this weekend of mine.

Let me tell you the story of the villager and the emeralds. A villager was minding his own business: he traded with strangers, mumbled nonsense, opened and closed doors for no reason, and huddled with ten others in a house to avoid the terrors of the night. Then, one day, he found himself the last villager of the village. The zombies had finally taken them all. Then, he was taken as well.