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I preordered Codename: S.T.E.A.M. (out March 13th) yesterday. While I was there, I tried to by a points card for Wii. Last time I got the DSi card and it was good for Wii too. When the Gamestop saleman scanning though, it was no good. So no more points cards for Wii. I'll have to use a card to get my virtual console games or spend big money for a Wii-U. Or, I could get the games I want on 3DS. I'm considering that right now. I'll probably go Wii though.

Last week I collected 9 Miis and then had a party running them through the six Mii Plaza games. Here's some of the things me and my Mii friends did.

I finished Inferno Mode on Hard today playing co-op with my friend Mark. Then we replayed the boss to try and get the last Diablo Triumph Challenge, which is beating him without picking up a health potion or drinking from the health well. This is a little trickier than it sounds because Diablo and his minions all drop health potions after getting hit and it's hard to not accidently pick them up. I discovered some of my equipment increases my reach to gold and health potions, so I removed all those before the battle. After a few tries, we both got the challenge and the associated achievement.

I didn't exactly follow my plan I laid out in my previous blog. I went straight to my friend Mark's place and we headed out to watch Seventh Son in the theaters. It was a pretty much a by-the-numbers fantasy flick: very predictible but full of interesting special effects and action. Just turn your brain off and have fun, and it was. Then it was time to pick up some burgers at Five Guys and head back to play video games. 

Thought I'd run down what I'm planning on doing later tomorrow (technically it's today, but I'm going to sleep the first 8 hours, so it feels like tomorrow to me).

I just finished John Shirley's novel Halo: Broken Circle, the latest, and 13th, novel about events in the Halo universe.

Concerning Dragon Magazine 94, February, 1985, the month and year Steve Jobs was interviewed in Playboy Magazine about the Apple Macintosh computer, a hot product on the market that year. It’s an amazing interview with just tons of Mr. Job’s prognostications and insights into the computer industry. I think I was part of this Apple revolution and didn’t even know it. I had a Macintosh Plus I took to college in ’86.

So just before BaD began, Mothman mentioned he was going to post a lot of Panda pics again this year. That put me into a kind of Panda fever and I started planning on playing every game with a Panda in it for BaD. Well, I decided, after buying a bunch of games, that maybe I was stealing Mothman's thunder a little bit, and so I ditched it. But, I was glad to have the games I got, and now I can do a little blog about them. 

So sometime last Fall I discovered Mii Plaza and Street Pass on my 3DS XL. I've gotten more and more obsessed with it. Now I carry my 3DS XL around with me all the time. I greet Miis every night, and then run them through the various Mii Plaza games. I would usually get three or four Miis a day and use my coins gathered from steps taken to fill out the crew to the max of ten. Last week though, I decided to save up all the Miis until I hit 10, and then play the games. Last week I got nine after a whole week. I'm hoping for ten this week, but we'll see. 

Diablo 3 today. Again. Can you believe it?