It took much longer for setup than I had planned, but I finally pulled off a Let’s Play last night. Got started an hour-and-a-half later than I’d anticipated 😭. The mic-arm setup in particular turned out to be problematic; not enough reach for where I’d mounted it behind the monitor. I’ll need to move it today before recording another session. Regardless, I put some time in on Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III for the capture session; had some good to great matches on the front end and then gradually got a bit worse. Surprised some of the Sniper Kiddies on Wasteland by using a Battle Rifle again. I love it when they expect to encounter some slow rate-of-fire opponent and then get clipped by 3 or four quick rounds when they expected me to be reloading. 🤣
I spent some time making new planning cards since I switched from the Samsung Galaxy Tab S7 to the iPad Pro 11″ Gen 3 256GB and needed to write them up in a new app. Generated them in Notepad+ Pro. Made a Weekly Priority template in Tasks Plus, which I expected would be limited without a subscription. But I was surprised to find that it does allow you to make multiple Task Projects with just the free version.
I had scripted that I was going to play some more War of the Visions: Final Fantasy Brave Exvius this morning, but decided I would just leave that for the Tab S7. I downloaded Civilization VI for the iPad instead. I swore that I had that game already, but maybe it is a past version of Civ. Will check that when I get done with this log entry.
Pulled together notes on the current gaming industry news cycle while drinking coffee and working at BattleStation 5 (the AMD Ryzen 5-5600X and RTX 3070 Ti box). Metacritic’s 14th Annual Game Publisher Rankings are up and I posted some quick decomps on that topic
Also reported around the web today:
Players Having Major Issues with MLB the Show 24 on Switch
Overwatch 2 devs lose bonus pay after Blizzard policy change
And check my Twitter account to catch up on some highlights from the GDC State of The Industry Report 2024. I posted 8 highlights this AM, two examples are below. It’s going to take me a few days to go through the report, as I want to chew my food; just read and think about a few pages a day at a time, otherwise the significance of the data will get lost unless I give myself time to decompose it and consider the ramifications. A lot to absorb in the report, which is 37 pages
Rounding Off Infinity 