I bought Unicorn Overlord on PS5 this week and started playing it. I like it. Don’t love it. Yet. Like, I don’t not love it due to any negative. It just doesn’t have me all warm down in me nibblets just yet. It might get there. Figuring out it was an Auto-Battler was a bit of a system-shock. But again, it just means it’s something that does not get me AS excited right from jump as a traditional RTS or a Strategy RTS (like Rome: Total War), or a traditional 4X game like Age of Wonders (I need to get back to those, BTW).
I captured some content (I have not broken out my Hauppage HD PVR Pro 60 for stand-alone recording on my consoles in ages. I still need to get it over to Creative Cloud to process it and get a clip posted. Hoping to do that today. Hoping to also work on a Twitter Op-Ed today; which I am moving to making news, history, finance, and software/tech oriented and less about whatever the Twitter community nonsense is that week. I’ve decided it just does not make sense nor is it good use of my time to engage in or entertain arguments from people about finance or software development, or to campaign for more level-headed news coverage and discussion. The contamination has spread too far. The great conceipt of The Walking Dead is that they were all infected.
Speaking of which, that has been my binge this week. Watching it on my Samsung Galaxy Tab S7 128GB (needs to be upgraded) and my Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra 256GB (I’ve uninstalled my work apps on this device and am just using it as a personal phone, I mean, since I pay for it, although I still use it for my two work numbers for voice calls and texts), along with the Cowin E7 Bluetooth headphones. My only bother is that somewhere I’ve apparently already downloaded Season 1 to 5 devices and so could not download it locally to my S23 Ultra, although I also cannot administrate that from the Google TV app itself. Bit of a pain-in-the-ass.
I’ve continued to grind on Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III Season 3. I hit up a small map session last night as I worked SMG unlocks; Sniper rifles earlier in the week. So glad the technical problems I was having at the launch of S3 have settled out. The main monitor on my RTX4080 rig (an LG 27″) has been blinking out, but only when I am in dual-monitor mode (I kill the 2nd monitor when gaming) and never while actually playing a game. Watching it with the side-eye for now. I would have normally knee-jerked and done something about it, but I just bought that display in January. Gonna let that marinate for a bit.
Minor spoilers for anyone who has not played Spider-Man 2 (but I think most have): Went back to Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 last night, also. What an amazing game. Ran it in performance mode (1440p), and played through the Negative Man fight; that part where Miles has been captured by Kraven. What a pain that fight was. Kept me up until 230AM. Not a fan. Mind-boggld my all the graphical options Insomniac has put in that game’s menu to allow the user to tailor the graphical experience for themselves, while the industry continues to make AAA flagship exclusives that only permit one or two options, one of which is often 4K30,
Someone asked me a couple of weeks ago on a podcast if we (the general consumer market) still buy MP3 players. I have a drawer full (not saying that the answer to his question was yes). I’d stopped using them while on remote assignment b/c I was always in a rush to make the 7 hour commute and it became just easier to rotate a pair of BT headphones and use my phones. Now that I’m back, I’ve been wanting to get back to using them. I merged my old music archive with my new. I still need to load it onto all mobile devices and my MP3 payers. For now, I’ve just broken out the Apple iPod Classic 160GB and the Astell & Kearn Super Junior x AK Jr. I do love using dedicated MP3 players and once I kind of resurge them back into my workflow, I’ll be looking to the ones that need to be upgraded. I lost an iPhone and an iPod Touch on that assignment, so there are some slots, but a couple of them are also probably ready to be retired.
Drafted on my Samsung Galaxy Tab S7
Rounding Off Infinity 