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What do you do for a nerdfest? Do nerdy things like play games and see science fiction or fantasy flicks. It may be beyond nerdiness to be doing this at my age, but what else do I got? Nuttin'. So there it is. Breakdown below. If it's not too freaky for ya. 

Started off late because I felt rather terrible this morning. A week of work will do that to you. I played Dr. Mario on NES after I'd gotten to my friend Mark's place. No parents to say no to that. I've grown up long ago, but I still gotta game. Wut up! This tetris variant is really cool. Instead of just matching shapes and colors, you have to match them to colored viruses in a bottle. When you match them, they disappear, and when all are gone, you clear the level. Sweet!

Then we went off to see Terminator Genisys. This was a fine scifi flick. I got a little choked up in one part. I'd describe it, but it'd be a spoiler. Darn it. Let's just say I was reminded of my dad and his passing, and really, the passing of a whole decade of pop culture that I grew up in. 

Then, back at the ranch, I played one of Cary's favorite games, Little Nemo: The Dream Master on NES. This is a really neat platformer with colorful graphics and interesting mechanics. My favorite was being able to feed animals in the levels with candy and then riding them. It was as if you had to tame them first before they'd let you "ride" them. I say "ride" in quotes because what you really do is jump down their mouths and wear them like a garment. At least that was the case for the frog and the mole (The lizard you rode on its back). There are also keys hidden in the levels which you need the ride-on, wear-on, animals to get to. The frog jumps high, the mole digs, and the lizard walks up walls. I wish I could've got past the first world, The Mushroom world, because I wanted to meet more animals and ride them. What self respecting nerd wouldn't? 

That was it for NES games for the day, so I switched back to Xbox 360 and bought Crysis 2 and Burnout Paradise for about $3 each. I couldn't pass up such low prices on those games. Oh no. 

Then it was back to Minecraft where Mark had found apples and gilded them for us during the week. It took some villager management and switching to Hard difficulty (because zombies don't turn villagers on lower difficulty levels, they just kill them). Eventually we coraled a bunch of villagers, let a zombie loose among them, and then when one turned, tossed a weakness potion on him and then offered the golden apple. Both of us unlocked the achievement soon after. Then it was each of us off to our respective tutorial levels to get the last achievement of taming an ocelot. You can do this in the tutorial level where there are two ocelots in a cage. (Don't bother trying to find one in the wild on a new world. Mark tried it, and it took him half a day to find one).Just let one loose, go into a crouch, let the ocelot approach you, and give it raw fish. Soon they turn into a kitty cat and the achievement appears. Wala! I've completed all the achievements in Minecraft. . . Now what?

Back to Culdcept Saga. Ok actually, Culdcept Saga is a pain in my butt. At least playing against the A.I.. I got real mad after losing a battle because the description on one of my cards wasn't clear enough. Does a monster card that has a magic stealing bonus ability get to steal win or lose, or just win? Apparently, in this particular case (and not in others that I've noticed), it has to be win. WTF, I said, and quit. 

There was only an hour left to the night by now, so it was back to a game of short duration, Ticket to Ride. Mark and I played this over and over on ranked matches because I still haven't gotten the "win 25 ranked matches" achievement even though my stat page says I'm way beyond that. I just keep playing it anyway and hoping it will pop up someday. Then the night was over, at least for Mark.

I noticed at home later, that there were a lot of NES games from 1990 I overlooked, and which I own, so tomorrow I have River City Ransom, Batman, Wizardry, and Swords and Serpents in my bag ready to go. I could play Phantasy Star III as well on Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection, but we'll see if there's time and whether something else doesn't destract me. I'm a nerd after all, and I'm easily distracted. SO SUE ME!

Bye bye then.