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Bought some stuff today on trade-in credit. 

Ok so I really wanted to get a blog out on Monday just so I could say I still wrote a blog on Eclipse Day and not use a title revolving around Bonnie Tyler or Pink Floyd. Since I was nowhere near the path I only got maybe 60% of the eclipse, which is still really cool but not as swanky as the folks who made their way to Oregon. Well I got a late start to looking for eclipse glasses, like I started on Friday. Yeah it was already a lost cause especially at Lowe's where apparently customer service is not one of their strong suits. After making some calls and roaming around including checking on Amazon (congrats to you resellers who are now stuck with tons of glasses that you were selling for $100) I went the old school method and cut up a box

You planet.  

In my desperate attempt to make it to the End City on Survival Mode in Minecraft, I have been beaten and battered so much that I became willing to do just about anything to get there. So I had Mark do a "Mission Impossible" on the Mansion to steal every book in there. He cut a hole in the roof and snuck in under the noses of the Vindicators to rob the library. While he did that, I dug into mines and grabbed diamonds and obsidian. Together we built the enchantment table and put the glow on our armor. Then we laid waste the Nether Fortress and pulled the blaze rods from the living Blazes as they died. Neither Wither, nor Ghast stood in our way; each felt the sting of our flaming arrows and expired. 

Thought to go back to Red Faction Armageddon today but played Minecraft with Mark instead. I had a hell of a time in the Nether again. I swear they must’ve tweaked some of the gameplay because it just seems harder. The fire damage seems to rip your health faster and the enemies seem super aggressive and have some extra moves on them. I could be imagining it though.

ARMS is Nintendo’s newest fighting game on Switch.  Originally I wasn’t going to get this game for a while, but I found a sale where it was ten dollars off.  Doesn’t sound like much, but considering Nintendo’s first party games hardly ever go on sale, I decided to take the plunge.  ARMS has a lot of interesting fighters, so I’ll do what I usually like to do with these kinds of games.  Here’s a blog about each of the ARMS fighters!  Nintendo has said that more will show up as DLC, so I also posted my own ideas for original fighters and existing characters, too!

Minecraft set to big biomes and reduced variety of biomes creates a much more realistic looking world. I’m trying to stay in the same seed and make steady progress towards my goal of getting into the End City. Yesterday I got my mine cart railway built and put up the Nether portal. Today I explored the Nether and built a brewing stand. Eventually I overextended myself and got killed in the Nether. I really shouldn’t stay in there too long when I don’t have anti-fire potions, but I was trying to find some way to use the fortress as a kind of base to venture out on the plains to hunt Endermen and Magma. Luckily, when I died, I had turned off auto saves so I could reload from right before I entered. It’s a little cheat I allow myself now in order to keep from quitting out of frustration. I did quit today, though, but didn’t abandon my save. I’ll go back to it next time.

I had some time today, so I got together with Mark, and we played some games. Wednesday is Games with Gold day on XBO, and the new one this week was Red Faction Armageddon. I had to download and install it though, and that took about 3 hours. During that time, I played some Minecraft.

I worked very hard on my game, "Forgetter", and put in probably a hundred hours if not more into it. I did the artwork, the music, the text, the programming and whatever else. But I've pretty much shelved it for good now. For a while I considered finishing it up, but I'm just not happy with it. The response on Steam is certainly part of that (though it did get greenlit) but I'm just not satisfied with what it is in comparison to what it's trying to do. 

My mom is watching "A Dog's Purpose" in the other room.  I saw a couple scenes and it made me cry. I'm a bit sensitive about dogs... and stuff.  HA ha. I cry at movies a lot though. I cried watching the end of Dunkirk. I wasn't always this way, I swear!  Ha ha.