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Metal Gear Rising... I threw down my enemy and smote his ruin on the mountain side. That was the most satisfying game victory of recent years, and it was hard won. I started the prior battle against Metal Gear Excelsius with 9 health kits and the Armstrong fight with 7. By the end I was at 30% health, having used all of them. Looking forward to the sequel! Making adventure maps for Minecraft has been somewhat harrowing. Perhaps I shouldn't obsess over it so much, but the community of this game is supremely frustrating to say the least. I cannot discern what MC players are looking for. I can say that if it requires paying attention to detail... forget it! I suspect that most MC players go into adventure maps looking for a distraction (or self-promotion, delusions of grandeur "Youtube fame" nonsense). The apparent problem is that MC players expect no depth , so they don't recognize it when it's there. What they expect is an experience from which they derive ...

So, It's been a while... how ya doing? Good... good. Well see ya. Ok, seriously... I am now part of a gaming group with real people! The game is Pathfinder, and we are playing through Rise of the Runelords. Well, perhaps not for much longer... we ran into a quasit that turned one PC to stone, downed two others, and left me the last one standing when we decided to call it a night. I have exactly on last card to play... a mutagen, We'll see how that turns out... but we may be starting a different adventure path. I've been playing Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance lately. Got to the end boss... with no healing items. Thing is, it's one of those games that lets you grind through earlier levels for upgrade points... so I played through most of the levels again. It was cake with the upgrades I had, and the trip gve me enough upgrade points to fully upgrade my weapon, energy, and health. I saved just prior to the final battle and intend to go for it once I'm in the proper...