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Yes, once again I am tinkering with my modpack. The mods I'm adding are mostly for variety, which the original pack was a bit lacking in, for all its trimness. The Essentials Damage Indicators Fastcraft NEI + CodechickenCore Treecapitator + BspkrsCore Voxel Map WAILA Greenthumb + D3core Obligatory BspkrsCore (Treecap) CodechickenCore (NEI, Enderstorage) CTMLib (Chisel) Mantle (Natura) OpenModsLib (OpenBlocks) RadixCore (MCA) COFHcore (???) D3core (Greenthumb) Original Selections for Axpack V [x] Mekanism [x] Extra Utilities [x] Openblocks + OpenModsLib [x] Minecraft Comes Alive + RadixCore [x] Pam’s Harvestcraft [x] Cooking for Blockheads [x] Bibliocraft [x] Ruins [x] Roguelike Dungeons [x] Oceancraft [x] Biomes O Plenty [x] Twilight Forest New Selections for Axpack V+ [x] Chisel + CTM Lib [x] ExtrabiomesXL [x] Dense Ores [x] Tinkers Construct + Mantle & TiC Tooltips [x] Enderstorage + CodechickenCore [x] Big Reactors [x] Mystcraft [x] N...

Just on a lark, I checked to see if that horrendously cringe-worthy KoDT live-action series got released... There is... count it... ONE episode (which I will not link here). It was published in June of 2015 on the d20 Entertainment YouTube channel. Then nothing for over a year. The most recent upload is titled something for a TV pilot, which is of the quality we've come to expect from the people who were involved with The Gamers movies. Apparently two other episodes were produced but only available to backers, which, judging from there being 795 backers and only two people liked the update posts that announced those... were not well received. Wouldn't you know it... it's another Kickstarter that went completely off the rails. The backers and Jolly Blackburn are pissed . Yes, Jolly himself commented regularly on the situation. The level of vitriol in the kickstarter comments isn't nearly the toxicity level of Spoony's Patreon, but the passion folks are displayi...

It's 8 days 'til the release of FFXV and I still have no clue when I'll be able to get a PS4. I was hoping for a good Cyber Monday sale, but it does not appear that will be happening. Nuts! Most likely it will be around March. Tax refund time. Here's a reminder to myself of games to get eventually: Watch Dogs 2 (Check. It's good.) Kingdom Hearts 2.8 (Check. It's great!) Red Dead Redemption 2 (Delayed til 2018. Sad face.) (Edit: It was alright. Never play single player again though) Quantum Break (Part of the Dec. Humble Monthly...so, soon.) (Edit: Once I had hardware to run it, it wasn't that compelling.) Just Cause 3 (Perhaps not. I'll finish JC2 first) (Edit: Have it. It's mid.) Witcher 3 (Check. Pretty good) Nioh? (Check. These souls type games... I dunno.) (Edit: Can't beat the first boss. That said, I like it.)

Today I pre-ordered Final Fantasy XV Deluxe Edition from Amazon. Apparently connecting my Twitch account to Amazon gave me a discount on games, or perhaps it just made me aware of a discount I already had. In any case, come November 29, I should be getting the game, the Kingsglaive movie, and such in a bulletproof (maybe) case for around $80. Now I just need to get the PS4 to play it on, but I can burn that bridge when it becomes more feasible. (Perhaps I'll slow cook the bridge so it turns into charcoal first. Hmmm.) There were a few ways to go about this. Gamestop offers a limited edition PS4 slim with FFXVdx for $450, but when I saw the price of the Uncharted 4 PS4 slim bundle on Amazon for $300, the course became clear. I liked what I played of the first Uncharted. It's one I should get back to, but I've been playing Watchdogs lately instead. Updates: I played some of Soma, and like it. The robots are not frightening in the least. They try to unsettle you though wi...

 I took a long refreshing break from Minecraft, finally decided to formally announce my disinclination to continue map development, and now find myself getting back into playing the game. When I tried to boot up my latest attempt at the Axpack, I found that it was a bloated mess that crashed, even when I disabled most of the mods. So Bolz'tuit.... I'm making another one. Something far more compact, focused, and stable. It will be centered around Mekanism because I love it so and it worked this morning as the sole mods in the pack. So, here's the outline: The Essentials Damage Indicators Voxel Map NEI WAILA Treecapitator Fastcraft Obligatory CodechickenCore (NEI, Enderstorage) BspkrsCore (Treecap) Mantle (Natura) RadixCore (MCA) OpenModsLib (OpenBlocks) BrandonCore (Draconic Evolution) Selections from the Best Mekanism Extra Utilities Open Blocks Minecraft Comes Alive + RadixCore Pam’s Harvestcraft Cooking for Blockheads Bibliocraft Ruins Ocea...

It's been 11 years since Kingdom Hearts 2. A long time to be sure. It was 3.5 years between the first game and the second, but they released Chain of Memories in between.... so I didn't mind waiting. Over the next few years they released four spin off titles, then the HD remixes/collections of previous games. I appreciated them. I am looking forward to Kingdom Hearts 3 and seem to be in the minority of those who have not lost hope. Why should I be concerned about this. It's a game! I don't need it! I'm not entitled to it... Nomura and Square-Enix do not owe it to me or anyone. No one is being cheated. Let me express my thoughts in the form of code: IF it is competed and released, THEN I'll be happy to play it.  ELSEIF it is cancelled, THEN I will be disappointed,  ELSE it's none of my concern until one of those happens. I've seen people getting huffy about it. Why? How is not playing this game (or any game) right now going to negatively aff...