I’m gonna be straight up here. I just have not really been much in the mood for writing and blogging lately.

In addition to just being busy lately, the latest news developments are just, very very depressing, to put it mildly.

Fortnite

I have not been really playing a lot of variety lately either. I have no interest in Fortnite OG 2, I didn’t care for OG1 either. The Music pass was… Weirdly easy to complete, because they changed how you gain pass tiers. I finished it in days and barely played. I didn’t get premium. I am not real big on Snoop or rap/hip hop. This also kind of killed any interest in playing because all of the featured tracks are basically 7+ difficulty on vocals and 1-2 difficulty on every other part.

I don’t like playing vocals.

Beatstar

I am also rapidly losing interest in Beatstar, the other rhythm game I have been playing on my phone. Its still enjoyable, but the replayability of tracks is kind of meh. I also can basically Gold most normal tracks in one play through. Platinum is less easy, and I have no double platinum tracks. Both of those feel like blind luck though. There isn’t really a good strategy for increasing how many Perfect+ vs Perfect hits you get.

Or the songs fall to the other end of the spectrum, which currently is 3 tracks for my 100 or so songs available. They are “Extreme” tier and I lose it randomly on stage 2 somewhere, usually because it doesn’t properly register a swipe arrow.

More irritating is that all of my unlocks now require like, 50 cards per genre. And card cases have 2-4 cards in them. This drip feed of content is excruciatingly annoying. They added in some ways to unlock more by watching ads but I have too many layers of blocking going on the ad mechanism barely works even after I opened a few pinholes for it.

The mobile ads are horrifically awful and weird too. And they are just for more games centered around shoving ads at you. How does this model even fucking work?

I would give them money to try to get some songs I want but the only way to get songs is a slot machine pull and I have no real interest in that crap.

Pokemon TCG Pocket

Though speaking of slot machine pulls, I decided to give the new Pokemon TCG Pocket a go. I can already tell its not going to last. Between in game tasks and general new game push, it really showers you with things early on. I have mostly been playing the vs AI battles, but not really playing a lot. Mostly just collecting up the cards.

I feel like I am pretty close to having the set despite not spending a dime, but also, I know this is how this crap works. That last basic Golbat card will have a .0000000005% chance of dropping ever. That sort of nonsense. You think its the fancy colored ones with strong legendary Pokemon, but its not. They give you those to keep the dopamine hits flowing while you chase the completionism of every trash Pokemon.

Pokemon Sleep

On a Pokemon Note, I also have spun up Pokemon Sleep again. It added support for 3rd party watches (Fitbit) and well, it works, but I really do not get the point of this thing. I may have already uninstalled it.

Throne and Liberty

Look at that, I said I had not been playing things and here I am, not even touching on what I have been playing yet. I have made it to the max level, I have started running some dungeons. I still have not tried all of the dungeons yet. Almost every boss has some point where they have a 1 hit KO mechanic. I have only played some of the easier to manage bosses, and even then I still die half the time.

I have gotten some good gear though. Though I need to figure out a better way to beef up my stamina/MP. I keep running out.

Just recently I also started doing some open world dungeons. I have all this weird currency and it keeps telling me “X currency is full so these new ones have been destroyed”. One of these currencies affects drops in open world dungeons. So I figured it was time to use some of it.

On regular currency though, I finally went broke. I kept feeling super rich, but recently found where to craft upgrade books for my high level gear. And I blew through several million in regular gold using up my crafting mats.

Easy come easy go I guess.