I am still not dead. Sorry. Just… Not really in a “write about games and toys” mood. Hard as I try, I cannot be the “this is fine” dog while the world burns around me.
What I Have Been Playing
Infinity Nikki
I think there have been a few larger updates. If I understand properly, the next update is the last one before we get the first “Big update”, which will probably be a whole new large zone. The end of the main story teases like 5 or 6 other large zones or something. I don’t remember. I have basically been in maintenance mode for a while, which is fine.
Basically just, log in, do the daily tasks, maybe gather mats if needed. I have crafted all of the basic clothes, collected all but the 3 Million Bling Hatty star, nearly. Completed the Heart of Infinity. I am close to finishing the second Silvergale’s Aria outfit, which means I can start slowly chipping away at Momo outfits. Even though I don’t need them now that I have this dumb Diamond Momo outfit.
Basically, most of what I have to do it all time gated content. You can only farm so many of the Bouldy gems each day. You can only farm like 1 of the things needed to evolve the Miracle Outfits per week.
It’s annoying.
Fortnite
I pretty much fell off the Fortnite wagon, but next pass is Star Wars, so I will pick it up again for a bit. The Star Wars weapons and events are always super fun, plus good skins.
I have been idling in LEGO to max out the current pass. I don’t super care about anything in the current pass, but I may as well max it as much as I can then get Fortnite Crew on the last day to unlock it all. It also means getting a bunch of LEGO stuff and the Sabrina Carpenter Music pass. So, bonus stuff. I’m not a huge Sabrina carpenter Skin, but it’s the kind of skint hat feels really out of place in a Battle Royale game, which I can get into..
Overwatch
Instead, in the usual fashion, I have swapped back to the Overwatch train. It’s been mostly enjoyable. I am not sure if I care for the new Arena mode. It’s very long and often results in one sided steam ring since there is no counter pick swapping etc.
I also am kind of glad I don’t really spend my Mythic Prisms. I started really enjoying playing Juno recently, and she got a Mythic skin for the new season. I was able to just get it, immidiately. I am not real sure about anything else in the pass, but if I manage to get to level 80, I will be able to buy it for nothing with the coins from the pass.
The Dokiwatch theme is fun, but there is only like, one of the Dokiwatch skins in the pass, the rest are shop skins, which is lame.
What I Have Been Buying
I have not really been getting new toy stuff, or much of anything at all. My personal fun budget, because I do keep a budget, has pretty much ranked this year. That said, I keep telling myself I want to keep better track of it here, and since it’s simple for the past few months, what better time to start?
Transformers
Even before my Transformers interest had kind of dropped. There is a lot of really neat stuff the last few years that I don’t really care about. That said, I have picked up a couple recently.
Like the new… Hell I can no longer keep these lines straight. I think it’s Studio Series Jazz reissue. I am so glad they are doing more reissues lately. One of the things that stopped me caring about TFs was that the few characters I did care about were basically impossible to find. I really like a lot of my old CHUG figures, but the old Classics Jazz is a little eh these days. This new Jazz is much cooler.
But they have not all been cool. I also picked up the deluxe Gamer Edition Devastation Optimus Prime. It’s… a very inoffensive Prime. But it’s also kind of dull in a way I can’t quite place. I also kind of dislike the cell shaded windows.
I also picked up Legacy Studio Prime Whatever series Sentinel Prime, from the recent TF One movie. One, I keep wanting to call him Zeta Prime, he really feels like a Zeta Prime. Two, he looks like a Gundam. He is a neat figure, looks super nice, but man, he feels really small for the price, which I hate. I dug out my old Cybertron Vector Prime, and that dude is huge for both being “Voyager” sized.
I less new Transformers News, I find lately I have been pulling out a lot of my older stuff and just put zing with it. Lots of good stuff there.
Fire Mario and Luigi
My interest in World of Nintendo isn’t huge, but occasionally something comes along I like, or they put out another Koopaling.
Please Jakks, please put out the last two 4″ Koopalings.
Anyway, I thought these Fire Mario and Luigi were pretty cool. Totally not related to them both looking angry and anybrecent news and political happenings.
Jada Toys Mega Man
I have seen these getting marked down recently and it’s kind of disappointing, because I don’t understand why Mega Man lines can never make it. At this point, like the Koopaling, I just want one complete set of Robot Masters, from any game. We just need Guts an and Bomb Man.
What I Have Been Watching
I started slowly picking up watching through Star Trek TOS again. That kind of fell off my radar a bit. I did finish up Lower Decks fi ally though.
My bigger project that started earlier this year was watching through all of the Marvel stuff. I am almost done rewatching through the MCU. I kind of hope to pick up some of the old old oddball stuff next. Like the old Spiderman and Dr Strange. Also, by Old I mean, the 70s and 80s movies, not like, Toby McGuire Spider-man. We watched those as part of a precursor to No Way Home.
Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone are so great together and I kind of hate that Amazing Spider-man went the way it did and just… Ended.
