Where do I start with May? Where do I start with June? Once again, I would like to apologize to the people of the world who know that the convicted felon and convicted sexual assaulter of a President of the United States is an absolute shit stain for being an absolute shit stain of a bloated sack of rippling flesh. That's not slander. That's good ol' 'Murican Red, White, and 1st Ammendment Blue Protected Free Speech right there, folks!
You can make the connection between data center construction, the increase in RAM prices globally, and the increase in cost for consoles and systems that have been out for at most six years (PlayStation 5) to the Switch 2, which is less than a year old, all seeing price hikes between $50 (PlayStation 5 Portal) up to $300 (Steam Deck 1TB OLED), that's pretty obvious. And where data centers have been built and are being built run the political gamut, so you can't say one political party is more likely to saddle up to data center construction than another. And with all of the recent pushback by rural communities against data center construction due to water and power usage, maybe the price hikes for anything that uses RAM will get the video game community off their collective asses. It probably won't. If anything, it'll probably generate a lot of "Well, you should've bought a PS5 Pro last year like I did. Sucks to be you. I hear Tiger is bringing back their LCD games." I actually had a whole article planned out (not written, though) going into this topic, but it got too unwieldy, and I wasn't sure how to write it in a way that I would've been happy with. So I'm just bringing it up here instead.
I'm hoping that I'll actually be able to get my Game EXP Trilogy series off the ground this month, along with corresponding MIDI Week Singles. Except now that I type it out loud, I'm not sure how I want to space out three MIDI Week Single articles around a single post. Maybe I'll just release one a month along with their respective MIDI Week Singles article. That's probably the best way, so thanks for talking through this with me.
In Hades on the Switch 2, I had a rather amazing run. It was probably attempt number 21 or 22, and I had only made it as far as the Bone Hydra one previous time. On this run, I had the Eternal Spear equipped, and not only made it to the Bone Hydra and defeated it handily. I also made it somewhat deep into the Elysian Fields, two or three rooms past the fight with the Minotaur. I had also just recently spent some darkness to have the accessory cabinet (sorry, keepsakes) placed between Tartarus and Asphodel, so I had swapped out the Cthonic Coin Purse for Skelly's Lucky Tooth, and still had a Death Defied left. Anyway, I'm really into Hades, when I get to play the Switch 2, which is usually at night after The Squire goes to bed.
While he's awake, The Squire has been playing a lot of The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening remake (mainly because he's been watching gameplay videos for The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom and we don't have that game yet, but they use the same engine), but his expectations are all based on videos he's seen on YouTube, which are primarily just boss fights. So he gets pretty annoyed (with me) and aggravated (with me) when I tell him that we can't just jump from one dungeon into the next dungeon, that there are things that need to be found and unlocked before we can even get into the next dungeon. I blame YouTubers because it's easy, and I'm in my mid-40s. He's also played the Donkey Kong Bananza Demo for over 10 hours (which has a 30-minute limit per play session), so the full game is likely in his future (read later today). He's also bouncing back to Super Mario Bros. Wonder, which is what he's playing right now on the couch.
On my laptop, The Squire and I finished Big Helmet Heroes, a game that tries to capture the feeling of a more modern Castle Crashers, and I'll definitely get into it either at the end of this month or sometime next month. And we're still playing Castle Crashers since we can download new characters and skins from the Steam Workshop; we just downloaded a Darth Vader character that The Squire said, "It looks more movie accurate." I've since limited it to only downloading one new character per week, otherwise we'd be spending most mornings just looking through the same three to four pages of characters sorted by popularity and not actually playing the game.
On my own, I just finished Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown on Easy difficulty because I'm an adult and I had a bad experience with Ace Combat: Assault Horizon, but I'll get into more of that later. I'm still playing Divine Divinity, and if you know anything about that game, I just finished clearing out the sewers in both Rivertown and Verdistis. I'm working my way through the expansive Dark Forest, and I haven't accepted the invitation to the castle yet. I also started Diablo IV (base edition) (again) as a rogue, but found that I was a bit disappointed that I was one-shotting wargs and skeletons right out of the gate. You'd think that Level 1 would require a few hits to kill enemies, but this is the follow-up to Diablo III, so I probably shouldn't be too surprised (again). I also started playing Stone of Madness by The Game Kitchen from a review key I received, and I'm excited to go through and review a new type of game from the people who developed Blasphemous.
So I am still getting some game time in here and there. Now off to bed.
~JWfW/JDub/The Faceplantman/Jaconian
Chambers in the Bath
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