Newbie recently picked up the game Slime Rancher with her new steam account that we set up for her on her birthday.
She’s very much loved the recommendation. It’s inspired her to draw a lot, including this example of all the slimes she’s found so far.
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As you can see if I have a cat picture to feature, I go and schedule them for Caturday. 😉
That being said, Lady Grey decided to both help and hinder me during a session of online Mario Kart with TJ, his girlfriend, and his best friend. Those clips are probably a long time coming to Monk of Mists, but the highlight reels will be here sometime.
In the meantime, we can all stop and admire Lady Grey after she decided to not continue blocking my view.
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Why Penny? Just… why?
I mean, I know this is the triggering of the max heart relationship event but this teacher should know better than to picnic in the rain. :p
I triggered this on Little Miss and my former Joja world. We got the steam achievement on the aforementioned twitter thread on yesterday’s post and then we reset the save file so we could complete the community center and proceed “normally”. Sometimes it feels like we’re basically a year behind on things but we’re only on year two and we’re on track to complete the community center by the end of the year as long as the fishing cooperates.
We were laser focused on earning enough money super quickly to buy the Joja stuff all in a game week so we ignored things like relationships and didn’t worry too much about what the community center might need in the future. For those wanting to do the same thing, I’d recommend creating a “Community Center” chest and pretending that you’re filling the center as you fill that. Then, once you reset your save you have that chest ready to go and can fill the center accordingly.
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(My character holding a tuffle over his head.)
(A question pop-up asking if I should eat it.)
So for the past year or so I’ve had a running twitter thread with Stardew Valley events when they happen:
This is basically me doing a reset a little bit and changing to going to the blog for neat events (hence the part of the title that says “Stardew Switch”. Yes I have it on the Switch, but I usually play it on PC.)
We get a Skype call going with one of TJ’s best friends, Little Miss takes the desk next to me, and off we go. One of the most common running gags at this point is “No! Don’t eat that!” because yeah, we’ve ended up eating high value things like truffles instead of putting them in the oil makers and then selling them.
It’s at this point I notice, now that I’m returning to being more active at scheduling posts, that WordPress does a very bad job of allowing for alternative text, so I’m sorry about that.
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Because I was… otherwise occupied all the other kids suggested I join them for a game of Among Us while holding the sleeping Fireball the other day.
I’m glad it’s out on the Switch so it’s easier to do that.
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I’ve been watching the PS5 reveal news going “meh, I have a PC, a backlog, and a Switch.”
Well, I finally have game one of my rule of three: Final Fantasy XVI.
What is the rule of three? I don’t invest in a new console platform until there are three games on the platform that I’m interested in actually playing.
So Sony, you now have my attention.
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So before I get started, where the crap have I been? Well, after that last post on 11/16/18 I ran out of pictures and time to post anything more. The joys of helping run a family during the holidays. It’s been a rough couple of months.
I mean, it’s taking me almost a month to get to looking at this tweet we’ll get to into a moment.
Now, if you don’t follow this guy’s blog about gaming yet, I’d highly recommend heading his way. You can find him over at Adventure Rules.
So this challenge was to pull five games from five different generations (and challenge five people, which I’ll leave alone).
A tweet wouldn’t do my response justice, hence why I’m here.
You want generations of gaming? I’ve got generations of gaming.
Let’s get started!
The same day as hat day for the littles was ‘character day’ for the teens.
TJ is probably obvious, but if you need help with Little Miss…
Distressed android from Detroit: Become Human (PS4 game.)
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Over the summer we got in a lot of playing Detroit: Become Human.
If you haven’t played this game yet and you have a PS4, I very highly recommend it.
Little Miss was very inspired by the game and created four pieces of art for it. I’ve posted them on twitter before, but I thought I’d highlight her three “character-centric” pieces here too.
I’m not going to give much background on any of them, just in case you’re somebody who is interested in playing the game, but those of you who have played through a few times should hopefully recognize some key scenes.
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Yesterday I participated in a really awesome event for Great Games Done Slow which was a fundraising event for Checkpoint.
You can catch the whole thing below though I’ve set the embedded clip to take you right to near where mine starts.
(These were supposed to be embedded but WordPress doesn’t seem to want to do that.)
https://player.twitch.tv/?autoplay=false&video=v310448709
But if you want some funny highlights that don’t really require much context…
