ACHOO!!!

Yeah, allergies are in season. That warm, gorgeous, walkable weather I have been craving for months. Pollen is evil. EVIL I SAY! I took something for it and I am a bit loopy—LOOP!

ONEMORELOOP!ONEMORELOOP!ONEMORELOOP!

Ha! Just kidding. I have played Loop Hero since the last update but only for a little under two hours. I figured out how to apply a timer on certain apps and put an hour limit on Loop Hero. And it has been working for me. So, I had to put parental control on my games . . . for myself!

I actually upgraded my Loop Hero’s base to the max I could.

So . . . besides playing the game from start again, or setting up new combos with the times in the supplies, or finishing achievements, yeah I have used up all my Loop Hero drive for now. My latest gaming interest, because of course after my last rant about how I’m done with gaming, I would game. And after seeing a trailer for the Fallout series on Prime, I decided to give Fallout Shelter a shot.

And it’s a cool little casual game. The game has these lunch boxes that are loot crates and where the dangerous microtransaction. I got one for free to start things out and got a bunch of stuff I did not know was good. But of note, I got a poodle and, of all things, the Fatman which is the Fallout franchise’s signature handheld nuclear missile launcher. Surprise, surprise, I gave my main explorer the Fatman.

Fallout Shelter is a new experience for me in gaming. Most free-to-play games have timers on them and those without patience will pay for the items that speed things up. I never actually played free-to-play before so I was surprised to find that I could view ads and get stuff for my time. An interesting concept that I have engaged with, mostly because I have my tablet on mute the whole time and just ignore the ads as they play.

I still am holding my ground to not invest in any microtransactions, even with the 10th year anniversary sale going on. And seeing that sale made me realize something . . . it was 10 years ago that Fallout Shelter came out. I remember when it came out for mobile and being a huge Fallout:New Vegas fan without a smartphone at the time, this game passed me by. Now, I gave this little casual game a chance and had fun with it.

I limit my time with Fallout Shelter to an hour a day and find myself playing in ten minute bursts due to all the times everything has. There is a timer on watching ads and I get it, which people would spam the hell out of that to get bonuses and ignore the ads [this guy right here would]. So I have had fun with that while my allergies destroy the inside of my head.

I also installed an old classic favorite of mine, Plants vs Zombies, a shot on my tablet. And it is free but all the poorer for it. I can at least choose to play ads when engaging in Fallout Shelter but after playing three stages in PvZ, ads, ads, ads! And as far as I could tell, there is no pay once for the full game and avoid the ads. Which sucks but the game lacks my favorite thing of PvZ, and that was Crazy Dave. Crazy Dave gave the game a narrative and another layer of humor. So, I uninstalled PvZ for now, until I can find a nicer version of the original.

Now, that is the fun with gaming, how did I do with writing since I have the timers on my games. Well, I finished my current writing project DotNO. Funny story, I wrote the final chapter that ended up going a little over my word count limit and . . . I split it in two and beefed up the two halves. To all the writers out there, have you ever had that happen to you? You write a chapter, it has all the elements you originally wanted to put in the chapter but they are smaller and rushed and you feel like . . . no, break it down to two or more chapters and flesh it out more. Yeah, that happened to me with the ending to DotNO.

And after the final chapter of DotNO, I began to do the outline for my next writing project, which I am calling WotGH. I managed to develop about six chapters in one sitting. So, I’m doing more writing lately than I have been. Which is a step in the right direction. And hopefully, this will be the start of good momentum and more productivity will be had.

Oh, I started watching “That Time I Was Reincarnated as a Slime” and it's so good. I love the humor and how dark it can get. The lead is a normal business man from Japan and he is stabbed to death while protecting his friends. As he bleeds out, a disembodied voice hears his dying words and misinterprets them as requests for level up bonuses. He gets immunity to heat and cold, which makes him invisible to fire and ice attacks, because he feels hot then cold as he dies. The guy then gets reincarnated as a slime in a cave, the same cave where a legendary dragon is imprisoned and chilling. And the slime makes friends with said dragon then eats him . . . yeah. And that’s just the first episode.

Just finished season one and highly recommend it so far.

Well, I’m drowsy as hell and should wrap up. I’ve been listening to old podcast episodes of “Escape from Walt Disney” and spent the last five minutes reading through the film production label that Disney had called Hollywood Pictures and wow! A rush of nostalgia for a great many of the movies listened there. Even sudden flashes of commercials for the movies I did not see. Damn. The human brain goes to weird places when under the influence of Benadryl . . . or drugs in general.

Good Luck and ACHOOOOOOOOO!!

---BUCK

PS:

This one man has been populating my vault. It’s at 30 dwellers now. Half the vault will soon be this man’s spawn! Overseer? More like OVERLORD, MAAAWAWAH!

PSS:

This is how out of it I am. I forget the "update" in the update title pic. And I have no clue what is happening in this dice tray. And there is an error with the date. Do you see it? Comment if you do!