Unsupervised Design

Category: Video Games 🎮

  • Steam year in review 2023 showing 69 games played, 319 achievements earned, 705 play sessions, and 38 new to me games.

    Nice.

  • Maximum nostalgia achieved! Raquel got me a new GameBoy game for Christmas! In 2023!!

    Fydo’s Magic Tiles GameBoy Cartridge atop the packaging it came in.

  • In December of 2003 my friend Colin and I were deep into playing Diablo II multiplayer on a couple of Thinkpad laptop’s with a crossover network cable. This culminated in us playing Diablo II in the movie theatre while waiting for Return of the King to start.

    This week brought Diablo IV to Steam with proper Steam Deck support and in that portable form factor it triggers deep nostalgia for me.

    A Steam Deck in my hand running Diablo IV with the inventory open. Also visible is Luna’s face as she naps in my lap while I play

  • Today my Steam account turned 20 years old. Older than my Apple ID by 2 years and I think the only login I have older is my Microsoft account that began life as a hotmail account in the 90s

    Years of Service badge in Steam showing 20 years of service as of September 19th 2023. The badge description says “Member since 19 September, 2003. Special Steam Green edition awarded to accounts created during Steam’s first year.”

  • I am not usually one for “end of year replay” social stuff but getting my Steam replay was definitely satisfying.

    Summary of my Steam activity for 2022. 46 games played, 338 achievements, 558 sessions, 33 new games. Hades, LEGO Star Wars, Spiderman, Halo, and Tape to Tape were the top 5 games played.
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    Sitting in a dog pile in the sun and playing Hades

    Hugo laying on my legs with Luna laying on top of him and my left hand resting my Steam Deck playing Hades on top of both dogs.
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    The news that Kevin Conroy has passed hits hard. He will always be Batman to me and his work is very responsible for my love of comics and Batman.

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    Finally completed my GameBoy Color modification to use a backlit IPS LCD and a clear case. I couldn’t bring myself to use my childhood GameBoy so I had to find one on eBay.

    Backlit GameBoy Color boot screen
    GameBoy Color with clear case playing Donkey Kong
    Pokémon Silver rival naming screen showing that I’ve named my rival “Grant”
    Playing Pokémon and as is tradition my rival is named after Grant
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    As the week has gone on and more places have written about Sony buying “Halo Developer” Bungie I continue to remember great Bungie games like Oni.

    The style of combat in this game was like nothing else. I loved this on the Mac and the PlayStation 2

    Hopefully Sony finds the IP and considers bringing this and/or Myth back

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    With the announcement that Sony is buying Bungie I can only hope that Sony will resurrect the Myth franchise that has been gone too long.

    Fediverse Reactions

  • Started playing Hades today. I am not usually one for rogue-like gameplay but the mix of spooky and whimsy in the art style and the gameplay won me over quickly

  • extra-life 2015

    last Saturday, November 7 was game day for extra life 2015. across North America gamers gathered together to raise over $6.7 million.

    this Saturday, November 14 my friends and I will embark on a 24 hour marathon to raise money for the IWK. we will be collaboratively playing a number of classic video games on the PlayStation 2 and the Nintendo 64. we will be broadcasting our progress and general shenanigans to the internet for the enjoyment of the masses.

    last year we extra lifers in the Maritimes raised over $50 thousand for the IWK and we are looking to try and surpass that this year. If you are interested in supporting the IWK click here to donate