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Only at the very end of the evening did I play the opening levels of Battlefield Bad Company 2, but I feel like I can take a long break from Minecraft now. 

These are the Tech Element characters I have from this game; although, since Mark gave me all his Toys-to-Life figures lately, I still have to check to see if he had some I didn't. 

I'm convinced now. Minecraft has been tweaked behind the scenes to make it harder.

As I'm playing Hey! Pikmin, I've been getting this kind of terror every time I come across one of those large birds. I can usually chuck a bunch of pikmin on its back to dispatch it, but sometimes I miss and the bird gulps one down, and I hear that little voice cry out. I can't stand to lose a pikmin. They're so adorable, and I don't want them eaten by a giant bird. 

I've been trying to eat healthier, but it is required matterial to have some snacks on hand during long gaming sessions. Pictured below are my go to snacks for gameday. 

Bought some stuff today on trade-in credit. 

In my desperate attempt to make it to the End City on Survival Mode in Minecraft, I have been beaten and battered so much that I became willing to do just about anything to get there. So I had Mark do a "Mission Impossible" on the Mansion to steal every book in there. He cut a hole in the roof and snuck in under the noses of the Vindicators to rob the library. While he did that, I dug into mines and grabbed diamonds and obsidian. Together we built the enchantment table and put the glow on our armor. Then we laid waste the Nether Fortress and pulled the blaze rods from the living Blazes as they died. Neither Wither, nor Ghast stood in our way; each felt the sting of our flaming arrows and expired. 

Thought to go back to Red Faction Armageddon today but played Minecraft with Mark instead. I had a hell of a time in the Nether again. I swear they must’ve tweaked some of the gameplay because it just seems harder. The fire damage seems to rip your health faster and the enemies seem super aggressive and have some extra moves on them. I could be imagining it though.

Minecraft set to big biomes and reduced variety of biomes creates a much more realistic looking world. I’m trying to stay in the same seed and make steady progress towards my goal of getting into the End City. Yesterday I got my mine cart railway built and put up the Nether portal. Today I explored the Nether and built a brewing stand. Eventually I overextended myself and got killed in the Nether. I really shouldn’t stay in there too long when I don’t have anti-fire potions, but I was trying to find some way to use the fortress as a kind of base to venture out on the plains to hunt Endermen and Magma. Luckily, when I died, I had turned off auto saves so I could reload from right before I entered. It’s a little cheat I allow myself now in order to keep from quitting out of frustration. I did quit today, though, but didn’t abandon my save. I’ll go back to it next time.

I had some time today, so I got together with Mark, and we played some games. Wednesday is Games with Gold day on XBO, and the new one this week was Red Faction Armageddon. I had to download and install it though, and that took about 3 hours. During that time, I played some Minecraft.