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Today I went for my favorite core Skylanders, Giants. There are 8 of them, according to wiki, and I picked up five today. One I have from the starter kit, so I have two left. Here's another lousy picture of what I got for $19 with the Gamestop buy-2-get-3-free sale on all figures (that includes Disney Infinity stuff, which I'm not into. . . yet):

One of these days, I'm going to get a smart phone and tweet all this. It's much faster that way. But here's a blog until then. The Skylanders sale at Gamestop, on figures, buy-2-get-3-free, is going on until Xmas!!! I just picked up the figures that came with the starter kits for the first two games, Spyro's Adventure and Giants for under $10. See pic below:

Thinking about 2013 this week, mostly through my music playlist, but I included the other media just for fun. 

Coincidental to my recent interest in Skylanders is this display I saw at one of my local libraries. See pic below:

I picked up my preorder for Earth Defense Force 4.1: The Shadow of New Despair for PS4 today (see pic below). This is the improved version of EDF 2025. I got it with some discount after a half dozen trades of games I've already played. I'd like to get through more of my backlog to create more trade bait for new games. After watching a bunch of videos here at Pixlbit last night, 2016 is looking like a crazy good year full of games I'd like to have day-one. 

Sounds like a diagnosis doesn't it? I spent just a short time gaming today; about two hours worth. Mark and I had to go get a sound bar for his TV and then, later, I had to go see my niece in a musical. But I'll relate what I got. 

Today, it was yet more Skylanders purchases and long hours of blasting bugs and robots in EDF: Insect Armageddon. I can't seem to wrap this game up. It just keeps me there for yet more attempts to beat it on the harder difficulties. 

This is the one day sale (Saturday, December 5) on the Skylanders SuperChargers starter kit. It's 50% off and you get a previous starter kit for free! Then the SuperChargers figures are buy-one-get-one-free. So I got the SuperChargers starter kit for Xbox One, Trap Team starter kit (also for Xbox One), and two SuperCharger figures that work with each other: Dive-Clops and his vehicle Dive Bomber. The salesman and I were joking that Dive-Clops looks like a tiny Big Daddy from BioShock. Maybe he's Little Baby Brother. Check out the pic below:

I've been using this site a lot lately. I've also been keeping records on how long I've spent playing each game. I've been doing it for several years now. That's some information I could add to their database. There were some games there that I played that either didn't exist on their site yet or didn't have any play time data for them. I thought I'd fix that and add all the data I've accumilated so far. I have the same user name over there as here. I'm going to explore their site a bit more over the next few weeks. They have a forum too. Here's the link: http://howlongtobeat.com/user.php?n=KnightDriver

Think about it as the last year for a hundred years you will have a date like this: 12-12-12. I'll do this like the previous year: I'll list a favorite one I experienced in that year, and one I missed and most want to experience now