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Studying 70s culture and media this month. What about gaming?

I got totally fed up with Minecraft the other day. Mark and I had just turned the game from Peaceful difficulty (no mobs) to Easy (mobs with moderate damage) in order to hunt Endermen. In less than a couple of minutes my outdoor camping deck with trees for walls was surprise attacked by two creepers, one after the other, in broad daylight, destroying part of my deck and a chest full of stuff. I got so fed up, it led me to erase everything on my hard drive and start anew with random selections from my owned games, Game Pass, EA Play and Games with Gold. All of these groupings have a little button that says, "surprise me". I grabbed one from each section in turn and the resulting chaos is recorded below. 

It's about all I can do writing a blog in the short time I have, take a shallow dive into games I've sometimes barely played. Here's what:

June through August 2022, these are the games I most want to play. 

I got called into work on Thursday, so it was just a half-day gaming with my buddy Mark. Tues/Thurs is my "normal weekend" right now. 

Played a bunch on Tuesday. Here's the breakdown. 

Here are some screen shots of the last three games I played. Following this, I'll run through how I changed up my list of games on my Xbox hard drive. 

I'm breaking out the Switch tomorrow. I've also made a new list, so I may stop playing a lot of these games I've been playing. I want to focus on the most current games I'm interested in. But, this is what I played this week so far.

But first, a video game print ad from a comic released just this month, Strange #3. It's really Doctor Strange #3 but now Clea is the Sorcerer Supreme of Earth, and she's not a doctor like Stephen. The ad is for Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga. You don't see vg print ads much these days. 

Finished the second movie's worth of Lego Lord of the Rings the other day. There's an interesting mechanic where you can quickly switch to another set of characters in a totally different location. For instance from Frodo and Sam in Mordor to Aragorn and Legolas in Helms Deep.