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Yea, I'm trying to fix it. I just swapped out all of them. Maybe they will at least not autoplay now. 

Too bad The Spoony One. I liked that. 

I was rocky all summer but now I'm a little bit better. Just a few changes going my way made it tolerable. I'm still not fully secure yet though. 

Reviews are hard. They take a lot of time. I just riff on stuff. Real casual. Make it easy on yourself, I say. 

The open world thing is a trend going on in gaming largely because the technology allows for it now and it's super cool. Does it get tiring to see every series conform to that? I guess, but it's still cool. 

Sometimes I wish a game series would just stick to it's roots, but I understand the urge to do what they think will sell. People are fickle and they will fall for a style of game and want it in everything. Then they'll dump it for something else. 

I used to groan over yet another open world game, but now I don't care because there are so many choices out there. I can try indie games or retro stuff and find something different or familiar from another time. I love it that Doom and Wolfenstein are keeping to tradition and yet polishing it to an amazing degree. Same as the old, yes, but even better. What's wrong with that?

I've noticed on IGN, via their podcasts, that they will have reviewers who are hardcore into a certain game do the review because they know it best for the community that plays it 1K hours or more. Destiny 2 was the example. It seems like they are very conscious of the player base and who will read the review. They want to get it right for that community, so they put the right people on it. IGN is, I think, read by gamers and not the general public, so of course they do that. So I totally agree that you have to think about your audience when you write a review. At the same time, you have to give your opinion and the people on the podcasts have talked about that too. Every review is the opinion of the reviewer. At the same time, they try and put someone on it who knows the game, the genre and the community connected to that game. 

I haven't heard a Souls reference in a little while now. I guess a Bloodborne 2 is possible sometime next year though? I've got to play some more Souls stuff. I think I've grown a little more patience now to handle them. 

Andromeda is really cheap right now. I almost bought it the other day on Gamefly. I think I could've gotten it for $12 after they gave me $5 to spend. I may just do it. 

I looked up core strength exercises on Mayo Clinic's web site and found a nice set of easy exercises that I do just after I wake up in the morning. I actually do the first set while I'm still in bed. Then I have a mat on the floor next to the bed to do some of the others. I sort of don't let myself get up without doing them. Also, being able to do some of them while still in bed makes it easy to just make them part of getting up in the morning. 

Some don't go for the more sim elements of it, I guess. It's really fun trying to please or provoke people with expressions. 

That's more dodge ball games than I thought existed.