#PastebinMonday 12/24/2018

I’ll Be Home for Christmas Edition

Hey guys, how’s it goin?

I find myself sitting here with a week and a half vacation from work in front of me and wondering what exactly I am going to stream during all that time. Long-term stream planning has never been my thing. My only immediate stream goals are to take back my Pokemon Puzzle Challenge records and reroute Tetris Attack / Panel de Pon. After that, I would like to submit Pokemon Puzzle Challenge – Intense and Tetris Attack – V-Hard one handed (that’s right, it can be done with one hand; have you seen Edobean do it?) to Summer Games Done Quick 2019. By the way, Edo, we should totally try to race one handed, left hand vs right hand, on the SGDQ stage! How about it?

Most of those activities are usually bad for one’s hands to do for extended periods of time. I have extended periods of time to play with this week. I should think of other things to do. Thankfully, I also have several rainy day projects that I wanted to get back to, including revisiting some NES games I once played, but I’m going to wait to get a controller that doesn’t suck dogshit before taking those on, though, and one is supposed to arrive on Friday. I’ll be able to come up with something.

In other stream news, I am so glad that I am done with Gex 3 for the N64. Thank you, Vyse, for making me play that game, but there was almost nothing worth playing that game for. If Gex was trying to be edgy Mario, it failed (obviously). There were big environments with hardly anything to do in them. The soundtrack was forgettable. The boss fights (all three of them) were ordinary. The numerous pop culture references did not age well. The entire game felt like nothing. There was a quest to save a girl, but I never felt like any progress was made towards that goal—even the final level felt like it came out of nowhere. Perhaps I would have felt something for the girl in distress if I had played the earlier Gex games. Maybe. In any case, it’s over. I don’t have to play it ever again. Good riddance. FFRPro was gracious enough to give me an opportunity to play through Tetrisphere as a Christmas present so I have something better to do. Merry Christmas to you too, Thomas!

That’s my life story for the week. I am prepared to stuff my face full of food on Tuesday. Hope everyone else has a happy holiday season! Until next time, everyone, thanks for reading!

--Cards