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Wow. Middle of May without a single post since January. Obviously haven't tried that hard did I.
With the whole pandemic thing going on I guess I haven't really been feeling like writing up anything in particular. Haven't played too much for video games either with the exception of Minecraft and Romance of the Three Kingdoms III. Yes. III. Genesis version. Beyond Rot3K6, I haven't had much fun with any of the other games in the series I've tried - admittedly I've only played II, VII, and VIII. Wonder if I even know how to play VI anymore.
The places around here are beginning to open up again - our numbers are actually pretty good, being down to just 1 known active case. Like most of the cases we've had, it's travel related so there's no evidence of community spread. We would have seen a spike in numbers by now if there was anyway.
That being said I doubt I'll be going to the stores very much anyway. Ebgames will be opening up soon (Big surprise 9_9) on Tuesday but I suspect they'll be getting VERY little attention from me due to the whole stunt gamestop went on with refusing to shut down and calling themselves "Essential Services". For those who don't know, Ebgames and Gamestop are essentially the same company and have been for a very very long time. Case in point, I remember seeing a copy of the covid response letter gamestops in the US had put up detailing what they were doing to keep customers and staff safe - I saw pretty much the exact same letter on the front of the ebgames here in town. I doubt they were any more truthful up here than they were down there given all the things that came out afterwards. Just my gut instinct on that of course, and while it may be unfair to say it, that's the kind of vibe I get from the ebgames up here no matter what store I seem to go to.
Regardless of that - I was planning on doing less business with ebgames for a long time so we'll just let this be that tipping point. There's just one game that I'd like to buy there that comes out in June (or was..) and then I doubt I'll step foot inside the store much at all. I won't call it a hard boycott, like say the hard boycott I have on Sony Music (Haven't bought a CD from that label since their whole rootkit bullshit, and I don't feel like anything of value was lost.) but it does mean I won't be going in there most days on my way to work just to see what they have and potentially let myself buy something. Will I buy games from them after that? I won't say 'no', but I'll have to know in advance of a game I want, when it releases, etc. At which point I'll at least make an effort to pick up a copy. If they don't have a copy on launch, I'll just amazon it. Yeah, I just verbed it.
The only other store I'm actually hoping to go to again is Chapters. You know, that place with ground up dead trees and ink. I finally started buying from their online store indigo since the backlog of things I was waiting on was piling up. finally got "the first shipment" on Friday. And noticed I accidentally bought 2 copies of one of the books. X_X Returning shit like that, usually, is easy. I just have to take the book and the indigo invoice form... to a Chapters store! So hopefully they'll actually reopen the stores soon as it has to be done within 30 days. I might be able to get some leeway on that given the stores are closed. If not, oh well, I'll have to shut up and pay the "stupid tax".
This weekend I'll try to finalize the second order. Things are delayed these days due to the Christmas level volumes at the post office, but I'll probably still get the next package in the first week of June or earlier.
I should also take another look at Bloodstained. Never did get back to that after the apparent new character play through dropped a week ago.
With the whole pandemic thing going on I guess I haven't really been feeling like writing up anything in particular. Haven't played too much for video games either with the exception of Minecraft and Romance of the Three Kingdoms III. Yes. III. Genesis version. Beyond Rot3K6, I haven't had much fun with any of the other games in the series I've tried - admittedly I've only played II, VII, and VIII. Wonder if I even know how to play VI anymore.
The places around here are beginning to open up again - our numbers are actually pretty good, being down to just 1 known active case. Like most of the cases we've had, it's travel related so there's no evidence of community spread. We would have seen a spike in numbers by now if there was anyway.
That being said I doubt I'll be going to the stores very much anyway. Ebgames will be opening up soon (Big surprise 9_9) on Tuesday but I suspect they'll be getting VERY little attention from me due to the whole stunt gamestop went on with refusing to shut down and calling themselves "Essential Services". For those who don't know, Ebgames and Gamestop are essentially the same company and have been for a very very long time. Case in point, I remember seeing a copy of the covid response letter gamestops in the US had put up detailing what they were doing to keep customers and staff safe - I saw pretty much the exact same letter on the front of the ebgames here in town. I doubt they were any more truthful up here than they were down there given all the things that came out afterwards. Just my gut instinct on that of course, and while it may be unfair to say it, that's the kind of vibe I get from the ebgames up here no matter what store I seem to go to.
Regardless of that - I was planning on doing less business with ebgames for a long time so we'll just let this be that tipping point. There's just one game that I'd like to buy there that comes out in June (or was..) and then I doubt I'll step foot inside the store much at all. I won't call it a hard boycott, like say the hard boycott I have on Sony Music (Haven't bought a CD from that label since their whole rootkit bullshit, and I don't feel like anything of value was lost.) but it does mean I won't be going in there most days on my way to work just to see what they have and potentially let myself buy something. Will I buy games from them after that? I won't say 'no', but I'll have to know in advance of a game I want, when it releases, etc. At which point I'll at least make an effort to pick up a copy. If they don't have a copy on launch, I'll just amazon it. Yeah, I just verbed it.
The only other store I'm actually hoping to go to again is Chapters. You know, that place with ground up dead trees and ink. I finally started buying from their online store indigo since the backlog of things I was waiting on was piling up. finally got "the first shipment" on Friday. And noticed I accidentally bought 2 copies of one of the books. X_X Returning shit like that, usually, is easy. I just have to take the book and the indigo invoice form... to a Chapters store! So hopefully they'll actually reopen the stores soon as it has to be done within 30 days. I might be able to get some leeway on that given the stores are closed. If not, oh well, I'll have to shut up and pay the "stupid tax".
This weekend I'll try to finalize the second order. Things are delayed these days due to the Christmas level volumes at the post office, but I'll probably still get the next package in the first week of June or earlier.
I should also take another look at Bloodstained. Never did get back to that after the apparent new character play through dropped a week ago.
