2022 June
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Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night is a pretty good metroidvania, heavily influenced by the classic Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. (I will confess that I have never played SOTN; I did play the successor games on GBA and NDS though.) The game is easy. It's not a hardcore platformer like Ori and the Blind Forest and it doesn't have the challenging combat of Hollow Knight. The lack of difficulty is mainly because there is no real limit on the number of restorative items you can bring into a boss fight. For this reason, the later boss fights (when you have
2022 May
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Quick Drafting Streets of New Capenna! ep11 https://www.twitch.tv/twitchyroy #mtg #magicarena #twitch #mtgsnc
This was the final Quick Draft stream for the season! I was hoping to get to 7 as a nice season finale, but we only got to 6.
YT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uww2vYUbR4E
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Quick Drafting Streets of New Capenna! ep10 https://www.twitch.tv/twitchyroy #mtg #magicarena #mtgsnc #twitch
Two poor drafts again today to remind to stop trying to make Rakdos work no matter what cool mythics we get! Went 3-3 and 2-3 respectively.
YT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C28DC93dqVY
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Quick Drafting Streets of New Capenna! ep9 https://www.twitch.tv/twitchyroy #mtg #magicarena #twitch #mtgsnc
Managed two QD's today. Unfortunately, they both ended poorly at 2-3. On the bright side I managed to beat a Brokers Ascendancy with maindeck Broken Wings lol
YT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6fYUKEiv4A
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Quick Drafting Streets of New Capenna! ep8 https://www.twitch.tv/twitchyroy #mtg #magicarena #mtgsnc #twitch
We went back to our UW shenanigans in today's quick draft, but only got to 5 today. Better than yesterday at least.
YT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ioK41JRk7A
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Quick Drafting Streets of New Capenna! ep7 https://www.twitch.tv/twitchyroy #mtg #magicarena #twitch #mtgsnc
Draft felt solid, unfortunately the outcome was a mediocre 4-3
YT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zQAFlATkbk
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I started playing Tales of Vesperia in January, since I had just finished Tales of Symphonia a couple of weeks prior. Vesperia is that rare PS3 era RPG that never got an English-language release on that system, so I've actually been wanting to play this for more than a decade now, though I actually bought the game only during last year's end-of-year Steam sales. This game is a vast improvement over Symphonia; kind of a surprise considering the original games were released a mere 5 games apart. I'm not sure if it's just the Definitive Edition remaster, but the graphics -
Quick Drafting Streets of New Capenna! ep6 https://www.twitch.tv/twitchyroy #mtg #magicarena #twitch #mtgsnc
Second quick draft was much better than the first. Hopefully we have good pulls in the Arena Open as well!
YT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWzVsP1yTV0
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Took me 5.5 months and 193hrs of gameplay to finally complete Tales of Vesperia @_@ #gaming
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Around 14 months after I first broke through to Silver rank in #StreetFighterV I managed to hit Super Silver for the first time! At this rate, it'll be two years into SF6 before I hit Gold in SFV lol #gaming
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Drafting Streets of New Capenna! ep5 https://www.twitch.tv/twitchyroy #mtg #magicarena #twitch #mtgsnc
Just one draft again today, my first shot at the GW archetype. Wasn't super happy with the deck and had lots of grindy mirrors but at least I was able to get to 4 wins.
YT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFMb6oSjZoA
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Drafting Streets of New Capenna! ep4 https://www.twitch.tv/twitchyroy #mtg #magicarena #twitch #mtgsnc
Had a good draft tonight, despite Arena hanging during one of the later games. I was a bit iffy about UB, but it worked out!
YT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8MERmpcftY
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Eric Hinton on roguelikes: "Roguelikes work in the strange medium of love, in which something happens by chance and, for no reason, you decide that it’s your reason for going on, that you would risk everything for this coin flip of fate"
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Drafting Streets of New Capenna! ep3 https://www.twitch.tv/twitchyroy #mtg #magicarena #mtgsnc #twitch
Today's drafts did not go as well as last time. First draft went a reasonable 5-3, but then I tried the RG archetype and went a miserable 0-3. We'll try to do better next week!
YT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlL8b6XRKH4
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Drafting Streets of New Capenna! https://www.twitch.tv/twitchyroy #mtg #magicarena #mtgsnc #twitch
Drafts are off to a good start! First draft only went 3-3, but 2nd draft got there!
YT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjdKZbO0cU8
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2022 April
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Playing some Streets of New Capenna Sealed! https://www.twitch.tv/twitchyroy #mtg #magicarena #twitch #mtgsnc
Well, SNC limited season is off to a terrible start! I did two sealed runs, each one only went 1-3 =/ Got to learn this format quickly!
(Three sealed pools shown because after two losses, I decided to YOLO the first pool and try 4 color)
YT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hLqAswzobM
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I am ending my daily Wordle+variants runs. No special reason, I just felt it was time. The number of us who have been doing them daily had been dwindling for a while, and I was at the point where I would occasionally almost forget to do them and at one point I crammed all of them in 5 minutes before midnight. Rather than waiting for the daily habit to slowly fade away, I'll just end it now so at least I get to do a wrapup! (When I announced to our Discord Wordle thread that I would be ending my -
I finished Metroid Dread today! The game came out for Nintendo Switch last October and my brother lent me his copy last month. This was only my second time finishing an actual Metroid game; the first one was the original Metroid all the way back on the NES! I loved the game, I devoured it in a bit over three weeks (which is a very quick pace for me already). It is an excellent side-scrolling Metroidvania (as you'd expect) and has a great gameplay loop where every time you beat a boss you unlock a new ability and you want
2022 March
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Streaming some https://itch.io/ bundle games with a shirt on! https://www.twitch.tv/twitchyroy #twitch
The games I played today:
Witch Way https://gleeson.itch.io/witchway
Lenna's Inception https://tccoxon.itch.io/lennas-inception
No Delivery https://horror-n-oates.itch.io/no-delivery
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Streaming some https://itch.io/ bundle games! https://www.twitch.tv/twitchyroy #gaming
Today I played:
Signs of the Sojourner https://echodog-games.itch.io/signs-o...
Cosmic Express https://draknek.itch.io/cosmic-express
Overland https://finji.itch.io/overland