Day: December 29, 2021

Let’s call this the Championship edition. I made it to the finals and the eldest kid is the challenger. I’m happy for him. All the other kids talked and talk constant trash about how bad he is and how he should always lose. Yet he’s always that guy quietly making it. He even calls himself Jay the Underdog–presumably after an anime guy? He’s an underdog for sure and I am sorta rooting for him to win. Except, I’m also an underdog, so I want this just as bad. We shall see…

Presently he has the numbers advantage. He’s cobbled together a team that has really been showing strong numbers in the late season. With a few weeks left most teams are still battling for position and thus will be playing their starters. I need that. I need to get my hands on some real dogs as well.

Some Thoughts:

1. Upgraded to the PS5 and Xbox Series S. No deep graphical difference, but load times are way faster. I feel like the games are coming. I’m waiting for Forza and it’s PS5 counterpart–whatever that is. Presently I am about to download Horizon 5, because the Forza 7 licenses expired and Xbox can no longer offer the game. It doesn’t appear to look as good as Forza 7, but I’ll take what I can get at this point.
2. Minecraft build is going especially well. I’m at the Castle stage still, but I’ve looked into the town build stuff, and I am presently thinking about pausing the build to ensure that my villagers don’t get killed. If I can put up the walls and light up the place, I can start getting Golems to help with the nightlife problem. Presently I have one Golem in the village and at least 3 villagers I’ve seen alive. I probably need to devote a little time to working on that today. Another option is building a rail system between the two towns to move residents. However, that is far more difficult and time consuming.
3. Been getting up earlier. It feels like I can’t or don’t want to stay in bed too long. I’m wanting to get out and get into stuff early–be it crafting or cleaning or something.

I’m at the point in Minecraft where I am happily constructing this castle we spoke of as well as a desert city around it. This is fun. I have ideas about putting some grand looking b uildings in the city walls and really making a nice go of the place. It will be a sort of staging ground. To what? That remains to be seen. I’m still on the hunt for netherite. I’m also still looking to assemble a sweet batcave-style lair in this world. Not a clue where all of this is going to take place. I do want to put it near the castle grounds and perhaps connected by some sort of quick tunnel and out deep below a mountain with a fast-water tunnel that jets me up to the top of that mountain in an instant so I can fly off. Like I said, big plans.

The Castle and it’s adjoining city are right next to another city I built–or was in the process of building. I expect I’ll get back to that one in time as well, but it has a different feel. This will have the look of a medieval town in the desert where the other one feels like a Minecraft grind city. Multiple cities we’ve made in this world already feel that way. The good part is that this is all with achievements enabled. So my Dark Tower world will forever be able to give achievements. We did it all the hard way… mostly.

In Madden news: Madden died. Sad. Odd though. Feels like one of those dark spirit moments. Haven’t heard crap from the guy in over a decade. Then we see one Madden Special and he’s dead the next day. Odd. Sad though.

In Madden game news We finished our (all in one division) league hereforeto be known as the World League (as all of us renamed our teams and moved to random spots. Only one team stayed in the USA). The Celtic Tigers won their second straight SB. Good for them. Still, I was building the old-fashioned way. All young players growing and becoming great. That being said, I lack the Superstar and Xfactor power these boys have gotten through trades, and I don’t much appreciate the cheat trades they work so hard to do to get high draft picks. I’m building it right but I am losing every season. Still, we missed the playoffs last year, we made it to round two this year. Next year should also show improvement. I’m excited to see what the draft brings.