Good morning everyone. Welcome to the end of my first week of remoting, and the beginning of a weekend that suddenly means significantly less. I had originally taken today off, but I cancelled my vacation because in theory we are not going to go anywhere due to trying to do our part and social distancing. I had been following a routine of going to the corner convenience store and this morning I even stopped that because we officially have community spread. So I am like so many and just trying not to freak out about everything and live what passes as a normal life. Thankfully I like my house and I like my spouse and we’ve spent over twenty years of coexisting in the same place without fighting so I think I am better off than a lot of people.
Since my last Diablo 3 related post I have “finished” the four chapter seasonal journey and have the 6 piece Natalya set, which allows me to comfortably run through Torment IX without much issue. I’ve done a solo 45 Greater Rift, and I ultimately NEED to get it to the point of being able to do a 55 for the seasonal conquest. So far I plan on doing a solo 75 which should be easy when I get my multi-shot build working, and last night Grace and I did the achievement to kill over 300 critters during a cursed chest event… we got something silly like 450 which admittedly was mostly her because I don’t kill that fast yet. So the last of the three conquests is likely going to be getting through a GR55 on 6 different class sets, which should work because we plan on running up a pair of Witchdoctors as well.
On the home front I wanted to share a little innovation I had with you, pardon the shadow and the adhesive residue from what used to be hanging on the back of the door. Ultimately I have a large number of controllers and wanted a good way of storing them to get them out of the way and keep their cords from getting tangled. My wife has used over the door shoe storage for various purposes and it gave me the idea to try and use it for controllers and other gaming kitch. So far it seems to work beautifully and all of those controllers for systems I don’t use regularly are neatly hanging behind the door with only the Xbox 360 and its enormous cord looking a little unseemly. For reference I am using this 24 pocket organizer from Dollar General, but I am sure you can find something similar at pretty much any other store.
Another thing that I have been playing around with quite a bit is my RG350 emulator console. This is of course a publicity shot and not my actual unit, but I did get it in the same color scheme because it reminded me more or less of a gameboy. There are a bunch of different versions of these custom emulator consoles running OpenDingux coming out of China and originally I was just looking for one that would play Super Nintendo and Gameboy Advance titles, which caused me to land on the PocketGo. However at the time I placed my order it was out of stock and I was given the option to upgrade for $5 to the RG350 which was capable of emulating way more systems including pretty flawless PSX games. Since then I have been spending a bunch of time poking around in Nintendo, Super Nintendo, TurborGrafx, Gensis and Playstation games. Playing Legend of Dragoon on a handheld is pretty freaking awesome, and this gives me a good system for Four Job Fiesta this summer. Additionally it gets roughly six hours of constant play out of a battery and charges quickly off USB Type C.
Lastly we have the significance of today. I will be adventuring off on an island getaway and playing a core Animal Crossing game for the first time. I mean I also have the other big release which is Doom Eternal, but more than anything I am interested in getting engaged with and seeing how the Animal Crossing fans live. I may or may not have it running in the background while I am typing up this post and am getting lulled to sleep by the Nook Inc island music. I hope you all have a wonderful weekend and stay safe out there. Again I am reminded that I should keep telling folks that I love them, so I love all of you out there who are my regular readers. Writing this blog is mostly therapy for me, and you reading it means you are playing a part in that process. I hope we all make it out of this weird time we are living in safely and can tell stories about it on the other side.