Good Morning Friends! I had a rather busy weekend and I am still sorta feeling out of it as a result. I had to run up and help my dad with a few things, including getting several items that are too heavy to lift solo off to the city dump. The last few times I have been up there I have made friends with Fang. Either through battle damage or birth defect, Fang has a permanently exposed canine too and snarled lip. It makes him look rather fearsome but he is one of the sweetest cats. He now follows me around because he knows that eventually, I will stop to give him head scratches. This makes actually doing work with my dad a little challenging because the last thing I want to do is kick him when we are carrying something heavy and my visibility is limited.
I am pretty sure that Fang is the evolved form of one of these three pokemon taken from 2016. The problem with barn cats is that they sorta come and go over time and we have no clue what happened to two of the three. Fang however has grown up to be my dad’s buddy. He apparently comes into the shop with him and hangs out while my dad putters around tinkering on things. He also occasionally comes into the house but from the sound of it, he doesn’t really like being indoors. During the winter months, dad leaves the heater on in his shop so I think Fang more or less lives there. I’ve not gotten a picture of it but apparently, my dad also has a pet turtle that sometimes keeps him company. Driving down the dirt lane I had to carefully straddle a few massive terapins, which were more or less a common order growing up as well.
Lately, I have not consumed media as fast as I used to, and there was a time when I would have ravenously consumed Stranger Things as soon as it was released. This weekend I finally got around to starting the season and only made it four episodes in before taking a quick break. One of the problems of being “of” the era pictured in the show is that sometimes an anachronism stands out. For example, this bag was zoomed in close during an airport scene… and we very much did not have these in 1986. My wife was the first to notice it and this led to doing some research. Sure enough, this style of bag was invented in 1987 but did not really reach mass market adoption until the mid to late 90s. I know we did not really have fancy luggage like this until the 2000s, but mostly because we had to wait for it to get cheap. Season 4 is set in March of 1986, and I would have been 9 years old at that point, so I deeply remember some aspects of the show but was quite a bit younger than the cast of characters.
As far as gaming goes this weekend, I ended up missing Tequatl both Saturday and Sunday because life was happening. I did get in some co-op gaming with my friend Grace and we played some Gunfire Reborn. The game is very much Borderlands 2 meets Roguelike experience with really interesting weapons and some fun powers for your classes. Over time you unlock more of a cast of anthropomorphic animal friends. This is honestly the only complaint I would have for the game is that maybe it would have been better to just let players pick from a wide cast of characters, rather than having to unlock them through grinding it out.
Some of the weapons are deeply entertaining. Grace found this weapon that was essentially a firebreathing lizard and in order to reload the game you had to sort of smack it. I am running around with an exploding kunai. There are times when the runs go extremely smoothly and you get good picks from the additional perks. Then there were runs where everything went wrong and you might as well just start over. Regardless of your choice, you want to finish the run because this gives you experience points that you can then spend on a talent tree system that carries over between runs. Definitely a fun little game and extremely cheap if you are looking for some co-op nonsense with friends.