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« on: May 14, 2026, 04:29:56 AM »
I'll admit. My gaming has definitely dropped off again in the past couple years. I just seem to spend my time on a handful of games here and there. Playing them to completion and then dropping out of gaming again for a couple months before getting to another.
But this year, I feel I've been getting into a bigger gaming spree so far. For one thing, I went on a bit of a shopping spree and picked up a whole whack of games that I've wanted to add to my collection but had dragged my feet on. In the past six months, I've really encumbered myself with stuff to play. I've also found myself a bit less enthused with movies as I'm starting to feel I've really seen a lot of the major stuff I've always wanted to get around to seeing. Of course, even there, my mood can suddenly change. This month on TCM, they're airing a large portion of Yasujiro Ozu's filmography. Up to this point, I'd only seen about 4 of his films so now my DVR is filling up with a bunch of movies as I realized its not always so easy to see some of these films as there are a bunch of them TCM has never aired before and who knows when they might air them again. As well, the library doesn't always have complete collections of foreign filmmakers nor do streaming services air much of the older classics let alone older foreign films. Not only this but just tonight they aired Ed Wood which I've yet to see so that's now on the DVR and there's a bunch of other films that interest me on this months schedule after a few months of low interest. Likewise, TV can be up and done with when new seasons of a show is happening and when its on break but before this recent outbreak of a lot of content I want to get around to watching, it had been gaming I'd been going back to and spending more of my evenings and weekends on.
As such, I actually meant to post a bit with this 4 on 4 thread as halfway in the month, it seemed like something I could have done which hasn't been the case for most of the time this event has happened. At first, I was playing a bit of Metroid Fusion as the Nintendo App had some platinum coin missions and avatars for playing a couple Metroid games. I then switched back to Crash Bandicoot 1 from the N. Sane trilogy. I had started it back in January and then left it but knowing I was about halfway through it, I had wanted to complete it. I got that done and since I don't own a Playstation, I could only do it on Switch even though I would count that as a PS1 game. I then ended up playing Metroid Prime: Remastered and beat that on both Normal and Hard and unlocked all the extras there. That took about a week and was about halfway in April. Knowing about this event, it suddenly seemed kind of doable for once.
I thought about other systems and games I wanted to play on them but I continued on this Metroid kick and decided to finish what I had started with Metroid Fusion on the Switch GBA app. I beat that to completion which I'd put in the GBA category. As for a fourth game, I realized I'd probably just go with Pokemon Trading Card Game Pocket which I started playing around Dec. 20, 2024 and I'm still checking in and playing to this day. It's the most I've ever engaged with the Pokemon franchise. I was so close to finally completing all the diamond and one star cards for all packs released which was a bit hard for one pack they only had limited availability on. Just as they released the latest packs around something like Apr. 26 was the same day I finally got the last diamond card I needed to complete the Deluxe Ex set. At this point, I just need 15 more diamond cards and about 9 one star art cards for this latest pack that's been released and I'll have achieved that continued perfection up to this point. Was also blown away to end up getting both immersive cards for this latest set in back-to-back days. The first one I got by doing a 10-pack pull and then the next day I was just opening up a single daily pack and got the other immersive in this set. Normally, I've only gotten immersive cards when the set has been small like 69-72 diamond set instead of these 155 or more diamond sets. Thanks to one immersive card, I was later able to unlock the special mission for the hidden Sobble badge. I haven't been able to get a hidden icon like that for a long time.
Anyways, that's a little recap of my four on four. Technically three of the four were on the same game system but they were different era games and originally for different systems.
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