Children of Morta

Last night, I finished Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Conviction vidjia game. What a fun ride. Not sure whether or not I’ll replay it, I think I might, like the way to re-read a good book.

Also last night I started Children of Morta for the Nintendo Switch, while me lady was watching her tv show. The pixel art in this game is beautiful, awesome narrative and also very different from any other game I have played before. Usually before I purchase a game, I do some research. For this one though, I didn’t. I purchased the game a while ago while it was on sale, purely because of how it looked and not knowing much about it at all. Never got around playing it until last night thought. It recently got some free additional content so that put it under my radar again.

This game plays like a rouge-like dungeon crawler. The stranger thing about this game (to me) is that every time you die in the dungeon, you re-spawn back to your house but you keep all the money you’ve gathered and you can buy upgrades before returning to the dungeon. Also, there’s more story told after every re-spawn. When you return to the dungeon, even thought is the same stage, it is different. You still keep advancing in the story but the dungeon changes.

This is what I understand so far about the game, the story is really good, the narration is awesome and the pixel art is amazing (I’m a sucker for pixels). Needless to say, I die very often in this game but the fact that I can still upgrade my equipment and skills and the little stories in between re-spawns, makes dying not so frustrating.

I may be speaking too soon on this one, but there is a high possibility that we are passed the "Anna"/ Frozen II obsession stage. Now, it's Trolls World Tour. For Marley, story is repeating itself, in a way. She used to be obsessed with the first movie of Trolls. It was her "Anna". Now, a few years later, she's obsessed again with the Trolls, different set of songs this time. It was a little bit of an adjustment for Luna, the main "Anna" obsessed of the two.

With Marley we never had the situation in which she would get "scared" of things she'd be watching. For example, a dinosaur roaring or a fire monster, stuff like that. Luna on the other hand, she's a scary cat in some ways. For example, we are watching Moana and she loves Moana until Te Ka shows up or the big dinosaur in the Minions movie. At that point she starts running, looking for the Apple TV remote, bringing it to either one of us screaming "Anna, Anna". With Trolls World Tour, a similar situation when the Rock Trolls would appear. Fortunately she got passed it and now she likes them and is no longer "scared".

It is fun to watch, especially Marley, on front of the TV dancing and singing all the song in the movie, she's now obsessed with Crazy Train, just the "Aye Aye Aye Aye Aye Aye..." part for now though el-oh-el , oh and "Trolls who wanna have fun". Luna watches be she is not as excited as her older sister.

Either way, I much rather watch this movie, I think I am over with Frozen II. As far as Trolls World Tour goes, it's a fun movie to watch, I really like it quite a lot. Now, let us see for how long that stands.

I have done some tweaking to my default theme, Kiko. Made each post a little spaced out from each other and the body narrower. A few tricks I have learned from Kahlil Lechelt’s Kiko System mod when I first joinned Micro.blog. And thanks to this CSS script by @ka, I have learned my way around it. No matter how many other templates I try, I always end up back to Kiko.

Anyhow, I have also made some teaks to my Dark Theme. I have always said that I am not a huge fan of “Dark mode everything” but the more I experiment with it, the more I kind of want to keep the theme in the dark, instead of changing from light to dark depending on the system’s settings.

We shall see.

Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Conviction

If you fallow my blog, you'd be well aware, or at least you should be, that I am deeply into Jack Carr's books lately. If you like conspiracy theories, espionage and that kind of stuff, you should definitely check these books out. I am actually on my second listen-through of all three books!

Anyhow, given that fact that I am so into this genre I have recently picked up Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Conviction and if you know of Tom Clancy then you know why it was no surprise. I think Lieutenant Commander James Reece is just as badass as Sam Fisher.

I had played this game before, when it first came out back in the Xbox360 days, played for a few hours but I don't think I ever actually finished it. The game it's now 5.00 USDs at the Microsoft Store and that made the decision to purchase it even easier.

Back then I was playing this game as plane shooter, now, it feels like I am reading a book, I mean not as well written but close. Except that in this book you die, you will die a lot if not careful. Still, I am having a blast playing this game and probably will pick up Black List after I finish this one, maybe.

Am I the only one that some days feels like, nuking my blog, revamp it and start over?

Before pandemic/WFH:

Me: Good morning [REDACTED]! Can I get this file for [REDACTED]? Please and thank you!

CW: sure thing! I’ll send you an email shortly!

Me: thanks

During pandemic/WFH:

Me: Hey [REDACTED], good morning, hope you and your family are doing swell. Could you please verify this batch number for me really quick? And By the way. How’s the dog and the 3 cats? How’s the little hedgehog 🦔? Cows? Any plans for the 4th? I don’t have any, maybe a BBQ. Do we work Friday ? I have been asked this all weekend long and I have no idea.

😂 I need to get out more.