Post: New Years Pokering
Wednesday the 1st of January, 2025, in the mid-afternoon.

The addictively vital nature of this silly game means that I spend almost as much time enthusiastically explaining to fellow gamers why they need to buy this game and play it. Like last night at my NYE party when may have finally I convinced Mr BR to fall off his wallet and get a copy.

Of course I celebrated by spending my first few walking hours of NYD-proper winning a round and unlocking a new deck. Kudos to me, huh?

I find that I lean pretty heavily into to the planet cards. I may need to try a different tactic to progress further as i’m finding this approach pretty single strategy and honestly reaching a bit of a plateau.

Post: Morning Obsession
Friday the 25th of October, 2024, in the morning.

I got a string of annoyed comments from the Kid who wanted to watch something on our main television last night that wasn’t me playing an obtuse card game.

The problem with #roguelike games (in this particular context, at least) is that, no, I cannot give you an estimation of when I will be done and we can turn off the playstation so you can watch netflix, sorry.

To make matters worse I was having a great run, had made it further than I had to date, and kept pulling great hands to match my collection of multiplier-joker cards.

“I thought you said you were almost done.”

No, in fact I specifically said I couldn’t tell when I would be done, only that I had never made it this far before and there was no way this lucky streak could last. Which—it didn’t, and soon enough I had put down the controller and we had got on with family-tv-watching night.

Now, usually I wake up in the morning, make a coffee, feed the dog and thumb though the news on my ipad. This morning I made my coffee, fed the dog, and booted the playstation back up making sure to mute the television in the quiet house while everyone was still sleeping. I didn’t quite recreate my lost lucky streak, but—hey—the day is still young.

Post: Stars and Cards
Thursday the 24th of October, 2024, in the evening.

A confluence of events and stuff meant that I cashed in my Playstation Stars and bought a reward points copy of this #roguelike card game. I had been listening to one of my favourite video game casts a couple weeks ago and they had mentioned this with enough enthusiasm that it made its way onto my #wishlist and’s spoiled my curiosity. Who doesn’t need a chill sit on the couch and play a low stakes card game game? Huh?

I’ll report more when I come up for air again?