"Nothing ventured, nothing gained."

This week, we're back at the magical theme park... Again... The ponies turn themselves into foals... Again... And we've got a cutie mark poem... Again.

My inner ageplayer should be squeeing, but we've got another week of meaningless fluff where the overall story goes nowhere.

But at least it's a little cute, I guess.

Happy 10th anniversary to one of the best damn indie platformers ever. Of all time.

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So, Hello Games, in their typical fashion, stealth-dropped the 5.0 update to No Man's Sky today, and apparently this is just part 1, with more coming later this summer.

All planets have dynamic wind now, with plants and grass being affected.
Water is now volumetric, with waves that intensify during storms.
Asteroid density has increased substantially.
Clouds look amazing now.

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This week... Ugh...

(Rant ahead.)

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"Hey Miles, you want to try 100%ing a game you've historically been pretty mediocre at?"

Well, sure. Just like writing fanfiction, that takes up time and doesn't cost any money.

For some reason I'm tempted to try getting all achievements in the 2015 remaster of Resident Evil 1.

First one I went after was the five-hour achievement.

I died eight minutes in.

If you don't have anything to do on this Saturday evening, then perhaps come on over to Twitch where I'll be a guest on a podcast in about ten minutes discussing ponies and fanfiction until who knows when!

This is an up-and-coming show, so thanks if you can come on over!

Finally beat Shadow of the Erdtree tonight, and my verdict is... Somewhat of a mixed bag. The fact that this DLC was getting perfect scores from everywhere is vindication of the decaying trust from gaming publications.

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