I’m really loving ManicTime – although, really, I did NOT need to know how many hours I spent between online shopping & doom scrolling this month! The only weirdness I noted here was that it doesn’t actually know what the Puzzle Pirates window is – the 18.45 hours I spent in Java(TM) Platform SE 6 U25 was spent on the cartoony high seas!
I managed to complete two games this month for #HorrorGameOct in the Community Game Along: Alan Wake and Stories Untold. I tried out, but ultimately didn’t get invested in two more – Little Nightmares and Among the Sleep.
The 9.0 patch for World of Warcraft released on Tuesday, October 13th, and that was when I reactivated my account to check out the revised leveling experience. I managed to finish leveling both my warlock and paladin, and spent way too long in the character creation screen before losing interest. Now that the Shadowlands release date has been re-announced for November 23rd, and the second half of the pre-patch coming on November 10, I’m starting to get the itch to go back and at least finish my priest and maybe one other character so I can focus on the pre-launch activities and the gear catch up mechanics therein.
But while I’ve been treating the MMO as more of a solo play game, I’ve been playing SMITE and Among Us when I want to hang out with friends – even having set up a night for my WoW guild mates to try out Among Us for the first time.
The only other games I spent any significant time with this month were My Time at Portia, which I played for a few evenings near the beginning of the month, and Puzzle Pirates, which I’ve been playing pretty compulsively for the last week or so. I still haven’t even purchased Phasmophobia, as the majority of my friends weren’t overly enthused for the concept, and I haven’t touched Hades all month long.
I did, however, play a dozen different demos during the Autumn 2020 Steam Games Festival, and tried out Drake Hollow on XBox Game Pass for PC. I added a few games to my wish list, and satisfied myself that Drake Hollow wasn’t for me.
I purchased two new games directly through Steam this month – 1000 Days to Escape and Abracadabrew. I also bought The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker on Fantatical, as well as two of their bundles and the Humble Monthly for October, making this a pretty major month for game acquisitions. All three of these bundles are still available for purchase at the time of posting, if you see something here you’d like to grab for yourself.
I did also complete my GoodReads Challenge for 2020 this month, and am currently sitting at 38 books read for the year. I’m really enjoying the nostalgia of rereading (or in some cases, reading for the first time) the books of Christopher Pike, and listening to my first ever podcast, The Pike Cast. It has even pushed me in the direction of starting a new project, but I’ll talk more about that when I talk about my November goals.
Normally, this would be where I’d dump a whole lot of pictures of all the wonderful Halloween related television and movies I’ve watched this month, but I’ve really been struggling with my attention span and simply watching things as of late. With the upcoming presidential election here in the U.S., and with social distancing still very much being a thing, I just wasn’t into the whole concept of Halloween this year either.
That said, sometime before I go to sleep tonight, I will be putting The Monster Squad on television because some traditions are worth preserving, even if I’m not really feeling it.
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