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Jan 19th, 2014 at 18:01:46 - The Binding of Isaac (PC) |
Once again, I started off with just my tears as weapons. The first item I found was "The Anarchist's Cookbook," which placed a large number of bombs about the room. Unfortunately, this tended to hit me a lot more than any of the enemies, so I didn't use it much.
On the second level, I encountered a room marked "Arcade" which was locked. Unfortunately, I was once again lacking in the one thing I needed, with plenty of hearts and bombs, but no keys. After searching the level more thoroughly, I found a single key, but also an item room that was also locked. Despite my lack of weapons, I decided to go for the arcade room to see what it offered.
Inside the arcade was a slot machine, a machine for selling your blood for pennies, and a boy playing a shell game. Fortunately, I had a decent amount of money already, though with extra hearts still strewn about the level, I sold my blood until the machine broke. In the end, despite all the money I blew at the arcade, I didn't get anything especially interesting, except a bag of blood from the broken machine. I did have a lot of bombs and keys, though, which I hoped would pay off.
Unfortunately, lots of keys are no replacement for a good weapon. I made it about as far as I did the time before, but was backed into a corner and died. Once again, I was quite deformed by that time, with blood (from the blood bag) streaming down my face and a coat hanger (for no apparent reason) sticking out of my scalp. It seems to be difficult to make any progress in the game without becoming almost as grotesque as the monsters you fight.
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Jan 18th, 2014 at 13:00:47 - Uplink (PC) |
Since I finished all my assignments last time, I went back to the Uplink server to get some more missions. I found another "destroy data" mission that got me some more cash, though it also changed my Neuromancer rating from neutral to agressive. My next mission was to fabricate some academic credentials for a programmer, which brought my rating back to neutral. Although there were a number of other missions to destroy data or to revoke people's college degrees, I decided to try focusing on more fake degrees to see if I could push my rating in the other direction.
After completing all the academic hacking missions that were available, I sped up time for a while to try and get some more. During this time, my exploits showed up on the news feed as a "malicious hacker" who broke into the international academic database. There was also an article about another hacker who was breaking the silence around a mysterious and supposedly unethical company that he had been doing work for.
I used my new cash to buy some new hacking software, but I couldn't quite get together the funds to get everything I wanted. Additionally, some of the software had multiple versions, so I really wanted to get the highest version I could so that my investment wasn't wasted in the long run. However, the expensive versions were far beyond my price range, which meant that I would have to wait a long time for some more jobs, especially if I was being picky about which ones I was willing to perform.
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Jan 18th, 2014 at 11:41:02 - The Binding of Isaac (PC) |
I decided to take another crack at The Binding of Isaac, hoping that I would have a better idea of what I was doing. This time, however, my first item wasn't "technology," but the "wiggleworm," which simply made my tears wobble back and forth as I shot them. I actually think that this made it slightly harder to aim, making the first few levels far more difficult than they were the first time. Whereas I was leaving extra hearts all over the place during my first run, I was hovering on the edge of death most of the game this time.
The only thing that saved me this time was a "1UP" mushroom that I found after defeating a miniboss, which gave me the confidence to take a few more risks than I had been taking most of the game.
Around the fourth level, I once again ran across "technology," which combined with my previously useless wiggleworm shot out a lovely sine-wave laser blast that hit everything in my path. Unfortunately, by that time I had already used my mushroom and was on the edge of death again. A few rooms later, an unlucky hop by a headless body killed me before I could build up my health again.
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Jan 17th, 2014 at 23:39:53 - The Binding of Isaac (PC) |
I began the game in the basement, fighting the zombie-like remains of other children with nothing but my tears. Fortunately, the first item I found, which was simply labeled "technology," was some kind of cybernetic eyepiece that allowed me to shoot lasers. This was considerably more effective than both my tears and the most enemy projectiles. It also enabled me to clear out the basement, as well as defeat several bosses, with considerable ease.
After the third boss, I encountered a room with a Baphomet-like creature sitting in the middle. It had two groups items floating in front of it, two red hearts and three grey hearts. Since grey hearts seemed to give a temporary, rather than a permanent health boost, I decided to take the red ones. Doing so turned my skin black and seemed to give me the temporary grey hearts anyway.
I continued down several levels, collecting random items such as shoes, coat hangers, as well as tarot cards. I tried using the first card I got, which didn't seem to do anything, but the use of a later card transported me to a room full of money, which was kind of nice, since I had only managed to accumulate four cents in five levels. Unfortunately, as soon as I left this room, I was attacked by several disembodied brains that ganged up and killed me, never giving me the chance to use my new found wealth.
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