We will return to our regularly scheduled spelunking of our nearly thirty-year archive soon, but Playground Games banning Forza Horizon 6 pirates for thousands of years was too funny to leave alone. We had to strike - if for no other reason than I got to make up like four new terms. I got to bear fruit. That's what I'm trying to do every time! I'm tryna stay bulbous.

I'm sort of between games at the moment, I keep trying to git gud at No Rest For The Wicked and it keeps kicking my ass. I uninstall, lick my wounds, and then return to it - getting further than I did the time before. I'm fine with that dynamic, but it's not a stable ally for my leisure hours. Eric and Jasmine were talking about getting back into fucking SWOTOR, of all things - bedraggled MMO addicts, cruising for their next hit.

Windrose has a demonic pull I have been able to evade; Vampire Crawlers tried to hook me with its wicked barbs. I genuinely think any money I spend between now and the 20th is wasted because of Rogue Core.

Rogue Core was fine when it was younger, but now that it's in high school it prefers to be called "Deep Rock Galactic: Rogue Core," which reveals the full weight of its parentage.  A Roguelite turn for DRG is brilliant - five totally new classes, divorced from exclusive weapons altogether so they can be part of the progression. Multi-level runs, like the Deep Dives in the previous game become the norm.  Deep Rock Galactic is one of the most generous games of all time in terms of updates, bested only perhaps by the truly psycho turns of No Man's Sky. Early Access was so good on the original that I bought it on multiple platforms just to buoy their spirits and ensure they had enough calories to finish the product.  Seems like they're doping okay, now.  But I'll gladly back them up again.

(CW)TB out.