I really, really like the Portal games. Great gameplay, writing, replay value.

Portal was first published on October 10, 2007. (4843 days ago. )

Portal 2, possibly the perfect sequel, arrived on April 18, 2011, nearly a decade ago. (3557 days)

The covid lockdown for me is 305 days from March 13, 2020.

In a perfect world, we would have at least 11.662 “Portal 2 – quality” games by now, or maybe 15.887 “Portal quality” games since it first arrived in the orange box.

Let’s see…games that have caught my eyeballs and brain over the last 13 years, generally the full pack/GOTY editions, after patches fixed the janky aspects of most games

Can I pull 13 out of my brain?

Fallout (incl f3, f4, nv, skyrim)
FTL
XCOM: Enemy Unknown
Red Dead Redemption and RDR2
Minecraft
Little Big Planet
Plants vs Zombies
Far Cry series 3+
Grand Theft Auto:V
Spelunky
Marvel’s Spider-man
Animal Crossing New Horizons

Not too bad! Some of those games I could (and have) played for hundreds of hours. I would say that of those Fallout and Minecraft have held my interest the most, but Xcom and Skyrim come close. Are any of them as “perfect” as Portal? I don’t know. For me, I have had a lot of fun with games over the years. If I were to reach back to before Portal…. I could probably get at least a solid early entry going back to my first introduction to them with the Atari or Odyssey.

To whom it may concern – I pose this question – what are some of your favorite games that have come out since Portal? What is a game you would happily come back to even now?

This entire post brought by my playlist’s current music – Still Alive (video game version)

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Follow up to yesterday, one of the sources to my confusion. Awesome Andy, (the Mad Thinker’s Awesome Android… not to be confused with the Super-Adaptoid) in all his putty-colored glory has four digits but only three toes, as opposed to Thing having four toes. Also, Andy has a head like a giant grey s’more.

Trivia: Awesome Andy is a New York Mets fan, Ben Grimm prefers the Yankees.

#bengrimm #thething #heroclix #awesomeandroid
#awesomeandy #marvelcomics #mageknight #madthinker
#fantasticfour #boardgames
#wargames #Toyphotography #baseball #newyorkyankees #newyorkmets
#christmaswiththesuperheroes
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So, here’s the Thing.

*B’dum-tish*

Found cleaning up my Christmas train set. I always forget he has four toes… I always assume he has a four-digited hand (including thumb) and only three toes for some weird reason. This little figure shows me otherwise.

I used to love playing mage knight, and that drifted into heroclix, and then they turned into cool almost HO scale train terrain. I have a bunch of these figures from different genres in the same scale as d&d minis… horror with fantasy, steampunk, old west, and superheroes, natch.

Ben Grimm is a longtime favorite character of mine, and despite the derpy face and dandruffy paint job this particular sculpt is showing off, he generally hung out under the christmas tree, protecting the toy train from wintery villains like Wendigo, Mr freeze and Jack frost.

Also orcs as a Dwarf repainted as Santa’s extra burly, sometime one-eyed army of hammer and axe wielding toymakers.

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#Swampwalk quarantine isolation day 304

Cold and moist but not freezing at 36F #tardigrade #fingerpuppet did not mind the weather at all but I was feeling it in my leg, hip and lower back pretty vividly.

#bogsafari count was very low. I spotted some squirrel nests throughout my walk and a weird beagle at the end of the street before I entered the swamp proper. Neighborhood kitties were rightfully (hopefully) indoors and out of sight.

Day was so gray that the sky and trees above looked totally monochrome. Bleak and quiet, but I found that to be pretty peaceful.

Had a brief, properly socially distant, talk with one of my neighbors, and found him to be further left than I had previously thought. (Seemingly center-left rather than center-right like his mrs) He is a bit of a pessimist about things right now, and I can understand the viewpoint. I am leaning to hopeful pessimist myself these days. (Hope for the best, expect quite a bit less than the best.) We both agreed that Carter was the president we would both like most to be the moral compass of those we have had in memory, for example.

#streamofthought #neighborchat https://instagr.am/p/CJ6xe6qg5ha/

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From Die Muskete, 1918.

#skeleton #biplane #vintageillustration https://instagr.am/p/CJ4kT9JAx2K/

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Continuing the years theme

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My Christmas socks are done! I love ’em!! https://instagr.am/p/CJ1kV-sgK7T/

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“They had to tilt high”

From The Cats’ Arabian Nights by Abby Morton Diaz, 1881

#vintageillustration #frog #mouse #seesaw https://instagr.am/p/CJ1e-iXgI1R/

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Sasquatch, via UFO Newsclipping Service, 2003.

#vintageillustration #cryptid #bigfoot https://instagr.am/p/CJyUEncALgN/

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“In the wilds of fiery climes he made himself a home, and his soul drank their sunbeams.”  From Manual and Diagrams to Accompany Metcalf’s Grammars, 1901.

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Mood while Watching last episode of mapp & lucia

#catsofinstagram #boobtube #snacktime https://bit.ly/3opv24d https://bit.ly/3s7LFEa

How it begins and how it ends. https://instagr.am/p/CJudUU2g3k7/

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From Le Charivari, 1890

#vintageillustration #influenza #military #ghost https://instagr.am/p/CJt93FngZE4/

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Via @colinaray

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