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Review - Devil May Cry

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  “Devil May Cry” is the first of a long series of action-adventure games. Released in 2001 and originally conceived as a Resident Evil game, it took concepts of Resident Evil and pushed them in a more action-oriented direction. Add in some interesting new characters, and you have the humble beginnings of a very successful franchise. Over two decades later, how does it hold up? My first exposure to Devil May Cry was soon after it originally came out, at least before the sequel came out in 2003. I was far too young to be playing M-rated games, but that’s neither here nor there. Whoever decided it was a good idea that I have the game won out, and I obviously had to get my fill of it. At the time, I was vehemently opposed to playing hard games or playing games on any difficulty harder than the absolute lowest option. Devil May Cry starts you out on normal mode by default. After you beat the first mission, you unlock easy mode. Beating the game on normal unlocks hard mode, and beating ...
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Review - The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom

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“The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom” is the most recently released Zelda game and the very first game in the nearly four decade old series to feature Princess Zelda herself as the main playable protagonist. With 38 years of releases to build on, does this latest game refine a nearly perfect formula or do the unexpected changes ruin the experience? I’ve been watching Echoes of Wisdom since it was first announced. Any new Zelda game is worth paying attention to, and 2D (ish) Zelda games tend to be my favorite. Couple that with the revolutionary decision to make Zelda the main protagonist instead of Link, and you have a very large number of gamers on the edge of their seats. This could be huge. I expressed concern with the first gameplay trailer that it looked gimmicky. Zelda games have traditionally focused very heavily on Link’s swordplay. Removing that as the main method of engaging with enemies was a very bold decision, and one that would force this game to be notably different fr...
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Thirsty Thursday Eve - Coquito

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To celebrate Thursday Thursday Eve falling on Christmas Day, I wanted to feature a drink that really felt like Christmas in a cup. After some digging, I found the Coquito . A lot of times, when people think of Christmas, they picture that Hallmark movie set with snow everywhere and people bundled up. Problem is, this is South Carolina. Most years, Christmas is sunny with a high of 65. It ain’t cold. It ain’t even really cool. I usually end up wearing shorts and a t-shirt and it’s comfortable. If we lived somewhere cold, spiced buttered rum would be perfect. Instead, I wanted something cold, ideally something I could share with my cousins while we fry the turkey out back. That normally looks like a bottle of some whiskey that we stick in the back of my truck and mix with whatever soda is available. Surely I could find something a little more celebratory. I skimmed through a few lists of Christmas cocktail ideas, but none of them really seemed to fit what I wanted. Either they had a lau...
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Plex Day 2024

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It’s that time of year. Not Christmas, it’s Plex Day. We’re now four years in since I  started using Plex in 2020, and my use case has certainly evolved in that time. It’s still my main music platform, and I’ve started using it more for video as well. We still have some streaming services (namely YouTube TV and Netflix), but I’ve gradually started shifting from Prime Video and Hulu after we canceled those subscriptions. Netflix has enough exclusives that the kids like, and until Plex gets college football, I’m going to need some sort of cable TV source. Hardware Last year , I was still up in the air about DVD piracy. The Surface Pro 6 I was using for the server didn’t have a disc drive, so I was considering buying a USB Blu-ray drive. I had also brought my old desktop out of storage, which I was considering migrating the whole server to, but I hadn’t yet booted it back up. My hand was eventually forced when the kids asked to watch something that wasn’t on any streaming services we...
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