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I got the glitch on the first playthrough, and just did a second run to get the platinum. The man with the wings story came out at 134, and the man in the cotton field was Story 146. Found the stories in New Mexico and MS. My guess, is that I missed it the first time bc I stopped and quit the game when I got the first story. I suspect when I resumed the next day, I had disrupted the sequence. So my advice, when you trigger the man with the wings story, don’t quit! Keep playing until you get the second story, which will trigger the trophy. BTW - I also chose the story path on the man with the wings that involved the pentagram. Maybe that plays into it as well… Hope this helps you avoid the glitch bc it’s not fun replaying a second time. Took 2-3 hours to get final trophy.

In! I missed November, so I will jump in for May. Don’t have a list just yet, but I’ve got a few in mind. I’m currently struggling through Hello Neighbor 2. If you are thinking of playing this - don’t. Not worth the hassle.

Is this similar to Animal Crossing? My kids love that on Switch and I will pick this up if it’s the same type of gameplay. Thanks for any help you can provide.

The highlight option works, it is just an extremely dark color. Look very carefully when you move up and down and you can see the highlighted one is a slightly different color to the black background. I thought it was broken for the first five minutes as well. Hope this helps someone in the future!

Look up the South Seas bubble scandal. Risky speculative ventures have been going on for centuries. Crypto is just the latest one.

Is it about Patrick Mahomes? Or Travis Kelce? Let it out, you’ll feel better. The majority of America above the age of 19 are sick of them too.

Congrats to the NFL for getting their storybook ending. The Wonder Boy leads his team to the game-winning drive. The Princess is in the stands cheering. Only thing missing was the Knight in Shining Armor catching the winning TD. Of course, the Pop Tart’s Boy Toy commits insubordination by shoving his head coach, but that gets quickly ignored. And I’m still befuddled by not calling a timeout at the end and saving the clock to get a couple tries. Maybe someone can explain Reid’s logic. It was obvious what team made the halftime adjustments and what team was scrambling. How many times does Mahomes need to prove to DC’s that it’s a terrible idea to blitz the house at him? Niners kept doing it in those final drives and it was painful to watch. I feel for Niners fans. They had this one. The Football Gods cursed them with the punt off the ankle. Terrible luck at a crucial moment. Maybe NFL coaches don’t watch enough of the college game, but getting the ball second in overtime works in your favor bc you know what is needed to continue or win the game. AND, you get an extra down to work with. That is extremely crucial in altering your drive scheme. Four tries every time for a first down. I had no idea how much impact the Swift/ Kelce season-long tryst has had, until I attended my annual Super Bowl party. The teenage girls that normally sulk in the corner, or never look up from their phone, were absolutely glued to the TV. A bit frustrating having to explain some rules, bc in their minds, KC should’ve never gotten a penalty. Do the Sportsbooks have odds on how long this hookup lasts? God, I hope it’s the under.

I went to Bastogne in 2022, and you can visit the foxholes Easy Company manned during the Battle of the Bulge. Also, the American Military Cemetery in Luxembourg has a half dozen Easy Company men buried there that died during the battle. Very cool sites and I highly recommend visiting if you can. Not sure if you watched The Pacific, but “With the Old Breed,” by Eugene Sledge is one of the best WWII autobiographies.

I’m late for this, but I just wanted to pass along my story from the Vikes game from Christmas Eve. A couple were sitting behind us who were Lions fans, and they were very pleasant throughout the game. Much better than the Vikes Grandpa to my side who dropped an F bomb in every sentence. Anyways, on the final Vikings drive, the grunts and groans were audible behind me as Jefferson made a couple improbable catches. It was like as a experienced Lion fan, they knew the gut punch was coming. But after the horrendous pick, they cheered together and were hugging. I turned around, shook their hands and congratulated them for winning the division, and the guy said “This hasn’t happen since I was 13! It’s been 30 years!!” That is just shocking to me. Was Tampa still in the division back then? It’s just crazy to think you have a 25% chance to win it annually, and it took 30 tries. Congrats on winning the division and I will root for the Motor City Kittys in the playoffs. Even if the Vikes make it, they won’t go far in the playoffs with the QB bullpen strategy. Best of luck!! - Also, HELL of a good game by Michigan in the Rose Bowl. That was an old fashioned, punch in the mouth, victory. Bama’s O line got worked over. Good luck in the Title game.

It was a case of two defenses teeing off with blitzes on some mediocre QBs. Josh Dobbs’ impression of Jeremy Lin has now come to an end. Denver and Chicago realized that even though Dobbs might be able to explain the Schrödinger Equation, he can not handle a blitz. Dobbs also started learning more plays in the offense, which is counterproductive to him, when the bulk of the plays are for Kirk Cousins, who has the mobility of a tree stump. Take Dobbs’ run threat away and it is quite clear how he has cycled through eight teams. Old Niner Nick Mullins came in and gained as many yards in one quarter, as Dobbs did in three. Mullins has always been the backup, he was just on IR for the previous couple weeks. Which asks the question - how does a clipboard carrier end up on Injured Reserve??? Also, three starting O linemen were out for Vikes, so the entire right side wilted on every snap. On the Raiders side, they started something called Aiden O’Connell, who was so good in college, that I can’t recall a single highlight of his at Purdue, and I watch the Big 10 most Saturdays. Brian Flores basically told the defense “Fresh Fish!” And the sack parade commenced. Good football? Absolutely not. But it was fun to feel confidence in the defense, which the purple fan base hasn’t been able to feel in years. Now we get to face Jake Browning, who was on our practice squad coming out of college. The QB saga the NFL has scripted this season is unprecedented.

WOW! Halloween just happened here in America, and now there’s a ghost sighting on PSNP!! Billy, how the hell are ya?? Welcome back, my brother! I’m terribly sorry I didn’t get in for this KYC but real life is just busting my balls…But in a good way. Just running around all day/ every day and then coaching youth sports in the evenings/ weekends. My gaming is down to just a few minutes per week. Heck, I don’t think I’ve earned a dozen trophies in the last six months. But its been great working with young people. I got a rare opportunity to be in a mentorship role and it’s been very rewarding. Billy, I was (sorta) in your neighborhood in September. Bruges, Brussels, Dinant, Luxembourg. Didn’t make it into your country, but had a ton of fun, and enjoyed some outstanding beer, just to the south of you. I wish everyone here all the best! I will follow along with this KYC and possibly make it into the Spring 2024. Take care everyone!

Vladi Guerrero needs to run some laps after getting picked like that! I coach youth baseball, and that’s what I’d make my 13AA team do if they fell asleep on the base paths like that! F’ing embarrassing…

This is not as cockamamie as it initially sounds. The newish GM for the Vikings is off to a disastrous start. His first draft class consists of: - first rounder Lewis Cine, who doesn’t touch the field even in Brian Flores’ new three safety defensive look - second rounder Ed Ingram, who has been rated as the worst starting interior lineman in the NFL. Last week, he somehow punched the ball out of Cousins’ hand for a fumble. - third round Brian Asamoah, who just got beat out by an undrafted rookie for the starting MLB job. - CB Andrew Booth, who got beat out by gas station free agents in the offseason. - he also traded down picks within the division. And, to top it all off, he didn’t get Justin Jefferson a new contract in the offseason. What? Do you suddenly think he’ll be cheaper after this season?!? He is the face of the franchise, hell - he’s a national commodity for the NFL, why wouldn’t you do what it takes to lock him up??? Cousins has never felt the love by the organization either. Prior coach didn’t want him, and fans tend to overblame him. He keeps getting short-end deals to stick with team. Do fans not remember when we had to Dollar Store shop for QB’s like Jim McMahon, Donovan McNabb and Sam Bradford? With our new GM, it would probably cost two seventh-rounders to get Cousins. I find it laughable for people to blame the turf. Do NFL players drop with Achilles tears every week playing on turf? Or could it be a 40-year-old geezer going down with an injury? This summer, I just watched my pickleball partner hit the deck with an Achilles tear. All he did was take a step to the ball. It’s not the turf, it’s the age bracket. PSA - please stretch before any exercise for anyone in my age group - let’s call ourselves the NES generation.

KYC 20 Game No. 6 Playing Time: 2+ hours Trophies Earned: 0/24 Final Thoughts: I am dreadfully late getting this review in. My May was bat shit crazy so please remind me for 2024 to pick short and stupid games. On to my last game… I started the event with a simulator and ended with one as well. To keep it simple, the first one was a hundred times better than this game. Your Thief Simulator starts with a very basic tutorial of how to sneak around a neighborhood. Right from the start, you can tell this game is going to be clunky. The graphics are maybe PS1 quality, and that’s probably being generous. The goal in this game is to steal stuff from houses. At first, you can only use open windows or break them with a crowbar, but there’s a sound wave bar, and you might be heard. Once you are in the house, you can wander around and search for loot. This is where the lack of graphics horrifically affects the gameplay. There is literally nothing to steal. The houses are bare of just about every modern convenience mankind has had since 1900. It’s like looting a dorm room before Move-In Day. There’s a bed, closet and desk, and that’s about it. The first house I went into, I came out with a pot and pan, and my big fence item was a fricking toaster! I think your neighborhoods get upgraded as you progress so you have a chance to steal artwork and cars, but I got nowhere close to that. You also have a safe house, where you can sell stolen loot on a fake EBay, buy tools like lockpicks, and get intel on homes. I think this is where the crutch of the game is. You need to case a house and watch for patterns when people come in and out, and hit it when nobody is home. You can also buy intel and it might tell you the bathroom window is ajar. Probably the best part of the game is your pal, Vinny. He will call you and give you missions to do. For the time I played, the missions worked great as a tutorial, and there’s much more to the game than I expected. There is a skill tree that will make things easier, like upgrading to a bigger backpack for more loot. There’s also a workbench where you can assemble tools and devices. But for all the story and mission stuff the game has to offer, the gameplay itself vastly suffers. It’s just not that much fun. Better graphics and a more detailed world would’ve grabbed my attention more. But it almost feels like you are in the house from Dire Straits’ Money For Nothing video. Okay, not that bad, but uncomfortably close. I failed again to earn a trophy and was kinda clueless as to why. Then I looked at the trophy list and one of the easiest to earn is a bronze for stealing five TV’s. Yet, of the six houses I broke into, I only found one TV! Yeah, highly doubtful I return to this one. Grade:

KYC 20 Game No. 5 Trophies Earned: 6/16 (36%) Playing Time: 2+ hours Final Thoughts: The US Holiday weekend has guaranteed that this KYC will go out with a whimper for me. My PS5 tells me I played 15 hours of Ship Graveyard Simulator to start this KYC, yet I didn’t even get 15 hours of playing time into my next five games. Yikes! Been a crazy month! So this “game” has been on lots of recent sales and I thought it would be fun to try in a KYC. Hard to describe it as gaming, as it’s closer to watching a TV show, with occasional interaction from you. Kind of a choose-your-own-adventure, except there’s not that many paths to go down. The premise is you are Vinny, the guy wearing the black T-shirt above, and during the depths of the pandemic, Vinny tries out a virtual dating site for the first time. I was a bit worried he would be a real douchebag, but he’s actually not that bad. Definitely not a player, self-deprecating at times, and a good sense of humor. At the start, you can enter in a variety of info about Vinny and this is supposed to guide the path you head down in your gameplay. You can select his interests, photo, career and horoscope sign (seriously, is this still a thing?). I thought this criteria might shut you out with certain daters, but it really doesn’t. You just might get a question or two about your profile info. Step Two is to request dates with three of the five available women. Sorry, there is no way to flip the sexes. You have to be Vinny. The women can categorized as a party girl, career oriented professional, granola hippie, health care worker who lives with parents, and part-timemodel/full-time bitch. Again, doesn’t matter what’s on your profile, they will accept the first date. Also, this takes place in London, so most everyone is British. If these characters were American, I think this really would’ve sucked. Vinny and his suitor will appear on screen and engage in dialogue. You will sit and watch this (and there is no skip button). The scenes are done pretty well, with a decent script that incorporates the pandemic into it. It’s interesting to see what people probably had to do to date during Covid. During your first dates, you might have 5-7 times where you pick a question to ask, or pick an answer from something she asked. This is where the game turns into Dating For Dummies. If you lack success in dating, you can learn from Vinny’s miscues; or his correct answers. Most of the questions are easy to figure out an answer for. And even if you choose wrong, you still have a chance to backpedal to keep the date a success. Same thing with the questions. Do you dare have Vinny ask his date if she’s ever had a one night stand? After you have first encounter with the three dates, Vinny narrows down his picks to two women for a second date. If you failed miserably on a date, she will reject your offer. Example - I offended one of them by saying that her job as a social media influencer, wasn’t a real job. There was ZERO chance of date two. When the second dates begin, it’s the same dialogue watching, with occasional choices from you. The dates get a bit more personal, but again, unless you’re a Caveman, you can answer safely and proceed. The goal of the game is for Vinny to get digits so he can call them personally. That happens after Date 3, and you will unlock a trophy. The “grind” of this game is to get all five phone numbers from each suitor, so that’s five play throughs. Unfortunately, the game will not let you use save slots to minimize the play throughs. I managed to finish just one of the endings. I was doing a second play through to see how the other two women were, but ran out of time. Overall, I think the developers did a pretty good job with the game. This could’ve been pretty corny and failed miserably. But they selected decent actors who, although are not Oscar-worthy, did well enough to convey realistic personalities to their characters. The game seems to be pretty safe in its dialogue, so it’s not as funny as the other dating simulator I have played, One Night Stand. I am glad I met my wife the old-school way (in person), but it’s interesting to see what technology Millennials and Gen Zers can use to meet someone. Five Dates was entertaining, though I think playing all the way through to get all five endings will be a bit of a drag. And, there’s not much game play to it. Maybe in the sequel Ten Dates, there are more paths to go down.