Weird that I can think of "at war with Iran and shooting up boats in both the Atlantic and Pacific" as relatively quiet, but here we are. Everybody's fussed about the entirely-foreseeable after effects of the US attacking Iran jointly with Israel, so nobody's actively looking to rock the boat any further - assuming you don't include Trump "joking" about Pearl Harbor with the Japanese prime minister, of course. Otherwise, Epsteinapalooza continues to simmer, alongside the many, many other problems Trump and company have brought down upon us.
Side note, did you know there's another No Kings protest scheduled for next week?
Anyways, the main bug in my bonnet today isn't the big picture, but a smaller piece of corruption and control. Turns out, yesterday, the Nexstar acquisition of Tegna was approved. You know, one of the companies that tried to support the FCC head in his attempt to get Jimmy Kimmel kicked off the air back in September, getting special dispensation from that head to bypass the law (under what authority?) to extend their empire further. Some states have filed a lawsuit to try and stop it, but, in my mind, Tegna is already tainted. So, as promised, I've dropped their local stations from my tuner's channel list. Mind, the local Tegna station's main channel was the CBS affiliate, so it's just their also-ran UHF channel (CW affiliate, maybe?) and all the filler sub-channels for both that went away. Kind of a wash all around, really, but I might miss getting tempted to watch some Svengoolie thing on a random Saturday night in the future, I guess.
All the more time for games then, yeah? Let's start with PowerWash Simulator 2 - I finished that the other night. No major surprises, up to the end credits, which suffered a crash-to-"desktop" on my XBox. Ah well, I had my fun, but I'm not champing at the bit to get any DLC for it, so take that for what it's worth.
Outside of that, I've added a couple more programs to my "games that have my attention" list. Trash Goblin is a fairly simple game (barely more than a visual novel, really) where your young goblin self sets up a shop where he takes bits of trash sourced by his Auntie, chips away the worst of the encrustation on them, (usually) cleans them up, and (sometimes) pieces things together before selling them off to the townsfolk that stop by. Most of the mechanics are forgettable at best (although the cleaning sponge you start with is absolutely wretched), but the chiseling part does a really good job at hitting the same puzzle-solving notes as manually examining an object you're trying to uncover/decipher. It's got my attention for now, but we'll see how the story holds up.
There's also Dawnfolk, which I'm playing on my PC due to the controller setup, mainly (anything d-pad related on the first-gen Steam Controller is not a good time). It's a minimalist town-builder with a Commodore-64 aesthetic, including very simple mini-games for some tasks. It hasn't proven to be "hard" (at the normal difficulty level at least), but it's both engaging and charming. I'd say take a look, while the Steam Spring Sale is on, maybe it'll grab your attention too.
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