Hey and welcome to another Channel Update. In these blogs, I want to give you an update on what has been going on in my life and on the website as I strive to create a kickass resource for you.
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Personal
- I have been sick for the last week and therefore spend a lot of time just lying around.
- I did watch a few movies
- Top Gun Maverick: Cool movie with heart, I enjoyed it. I did see the original as a kid and recently with my son. Great that they got Val Kilmer back.
- Atlas: I started watching this as a joke because it’s the “Titanfall” movie. This led to me and my son questioning certain logic in the game. One fun moment was me calling out Jlo’s heart rate being at its max. My son was like, “How do you know that?” Well, 220 minus your age is your maximum heart rate and Jlo is like 60 or so. See, movies teach things 😉
- The Running Man: An old Arnold Schwarzenegger movie that surprisingly has a lot of themes of the current age we are living in with altering video footage to construct fake news.
- Wish: Quality animated movie. Strong message about making your dreams come true. Enjoyed watching this with my youngest son. The little star in the movie made me think of the Lumas from Mario Galaxy.
- Aladdin: Watched the classic animated movie with the whole family and the new live-action movie with my wife. The live-action version does add some explanation to certain scenes as the original skims over some stuff but the live-action version skips over the big ending from the original. Probably because they had to recreate that giant snake and the movie would become way too scary for kids. Also, Robin Williams has his charms.
- Celebrated my 18th Anniversary with my wife. Can’t believe our Marriage is now all grown up XD We went to a Chinese restaurant that has an all-you-can-eat option but you can order these mini-portions. This way we could cherry-pick all the tasty food we wanted and even try out something new without having a full meal on our plate.
Website
- Renewed Yoast SEO Premium as its paid features allow me to be more productive.
- Made some additional enhancements to the current site.
- I’m continuing to work on the new iteration of the site but figuring out that web design can be challenging. I’m discovering new ways to build certain aspects of the site. This phase lets me build a strong framework that would make MentalMarsV4 future-proof.
Borderlands
- A new edition of The Hunt for Borderlands 3 has been announced.
- Added links to the Borderlands 3 Vault Hunters Overview to let you quickly jump to their Skill Tree, Builds, Guides, or Change Log instead of just to their main HUB Page.
- New SHiFT Codes are still being added quickly I notice I’m often faster than other outlets. There was 1 week that there wasn’t a fresh SHiFT Code, this might have had something to do with the launch of Homeworld 3.
- The Black Market Location still gets updated each week. In the last several weeks you are also able to watch a video guide where I show you the location and the loot.
- A scene from the Borderlands Movie has been released. Also, Tiny Tina and Krieg did an interview.
- New Borderlands Movie Posters of the supporting cast were released and contained SHiFT Codes for every Borderlands game to date.
Redfall
Redfall received its final big game update as Microsoft closed the studio. To keep my Redfall Wiki relevant and up-to-date, I added all the important details and features to the site. Also, it was fun playing this game again.
- Redfall received its final game update as the studio shuts down. There are some really good QoL improvements to the game.
- Elder Nests were added with the update. They are your Boss arenas and I added their info to the Redfall Nests Guide.
- A new Safe House Skill Tree was added and I created a comprehensive guide for that new gameplay mechanic.
- Added Collectibles info to the Redfall Locations Overview
- Added Community Standing info to the Safe House Overview
- Updated several Redall pages as some info was outdated. I also added references to the new info on pages where it made sense.
- I enhanced the Redfall Playable Character Profile pages.
- Fans have been looking for Simon’s Survival Guides in Redfall since the big game update. Therefore, I created a guide that helps you collect them all.
Others HUBs
- Immortals of Aveum:
- My Immortals of Aveum “Torrent” Build got featured by Ascendant Studios on Social Media
- A small fix for PC players was released as the previous update interfered with some features.
- Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands:
- I enhanced the Skill Tree pages for every playable class in TTWL.
- Added more info to the TTWL Class Power Guide.
- Keeping up with SHiFT Codes and Loot Room updates.
- It’s great to see that my Mini-Event Calendar is being used in the community!
- Battleborn:
- There is a temperate solution to add PvP maps to Battleborn Reborn. Bots are working, however, this isn’t officially part of the Reborn Mod by Gwog.