Daily(ish)

I talk about the video games I’ve been playing lately, in the spirit of my old 25C podcast with Nick. My guilty pleasure game, my brain tingler, the mobile puzzles, and the one I need to dip back into.

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00:00 Welcome
00:32 Guilty Pleasure
02:37 Drop Duchy Discovery
04:12 Quick Puzzle Fixes
04:59 Wordle Night Routine
05:20 Expedition 33 and Game Pass
05:56 Wrap Up and Connect

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What is Daily(ish)?

Challenging myself to record a podcast episode a day for my 50th year on this planet.

Hello and welcome to Dailyish for
Saturday, September 26th, 2026.

I'm recording an episode every day for
this year, my 50th year on the planet

I had meant to record earlier in the
day, but ran out of time somehow on

what felt like a fairly chill Saturday.

But you know how sometimes you have
just enough things to, to go do or be

at that it somehow feels like a busy
day, even though it really shouldn't

be given the amount of free time you
have between the things you're doing?

Anyway, that was today.

So for this episode, as you probably
guessed by the title if you've seen

it, I thought I'd talk about some
video games I've been playing lately.

You can consider this a, uh, 25 Cents
sub-episode if you ever listened to the

old podcast I did with Nick talking video
games, available at goodstuff.network/25c,

I believe.

I think we got up to 50
episodes on that show

My guilty pleasure continues to
be Fortnite, and, uh, I don't know

if it's a bad thing to still be
playing Fortnite or a good thing.

My kids have long since moved on
from Fortnite and don't join in

on the game with me anymore, even
though they were the ones who got

me into it in the first place.

I think for me it's that there isn't any,
like, major thought behind what did I do

last time and what do I have to remember?

Where am I in the game?

You know, which missions have I completed?

All that kind of stuff.

It's just kind of a drop-in.

It's light, fun, silly, colorful.

It's not dark, depressing, and
dreary, and full of death, even

though you are actually running
around killing each other.

But it's all kind of cartoon,
comic kind of violence.

And also the sort of…

There's enough, like, socialness to it
where sometimes I'll play with it on,

uh, squad mode, where you get connected
with three other random people for,

for a game, and the generally voice
isn't on, so you're not talking with

people, and you're kinda like working
together as a team even though you

can't actually communicate verbally.

And, uh, I don't know, there's
just something about that that's

kinda fun and interesting.

And then every so often people have mics
on, and it's either really interesting

and you get to hear all sorts of
weird stuff going on in someone else's

world or, um, or just like interesting
conversations for the 15 minutes or

whatever that you might be connected in
a game, and you do well or you don't, and

I don't really put too much stock into
whether I win or lose a particular game.

It's just kind of a fun one to do.

And then I have three friends who we, uh,
get together with every so often and play

together and, uh, whoever can make it.

And it's just kinda like a fun s- chill
way to hang out, chat, catch up a little

bit, and, uh, do some silly emoting while
being killed by 12-year-olds probably.

My son had bought, uh, Game Pass for Xbox
recently, and I discovered a game called

Drop Duchy, which is a card game city
builder mixed with Tetris kind of thing.

I'm sure there's a more technical term
for what those kind of games are called.

But, um, anyways, it kind of…

It's enough of a puzzle and slow-moving,
but also a strategy and figuring out

the best sort of order to do things
in and remembering what pieces you

dropped where and what effect they
have on other pieces that might be

dropped and how that might affect
your, the end battle for a given level.

Um, I found myself doing this typical
video game thing last night where I

was, couldn't get past the boss level.

I thought, "Ah, whatever.

It's like late at night.

I'll just do one more game."

And of course, that was when I actually
fanage- managed to beat the boss level

of that whatever level and then went
on to the next one and, you know,

discovered new mechanics, new parts of
the game, and so ended up staying way

later than I thought I was planning to.

But, um, it's still one of those games
that's kinda like stuck in my brain just

enough that it's, because it's not a
game that you, um, build on over time.

I forget what that, that
style of game is called.

But you start a new game each
time, basically starting over

without, you know, building on
anything you did in the last game.

It's kinda like a new run each time.

And again, that sort of works well with,
I feel like often I say like, life has

enough stuff I have to remember with
mortgages and winter tires and whether

the dog's gone for a walk today or all
those kinds of thing, and I don't need

to remember, I struggle to remember
what I did in Zelda last time and

where I need to go and what things I
have to do and all that kind of stuff.

And I kinda want a game where I can just
kinda like dip into it, dip out, and don't

have to keep notes on what I've been doing

And when I can sense, like with my phone
in hand, I need to use like my brain

to puzzle something out instead of doom
scrolling, I often pull out Inkwell Games

for their Stars, Fields, and sometimes
Loopy River is a new one they have.

Just basic like sort of Sudoku kind of
style games, but in different packaging.

And, um, Inkwell Games has a really
nicely designed, uh, website, and if you

install it as a mobile app on your phone
or desktop, I guess you could do it.

Uh, it just works really well.

And, uh, yeah, I appreciate the
challenges and, and the fact that they

have the ability to get hints on stuff.

So if you're just stuck and you just wanna
like be able to complete that puzzle,

that day's puzzle, it's not impossible.

You don't have to just sit there and bang
at it until you either get it or don't.

You can just hit the hints, and
then it just tracks how many hints

you've used, and that's sort of
part of the score for the day.

And then my wife and I compete on, I say
compete, but like air quotes compete on

Wordle, and the Apple News has a emoji
game and Crossword Mini most nights.

I'd kind of given up on Wordle for a
while, but got it back into it as a nice

little chill puzzle game before bed.

Maybe that's getting older.

I don't know

Anyways, I'll have links in the
show notes to the games I mentioned.

That's kind of what I've
been playing lately.

Um, oh, there's also Expedition
33 is one I got into, a sort

of story-driven game on…

It's available on Xbox,
PlayStation, Steam.

Last time we had Game Pass I got into
it, and it's kind of like basically

you're playing through a movie almost.

Beautiful scenery, uh, interesting story.

I haven't gotten very far in it, but
it's one that's on Game Pass as well.

And so Game Pass is kind of like
Netflix for Xbox, where basically

you just pay a monthly fee, get
access to a whole bunch of games.

You can just play whichever you want.

You don't have to buy them, but you
obviously don't keep the games once

you stop paying the monthly fee.

So helps to have a kid who decides to
pay for it, and the rest of us benefit.

Let me know in the comments
what kind of games you play.

If you play Fortnite, feel free to
look for me on, I think my name is,

uh, Lemon Casting on Epic Games.

Uh, if you're in, into Fortnite at all
and wanna play sometime together, it'd

be fun Or what games you're playing.

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Bye.