Loren Chen

Internal medicine physician, also has interest in gaming, especially on XBox.

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Listened to The Battle of the Bog Bang. It is an updated story of physics and cosmology frpm beyond Hawkin’s book. The theories are hard to understand and the experiments to find what is true is slow in coming.

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Played through Life Is Strange: Reunion, the latest rental. Story, graphics, gameplay were all good. Story was good and connect to previous games. Next.

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Listened to Spook by Mary Roach. The book was about consciousness but rather it talked about old thoughts about souls such as near death experiences and mediums. Interesting but not what I expected.

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Listened to Exit Strategy, another Jack Reacher book. The story is a bit disjointed and doesn’t really come together til near the end. Not one of the better books.

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Listened to The Wizard and the Prophet, an interesting book about how humans should go forward in terms of progress. Technology advance or conservation. The answers is not easy and I appreciate what I learned from the book.

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Played halfway through Soulstice, latest rental, but the game got too hard so stopped. Graphics and the gameplay are dated. Story is confusing and not interesting. Next.

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Have been back driving the Model 3 again for a while and haven’t kept up with keeping track of the milestones. Herr is 160k miles. Car still running well.

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Played Agarta which is a choose your own adventure FMV game from Turkey. The premise is interesting but the execution is messy. The game is also glitched. I played the game multiple times to try to get all cheevos but stopped at 900.

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Achieved 360K gamerscore. Playing a mox of games. Enjoying more choose your own adventure type story fames and the cheevos are easier.

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Played a bit of Arcadegeddon, the latest rental. it is a kind of online multiplayer Roguelike. The game is out of favor since it came out so I got some cheevos and figures that it is enough.. Graphics is cartoony and gameplay not too innovative.

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Listened to In Too Deep, another Jack Reacher novel. This one started very disjointedly and seem to meander in many direction. It all worked out in the end though like Reacher novels tend to do.

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Played through the basic levels of Superhot. There actually is a kind pf a story but not really. Graphics is rudamentary but the gameplay is unique and a bit addictive. Will go and farm more cheevos.

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Listened to 1929, an audiobbok about the Great Depression. It was insightful but not sure why the Depression occurred. There are parallels to today though.

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Played through Saints Row 2022, a reboot. Game looks okay but very similar to previous games. Story was meh and too many things too do. Seem to be padding the hours to completion. Fun though.

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Listened to The Secret, another Jack Reacher novel. This one had less action and a bit unbelievable because of how the antagonists were able to kill victims so easily. Nevertheless, the end twist was satisfying.

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Finished Death Stranding. Game looks good and is definitely an unique game. Plot is head-scratching though. Will play more for more cheevos.

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Latest rental is a reissue of XIII for the XBox One. The problem is that the disc is scratched and won’t install. Next.

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Tried WW1: Isonzo - Italian Front as the newest rental. It is an online only FPS that was difficult to play. my skills are diminished in this genre. Got 1 cheevo. Next.

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Listened to From Jesus to Constantine and Forgery and Counterforgery by Bart Ehrman. I started the latter but then found I needed the former as a background. It was good to get an understanding of the history of Christianity. Now for something lighter.

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Played Battlefield 2042, latest rental. My online FPS skills have all but gone. got cheevos for walking and driving a certain distance but that is it. Next.