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Starbound. I suggest you play the game a little bit on Casual instead of Survival. It takes a while to manage eating food and not dying, and Casual is much more forgiving. You die in casual and you lose 10% of your pixels (money) and respawn on your ship. You can teleport to your ship from anywhere. Not so in Survival! You lose 30% of your pixels, all your gathered materials (you do keep your weapons and armor and I think most of "first tab" stuff). You have to eat to stay alive or you can starve to death. You can only teleport to your ship from the surface. That actually turns out to be a pain. The worst thing that can happen is to be in the bowels of the planet and you realize you have no food left and you need to get to the surface! Ouch. HINT: If this happens, and you are fortunate enough to find a portal to a challenge level, you can go there and die. You'll then respawn on your ship with only pixel loss. So learn to play the game a bit in Casual. Lea...

MERRY CHRISTMAS - 2016. It is the Season of Love. Let me tell you about the greatest present I ever received, the greatest significant event of my life. It started on the first Christmas. A virgin birthed the Son of God in a small town called Bethlehem. Joseph fled with Jesus and Mary to Egypt, then returned to Israel, where Jesus grew up in Nazareth. And Jesus grew in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and man. When He began His earthly ministry, his cousin John the Baptist heralded His coming as the Messiah, the Savior of the World. After three years of ministering to His followers, Jesus the Christ went to the cross and gave His life and paid the price for the sins of all mankind. Jesus Christ fulfilled hundreds of prophecies, many of them written in the book of Isaiah, a book found in the Dead Sea scrolls and carbon dated to over two hundred years before the birth of Jesus. (My cousin, an awesome writer, posted more about this on Facebook .) He did t...

December 24, 2016 - and Merry Christmas Eve to everyone! As you are no doubt aware, I am a gamer. I was a gamer before it was a cool thing. We hid in darkened rooms with our Commodore 64 machines and played Bard's Tale (the original - what a rush). We upgraded to the Amiga and slobbered over the fabulous graphics, but still fell back to the game play of King's Quest. I could make a list - and I think I did once. I'll post it if I find it. One of my all-time favorite games was Darklands , and if you ever played it - welcome, my friend! I still have the original disks, box and game book for that one. I also have a CD with the final released version of the game. Now I play Skyrim and Fallout - and it won't be many years until we are all playing true VR games. Not quite the holodeck, but we're getting there. We played World of Warcraft for over a decade, but it grew old and stale (sorry, Blizzard) and we left and never really returned. We play Minecraft, and...