Category: Video Game News

  • New Puter

    New Puter

    By Andrea Menzies

    *Note the Tuesday review podcast is late by a day due to computer crash and reboot.

    It was tax refund time, and my old computer crashed. I sprang for an HP Victus laptop. I have gone back to a master’s degree night school program, and have hundreds of reports to write. The same processors that can play games well can also write, type, and print better as I need that badly for grades. Grades get money, scholarships, and jobs eventually. Part of my brain says “no don’t spend money,” but another part says “if you buy cheap you get cheap, and buy twice.” I will write the full review later as I just finished unboxing the thing and it is charging.

  • Xymox Show Baltimore

    By Andrea Menzies

    I got tickets to Xymox a band I have two records and countless songs from on CD! I would like to thank the Baltimore Soundstage for putting on this great show of the band I have loved since I was a kid. Too bad it was almost too expensive to do, as corporations have made going out an expensive nightmare. The Xymox band are a big hit amongst Siouxie and the Banshees band fans as they are a famous European band.

    I have also seen the Sisters of Mercy play at Baltimore Soundstage on September 17 of 2024, and VNV Nation April 1, 2024, and Depeche Mode September 7, 2017 in the area so I know it will be a good show. All the above listed bands are top 40 popular bands from Europe. Virginia only has horrible garbage music playing so I know I will have to get an apartment near Baltimore to hear any good music.

    Full review https://www.FH7publishing.com

    See Patreon link.

  • Episode 4 Season 1 – Sims Spell-Caster Vampires

    By Andrea Menzies

    *This podcast now updates on Tuesdays.

    Intro: Sims 4 is a popular video game with spell-casters and vampires. Did you know people can play a spell-caster mixed with a vampire and many other occult types? The FH7podcast reviews books and videogames with book connections. On Tuesdays we do a podcast at FH7 with videos. See more about how the story of Sims 4 mixes these two magical occult stories, and how to place food in nightclubs at https://www.patreon.com/cw/FH7Productions7 #Sims 4, #Spell-Caster mixed with Vampire.

    Sims 4 is an ultra-popular video game where people can make a millionaire dream life and compare photos of it online with other users. If you buy the vampire pack you can play vampires. If you buy the spell-caster magic pack you can do magic. The problem is if you buy both they are so fun it is hard to pick what things you will give your main characters! Fortunately, you don’t have to! Here are a few tips and tricks that I wish I had known when playing spell-caster vampires. Use the cheat menu on a spell caster, and you can give it a vampire energy bar. They will be able to drink blood and order blood packs on the computer and drink them. The spell-caster vampires also never age, and burn in full daylight when not under an umbrella or tree. If you love vampire characters get the seasons pack so the characters can have umbrellas. Surprisingly the characters do not glitch out too bad, and use all the spells like Copypasto, and Repairo well using vampire energy to power the spells. Spell-caster vampires can no longer rise in vampire ranks, and cannot become master vampires. They can make vampire drinks at the bar, and know vampire secrets.

    To make a spell caster vampire:

    Press Ctrl + Shift + C (then enter)

    Type testingcheats true (then press enter)

    Type traits.equipt_trait_OccultVampire  (then press enter)

    Poof, vampire bar is now in the spell-caster menu!

    If you have a vampire, you must have them cure their vampire state, turn them into spell-casters, and then re-add the vampire trait. In this way you can complete both the storylines in the game, and use all items in both packs. Unfortunately, if you try to put vampires in a house with non-vampire spell-casters they will try to eat them to death. Have a vampire reach high level vampire lore, gather 5 garlic, and make a garlic braid. This braid will protect non-vampires in the house from bites. Give all magic users brooms and set to “always use brooms” so they can power up magic spells. Vampire spell-casters can also eat food. You can place food at nightclubs by pressing edit when in night-club mode, and type in the search “stall” for food stalls to turn all night clubs to restaurants.

    A good book to compare and contrast this video game’s details to is called “Press Stat The History of Video Gaming” by Erwan Cario. A visually stunning book available on Amazon that talks about the roots of video games from 1958 until modern day with details on Sims, Minecraft, and Fortnite.

    *Note the audio part of this podcast is behind a pay-wall at Patreon.com listed at FH7publishing.com

    This podcast video demo shows spell casters, and how to place food stalls at music clubs in the game.
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  • Smart Ironic

    Smart Ironic

    By Andrea Menzies

    There is no such thing as a person who NEVER makes mistakes even if they make few mistakes on school papers and tests. It is always ironic that people good at school are called “smart” people. The professor on the TV show Gilligan’s Island could make an energy plant out of coconuts but he could not fix a five foot hole in a boat. How weird is it that no one noticed that as the show was on TV for many years? The Far Side has a famous cartoon of a kid at an honors gifted school pushing a door that says pull. Many people have noticed that school work and perfection are far from the same thing. I am starting a new class for a Master’s Degree program tonight, and the irony of learning is really powerful every first day of class.

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    Could not fix a five foot boat hole.
    Could not stop pushing the pull door.
    School uses up a life time.

    You must use time in a wise way to make good grades.

  • Honors Meetup

    Honors Meetup

    By Andrea Menzies

    I am Andrea Menzies and I got into a new honors society for making all A grades in 2025 and 2026 at a new University. I am also the Pokemon Go player Poedaughter7. The orientation is the same day as the park meeting today so the park thing is cancelled.

  • New Stop

    New Stop

    By Andrea M

    Woohoo a new Pokemon Go stop is by the Salem Church Road area. Good news for the meetup groups in Daniels Park.

  • Pneumonia Visit

    Pneumonia Visit

    By Andrea Menzies

    I got pneumonia today, and had to go to the emergency room. Don’t wait too long to go to the hospital if you need it. I am going to use hand sanitizer every two seconds after this hassle. #2026 pneumonia visit

  • New Meetup

    New Meetup

    By Andrea M.

    The new Pokemon Go meetup group is here: https://discord.gg/KgaDbrmcf and here: https://cmpf.re/qpKF0y Note that this group is greatly an online group as many area people are busy with jobs, online, and in-person school in the area. I am super busy with all of these things most weekdays and weekends yet I like the meetings a couple of days a month. #2026PokemonGoParkMeetupChesterfieldVA

    Many thanks to the dog Bootsie for helping me visit the Pickleball court and bike 5 miles at the Pokemon Meetup today.

  • Electric Car Killed

    Electric Car Killed

    By Andrea Menzies

    There is a famous documentary called “Who Killed The Electric Car?” available on IMBD here: https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0489037/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk plus is for sale on Amazon. I had to write many papers on this documentary in extension certificates classes at University. I made A grades on the paper, and in the classes. The famous documentary makes the point that the conflicts and wars generated by fossil fuel profits are not a natural condition. Governments and corporations are intentionally destroying alternative transportation to fossil fuel using cars and trucks. It is not natural and inevitable like the sunrise or ocean tide it is a man made problem that is causing wars, abuse of women, car wrecks, and pollution as a start to the problems. How many women who were going home from work were desperate for a car ride home in the rain, and got far more than they bargained for when they had to be alone with a violent man? When massive profit is only in fossil fuel rich areas violence will follow.

  • Scooters and Guns

    Scooters and Guns

    By Andrea Menzies

    No matter what downtown you live near tiny electric scooters and gun violence are now normal. I thought I was living in the worst U.S.A. area, but then an old area I used to live in has suffered a bad shooting as well. Cold weather and a collapsing economy are making tempers flare in many areas. People want to blow off steam seeing music, but rent and parking downtown now seems to cost one million dollars. Uber and cabs are now extremely expensive. Music fans now park at a nearby hotel, and scooter a couple of miles into downtown areas. Unfortunately no area is safe anymore. The result is crime scene photos covered in tiny scooters that are a strange mix of the childlike and the morbid in one glance. I seriously do want to buy a tiny bike-scooter after seeing tiny scooters all over the last set of Austin music district murder photos. The scooter people were the ones that lived.

    So many scooters!
    14 inch wheel E-Bike scooters are only 50 pounds, and 20 inch E-bikes are an unusable 200 pounds.