So, this past Sunday, I started a game of Candy Crush on Facebook, only to discover that the 'team' I was on had unlocked a major bonus. I wasn't really planning to play that much, but with an hour of a bonus, I had to play at least a little. When I realized that I unlocked a second, half-hour more extensive bonus, I had to play a little longer. After a few levels, I noticed something strange at the top of the screen. There wasn't any game there. It turned out that I had almost reached the end of the game. I thought that there were more levels than the five or six left. In fact, I thought the game was a lot closer to 12,000 levels than it actually was. Knowing that I was nearing a six-day winning streak bonus after the daily challenge reset that evening, I had to stop playing. In fact, I was so busy that night and the next with other things that I was unable to play any new levels until last night. Today, new levels are supposed to unlock, but they haven't appeared on my game as of this time. Until they do, I am forced to just log in to receive my various daily bonuses that don't involve playing a level. This was only the first of many game-related news I received this weekend. Next, I finally gave in and downloaded my missing issue of Games World of Puzzles. It was only after I bought the issue that I discovered that I didn't get to download the magazine, only read it online. Turns out that only the mobile version of the service allows the downloading of the full magazine. Not only that, but one can only print off two-page spreads from the website version. This means that if I ever get to a printer, I will have a hard time printing any pages so that I can actually work the puzzles. Sure, I might be able to take a screenshot of a puzzle to create a format that I could easily work the puzzles on my computer with Markup tools, but there would be major issues with sizing. Besides, I prefer actually print copies rather than working a puzzle on a screen. At least I got some good news Monday. I was finally able to call someone at the subscription fulfillment center and found out that the missing issues were finally shipping, although I should have already gotten one of them over a month ago. I might have to order a copy directly from the publisher again if I don't get that missing issue soon, as the new issue appears on newsstands next week and I don't think I would have time to get a copy from the nearest store in time before it is taken off the stands. Then, I got conformation that the current publisher of a favorite RPG line no longer works through my bookstore's primary distributor. This means that I will have to look to other places to buy any physical copies. I just ordered one last December, so the change must have happened fairly recently. For all of those who don't remember, one of the reasons why I chose to open a bookstore when my mother forced me to start my own business was so that I could a have a steadier supply of these products whenever I faced shipping problems from my local game store. Wouldn't you know it, but my primary distributor when I opened the store didn't deal with that company, forcing me to continue trying to get products through my game store whenever I couldn't place an order with my secondary distributor in a timely manner. Then, my game line was discontinued with a newer follow up. This happened about the same time my primary distributor went out of business and I had to switch to a different one. That one did carry my new game line, until the publisher decided to go with a direct online print-on-demand structure. I didn't have a computer back then, so for almost a decade, I didn't get any new products, not even when the new publisher of the game lines brought back the original one for special anniversary editions. I started downloading PDFs of those products a few months after I got my computer whenever I had the extra cash. I'm almost caught up with the anniversary line of products, even with newer titles still being added. Now, with a different company working with the IP of the newest edition of the games, I've been having to get the physical copies any way possible, with about half through my store and half through my local game store. I'm already planning to order some of the new products through them, even though it will be more expensive. Finally, I discovered that SongPop 2 is having a name change next month to SongPop Classic, with the next iteration of the game (3) that I haven't played because I don't think it's available for Mac facing a similar name change. This leaves my wondering, whatever happened to version 1? Anyway, I had been doing quite good on it recently, until last night. I had managed to take first place in one of the daily competitions, with a little less than an hour to go. I was planning to take a short break before coming back to see if I had to play any more, but I got delayed by chore, so I couldn't play again until after the competition ended. Somehow, I had dropped to sixth place, but because I was short on time, I forgot to check to see how many points I had fallen back on. I find it hard to believe that so many people managed to snipe me, but I have no proof about what happened. Still, I will play on. The best I can.
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