Thirsty Thursday Culture Cocktail – November 16, 2017

<p>Valentine&&num;8217&semi;s Day has come and gone and we&&num;8217&semi;re still in love with video games&period; We may not always have the best experiences with games but there are plenty of games that keep our love of gaming going&period; Some season passes&comma; DLC&comma; and even some games may tempt us to quit gaming but for every one of those there&&num;8217&semi;s always an <em>Uncharted 4<&sol;em>&comma; <em>Overwatch<&sol;em><em>&comma; VVVVVV<&sol;em><em>&comma; <&sol;em>and plenty of retro games that have already stolen our hearts to fall back on whenever modern games get us down&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Without further ado&comma; here&&num;8217&semi;s what we&&num;8217&semi;ve been drinking and how we think it&&num;8217&semi;s going to go down&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;118355" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-118355" style&equals;"width&colon; 960px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><img class&equals;"wp-image-118355" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;02&sol;15220644&sol;Kotor&lowbar;II&lowbar;1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic II&colon; The Sith Lords&comma; LucasArts" width&equals;"960" height&equals;"540" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-118355" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic II&colon; The Sith Lords&comma; LucasArts<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p><strong>Spiced Peragus Punch<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Two fingers of Spiced Rum<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>6 oz of <em>Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic II&colon; The Sith Lords<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>2 oz of <em>Alone With You<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>1 oz of <em>Spyro the Dragon<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>A splash of Chance the Rapper&&num;8217&semi;s <em>Coloring Book<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Man oh man&comma; it&&num;8217&semi;s been a busy week&period; As one of the editors at BagoGames it&&num;8217&semi;s my job to make sure we&&num;8217&semi;re always releasing lots of polished and great content from our staff writers and there&&num;8217&semi;s been plenty of great content submitted&period; As you already know there&&num;8217&semi;s never a shortage of good stuff to read here but we&&num;8217&semi;ve been doing a lot of planning for a lot of great articles&period; In between editing and planning I&&num;8217&semi;ve been working on my next two retro reviews&comma; which are <em>Knights of the Old Republic II&colon; The Sith Lords<&sol;em> and <em>Spyro the Dragon<&sol;em>&period; The first being one of my favorite games of all time &lpar;don&&num;8217&semi;t worry&&num;8211&semi;you&&num;8217&semi;ll still get an objective retro review&rpar; and the latter being a classic I&&num;8217&semi;ve enjoyed since I was younger&period; My Wife and I just finished moving to a different city and that&&num;8217&semi;s unfortunately caused a delay on my next review but I recently started it and am really enjoying it&period; <em>Alone With You<&sol;em> is a love letter to the Sega CD era and I&&num;8217&semi;m really enjoying it so far&period; I&&num;8217&semi;ve always started listening to <em>Coloring Book<&sol;em> again since it&&num;8217&semi;s been a few months and the Grammy awards reminded me of how much I loved that album&period; It&&num;8217&semi;s been busy but it&&num;8217&semi;s been smooth as hell too&period; I really recommend this drink to anyone looking for something tasty&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;118630" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-118630" style&equals;"width&colon; 960px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><img class&equals;"wp-image-118630" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;02&sol;16204631&sol;myhorseprince&period;jpg" alt&equals;"My Horse Prince&comma; USAYA" width&equals;"960" height&equals;"540" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-118630" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">My Horse Prince&comma; USAYA<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p><strong>Post Valentine&&num;8217&semi;s Day Cinnamon Shots<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Fireball Whiskey &lpar;1 Shot per person&rpar;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Cinnamon rimmed shot glasses<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Follow up with dating simulators and&sol;or multiplayer games<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Add chocolate until you hit a sugar rush<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Are you a single person bummed about being solo on Valentine&&num;8217&semi;s day&quest; Maybe you&&num;8217&semi;re a couple enjoying paired bliss&quest; Either way gather single friends or couples and enjoy this recipe featuring love&comma; fun&comma; and tasty drinks&excl; Enjoy your favorite multiplayer games with single friends or spend some time with your significant other killing zombies&comma; goblins&comma; and more&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>If you are solo this weekend&comma; spend some time with dating sims like <em>My Horse Prince<&sol;em>&comma; <em>Katty Powers&&num;8217&semi; Matchmaker<&sol;em> or <em>Hunipop<&sol;em>&period; If you like romance with a side of farming&comma; give <em>Stardew Valley<&sol;em> a try instead&period; Chase the shots with some Valentines&&num;8217&semi; chocolate and enjoy the fruits of chocolate sales while you try to decipher which of the chocolates you bought have the gross filling that no one ever wants&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;118631" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-118631" style&equals;"width&colon; 960px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><img class&equals;"wp-image-118631" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;02&sol;16205543&sol;rocketleague&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Rocket League&comma; Psyonix" width&equals;"960" height&equals;"540" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-118631" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">Rocket League&comma; Psyonix<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p><strong>Up With The Sickness<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>4 oz <em>The Joy of Painting<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>10 oz flat Ginger Ale<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>10 oz <em>Rocket League<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>5 oz <em>Gears of War<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>5 oz <em>Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Continuous PAX East Preparation<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>After starting the week with aggressive vomiting and violent stomach pains at 4 AM&comma; slowly consume the first two ingredients &lpar;crackers and dry toast are optional&rpar; and then get plenty of rest&period; Consume the next two ingredients aloen on the Xbox One and when you&&num;8217&semi;re joined on the couch by a loved one&comma; cooperatively enjoy the second to last ingredient&period; Please note that the final ingredient is most important and should be continually consumed alongside all other ingredients&comma; regardless of your mental or physical state&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<hr &sol;>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;"><strong>It&&num;8217&semi;s been a great week and we love sharing what we&&num;8217&semi;re up to with everyone&period; Don&&num;8217&semi;t forget to let us your own drink recipes in the comments below or on Twitter &commat;BagoGames&excl; We&&num;8217&semi;ll see you next week with our latest Whatcha&&num;8217&semi; Playin&&num;8217&semi; Humpday Haiku&excl; Have a great weekend&excl; Happy Gaming&excl;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;