Category: My Fortnite Journey
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My Year of Streaming Fortnite: A Gamer’s Journey
Reflections May 13th marked my one year anniversary of streaming Fortnite. In my first year, I’ve ranked to Fortnite’s highest ranked level, Unreal, for the past 7 consecutive seasons. It’s been a fun ride as an older gamer streaming a predominantly younger person’s game. So many memories, milestones, and friends made along the way. To…
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Magical, Indestructible Dumpster
Locating the Dumpster During one of my streams, someone pointed out that the dumpster near the Black Market and Rolling Blossoms Farm can’t be destroyed. Even better, once hidden in the dumpster a player can not be damaged by any weapon. This means once inside, a player is completely safe until they need to move…
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Creating my Fortnite Camping Song
Why Write a Song? In this blog post I share how I created my PopsPlaysToo Fortnite Camping Song. I’ve always wanted to write the lyrics to a song so when the idea hit me to turn my journey through Fortnite into a melody, I pounced on it! The song’s content would focus on how I…
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Fortnite Camping Thoughts
Camping in Fortnite has been an intense, sometimes nerve-wracking, rewarding experience for me. I’ve spent countless hours improving my art of hiding, surviving, and, occasionally, striking when the timing is just right. As a 64-year-old gamer, I’ve seen a lot in Fortnite, but camping has tested my patience and reflexes like nothing else. It’s my…
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Fortnite Camping Gets Stale
It’s Like Hide-and-Seek Fortnite camping strategy is a lot like playing hide and seek. Campers seek out spots on the map where they’re least likely to be discovered so they can survive as late into each Fortnite game as possible. Imagine playing hide and seek in a big new house. There’s all sorts of nooks…
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Rest in Peace Pops
My Pops Passes A week ago this past Sunday, my beloved Pops died at the age of 91. He was a very vital, sharp, and loving man. He lived very happily and independently with my mom right up unto the very end. Two weeks before he passed, our entire family celebrated my parents 67th wedding…
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How my Fortnite Journey Began
It was December of 2018. I was sitting in my living room with one of my college-aged sons. He looked at me and asked if I’d be willing to buy us an XBOX as a joint holiday gift so we could play Fortnite. His question caught me off guard. A decade earlier we had an…