Escapism through gaming
and I feel like shit. I’m not referring to alcohol — I can’t bear the thought of ever drinking again after seven years clean — but from a currently legal in my state but soon-to-be again illicit compound.* It’s not physically habit-forming, but can it be psychologically addictive? Absolutely. Unfortunately, when nighttime comes around and […]
Well, hey. Remember how I said my next post wasn’t going to be as heated? Sorry. There were a few things on my mind that I couldn’t shake until I put them down here, following from the previous post, though it has nothing to do with the game itself but more generally with my statement […]
The next post was going to be a proper game review for the first time in ages. That’s still coming, but I watched a stream recently of a game that I had no knowledge about before jumping in. Normally I wouldn’t consider watching a stream of a game anywhere close to the actual experience of […]
Oh yeah, I really went to the movie theater to see a movie, which I haven’t done since Dune Pt. 2 and before that in 2019 probably. I’m just not a live-action movie guy in general — it’s the medium I’m least interested in next to your standard TV dramas and sitcoms. For a long time, […]
I guess this post has been coming for a while. Since reaching my late 30s, the number of things in life I care about has shrunk dramatically. Maybe that’s natural with age, and even more natural in the kind of interesting times we’re all living in. Being old enough to start seriously considering your mortality […]
Hey, another long absence. You can imagine why I might not have been feeling like writing anything the last month. Anything I could have written all March would have been too depressing, even for me. The new war affects all of us, but me more personally, as I have a lot of family in the […]
We’re near the end of NextFest once again, and if there’s one thing on Earth I’m satisfied with, it’s the quality of the demos I’ve seen there. There are still a few I’ve downloaded that I mean to check out like Denshattack! (soundtrack by Sonic Mania composer Tee Lopes, who did a bang-up job on that one) […]
God, let me forget. I wish I could just forget everything. So I’m thankful for more demos from Steam’s NextFest to help with that (see part one here.) Even better, this time around, at least one of the demos hit with me. So let’s get into two more of these samples, starting with Cat Island […]
In this age of insanity, it’s nice to know that at least NextFest is a regular occurrence. It almost has the feel of an actual games trade show, only without the travel or hotel or drinking until 3 am. But I do remember playing a few nice demos at that show ten years ago or […]
Note: This novel deals with a lot of rough shit some of which I’m going to discuss. Be warned! I’ve been working so much lately, just about 24/7, that all I can do is listen to audiobooks in the car on the fucking highway. And what better to listen to than a book about a […]