Sandrock can’t come out next week. Portia just consumed an entire month of my life in November. I’m not ready for this.

I’d be interested to see what the longest successful break I took in the middle of a game was. Maybe a couple months? Any longer than that and I’d wonder why I thought it was funny that I was having OLDGREG face off against Ganon. Generally, if I abandon a game, it means I wasn’t really in the right mindset to…

I’m pretty sure it is on Switch online. Hell, now that I think about it, I might dip my toe into the game on my lunch break today.

I also started out with plans to build a PC last year before deciding to go prefab. I’ve never built a PC before, the prices on the more expensive components were fluctuating, and when I was honest with myself, 2020 really wasn’t the year for learning a new skill. Over half a year removed from that decision, I’m now…

I’ve somehow never played Kirby Super Star, even though I was a kid during the SNES era and now own a SNES Mini, which I won in a raffle and never actually hooked up. It’s not even like I never knew it was highly regarded. It’s not even like I don’t enjoy Kirby games. I loved Kirby’s Dreamland and Kirby’s Adventure,…

I like Thai curry. I wonder how badly they botched that one.

It feels absolutely surreal that I got to go to AGDQ 2020, an event with thousands of attendees spread across the ground floor of a hotel, went to Universal Studios with friends I know from the Internet, ate out at a dozen local restaurants crowded with my fellow geeks, and saw only 3 people wearing masks the entire…

I’ll only be excited if you can lock the butler in the freezer.

... which is, coincidentally, the perfect time of night for a delicious bowl of Hanch.

I was far less cautious and don’t regret it. I bought Reel Big Fish’s Turn the Radio Off! on the strength of “Sell Out” and have been following them for 20+ years. I’m sure I bought some stinkers that I’m just not remembering, but even some less-remembered one-hit wonders like Jimmie’s Chicken Shack and American Hi-Fi…

They’re really moving away from that “portmanteaus that you can easily figure on your own” thing.

Separated at birth?

“yes and if you don’t think that you’re wrong.”

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I think the people who spent $5 to add 10 seconds to the clock watch this stuff. I’m not among them, and I’m similarly not into sports, reality TV, or superhero movies, but, like... my not being interested in these things doesn’t delegitimize others who want to watch them.

I think the preferred term these days is EDMking.

In the medical field, I’m still physically driving to work every day and interacting face-to-face with co-workers and patients. The work is more stressful, and now the grocery store feels like Black Friday every day. While I still eyeball ingredients on everything when cooking, there’s a level of precision and…

It was dumb and hilarious in a way that was way too real. I laughed. I sighed. I posted an angry comment on a tweet about ice cream.

I haven’t had any shortage of games to scratch my job itch lately, but looking over my most recent RPG playthroughs, they’ve largely included Dragon Warrior/Quest games and Steam remakes of Final Fantasy games, with Final Fantasy XIII being next up on my slow project to re-100% the series and Disgaea 1 waiting in the…

My alcoholic roommate was getting stir-crazy staying at home while I was at work after the bar he worked at closed. He’s a social animal, so on like day 2 of lockdown, he was already getting stir-crazy and started staying with another friend who was also not working, and when a room opened up at that house, he paid me…