Now that you mention it, Half-Life is certainly a perennial game for me. Maybe I’ll check out Black Mesa. I do adore the ‘hard edges’ of HL’s graphical and technical design tho

Love that this desire to re-open is being pitched by Dr.: a dude who sits in his house all day playing video games and literally a super-villain who could give two shits if tons of people die. It would be incredibly boring, but they could join under a kind of Legion of Supervillains. 

Some games just hit different, like a beloved album there’s no replacing it in one’s mental library. Some things are truly nostalgia but I do think that some things just last. I play Max Payne every two years or so (and I figure I have for about 20 years now, geesh). Every time I start it over I eventually pause and…

I’ve never been outside of the states. In the year 2008 I traveled extensively through the United States from North Carolina to California and all sorts of places in between. New Orleans, Mississippi, Texas, Reno, and Arkansas. Mostly the Sun Belt but it was great and fascinating and boring. I hadn’t read America by…

Just got SWOS on the pc from the fan-led project (I guess) https://www.sensiblesoccer.de/

I don’t watch too much tv because I abhor commercials (who needs to be sold a car, don’t we all know what cars are? Won’t we just google endlessly about what used economy hatchback we can afford?) and because I find that most shows are pandering snore fests that show their hand immediately and contain characters as…

I’d like to share something that I didn’t learn during covid-times (because I’m just keeping the course rn & rarely learn anything while its still going on) but rather a lesson I learned that has helped me in life.

I’m also a product of the 90's BUT after watching Entourage a couple years ago (I was very late to that game) I cannot unsee the horrible Seth Green that show created.

I cleaned my partner’s resin-caked bong and made a gigantic resin ball and smoked a ton of it. It’s the little things yakno?

Made a lot of from scratch mac n cheese 10 days into quarantine but my partner and I soon turned off of the heavy dish. It is great comfort food tho. I live a couple states (US) away from my folks ~8 hour drive and rarely see any of my family. During this quarantine I have facetimed and chatted with them more than I…

Since this music share has been a bit gloom and doom focused I’d like to share my favorite evil band, Kilslug. An 80's Boston band that brought sludgy doom to its brainless conclusion. Sounds like if Black Sabbath were really from Hell and not Birmingham. God’s Funeral 7" is a deeeeeeelight :

I am obliged as a long time listener to always PROSELYTIZE for the greatest podcast to grace both terrestrial radio air waves & digital bytes. The one, the only THE BEST SHOW! TBS has been repping a three hour call-in variety show packed with mirth, music and mayhem since Clinton was in office. Tom Scharpling is the…

Having been forced to say ‘goodbye’ and ‘nice having class with you’ well before our semester was complete, my professor gifted me a Spanish language copy of 2666 by Roberto Bolaño. This book is an all time favorite of mine, the English translation by Wimmer, and I am a near graduation Spanish language student. It…