Depends on the game. For city-builders, trade sims, or anything else that involves large amounts of building, planning, and keeping track? Forget it. My own Byzantine squirrel mind all but guarantees that I will completely lose track of whatever it was that I was doing during that last burst of play, any new plans…

In point of fact, with unemployment extended until September, I’m holding out for an offer that isn’t complete dogshit; got some feelers out with old freelance clients, temp and contract recruiters, and the like. I see no reason to take a shitty job at shitty wages just to “get back to work”. After taxes and counting…

Starting to get interviews again, giving me hope that my endless days of gaming and surviving will give way to actually doing work...except for the small problem of I’m applying for jobs that require college degrees and three years’ experience that pay minimum wage. I didn’t go to college for four years and take on a…

It surprises people sometimes to learn what a good little consumerist suburban kid I was back in the day—watched too much TV, defined myself by the stuff I had, guilt-tripped Mom when she wouldn’t or couldn’t (that latter being far worse morally) pay for some stupid thing to satisfy my whims.

Good ol’ Out of the Park Baseball...or “when you don’t know enough about soccer to get obsessed over Football Manager but you DO know enough about baseball to get obsessed over its Yankee cousin.”

There’s hardly a difference anymore between a major AAA 1.0 release and an Early Access game.

“Gorilla Glue” (or more often “GG” since the makers of the actual glue got litigious about their trademark) is a weed strain.

My username isn’t just a random selection of words. :D

Someone—I think it was Roger Ebert—said of this film that “The Deer Hunter was Michael Cimino making a deal with the Devil and Heaven’s Gate is the Devil coming around to collect.”

There’s an alternate universe where different decisions were made in which I have a kid turning 20 this November.

If it can be repeated and timed, it may not definitively be competitive speedrunning (since nobody’s really competing here—it’s more like a Guinness Book of World Records stunt), but it has speedrunning DNA.

“I would more like a game set in the witcher universe where I could play my own character, don’t like it to be pressed into the mindset of Geralt.”

One wonders if perhaps the writers weren’t up to the task of writing an interesting world without a bunch of the lore work already done for them by a book series.

One thing that really gets me about this is the inescapable connection between Evangelical Christianity—the state religion of whiteness when it isn’t Germanic neopaganism—and racially and/or gender-motivated hate crimes.

I love a good self-imposed challenge myself, because it’s a great way to get some post-mastery life out of games. I tend to stick to pretty mundane versions of the practice (no-vendors runs, permadeath runs, fewest number of whatever usually-essential item used or collected, that sort of thing) but the wild…

At least in Oblivion’s defense, Todd Howard and Pete Hines outright said after the fact that “we were throwing ideas at the wall and seeing what stuck.” They fucked up so future companies don’t have to. (not that it stops them.)

I’m bringing kielbasa, pierogi, and zurek, because Poland can into space.

Dwayne Johnson is so old that any reference to his wrestling heyday is now classic Rock.

I live in the suburbs of Seattle. Next time I’m back in Reno (where I lived for 10 years), I’ll hit up the honest-to-gods immigrant-owned taquerias around the city.

Wrench into a gear works is an understatement. It’s more like throwing a fork in the garbage disposal.