The Particular Finest

Working from Home

It’s 2020, coronavirus is Intense Af, social distancing is in effect everywhere, and more and more businesses are making the sensible call of “Work From Home!”

Okay.

#thoughts

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I used to write.

I used to have a space carved out in my life where words poured through nib gently rested upon smooth paper, and ink stained my fingers.

The Relentless Tedium of Chasm

I want to preface this piece with, I adore Metroidvania games. My first was Metroid II on the Gameboy waaaaaaaay back in the early 1990s, and I played it through … more times than I can remember, actually.

I loved the Metroid Prime series. I’ve loved other games in this genre space.

Tomb Raider (2018)

So, I watched the new Tomb Raider movie over the weekend, and, it was good!

It was a silly action-adventure romp that had considerable nods to Indiana Jones, to the videogame reboot, and to the original videogames.

A Year in Review, Jan 28 to Mar 18

Well

So much for my goal of regularity when it came to these posts. The data is all being collected in the background, but it doesn’t make me sit down and actually write it like I’m supposed to.

On Forced Complicity in Games

So. I have some thoughts about videogames I’ve played recently, specifically smaller narrative-centric games colloquially named “walking simulators”.

This post is going to dive into the internal narratives and conclusions for several games, so

A Year in Review, Jan 21 to Jan 28

Not a lot this week due to BEING VERY TIRED and doing prep work for a talk.

Factorio

Time Played: 6.4 hours

A Year in Review, Jan 14 to Jan 21

Stellaris

Time Played: 55 minutes

Yeah, giving up on this game. Might spend the weekend that it’d take to grind out the victory? Probably not.

A Year in Review, Jan 07 to Jan 14

Stellaris

Time Played: 12.6 hours

Stellaris is…

A Year in Review, Jan 01 to Jan 07

Stellaris

Time Played: 4.7 hours

Started playing Stellaris again, after a fairly long haitus. Stellaris is … I like it, (previously, previouslier), it’s a fun grand epic space game. It’s sucking me back in for another round, as I get excited for the new expansion.

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