Dragonchasers

While The Planet Crafter is a new-to-me game (it hit Xbox and Xbox Game Pass last month) it came out on Steam a long time ago (April 2024) and it’s popular enough that plenty has been written about it. In fact Wilhelm at The Ancient Gaming Noob has been playing and writing abo...

I figured if I’m going to give myself the OK to quit games, I’ve gotta find a new way to squeeze blog posts out of them. So let’s lean into the quitter lifestyle and start a new series: “Why I Quit.” Well maybe it’ll be a series and maybe it’ll just be this one post because, y’know, it’s OK if I quit. Anyway without further ado, here’s why I quit A Plague Tale: Requiem.<...

There are certain challenges in life that, in reflection, I have spent way too much time and energy on over the course of my life. Losing weight, for example. Literally my whole life I’ve fretted about getting in better shape. So far it hasn’t happened and at this point probably never will. I should accept that I’m always going to be a large person in terms of BMI, but as lon...

This was a tough week and I don’t feel like I made much progress. I did stay off social media, but not through any great show of willpower, but because of work. I didn’t have a moment free during the whole week.

I can’t go in details but we were pulling 12+ hour shifts Tuesday – Thursday this week, while at the same time our future at the company is very much up in the...

The title is a joke, get it? Like I don’t have the attention span to finish the last word. C’mon, it’s hilarious. No? No one!!? Sheesh, tough room.

So after a hell-week at work I slid into weekend 2 of my social media cleanse which has kind of morphed into an exploration of my 5-second attention span. Yeah I’ve been drinking deep from the YouTube Shelf-Help Firehose [I...