I’ve never been athletic. I was very much the stereotypical nerd weakling in school. In a lot of ways, I still am. I’ll never be good at baseball, or basketball, or what-have-you. I’m still not athletic. But I’d say I am, legitimately, in the best shape of my life as far as activity goes. For …
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Dec 29
Reflections on the Original Legend of Zelda
1986’s The Legend of Zelda (The U.S. didn’t get it until 1987) is a landmark in gaming. It’s the first in what would become one of Nintendo’s flagship series, second only to the Super Mario Bros. series. Thirty-five years or so after its initial release, it’s interesting to go back and look at it in …
Apr 29
The Least Work-Safe Thing I’ve Ever Written for this Site
Which is saying something, considering I reviewed Lesbian Spider-Queens of Mars as part of Games I Beat In 2014. So yeah, I’m going to put most of this behind a “Read More” link. This is a Content Warning for two things: Spoilers for the game Ladykiller in a Bind A cishet dude (That’s me) writing …
May 06
Artistic-Eye
About a month ago, I bought a Wacom tablet to use with the Humble Bob Ross Bundle from mid-March. I’ve been enjoying it, and have been trying to use it to, well, draw stuff each day. This will be a repository for that art. You can click on any of the links below to see …
Mar 28
A Time of Transition
I began writing this on March 27, 2018 at about 8 PM. My previous laptop sounded like a swarm of bees toward the end of its life. I tried fixing it, and the end result was a laptop that sounded like a swarm of bees and would sometimes blue screen and fail to boot up …
Mar 18
Book Review- What Your Boss Really Wants From You by Steve Arneson
What Your Boss Really Wants From You: 15 Insights to Improve Your Relationship sounds like a bit of a “magic formula” book from the title. On the other hand, who doesn’t want a better relationship with their boss? I’ve read a small number of the Win at Work Bundle books now–this one is my fourth–as …
Feb 25
Book Review- Tools of Titans by Tim Ferriss
Tools of Titans is the fourth book by Tim Ferriss. More accurately, though, while Ferriss authors some interludes about various aspects of life that are sprinkled throughout the book, his main role here is as a collector and curator of the “greatest hits” from various interviews he’s conducted, some of which were episodes of his …
Feb 15
State of the Emptyeye- February 2018
It’s been about two months since my last personal update about trying to improve myself. How have I done since then? Here we go! Physical Fitness: After a bit of fluctuation, I’m down another three pounds, to 150 even as of the last time I weighed myself (Monday morning). I struggled with this a bit, …
Jan 16
General GDQ Musings
Some general musings on GDQs, inspired in part by a Reddit post I found particularly amusing. Sam Viviano, Art Director for Mad Magazine, once remarked that the magazine was at its best “whenever you first started reading it.” I thought about this when reading this thread, because I feel like something very similar applies to …
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