I've been playing Burnout Paradise Remastered, and somewhere along the line the act of tearing through those mostly empty streets dug up a cobweb covered tomb hidden in the recesses of my mind containing pure kernels of childhood gaming bliss. Feelings forgotten over more than a decade of "growing up," over college papers and coming to terms with a world which shrouds its intent behind doublesp...
This is a piece responding to this short documentary about a remarkable basketball shot just under 20 years ago now (I JUST REALIZED THE 19th ANNIVERSARY OF THE GAME IT'S LITERALLY TOMORROW AS I'M WRITING I WANT TO DIE THIS ISN'T FUNNY GOD) it is a fantastic video that showcases how some things just really can't be measured or predicted by data and numbers. Jon presents the events far more eleg...
Hey folks, a few months ago I wrote this essay on Nier: Automata as a critique of Nietzschean philosophy (don't click away quite yet!). Sounds like some heady pretentious shit, and it is, but I had a lot of fun writing this and given that we just passed the two year anniversary of the game, I thought I would share it and get some thoughts from you kind folks! Obvious spoiler warning for the gam...
Hey y'all, it's been a hot minute, but I'm working several jobs this summer and there was a bit of a stretch where I wasn't really video gaming, but this past week I got back into the Guilty Gear Groove™ and decided to tell y'all about it. I also felt shitty every day I didn't play or make a post because I'm one of those people who tend to fall off of things they think they would dedicate mysel...
Hey y'all. A quick note before getting to the fighting games, I've yet to figure out how consistent this blog is going to be both in how often I'm going to be posting and how big the posts are going to be. Haven't really done this kinda thing before so I'm just gonna kind and go with the flow and see what happens. That also goes for when I'm streaming my journey, which again to shamelessly plug...
I've been a big fan of fighting games for a while now. It started with Smash Bros. Melee--the validity of its status as a fighting game notwithstanding--and gradually grew from there with me getting kind of into Ultra Street Fighter IV and many older fighting games. This mostly consisted of me messing around with friends, never really challenging myself to get really good at any game. Eventuall...
It’s hard to believe it’s been a year. The summer of 2013 was overall a pretty shitty time for me. It kicked off in June with a friend of mine dying to Leukemia. He was only eighteen, and he was genuinely one of the friendliest people that I had ever met. Before that I had never really dealt with death before – my grandparents on my mother’s side are both still alive and kicking, and my father’...