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  • Metal Gear Solid 4: The Sinful Savagery Of The Sizzle Reel Show Stealing Finale

    (The tl;dr companion video to this article): I think one of the best qualities a person can have also happens to be one of the best ways to go about media consumption in one’s day to day: don’t take it so fucking seriously. I feel as if I need to start posting this image as… Read more

  • Metal Gear Solid: North Of Nostalgia

    (The tl;dr companion video to this article): History has a tendency to repeat itself, it would seem. That would go a hell of a long way in explaining why I have such a strong sense of deja-fucking-vu with these god damn feelings of mubble-fubbles bubbling up When I started replaying Metal Gear Solid 4 (MGS4)… Read more

  • Metal Gear Solid 4: The Bill Comes Due

    (The tl;dr video companion to this article): The everyday is filled with terrifying and tumultuous trials and tribulations….though that is no excuse to outsource all your problem solving abilities to AI. If one outsources all of their problems to AI…does one even have a life left to live? The launch of the Metal Gear Solid… Read more

  • Metal Gear Solid 4: Octocamo; Nobody Suspects A Thing

    (The tl;dr companion video to this article): The fun thing about most of the people I’ve known who play stealth games…is that they don’t seem to be overly concerned about the whole “sneaking bit”. I always recommend they could try, you know, staying hidden in cover and not being hair trigger about shooting anything that… Read more

  • Metal Gear Solid 4: The Old And Busted Becomes The New Hotness

    (The tl;dr companion video to this article): The phenomenon of rose colored glasses when dealing with nostalgia often fails to recall a totally accurate picture of what we left behind…unless one was into horticulture, and they are reminiscing about a rose garden, in which case…you’ve probably found the loop hole on that idiom. Unless one… Read more

  • Pokémon Pokopia And The Deliriously Distracting Design Dichotomy

    (The tl;dr companion video for this article): One thing is very clear, after spending enough time occupying space within the Pokémon community….Pokémon fans are fucking crazy. In a world where people go on the internet and tell terrible lies on a near constant basis, my gut instinct maintains the feeling this random meme, is in… Read more

  • Talking Points: The Quick Success Of Pokémon Pokopia And The Slow Fall Of The Gaming Industry

    (The tl;dr companion video to this article): Ever have one of those days where the hits just keep on coming? Sadly, it feels like that was kind of a day one thing for me While I have greatly enjoyed my time with Pokémon Pokopia thus far, and may yet find value in posting random one… Read more

  • Words Of Wisdom: The Vile Desecration Of Corrupting Internalization

    (The tl;dr companion video to the article): The problem with being in a self-sabotaging head space is that there are no innocent bystanders involved. The call is coming from inside the house…. Overall, I’d say that this last week turned out to be fairly enjoyable, which is a far cry from my more regularly cynical… Read more

  • Pokémon Pokopia: Like Animal Crossing; Except This One Goes To 11

    (The tl;dr video companion to this article): I feel like I speak for the majority when I say it’s a rare moment when one is genuinely surprised by any generously sized proportions on offer these days. Bigger doesn’t always mean better of course, but outside of the absurdity of the size of kaijus attacking on… Read more

  • Pokémon Pokopia: Three, Six, Nine, The Swanna Drank Wine And The Mankey Chewed Tobacco On The Streetcar Line

    (The tl;dr video companion for this article): With the days long, and the the exhaustion that follows intense, I have little in the way of solace to give…though may I offer you a Pokémon in this trying time? Much like Gengar, I too am fighting tooth and nail against exhaustion…and am also dead inside There… Read more

  • Pokopia: All Pokémon Are Created Equal, But Some Pokémon Are More Equal Than Others

    (The tl;dr companion video to this article): I’m always mindful these days about how much I allow myself to get caught up in the consumerist frenzy that begets so much of the modern day…if for nothing else but the sake of my own sanity. The age of men is nearing its end, I fear I’ve… Read more

  • Pokopia: Pokémon Of The World, Unite! You Have Nothing To Lose But Your Poké Balls

    (The tl;dr companion video to this article): Millenials have two things to look forward to these days: a new Pokémon game and how much getting out of bed sucks in the morning in your late 30’s and early 40’s. It use to be: I want to be the very best, like no one ever was!,… Read more

  • When Obsession meets Addiction: Enter, Pokémon Pokopia

    (The tl;dr companion video to this article): In an indifferent universe without inherent meaning, it is up to the individual to forge worthwhile reason for themselves, and for the sake of survival, and the future. Otherwise, one’s mental health goes south pretty quickly… This week has been kind of a fucking mood, in a profuse… Read more

  • Sampler Platter: Date Everything! Big Walk, And Star Fox

    (The tl;dr companion video to this article): Some days it feels like one has already failed before even getting out of bed. Ah, the joys of youth….(as in, this is a much harder proposition to pull off the older you get) Feeling particularly existential today, though I’m not entirely certain what inciting incident invited such… Read more

  • Doom: Revelations- Hell’s Boogeyman

    (The tl;dr video companion for the article). Sometimes, the worst kinds of hell end up being the most inane thing you hadn’t even imagined. Unfortunately, those are the ones that haunt you for the rest of your days… Heading into the “finale” of Doom: The Dark Ages | Revelations, the latest DLC release for the… Read more

  • Doom: Revelations- Hell Vs. The FTL Slaughter Train

    (The tl;dr video companion to the article) If it ain’t broke….don’t fix it. Like I said: if it’s worked for you thus far, keep on keeping on… With us being knee deep in the dead at this point, as we have ventured a fair distance into Doom: The Dark Ages DLC, Revelations, and have no… Read more

  • Doom: The Dark Ages | Revelations- Oh Boy, Here I Go Ripping And Tearing Again

    (the tl;dr video companion to this article) “The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.” — John Milton (Paradise Lost) The hell we suffer always seems to be one of our own making Not sure if my currently fouled mood is based solely off… Read more

  • Halo: Campaign Evolved-Mourning The Death of Nostalgia

    The problem with relying on any system to provide value, is two fold. Firstly, handing the keys to someone else in regards to your happiness means you’re trading your own agency away, and secondly, even if you buy into what they tell you will make you happy, you may end up trying to live the… Read more

  • Halo: Campaign Evolved-The Voyeur’s Paradox

    To quote Bertrand Russell: The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. Which is a saving fucking grace of a quote to consider, if this person’s art (or this article) is anything to go by In a continued effort of both thoroughness, and to increase the chance that when all is said and done,… Read more

  • Halo: Campaign Evolved-Doing It Looney Tunes Style

    (Companion vid, aka the tl;dr version)- Lamentable as life may seem at times, value is ultimately perspective, and you’re the only person who can ever define what’s good about the everyday for yourself. Whatever you end up valuing, hopefully it doesn’t involve whatever the fuck this show is The general sentiment that has pervaded my… Read more

  • GoldenEye 64: The Hallowed Halls Of Hollow Men

    Amdist the bombast and the bullet holes, the violence born of national woes, stands tall and proud the human spirit, with all of their eloquent prose. Well, if it’s true what they say about people being made in “god’s image”, then god is just some freak ass gooner chud pumping loads to Power Rangers porn… Read more

  • GoldenEye 64: Being Quiet In A Really Loud Way

    The design ethics of GoldenEye 64 brings to mind that quote from Futurama: “When you do things right, people won’t be sure you’ve done anything at all.” And other times, expectations are just too damn ridiculous to begin with Continuing on from yesterday, where I finally made my triumphant return to the world of the… Read more

  • If There Is No Tangible Reward For Being a Virtuous Person, Why Bother?

    It is said that the space right outside of your own comfort zone, is the optimal space for self-improvement, leading me to believe if one is anxious about the very essence of the everyday, the most masochistic of us become champions within the realm of the auto-didactic. Be hard: be Picard Hard. I usually come… Read more

  • Words Of Wisdom: Instead Of trying To Be, Just Be

    Before we can accept the love of others, we need to be able to accept the love of ourselves. Can love bloom, even in an ominous dark cloud? As I was sitting down to see what I could concot in a blood shot eye induced 11th hour Words of Wisdom before I turn in at… Read more

  • Words Of Wisdom: The Truth About Fun

    To be silly is to be wise: when one gooses; one rebels. To wit; goose as hard as you fucking can I’m not at my most refined or heightened sense of thinking and writing this week, but all the more reason to try my hand at producing something of value, as the idea of only… Read more

  • Damnation Of The Eternal Realm of Drab Endeavor

    Let’s make today special… This is the time of year where any little bit matters, as the weight of the everyday becomes a crushing reminder of the pretense of existence. Absolute insanity unseats the realm, as every minute transforms into the equivalent of a lifetimes endeavor. Gaming usually drifts by the wayside around January, as… Read more

  • Quick Posit: When It Rains, It Pours

    Context is key in understanding the full reality of any given moment. Looks on the level to me Yesterday’s post brings into focus the importance of perspective, as what one focuses on, maybe more accurately, how one focuses, can contribute dramatically in building not just ones worldview, but how they let that worldview shape them.… Read more

  • Doom: When Getting It Wrong Goes very Right

    If we are all very lucky, our own most ridiculous mistakes will lead to surprisingly amazing outcomes. What else would we do to fill in the empty hours while we exist in a self-manufactured hell of our own creation? Now that void week is well and truly behind us, we collectively move forward with only… Read more

  • Words Of Wisdom: The Chronic Sonic Of Ironic Laconic Phonics

    Even on our best days, and in spite of sincere efforts, sometimes, it feels like communicating with others is too herculean a task to bear. That face you make when after attempting to explain yourself for the fifth time, and the other person still just doesn’t fucking get it Just as a preface, I was… Read more

  • The Collateral Damage Of The Mobile Markets Slop(py)Failures

    For some, it’s a happy new year to celebrate… …for others, well…’Happy’ is a very strong word Which, I’m not too far off from, to be honest, but it’s really just been more of a slow start to the year than an abjectly disgusting one, thankfully. To that point, I’m not quite sure where the… Read more

  • The Sunsetting Days Of Nintendo’s Trend Setting Ways

    We have entered into a rather grim part of the year…that being the ever lamentable dregs of Joyless January, which I argue always brings forth the vibe of an emotionally bankrupt black hole that no joy can escape from within the spacetime continuum. Double your pleasure… In an ill conceived attempt in thinking I can… Read more

  • MKW: Self-Actualizing On The Race Track, One Blue Shell At A Time

    Not all who wander are lost… Others still, are just lost causes As I was finishing up “The Art of Losing” yesterday, the vibe it brought forth carried a certain finality to it, as if it was one of the last great insights I had the ability to muster, in sharing my deconstruction of Mario… Read more

  • Mario Kart World: The Art Of Losing

    When you can’t beat em: help them beat other people. An insane world demands crazy standards With void week nearly over, and the spacetime continuum jolting back into its proper volumized moment of “nowish” in question, the frozen absurdity of humanities follies regain virality unabated, and with it, totality of disappointment made manifest afresh once… Read more

  • MKW: The Nuclear Fallout Of The Rampant Rubber Banding Bureaucracy

    Let it not be said how existentially relevant the doctrine involving the military strategy MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction) has been to humanity at large. In a MAD world, some pterodactyls just want to watch the world burn My continued exploration into the depths of Mario Kart World’s (MKW) metagame has been an engaging effort, to… Read more

  • MKW: Equalizing The Meritocracy of The Metagame

    As we continue to trudge with aimless abandon through the inane purgatory that is void week, we persist right alongside all of the air conditioned nightmares and blue collar existentialism along with it. Such a sense of isolation and monotony is enough to send one screaming hysterically into the night I continue to spend time… Read more

  • Words of Wisdom: Collective Individualism

    Remember folks; when navigating your way through emergency landing maneuvering, it’s always best to focus on the ground, not the turbulence. It is a fundamental motivator to know how to keep one’s “eye on the prize” in times of need This is an excellent insight to have, especially when one pairs the wisdom with other… Read more

  • MKW: The Accursed Love Triangle Of The Demon Named Nostalgia

    In the process of finding oneself, experimentation is necessary. Have the confidence to be the monster under someone else’s bed My track record of analysis in most regards remains firmly anchored in the realm of proven standard, though I would be remiss of authenticity if I wasn’t honest about how utterly baffled I am at… Read more

  • Mario Kart: Problems Of Scale Makes Flat The World Too Wide “To Tour”

    Expectation is often what occurs when one sees the world as they prefer to imagine it vs what it tends to be in actuality. Needless to say, often disappointing as a result Yesterday was rife with flow…tis a predictable shame that impermanence reinforced the notion of good things and the time limits that haunt them,… Read more

  • Mario Kart World: Redlining On The Scenic Route

    The last week of December is truly the no man’s land of modern civilization: just keep your head down, and hope for the best, as the apathetic insanity can’t last forever. Clocking into a shift feeling like getting ready to throw hands with a Balrog I was a bit ambitious yesterday, in both naming my… Read more

  • Expedition 33: The Road To Hell Is Paved With Good Intentions

    Sometimes, the most important thing we can do in a day is make a mistake, in order to learn from it for future prosperity. When life gives you grapples, make grappleade My time with Expedition 33 (E33) has been an enjoyable one, and while I still have a ways to go before I finish the… Read more

  • Words of Wisdom: North Star Philosophy

    To borrow a wondrously inspiring quote from Hunter S. Thompson: “When the going gets weird…the weird turn pro.” Be the weird professional you want to see in the world Well, this is going to be a strained effort, as I am in the worst possible mood I can be, but I must still find a… Read more

  • E33: Are There Any Good Faith Arguments In The Face Of AI Usage?

    Exhaustion gets the best of all of us, and sometimes, one is too tired to even realize one is too tired. How I looked yesterday trying to finish my article on time Yesterday was a complete shit show, and I’m surprised everything turned out as well as it did. I’m guessing due to burning the… Read more

  • How Hell Frames The Devil’s Advocacy Of Gambling On The Parry

    The presence of good does not magically negate the simultaneity of bad by proxy. You’ll have trouble decking the halls once you catch these hands There remains a wealth of content ahead of me in Expedition 33 (E33), of this, I have no doubts. What, with the game mirroring most of the magical machinations a… Read more

  • E33: IF More Of US Cared, It Would Lighten The Load For Everyone

    They say it’s always darkest before the dawn… Yet for others, it remains perpetual fucking midnight As I continue to trek through the misery and mire of Expedition 33 (E33), it must not be understated the importance the game puts on the valuable beauty of impermanence, in not taking for granted what is here today,… Read more

  • Expedition 33: The Jeering Jurisprudence Of Jank Ball

    Depending on one’s outlook of what December entails, “the holiday spirit” looks a whole lot different for some people than it does for others. As in, some people feel as if the holiday spirit has evil intent, having violently entered their body, and are now in immediate need of an exorcist to expel the yuletide… Read more

  • Expedition 33: The Happy Happy, Joy Joy Of The Log(s)

    Remember folks: just because you feel like bucking the trend of traditionality, does not mean it will always work out for the best. “wHy Is ThIs gAmE sO dIfFiCuLt?’ said every loud Metal Gear Solid player ever As Expedition 33 (E33) continues to enrapture me, I soldier forward; its world full of dread and woe… Read more

  • Words Of Wisdom: Memes To An End

    Though it may not seem like it, one always has a choice in how they make their everyday count. Sadly, I think most people are so busy exploring the “fuck around phase” in the worst ways possible during the course of their life, the “find out phase” usually involves them in a coffin While I’m… Read more

  • Being A Third Party To One’s Own State Of Mind

    To be or not to be…that is the question, and with it, the rest of horrifying existence follows. Be the motherfucker you wish to see in the world My delightful yet arduous journey through Expedition 33 (E33) spurs on, as both the limitations of the real and the hyperreal test my resolve, and with it,… Read more

  • Expedition 33: Playfully Meandering Through Grim Disaster

    If you’re anything like me, you’ve accidentally become a master at tripping over the finish line. The home stretch be like that some times Upon further reflection, the article I posted on the 7th, had a ridiculous irony in being titled “Something Beautiful, But Annihilating, as it ended up being a bit chunky, even after… Read more

  • E33: Memories Bring Diamonds And Rust

    The familiar doesn’t always mean favorable. So very tried of outdated standards…. Expedition 33 (E33) continues to deliver in most ways fathomable, not fixing what isn’t broken about the old school way of doing things, yet mediating some of the less favorable elements that haunted turn based RPGs of old. These kinds of moments always… Read more

  • Words Of Wisdom: Empathetic Objectification

    Perspective matters. One creature’s hiking trail is another creature’s lunch buffet Words of Wisdom has ventured into delightfully alien lands of conceptual earnesty these past several weeks, and I’m pleased that my broadcasting of observation made real through intent, of the format needing to become, for lack of more technically effective terminology, more “loosey-goosey“, was… Read more

  • Expedition 33: Something Beautiful, But Annihilating

    The march of time waits for no one, and yesterday’s standards becomes today’s exceptions. For example, back in the 90’s, the gaming industry use to operate within the context of a “low yikes” standard of financial viability, whereas these days, the industry is now deep in the “critical high yikes” stage of tolerable financial turmoil… Read more

  • A Saintly Yesteryear Ordains The Nostalgic New Guard

    One must find effective ways to mitigate stress in these trying yuletide times, in whatever form that takes. Violence is never the answer…until it is. After what started out as a more somber reflection on the introductory moments to Expedition 33 (E33), I then surprised myself with budding thoughts of a bizarrely warm nature, in… Read more

  • A Fantasy Reborn…Finally

    Even if one finds this time of year cringey, it’s still important to share in the holiday spirit of what matters most. Maladaptive coping mechanisms and trauma induced humor, for example Having finally launched myself into Expedition 33 (E33), after ruminating on when the time was right to commence such an endeavor, I figured ending… Read more

  • She Shuts Her Eyes And The World Drops Dead

    Death: the final farewell…the last destination, and an immutable truth that everyone must come to terms with sooner than later. Some of us with much healthier mindsets on the matter than others The grim reality involving the specter of time relentlessly haunting me, is a reality I’ve had to acknowledge and accept as a part… Read more

  • The Casual Criticality Of Ignoring The Meaning Of Life

    Breaking down The Stanley Parable, deconstructing its postmodernism, and analyzing the idea of what “meta” and narrative entail. Read more

  • Words Of Wisdom: Go For Thriving, Not Just Surviving

    All of us want *to kick ass* in our everyday, sometimes we just need a little help in order to do so. *for a helpful translation guide for all of our British readers* I often chuckle to myself during the late hours of any given Monday, as per usual, I am always trying to come… Read more

  • MGS3 Theory: The Boss Threw The Match Against Snake, Who In Turn Needed A 4th Wall Break To Win; And Lord of The Rings Helps Prove This

    Sometimes, you gotta take an L to eventually score a big win. Spoilers: Foreshadowing While I am fond of both sustained contemplation and virtual interloping, I tend to pick up my ball and go home far sooner than most others would who enjoy either activity with the same level of deep commitment. Dwelling, at least… Read more

  • Astonishingly Far Beyond The Pale Of Reason

    Life is full of decisions: the true trouble is never in the deliberation process, but in living with the consequences thereafter. It always boils down to that essential question: Who are others? Hot on the heels of yesterday’s post, which discussed the grandeur of rapidity via speedrunning , as I dig my digits into the… Read more

  • The Timeless Art Of Choking Down Snake

    Curiosity should never cease, as it is reality itself that is comprised of questions. So many questions*** Even though I wrapped up Metal Gear Solid 3 (MGS3) yesterday, does not mean I am done with the title just yet. As I made mention in that article, too, there is something about the first runthrough that… Read more

  • A Paradoxical Immortalization Of An Ideological Faux Pas

    The greatest value one can harvest from the garden of history, is the fruitful lessons that come to bear when given a second glance. Though we are often haunted by the mistakes of our shared history by those who refuse educational standard There is something to be said of the worth of adversity, and the… Read more

  • Beating The Dead Horse Of Understanding

    The world seems best appreciated vicariously through the metaphysical virtues that care and reasoning may provide, though it is most often only enjoyed for the shallow offerings that vice and consumption may offer us. It do be like that sometimes My journey into the heart of the Cold War has been a surprisingly cynical experience,… Read more

  • Gamers: Wanting To Eat Crow About Having Their Cake

    There’s a fascinating phenomenon observed in Lacanian psychoanalysis which showcases that human beings do not want what they actually think they want, causing themselves massive grief in the process. Time makes wise fools of us all Before I further expound about the proposition I just opened with, I did want to say that the Words… Read more

  • Words of Wisdom: Propaganda Of Self

    What kind of solutions one comes up with can reveal a lot about their problem solving capabilities. Some methods more effective than others Anyone who has been following Active Time Event for awhile now, might be familiar with Words of Wisdom, which is essentially a series I do every week, where I share some insight… Read more

  • Betwixt Deafening Silence And Dynamic Mortality

    Self-awareness is key in our ceaseless investigation of the everyday. Allowing us to discover essential truths about ourselves, that lead to a much greater sense of contentment Yesterday’s schedule really got away from me, which I feel was very apparent in my article, one of many that has continued to detail my current playthrough of… Read more

  • Virtual Ignorance: Beyond The Walls Of Plato’s Cave

    The most important things that influence what we know lie beyond the realm of our current comprehension, thus, it is what we don’t know that shapes our reality more than what we do. We are often our own biggest victims My playthrough of Metal Gear Solid: Delta, the remake of MGS3: Snake Eater, has been… Read more

  • When One Views The World As Transactional, Empathy Seems Like A Selfish Ripoff

    Let it not be said that having a healthy mindset based in awareness is vital in coping and understanding the everyday. Bear in mind, “understanding” doesn’t necessarily equate to a good or fun time, mind you. Feeling deeply cynical this day, which is a shame, not so much because I have a strong intuition to… Read more

  • The Turn Signal Paradox And The Bare Minimum Standard

    There is a thin line between love and hate. My approach here on Active Time Event, at least when my head is in the right place and everything is coming together in an appropriate way, attempts to replicate the reasonable machinations one would find within the realm of philosophy, as my mind is inclined in… Read more

  • The Only Thing Self-Entitlement Is Owed Is A Reality Check

    Personal discovery is integral in the learning process, and thusly, an essential and underrated part of gaming. Self-awareness shall set you free; it allows one to realize fear is the fuel for the gas can called courage My writing occasionally takes me to places I had not yet conceived of when sitting down to initially… Read more

  • The Hollow Rot That Haunts The Zeitgeist of our Virtual Wastelands

    One must always look at the output of a system to see its relative value, this sentiment does not exclude the notion of society at large, the ultimate system of transactional nature. From beyond the grave, the ghosts remain entertained at the livings collective failures There exists this perverse sense of obtuseness when I consider… Read more

  • Words of Wisdom: What Makes Us Mighty

    We do the best with what we’ve got. Which doesn’t always pan out in looking impressive, given the day A thought occurred to me awhile ago that Words of Wisdom was likely going to have to change format over time, for a couple of obvious reasons. Firstly, this is not a self-help blog, so while… Read more

  • Trolley Problem Revisited: The Angst Of Choice

    As we get into the endgame of 2025, one must prioritize steeling their resolve, to give themselves a fighting chance in the face of impending chaos. Print out and use this helpful scale to manage and track your stress levels as we near the beginning of December Pondering further about the newly introduced systems Kojima… Read more

  • Metal Gear Solid 3: The Overlap Between Smart Bears And Dumb Tourists

    When designing a video game, one must accommodate for the lowest common denominator, when creating a fool proof, accessible system. To that point, I’m reminded of a quote attributed to a park ranger who reportedly once said: “There is considerable overlap between the intelligence of the smartest bears and the dumbest tourists”, and I think… Read more

  • Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater- When The Kojima Ratios Are Pretty Good

    Life can have quite the cruel sense of humor, in that sometimes, in order to get things just right, you must first experience things going very wrong. Progress is rarely linear… Yesterday, I more or less explicated about some personal history I had with the Metal Gear Solid (MGS) series, in attempting to frame both… Read more

  • Which Video Games Make The Cut To Be On Your Mount Rushmore Of Gaming?

    Time and tide wait for no man. Even the rare individuals who have mastered “time management”, as it were… My years as a freelance writer have taken me through many years of bizarre madness, and it’s quite an odd pretense to look back and consider everything behind me at this point. One of the demented… Read more

  • The Emotional Weight Of Tears: A Million Different Contexts

    I find that the only way to get through an astonishingly bleak scenario is to laugh your way through it. The rebellious nature of laughter in the face of abject horror grants us temporary invincibility Yesterday, I sat down with the idea in mind to write an article about the transformative context of language due… Read more

  • The Overton Window In Regards To AI Normalization

    The march of time is cruel and relentless… I’m guessing that’s why so many of us suffer cases of arrested development and remain children so often during “unprecedented times” As I ponder which direction I should head next in the wide verse of gaming, but before I begin to move in the most enviable of… Read more

  • Words Of Wisdom: Venerating Venn Diagrammables

    Life must be lived forward to be understood backwards, as Kierkegaard pointed out, and with good reason. A rich, varied sense of lived experience is key in conjuring up worthwhile insight, which in turn, if comprehended effectively, can be applied productively in meaningful ways for future posterity. This graph should help illustrate my point Which… Read more

  • My Friendly Neighborhood: Going Gonzo

    It takes all kinds to make a world… And if we borrow from the logic inherent in genetic legacy, the more diverse the better November has been quite the queer journey through spacetime, as its only been a little over a week since the month began, and yet October feels like yesterday. I suppose I… Read more

  • Standing Guard At The Gates Of Reason And Turmoil

    In my many years on this Earth, one important notion that has continually revealed itself to be more true with the passage of time is simply: nothing is ever quite what it seems. Gotta read between those lines, y’all Another Saturday has arrived, and with it, another terrible batch of the Sorrows to go along… Read more

  • Quick Posit: Defining Revolutionary Standard

    One of the reasons ‘DON’T PANIC‘ is a personal mantra of mine, is due to the fact that panicking never helps, and that it is important to remember to keep a level head in stressful moments. Mostly so one can avoid moments as seen above, for example Been awhile since I’ve had such a crunchy… Read more

  • My Friendly Neighborhood: Swallowing Crow Puppet Style

    Everyone is always looking to pass the buck, when all they really need to do to find the source for all their frustrations involves staring into a mirror. You are your own worst enemy. For the love of sanity, get out of your own way…. Though October flashed before our eyes like a bolt of… Read more

  • My Friendly Neighborhood: Sucking Felt In A back Alley

    Slow and steady wins the race, and tripping right out of the gate isn’t necessarily a death knell. (Picture suprisingly related) Reflecting back on my post yesterday, while I know in my heart of hearts, there are definitely some pearls of wisdom to be harvested from the watery depths of my submerged vessel of thoughts,… Read more

  • My Friendly Neighborhood: The White Whale Standard

    Communicating a message clearly and concisely is a far more difficult concept to get across in theory as opposed to execution…astonishingly so, I find. Often times leaving me feeling like an out of context scientist by days end Yesterday’s post involved a game named My Friendly Neighborhood (MFN), which I surmised in an elevator pitch… Read more

  • My Friendly Neighborhood: Technical Difficulties

    Just because Halloween is over, does not mean we are yet free of the truly terrifying. Existential dread often comes packaged in the yuletide persuasion as well With Spoopy season behind us, I tip my hat to all of the ghouls and ghosts that made our time together a truly frightful endeavor. As I look… Read more

  • The Blood Curdling Reality Of Your Bank Account Balance

    Halloween has a lot to compete with these days in the fear factor department, when the every day is already filled to the brim with horrendously terrifying elements to contend with. The Nope Factor is strong no matter where one looks Kind of following on the heels of my post from yesterday, which unintentionally ended… Read more

  • Returnal: Et Tu, Deja Vu?

    While video games provide a lot of different options in terms of what one can play, part of the difficulty is in fact just honing in on one single thing to focus on. So many things to focus on, so little time to do it in… As much as I would love to continue on… Read more

  • The Existential Joy Of Self-Negation Through Mastery

    The irony of the ‘Spoopy season is that it is always over compensating with fear and dread, as the average person deals with something much scarier than whatever Halloween can throw at us. I.E. the scariest thing that can be thrown at us is…us, point in fact Gonna have to be a quick one today,… Read more

  • Words Of Wisdom: Ratifying Radiance

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  • Theory Vs Execution: Agonizing Intent

    There’s something to be said about the satisfaction that comes with “flipping the script”, and turning a situation on its head. What the monsters in Silent Hill look like when they realize I’m not going home until I pay every single one of them back in full for my first visit Most of the time,… Read more

  • A Chainsaw By Any Other Name

    Always important to keep in mind we do the best with what we have… …even if the battle is ultimately futile I was about to remark “now with Silent Hill in my rear view mirror”, in an effort of a more poetic, flourishing segwaying moment of punctuation and finality after my completion of the Silent… Read more

  • Silent Hill 2 Remake: Occult Opulence

    Let it not be said that life has a cruel sense of humor… Even the act of charity can act as a grim omen of the turning of tides in ones immediate future Yesterday was a rare moment in the style of mania, not a mode of experience I am necessarily alien to, but one… Read more

  • Silent Hill: Where Nightmares Bleed Into Reality

    We are constantly at odds with ourselves, only thinking we know what we really desire. We are often times betrayed by our own desires Not sure if my current predicament is just an extraordinary coincidence or not, but I seem to be in a rare moment of conceptual malaise. I don’t want to say writers… Read more

  • Like Squeezing Blood From A Rock

    Sometimes, the sweet treat we thought we had, reveals itself to contain horror beyond imagination. This is most certainly not what mamma told me life was going to be like *clap, clap, clap, clap* In my obsession to breakdown and analyze just about every aspect of reality, I resist airing on the side of coincidence.… Read more

  • Uniquely Familiar Feelings Knowing the Fear Of The Unknown

    The paradoxical nature of apathetically drenched fear is thusly: it is impossible to be scared shitless when one doesn’t have a single shit left to give. More like “rough month” for me, but same vibes I remain genuinely shocked at my output for Spooptober, not just due to the fact that I’ve been moving at… Read more

  • Words of Wisdom: Quantifying Dimensionality

    It can be difficult to get a good grasp of oneself, and the circumstance we are in at any given moment. Depending on how one defines context may seem like some kind of self-fulfilling prophecy, but one has to start somewhere, even though “self” and context are all quite relative based on perspective Which is… Read more

  • The Subtle Romance Of A Knife’s Edge

    Rolling with the punches is a lot more difficult when the boxing match never seemingly ends. Gotta utilize that big brain energy to make it through those more trying times of need This mood that haunts me will not abate, and as a result, I am in more ways paralyzed than I care to admit.… Read more

  • The Enriching Value Of Emotional Bankruptcy

    Sometimes, things don’t go according to plan. “Don’t Panic” becomes an essential turn of phrase in these moments A sneaking suspicion remained within me, that breaking up a playthrough of a survival horror game into an extraordinarily segmented episodic fashion may have the unfortunate side-effect of watering down what already is an experience that takes… Read more

  • Silent Hill: The Reflection Of The Darkness They Desired to Capture

    Having recently enjoyed exposure to the notion “embarrassment is an under explored emotion”, I pass the consideration along to you with the desire it may prompt some well needed self-reflection on the matter. Cringe in this instance represents the cruel and the cowardly My days of the week have grown to be characteristically repetitious in… Read more

  • Silent Hill: Analyzing Metaphysically Encoded Identity Issues

    Among the many horrors I continue to confront during ‘spoopy season, one of the greatest of the bunch is low key just how fast the passage of time seems to be moving to me now a days. Is this somehow Covid’s fault on some level? Let’s just blame Covid and call it a day One… Read more