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  • 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

  • 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

  • The Road map To Hell

    Even when things get tough, I am a big advocate for a staunch sense of stoicism to keep one sturdy. Even if the masking process can feel herculean at times I’ve mentioned before about how hard I’m hit with the post-game completion blues, where one is feeling low energy and depleted after finishing a game.… Read more

  • Death Of The Dev: Leave My Single Player Alone

    I’m realizing as I type this that my sense of decorum tends to waver whenever I’m in a less than mood, but I suppose that is likely not uncommon in any vocational standard, job or otherwise. I’m guessing money and or accountability is usually what keeps people on the straight and narrow, though I’d argue… Read more

  • “Making Games Is Hard”, Doom Devs Jest As They Watch A Speedrunner Rip And Tear Through The Dark Ages

    Sometimes, it’s about the little things in life that truly matter.. Like deposing the equivalent of gods with led based weaponry, for example As much as I regularly seem to gravitate towards giving my all to entertain and inform, I too must rest my weary head and take it easy from time to time. I’ve… Read more

  • To Do List: Conquer Hell, Check

    They say that eyes are the windows to the soul, and that looking into them, you get a true sense for what kind of majestic sense of beauty they maintain their household with. Other times however, you don’t even have to ring the doorbell to conclusively know that no one is home This is relevant… Read more

  • Doom: Going To Hell For Mental Health Reasons

    Try as I might, I am not always able to clear my head to get a full fledged article out in the time I have allotted to me in a given night, a reality I’ve had to deal with recently. Between a full time job, taking care of my cat, chores around the apartment, exhausted… Read more

  • Doom: The Dark Ages-Metaphysics of Hell

    The Doom series has gone to great lengths to establish itself as a staple; not just for the shooter genre, but for video games as a whole. With frenetic, over the top action that has few competitors within the same realm of intensity, Doom as en entity never seems to slow its roll, as each… Read more

  • Algorithms: Perpetuating Cycles of Violence

    (Spoilers for The Last of Us ahead) In many of my recent posts about Doom, I have included several different quotes involving Hell. Today I include one from Churchill: “If you’re going through hell, keep going.” The man obviously had Doom speedrunning in mind Speaking of which, I was delighted when I finished Doom: The… Read more

  • Wisdom’s Genesis: The End of the Beginning

    Sic Parvis Magna…greatness from small beginnings. A phrase I became familiar with through my love of the Uncharted series, and one I regularly think about in my own absurdist quest of self-discovery, and one that’s taken me from my own humble origins that started all the way back in September 2012 on the original version… Read more