Yes, it’s been a while. No, I’m not dead.
It is very hard to write about videogames while Donald Trump is still President. Indeed, it is very hard to enjoy videogames while Donald Trump is President. I sit in my basement every night, intending to release pent-up energy by committing digital murder, and instead I pause whatever game I’m attempting to play and continue refreshing Twitter, because HOLY SHIT HOW CAN THIS POSSIBLY GET ANY WORSE [refreshes Twitter] HOLY SHIT IT GOT WORSE. This has been going on for the last two weeks.
Nor do I have anything exciting to talk about, as I’d hinted at in the opening of my last entry. The very short and necessarily non-specific version of that little vaguebook thing is that an amazing opportunity fell in my lap, and I went for it, but it didn’t work out. It was the correct decision by all parties involved, even if I’m still a bit disappointed. And I also ended up catching a horrific cold because of it. That’s that, basically.
I’m kinda playing Prey at the moment, and also Injustice 2 for some reason (I was home sick yesterday and saw it was getting amazing reviews). Prey is something that needs a bit more focus on my part to properly discuss, and I don’t have it in me today to get there. I am enjoying it, though I also feel like I’m terrible at it, even on the easiest difficulty setting. It’s hard to play it and not be reminded of any of the Bioshock games, though I think I’m enjoying this a little bit more than those games if only because the world and the story and the gameplay actually sorta have something to do with each other. Prey is a hard game to binge on, though; I inevitably get frustrated or stuck and feel compelled to turn it off before I start souring on it.
As far as books go, the last book I mentioned here was “A Gentleman In Moscow”, which was wonderful. After that I read “Waking Gods“, the sequel to last year’s excellent “Sleeping Giants“; it’s not quite as good as the original, but I’m certainly curious as to where it’s going. Then I read Colson Whitehead’s “The Underground Railroad”, which is as amazing as everyone said it would be. I am currently (and very slowly) reading Jeff VanderMeer’s “Borne”, which is also quite good and I have absolutely no idea where it’s going, even as I’m about a third of the way into it.
All right, I think I have to call it now. I have medicine-head and work is piling up and I need to refresh Twitter again.
