Tag: Video Games
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Weekly Reflections #16
In which we do things for a second time. A few thoughts on finishing my second playthrough of Elden Ring, which I think is now my favorite videogame of all time: Reading: The Dispossessed by Ursula K. LeGuin Watching: We just finished season 1 of Silo. The finale was superb. I don’t usually dig post-apocalyptic…
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Weekly Reflections #13
In which we press on without sleep. Most of the time, in our relationship, my wife and I are able to navigate our natural circadian rhythms, that she rises 1-2 hours earlier than I’d like and I go to sleep 1-2 hours later than she’d like. And sometimes, that doesn’t quite work, for whatever reason.…
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Weekly Reflections #6
Reading: Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin; Holacracy by Brian J. Robertson; Buddhism, Plain and Simple by Steve Hagen Watching: Still watching The Last of Us and Poker Face as they come out. The big headline is that our good friend Andrew Helms helped produce Stolen Youth: Inside the Cult at Sarah Lawrence,…
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Weekly Reflections #4
Reading: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin (this is really, really good so far and I’m having to parse it out for myself so I can keep enjoying it). I finished It Never Rains in Tiger Stadium by John Ed Bradley, which was pretty darn good. It tackles a fundamental tension: what happens…
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Weekly Reflections #3
Back from travel, which means a fulfilling week at work but one that upended a few habits. Reading: It Never Rains in Tiger Stadium by John Ed Bradley and Buddhism Plain and Simple by Steve Hagen I finished Turn the Ship Around! by L. David Marquet, The Monk of Mokha by Dave Eggers, and The…
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Favorite Video Games of 2022
I’m generally looking for three things in video games: The top five here do some or all of these really well, and then I think there’s a decent drop-off after that.
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Quick early Thoughts on Elden Ring
Well, that was the title before I got 30 + 50+ 60+ hours in, stopped writing, and forgot to publish this. I wouldn’t say Elden Ring has taken over my life—seriously, there’s been a lot going on the last few weeks[1]—but it has taken up a lot of my free time. In a good way.…
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So what’s it been like taking a week off to play a video game?
Let’s not bury the lede—it’s been great! A few things I’ve learned: At my age, I can really only play about 4 hours of video games a day. Something happens after that—my eyes get tired, I get kind of bored of sitting down, and I just don’t enjoy playing anymore. Playing after that is like…
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On Playing Video Games
On the eve of me taking a week off of work to (mostly) play a video game, and because a friend recently asked me about it, I’ve been wondering the following: What would I say to a younger me about video games? I think it also begs a couple of other questions: What do I…
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Mythic Quest and the Responsibility of Television
SPOILERS follow for: Ted Lasso, The Sex Lives of College Girls, and Mythic Quest The last month was some of the best TV-watching my wife and I have had in a while, a string of Station 11 (which I think is my favorite show I’ve seen since season 1 of True Detective), The Sex Lives…
The Minimum Blues 