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but in a different sort of way. I'm more just sort of journaling the games I play. I made a whole website for it that I decided to call Blocker Trap, after a technique in Lemmings, which I'd say is probably my favorite game.

Some of you will remember me. Others won't. That's okay.

It's been a long and crazy road for me, but as I get older, I'm finding that I need and depend on writing more than anything else to process the thoughts that swirl around in my head when I play, listen to, read, watch, or eat just about anything. I wanted to get a regular Twitch presence off the ground for a while, but I think I've been lying to myself about how realistic the chances of that are with my life being structured how it is, so instead I decided to be honest with myself and give myself over to a format I love. I think out of all the places I'm plugging it, people here will understand more acutely than others what it's like to have such an attachment to a form of expression that's considered somewhat unfashionable.

Anyway, since you could call it kind of a full-circle coming-around from the days of yore in some ways, I thought I'd mention it here. If you bookmarked it and checked in on it from time to time to see if I have new stuff up and read it when I did, I'd appreciate it.

I guess it's true what they say. Time really is a flat circle.

So. How have y'all been.

I'm still hanging in there; great to see a blast from the past! Well, again, since you did do a review at some point in the recent-ish past.

I get what you mean about needing to write. I'll be playing something and having these thoughts about it bouncing around in my head and doing these reviews is a great way to do something at least somewhat productive with them. It's either total self-indulgence OR an attempt to ward off complete insanity at least a little bit longer! Either way, I've been doing this for close to 20 years, so something must be working.

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There have been a few blasts from the past, all of a sudden. Vorty just posted a response here to an old review, and now you've posted an update. That's all great to see! Writing remains an important form of expression, and it can help both writer and readers when done properly.

Good luck with your blogging project, and remember that we also host blogs here if you ever have something you feel like cross-posting. I've made an attempt at streaming a few times, but building (let alone maintaining) an audience is difficult, plus I'm not interesting as an on-camera personality. For introverted folk like me, writing is the better option.

Who knows? We might be to a point where the Internet is so crowded with bad writing that people come back around to appreciating the good stuff. Then we can take advantage of it, maybe? Well, a guy can dream!

"Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." - John F. Kennedy on reality

"What if everything you see is more than what you see--the person next to you is a warrior and the space that appears empty is a secret door to another world? What if something appears that shouldn't? You either dismiss it, or you accept that there is much more to the world than you think. Perhaps it really is a doorway, and if you choose to go inside, you'll find many unexpected things." - Shigeru Miyamoto on secret doors to another world2