Connections
A sense of humor is an important thing to have. I think people often underestimate the importance and functionality of humor – we think of humor as being the engine that powers jokes, that makes us laugh, that entertains and…
Category Essays
Balance, Mix, and Master
I’m frustrated with the role that dissatisfaction plays in my life, and I’m also dissatisfied with frustration. I’ve been trying to… optimize. Trying to figure out a particular life goal and to aim towards it, to sort out which contradictory…
Justice
I generally haven’t watched much in the way of television over the last decade or so – little bits here and there, occasionally bingeing on a series or seeing an episode or two at someone else’s house. Over the last…
Living in Fear
A week or two ago I was watching someone play through the first Silent Hill game, and I was thinking about the role that combat plays in horror games. In many cases, the entire idea of combat has been phased…
Daily Ghosts
As you may have noticed, I took a bit of a break. Why? Oh, I just wanted to take some time to figure things out, to think about better ways to approach my life. I wanted to see what a…
Fate
A little while ago I was participating in a conversation about the nature of causality and whether the information we have supports the idea of a deterministic universe, and I found myself getting perhaps uncharacteristically defensive. If you aren’t familiar…
Kaiji
Kaiji is a manga about a young man named Itou Kaiji driven into a series of increasingly desperate and outlandish gambles to escape debt and save his own life. The first two parts of have received animated adaptations, but currently…
Silence
For a long time I didn’t like to use a microphone while playing games. I’m still not thrilled about the idea of talking into my computer while playing with strangers, but I’ve gotten used to the concept enough to be…
My Boss
I’ve been self-employed for a while now, which is a way of saying that I don’t have a job but I still scrape by and I hold out hope that one day my hobbies will make me money. It’s taken…
Listen
Listen. It is embarrassing how much time we spend making noise, talking about ourselves, what we care about, how we see the world. We surround ourselves in our own territorial stench so we don’t have to smell anything around us.…