I’ve Seen It All

Golden Sun And Its Sequel Are Finally Coming To Switch (aol.com) When I first launched my Twitch channel, Games and Stuff with Professor Sean, on Twitch over four years ago, one of the opportunities I was hoping to fulfill with the channel was the chance to go back and play a lot of older JRPGs that I’d either never played, or never beaten. Throughout the nineties and early aughts, I picked up a lot of JRPGs that I was hoping to play through (since renting…

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Time to Play the Game

I Know Why College Grades Are Going Up. It’s Definitely Not Wokeism. (The New Republic) While I was never one of those kids who took apart my toys and electronics when I was younger so I could try to figure out how they worked, I definitely enjoyed more than my fair share of puzzles back in the day. Part of the reason I latched onto computer programming when I was allowed on my family’s ZX-80 is because it let me see how to do these…

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Big Brother is Smacking Your Face With His ****

There are few things that will endear you more to me than turning me on to new music that I really like. I think this explains why I wasn’t so eager to complain about online tracking and such, because a fair percentage of the music I listen to in any good month was initially recommended to me by computer algorithms, starting with Musicmatch Jukebox back in the day, and continuing on through my rare dalliances with Pandora. It wasn’t that I didn’t see why people…

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Not My Year?

I’ve said before that I tend to do much more reflection and introspection on my birthday every March than I do at the start of a new calendar year, but I find myself coming into these final hours of 2023 without having any real ideas about what I should post here to close out the year. To be honest, I’ve been struggling with coming up with topics for this particular blog for weeks, and coming up with blog topics in general for a very long…

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Vote for Slarpy Gee

Here Are the Nominees for The Game Awards 2023 (Hypebeast via yahoo.com)The Steam Awards (store.steampowered.com) The Game Awards had been around for years before I first heard about them; gaming news hasn’t really been my bag since my first attempts at joining online gaming communities in the late nineties was immediately met by a bunch of people telling me to kill myself because I don’t think Final Fantasy VI is the greatest video game of all time. (More on that to come in the new…

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