In a little bit of good news worth sharing in the hopes of it helping me ease back into regular writing, I’m finally back to gaming regularly again — quite a bit, actually. It’s honestly nice to just be able to sit down and enjoy a video game again, as it feels like for the past few years I’ve just not been able to do that. I’d blame the previous day job at the game store, combined with other factors in life just making it not feel “right” to sit down and just enjoy something.
Incidentally, the two games which have taken up my time the past few months are once I used to play regularly then just abandoned — Minecraft, and Guild Wars 2. Yep, of all the things I could be playing, those have taken up my time recently.
That’s not to say I don’t want to give other games a go — I do. Newer stuff, older stuff I never finished, classic games, you name it, I want to get back to things, but with my time heavily occupied by the new day job and my physical game collection mostly in storage, PC and the bit of stuff I have available on my Xbox One are the main options for me, currently, and clearly I’ve chosen the PC side of things.
While I do want to talk about gaming, both modern and classic, here again, I don’t want to make it take over like it somewhat did previously — I’m not turning it into more work, I want it all to be fun, for the sake of it, not as some obligation. Gaming culture, as it is today, is pretty much a complete shit show and I just can’t give a damn to any degree anymore. I just want to sit down and relax to some interactive electronic entertainment, not spend my whole evening arguing on social media about the finer details of screw location 8B on the PlayStation 5!
Like, don’t get me wrong, I’ve always loved gaming hardware and software, but goddamn, people make it their entire existence and seem to care only about how much they can boost their status in the scene, and not about the actual games themselves.
Like, what the fuck is even the point then? You’ve just turned a relaxing hobby into a popularity contest — the very fucking thing it should never have been. It’s not something I want to be a part of, and escaping it in my day to day life has been quite the happy incident over the past few months.
Right, I think I’ve rambled enough here, time to get back to random block game.