Vegan_Joe

I never have enough time for games, but I loved this one so much that I made time.

The visuals were amazing. The story was decent, and the gameplay kept me engaged.

I especially liked the second island. Hallucinating on a tropical island while battling inner demons was a perfect intermission between acts.

I have yet to fork out $80 for Yotei though (I want it, but that’s pretty steep for me). It seems most reviews say it’s got a lot going for it, but it’s just not Tsushima.

Even Newman’s Own (a non-profit) is $4. $6-$10 is normal in my area, and it’s one of the least affluent areas of the country.

They were both 1999. Matrix released in March and Columbine was April 20th (made for a fucked up 4/20 that year…)

Same bitrate, file size, and metadata (with my tags still included), along naming schemes and occasional misspellings.

Many of the songs I ripped and shared via Napster in the late 1900’s continued to appear on legitimate platforms years later.

Holy smokes! I see his online persona so often that I forgot he had a pen name!

Here’s the author Jason Pargin riffing on the topic of nostalgia , and the key takeaways for him are that:

• Nostalgia is toxic because it is the intense grasping for something that is definitionally forever outside of your reach
• Nostalgia is a false rose-colored filter to view things through.

That said, I have a penchant for sentimentality, and fall victim to nostalgia at every given whim I get, especially when visiting my parents’ house where I grew up.

I love to allow myself to be transported to the viewpoint of my younger self, which I feel I have lost some connection to.

I often find I was stronger and more worthy than I gave myself credit for.

If only I could properly translate that into the current moment, it would remove a lot of self-doubt that holds me back from living with confident authenticity.