As I’ve mentioned before, the first quarter of the year is my worst quarter. I get sad and listless during during short winter days, we “spring forward” into exhaustion, Winter semester is somehow more difficult than Fall, and, oh, hey, it’s still a pandemic and we’ve been under full lockdown…
I was disappointed to get The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening as my very first video game. I’d never played anything but platformers and Tetris, and this weird top-down adventure was completely new. It had never occurred to me that a video game would let you explore a map, play…
Note: I wrote this, like, the day before everything in Toronto went strict social distancing. I’m glad we’re taking such precautions as a community to flatten the curve and protect our vulnerable community members. I think most of this still stands though. An additional few things that are shaping up…
Hello, everyone. I’m Professor Byleth, but you can call me Byleth. This course has no syllabus because apparently those don’t exist at Garreg Mach monastery, so I’m NOT going to spend the first 30 minutes of today going over some important course policies… … is what I would say if…
Shana tova! Hope my fellow Jews out there have a sweet and healthy new year! Here are a few things I’ll be carrying over from the “old year” to make sure my new one is just that: 1. Dreyer’s English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style by Benjamin…
These three months might as well have been a big ol’ one called “MOVINGEMBER.” Husband and I moved from a smaller, older apartment to a bigger, still-old-but-renovated condo. Hooray! But also: lots of work! So pretty much the title this quarter should be more like “9 Things That Made Moving…
It’s Eevee. I picked Pokémon Let’s Go Eevee. The first brand new Game Boy game I ever requested and got — as opposed to, say, hand-me-downs from my cousins or whatever the store clerk told my parents to get for a birthday present* — was Pokémon Blue. I can still…
Winter is a tough time for me, so although I was expecting the trouble I had compiling this list, I was expecting the opposite kind: actually, there were too many things that made the past three months better for me! #blessed Seriously, though, I am really lucky that so many…
Gamers tend to have strong feelings about motion controls. Part of this is due to hardware limitations that make most motion controls less precise than button presses. Other times, it’s because it turns out that imagining yourself, say, throwing a Poké ball in the world of Pokémon, is a very…
Top 10 lists are fun to write. It’s always fun to tell other people your opinions about stuff that doesn’t really matter, and top-anything lists mean that you get to review all the best experiences you had, compare happiness to happiness, and decide which was better. Remembering happiness is a…