[caption id="" align=“aligncenter” width=“500” caption=“So maybe I wasn’t playing video games at birth nor was this blog running 25 years ago, but this is my 25th year too!”] [/caption] 2011 was an odd year in games for me. It started out like any other, filled with joy and happiness, and then it was all wrenched away halfway through, thanks to that burglary, until I was able to start replenishing my stores and getting the ball rolling again for the second half. ...
[caption id="" align=“aligncenter” width=“500” caption=“Christian imagery is pretty fucked up, isn’t it? (Picture by psygeist)”] [/caption] Despite my adult-onset atheism, I’m actually glad that I grew up with a religious background, but not for the reasons you might think. See, I’m a sucker for mythology and literature and I think that I would notice fewer allusions to the dominant religion of the Western world if I didn’t have that religious education. The weirdest part about growing up religious, though, is trying to reconcile the weird, sometimes incompatible things that Jesus said with the things that God (same dude, right?) said back in the Old Testament. Aside from a temper tantrum or two, Jesus tended to be a peace and love kind of guy. Then you have that vengeful Old Testament God (remember, it’s the same dude) who smote all who wronged him and did weird, fucked up things like asking Jacob to sacrifice his son. ...
[caption id="" align=“aligncenter” width=“375” caption=“Super Potato in Akihabara”] [/caption] As is typical of me, I played a ton of video games this year. Here’s a listing of what I played along with a few short (or long) words on each game. For the most part, this list is restricted to games released in 2010 unless I did not play them until this year. It’s also mostly in chronological order, with some skips here and there. ...