A Quick Update

I haven't been posting lately, due to a combination of factors. I won't bore with the details but between work, ill-health, and ~140 hours of gaming in the last month, my brain hasn't really been geared towards writing.

I intended for posting here to be a habit, and to a great extent I still do, but habit formation is a real weakness of mine. I can make myself a pour-over coffee every morning for 2 months, then miss one day because I've slept in and the whole habit is nuked taking weeks to get round to a single morning pour again.

While low energy has been contributive, the reality is that I also played through Metaphor: ReFantazio and most of Dragon Age: Veilguard, and that sort of binge-gaming is absolute murder on habits. I had a 250-day streak on my Chinese learning app, and I've broke it twice in the last 3 weeks with taking my attention. So it goes.

I'd say a main factor has been work though - we've been through a couple of release-cycles at the game-factory, and while I'm on the analytics side so don't have to deal with hitting those release deadlines, we tend to take a heavy load post-launch as every issue/question/metric causes execs to blow up the phones. The 10+ hour gaming sessions are really a response to that, rather than a direct enthusiasm.

Anyway, I'm hoping to get back on the horse as I have no shortage of thoughts on the games I've been playing, as well as some other topics.

Just letting you know I'm still around.