Okie doke and NOW all of the movies I've watched since like, February are all typed up into a movies Potpourri now as well! Go check it out!

Well! I finally did it, I finally went back through like, the entire summer's worth of games played and dropped them all onto the Games page--check it out in the little sidebar over there.

This recent flurry of activity on my site is more or less coinciding with a desire to like, tidy my own little universe and just tinker with things, which has really only just now come back. I've always been a very big like, peaks-and-valleys kinda gal when it comes to my interests: enormous like non-stop cannot-focus-on-anything-else-in-my-life sorts of obsessions with things followed by deep valleys where things disappear from my map entirely. It's not this way with all (most?) of my other hobbies/interests: I have been an avid and regular like 100+ miles a week road cyclist for years now without any interest waning, and every year of my life I continue to be a fanatical sports fan for several teams. Video games is where I experience it the most, I find.

I had an absolutely obsessive peak erode to zero after finishing Yu-No in the early spring. This valley I may only now be coming out of was powerful insofar as what it took down with it, which was like, any computer-based tinkering at all. I barely even played Tetris or the Vita NPB game I would play passively all the time. It felt...odd...like an emptiness. Literal weeks would go by without my being at this PC for anything other than turning it on for the Plex server. But over the last couple weeks some spark of something re-awoke and I've been trying to nurture it without smothering it.

But why did it happen so strongly this time? I have to assume that because Yu-No was so long and because it made such a huge impact on me that I'm sorta *still* comparing everything to it? I haven't really found anything that can grip my attention in that way. My gaming attention span like, Overton Window has been pulled so far in one direction that--as you can see from the newest spattering of reviews I just posted--not only did I not play very many things by volume but I didn't enjoy them very much either.

Anywho, I've got all of the games I've finished (in some form or another) all typed up and such, and I started playing this brand new game called Dice Gambit just yesterday--and I feel like that one has the juice. I have the sense that I'll finish it. I'm not like, obsessing, but I do feel--for the first time since I finished Yu-No--the desire to sit down and turn on the Steam Deck to actually play a game. That's promising! Maybe my like, drive to play video games isn't dead forever hahaha

(Note: It's funny, after I finished typing all of that I remembered how I DID feel compelled to finish a game, to the degree that I really really marathoned it: Tokimeki Girls Side 1st Love--which I talked about in the Potpourri. I was obsessed, and I had an absolute blast. Who knows? Maybe I've just been playing bad games and so I just haven't been pulled in except for the good ones lmao)