In short, yes. (This is not journalism; this is not a review; this is not unbiased.) I hate teen stories. If you want to put me off of a piece of media before I even try it, tell me its set in high school or college. Its not that my life at that time was…
Category: PlayDiary
PlayDiary: Evie Belin, Sick Fuck of New Vegas
(You don’t always get the option that you wanted most, the one that fits your idea of what your character is. Sometimes all you get is the options you are left with.) Evie Belin stood in the shadow of the Tops Casino, it’s lights casting an unnatural hue on her mismatched clothing. She adjusted her…
PlayDiary: Loosely, on MMOs and My Disconnection
I have trouble feeling connected to things. In individual instances I want to blame the things I can’t connect to, but history shows me that it’s probably me. A couple of weeks ago I finished up my work travel “season”, which had culminated in the month of August having maybe six days during which I…
PlayDiary: FFX and a New Lease on Yuna
I’ve been playing Final Fantasy X lately, on Vita, slowly, in intermittent pieces, mostly on planes. In between the waves of “holy shit this looks so good!”, I’ve been surprised by how unfamiliar and outside my expectation the characters are. I didn’t play FFX in its era, but I did watch Thom play quite a…
Rika Confesses 