I know it's corny and cheesy and overdone to the point that it's become less of a friendly statement and more of an obligation to tell people this around this time of year...but screw it; I've never pretended that I was too cool to be able to enjoy the holidays, even if I still take issue with the over commercialization of it, so I'm not going to claim that I'm too cool to wish everyone the best this holiday season.

Merry Christmas everyone! And here's hoping that 2021 turns out to be a much better year than this one was!

I realize the title might be kind of misleading, but this is something that's kind of bothering me regarding the big event in 'Pokemon GO'. The game's hyping up the fact that the level cap's been increased and that those who make it to level 40 before the end of the year will be privy to some juicy prizes. They haven't fully shed light on exactly what the full extent of the prizes are as of yet, but from what I've seen so far the big ones they're trying to hook players in with are...a Gyarados hat, which is purely cosmetic and has no effect on the game whatsoever, and a medal that you can't show to anyone and also has no effect on the game whatsoever.

And that made me ask the question: why do I need to get to level 40 before the end of the year exactly?

Like I said, those two things are pretty much the only known things that have been revealed so far outside of the things that basically are just there for brownie points are encounters with Pokemon that are already available in the game to begin with. The only Pokemon I feel like I'm missing that's included in the legacy challenge is Archen, and it's entirely possible that I could encounter one by just regularly playing the game anyway. Also, if this event is like any previous events, then any new Pokemon that are included in any new parts or additions to this event will likely just be added to the game anywhere from a few weeks to a few months later through a sequence of special research tasks anyway, so it's not like there's a huge sense of urgency regarding this event. And even if I were to get to level 40 and get those new Pokemon, then any new special research events that would include said Pokemon would just give me candy for it instead anyway, so it's not like I'd be getting much more of a prize for doing so.

So again, I have to ask, if I don't make it to level 40 in 'Pokemon GO' before the end of the year...so what?

I just wanted to say to everyone who bothers to read this that I love you. Even besides me, I want to remind everyone that there is someone out there who loves and supports you in everything you do, because you deserve to have love, happiness, and support. You are awesome. Never forget that.

Hugs to all of you awesome people! <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

Yeah, I'm kind of posting this for the lols, but on some level I am serious about this. I feel like we don't really get to see a lot of good male video game character butts, so I thought I'd ask you all to submit your own personal favorites! Remember, this is purely focusing on the character's butt, not tails or legs or any other extraneous limbs the character might have on their lower half. If the character physically has a butt, they are eligible to be posted here. And no judging people based on their choices; this is an appreciation space for male butts of all kinds.

I figured I'd mix things up a bit and ask the reverse of my previous video game related question journal and see what games people liked enough that they willingly went back and played through them multiple times. And I'm not just talking about games that required the player to go back and play through them again and again if they wanted to see everything the game had to offer; I'm talking about a game that you enjoyed enough on its own that you decided to go back over and over and play through the game again and again.

There are a bunch of examples of that for me, but one that particularly stands out is 'Legend of Zelda: The Windwaker'. I've always been a 'Legend of Zelda' fan since my older sister bought 'Ocarina of Time' when we were still in elementary school, but 'Windwaker' was probably one of the first console games in the series that I played through to the end and fully enjoyed the experience of. Admittedly, yes, I have heard a lot of the complaints lobbed at the game, particularly revolving around the sailing, and especially the Triforce Shard quest near the end of the game. However, I wasn't really bothered by those that much. For starters, the sailing is accompanied by probably one of my favorite travel melodies in any video game, and even if you encounter enemies while sailing, you get the boomerang after the second dungeon and that basically lets you take care of almost every enemy you'll encounter while sailing no problem. As for the Triforce Shard quest...yeah, I can understand the complaints people have about it and how it feels like it pads out the game needlessly, but I personally felt like it actually captured the experience of being like a pirate and hauling up buried treasure better than 'Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag' did just because, while that game had a lot of the signifiers people tend to associate with pirates, I just never found the game that much fun, or at least not as much fun as most people seemed to have with the game.

WARNING: THE FOLLOWING SEGMENT CONTAINS SPOILERS FOR 'LEGEND OF ZELDA: THE WINDWAKER'S STORY! I KNOW THE GAME'S ALMOST TWO DECADES OLD AT THIS POINT, BUT THE WARNING STILL STANDS! IF YOU DON'T WANT THE PLOT OF 'WINDWAKER' SPOILED FOR YOU, STOP HERE!

Of course, what I especially loved about 'Windwaker' was the story. I think I've mentioned this to some of my friends, but I love this game's incarnations of Link and Ganondorf. This game saw its iteration of Link as probably the most expressive he'd been in any of the games up to this point, and even some that came afterwards. This version of Link had probably the most personality, and his motivation for starting his adventure felt a bit less contrived than it did in, say, 'Ocarina of Time', where he was basically told it was his fate to start his adventure. Honestly, that's my problem with a lot of 'Zelda' games, both back in the early days and today: they rely too much on the chosen one narrative. 'Windwaker', however, didn't need to do that. The game establishes several times that this version of Link doesn't have any connection to previous versions of Link, and characters keep apologizing to Link for getting him tied up in events that it's made clear he has no connection to. However, rather than taking the easy way and backing out, Link keeps going. At first it's just to save his little sister, but ultimately, he decides to continue because he's built a connection with the people he's fighting alongside and keeps up the battle against Ganondorf for their sakes as well. As for Ganondorf, while we don't get much characterization for him, the little we do get is more than enough. For starters it's worth noting that this is the same Ganondorf that was banished to the Sacred Realm at the end of 'Ocarina of Time', so this basically continues his story. However, it's what happens near the end of the game that makes me actually like this version of Ganondorf. Before the final battle begins, a cutscene has him talking about how his home country, the Gerudo Desert, was constantly ravaged by winds that brought nothing but death and destruction while the rest of Hyrule was blessed with winds that brought life. This brief moment of backstory gives the king of evil a much needed moment to make him seem less like a cartoon villain and more like a real person, someone who was forced down the path of evil by tragic circumstances that were beyond his control and a desire to allow his people to live in a world where they didn't constantly have to live in fear of death and suffering. It is probably the only time in any of the games in the series where Ganondorf feels like a sympathetic character. It also makes his psychotic breakdown right before the final battle seem that much more believable when his chance at getting everything he'd hoped for, everything he'd basically spent the last hundreds, possibly even thousands of years trying to accomplish, is suddenly snatched away from him at the last second by the King of Hyrule. In a way, it's kind of heartbreaking to see him go through all this, and believe me, I never thought I'd actually end up feeling sympathetic towards the guy who, just a few games earlier, had basically reduced the land of Hyrule to a monster-infested wasteland.

Again though, all this is just my personal opinion about the game, and I can understand if people disagree with me. Regardless, that's my choice of game that I loved enough to go back and play again and again. If you've got one you'd like to talk about, feel free to mention it in the comments below! Thanks for reading, and keep being awesome!

Hey folks. I'm sorry to do this, but...yeah, this is going to be a bit of a depressing read. Some of it will also probably come across as complaining, and I doubt that everyone will agree with everything I have to say here. However, a very good friend of mine recommended that I try getting everything on my mind out in a journal rather than just talking to them about it. I can understand the logic behind that; I don't want my friends to have to deal with me constantly messaging them just to whine about my life. I realize this isn't much better, but...well, I need to organize my thoughts somewhere, right?

Anyway, a bunch of things have happened recently that have kind of gotten me down. For starters, my great aunt has passed away. She was an amazing woman and, along with my great uncle, a great source of positivity in my life. Probably one of my fondest memories of her was when my family visited them in Texas in 2011 and we went to see 'The Muppets' in theaters for Thanksgiving. She was already in pretty bad health prior to this, to the point that she couldn't travel by plane, but hearing that she's gone just...it hit hard. I'm kind of weird in that I don't always cry right away when I hear that someone close to me has died. Within minutes of finding out that she had passed on, I was bawling. It feels like there's one less source of positivity and goodness in my life.

Then there's the issues my older sister has been experiencing for roughly the last few years, which seem to have especially come to a head more recently. She's a protester; she fights against the injustices of the world, especially America right now. As a result, she's kind of developed PTSD from attending protests, having people setting off fireworks at night in her neighborhood, probably also seeing a lot of bad things happening on the news and online, and all this is not only making it hard for her to sleep, but when she does sleep she's been suffering nightmares. Furthermore, since she currently lives around the west coast, she recently had to temporarily leave her apartment because the smoke from the fires were making it not safe to breathe in there.

Work's been stressing me out too, since there are a few coworkers I feel like I don't really get along well with. One of them tends to gossip a lot about other things, including other coworkers, even when there are customers in the store who can hear everything she talks about. The other one is just someone who I feel like has always generated friction between me and her; she's critical of how I perform at work, she is dismissive when I try to talk to or be friendly towards her, and at one point she yelled at me while I was trying to ring up a customer's order, and she did this right in front of the customer. I've tried speaking to both coworkers, in the latter's case twice, and they were both very dismissive and didn't seem to take any action to improve how they behaved towards me, and if anything I feel like it's just become a greater source of tension while at work. I've tried talking to the manager and two different shift supervisors but all of them have basically said that I'm looking too deeply into this and that that's just how they act normally. However, I've seen how they behave and they don't treat anyone else like this at all. Not helping matters is that everyone has just been uneasy due to scheduling issues brought on by the manager, who has been absent from work for roughly the last week or so.

At one point, the stress of everything going on in my life and in the world as a whole made me feel so anxious and depressed that I seriously considered hurting myself. I ended up being hospitalized until I was feeling emotionally well enough to return home. The hospital staff insisted that I schedule appointments with my therapist, my psychiatrist, and my primary care doctor afterwards, and I don't blame them. I ended up needing to change some of the medication that I was taking in the aftermath.

However, that's not to say my life has been entirely without positives. For one, I've recently reconnected with a guy that I met on Grommr, and we've chatted a bit and he seems like a nice guy. Once the pandemic is addressed and a vaccine is hopefully created and starts becoming available for the general public, I'm hoping that we'll be able to meet up and maybe have dinner or lunch together. This is something I'm seriously looking forward to.

For another, I've been playing through all the games in the 'Assassin's Creed' series and ranking each of them based on their protagonists' butts. I'm mostly doing this for fun and also to provide levity for the people I care about, but I've been finding that there are games in the series I enjoy. I haven't been able to complete all of them, admittedly; 'Revelations' kept crashing on me at various points, and I gave up on 'Rogue' because I just couldn't get into it. I did watch all their story segments and things on YouTube though, so it's not like I completely missed out on what went on in those games. I'm currently on 'Unity', and despite its sour reputation, I'm kind of enjoying it, even the bugs that weren't patched out. I'm curious to see where things go from here.

However, probably a much more significant and noteworthy accomplishment that's happened recently: I've started writing songs. I'm still new to songwriting, so my lyrical skills are still kind of basic, but I'd like to think I'm making progress! I sadly don't currently know how to produce music, nor do I know anyone who has experience doing so that I could collaborate with, but it's still a starting point! I've even managed to start writing down the actual vocal melodies for some of my songs!

I realize that I've probably not experienced the worst that this year has had to offer and that these are probably not the most uplifting things someone could ask for given the circumstances, but given how everyone has already been talking about how awful this year has been in general, I'll take whatever moments of happiness and positivity I can find.

TL;DR: My life's been kind of crap lately, but there have been bright spots!

Not sure why I'm asking. Just kind of curious.

For the sake of throwing my own hat in the ring, I'll go with 'Assassin's Creed: Rogue' for a number of reasons. For starters, I could find almost no information on the game outside of people talking about how it was unique for letting the player play as a Templar rather than an Assassin, which seemed to suggest that it would provide an interesting perspective on the battle between the two. For another, the game was dropped on the same day as 'Assassin's Creed: Unity', which was clearly the higher-profile game that Ubisoft were actually trying to get people to buy since it was released on 8th generation consoles while 'Rogue' was shat out on previous generation consoles right at the tail end of their run.

Then, when I started playing the game, I realized that it felt like a lazy rehash of 'Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag', which I thought was okay and even enjoyed bits of, but wasn't keen on repeating the experience of playing. I know a lot of people like the game, but...gonna be brutally honest, I didn't enjoy the sailing. Traveling places was slow, you constantly had to rotate your ship around in order to shoot things, the weather and rough wave mechanics were a pain in the ass to deal with, and, of course, there was the ship stealth, which was probably everyone's least favorite part of the game.

Of course, I'm willing to look past a game's flawed mechanics if the story's good, but...I honestly wasn't impressed by this story. For starters, the game begins with literally everyone treating the player character like shit, even though the Assassins are supposed to be all about being a...brotherhood?...sisterhood?...siblinghood?...Fuck it; they're supposed to be like a family, and even the characters who were brought back from previous games didn't behave like how they did in their previous appearances. Like, these weren't the same characters; they acted like cartoons. Of course, part of this is also my own bias against games or series that cast the bad guys as the protagonists, but I feel like they can be done well if the audience knows the characters well enough for it to be compelling or for them to feel invested. Like, if it were, say, Ezio or Altair suddenly defecting to the Templars, it would be awkward, out of place, would completely go against the characters' established personalities and behaviors, and would likely insight outrage from the fans, but at least they'd feel invested enough to care. 'Rogue', however, has you playing a completely new character. Like, who the hell is Shay Patrick Cormac? Maybe if the game had given the player time to learn who he is and understand the conflict he has to go through regarding turning on the Assassins and joining the Templars maybe it could've worked, but the game is probably one of the shortest in the entire 'Assassin's Creed' series at only six sequences long, plus a bunch of modern day segments that no one cares about. In that time, the only real characterization that we get about him is that he likes to brag about how he "makes his own luck" (which feels like some kind of stereotypical reference to him being part Irish), he's cocky, and he whines a lot. I'm sorry, that doesn't make for a compelling character.

However, that's all just my opinion about the game, and ultimately I didn't get far enough in to really get into the meaty bits, so who knows? Maybe I would've enjoyed the game a bit more if I'd stuck with it a bit longer, but the recycled elements from the previous game, the lack of effort that went into the marketing, the fact that almost no one I've seen discuss the game actually seemed to have much of a defense for it, the complete unlikablility of any of the characters? I couldn't get behind this at all. It felt lazy and pretentious and just all-around half-assed, and it turned me off to it completely.

So, that's my pick for a game I couldn't get behind long enough to finish it. What's yours?

Hello folks! After the approximately...three times I've actually bothered to record myself singing, I've (finally) gotten around to actually trying to write my own songs! I'm still an amateur lyricist, but I'd like to think that I'm at least able to write a catchy hook if nothing else. The only problem I face is that I have almost no experience with actually producing music. Like, I don't even know if my computer has any kind of musical composition or other kind of application to help me add in digital versions of instruments. I have Audacity for recording my voice, but I still haven't downloaded the file that allows me to compress the audio files small enough to actually send them to people for review or compression or the like.

So I guess what I'd like to ask is, does anyone know someone out there with experience working in music production and composition who would be willing to help me take the lyrics and frameworks I write and sing and help me turn them into complete songs?

The thing to consider is that I'm probably not going to exclusively post these to FA; I might try posting them on BandCamp or something. Therefore, using the free versions of music production software that requires some kind of subscription or the like would probably not be ideal, since I don't want to run the risk of getting in a legal tussle with anyone before I've even had the chance to develop an audience. Ideally, I'd like to work with someone who already has experience with recording music and could potentially give me pointers for doing so myself. It would also be great if I could talk with someone who has experience in the music industry so that we don't run the risk of getting involved with shady organizations or signing up for bullshit contracts, assuming this ends up actually going somewhere.

If anyone has any other suggestions of things to consider, I'd appreciate it! Thanks everyone, and keep staying awesome!

Hey folks. Lately, I feel like I've been having trouble with keeping up my mental health, and, especially during this quarantine, I'm finding it hard to maintain a consistent sleep schedule. I feel like if I had something to motivate me to wake up at regular hours, and maybe even something to keep me company, I might be able to add more structure to my life. Considering I was put on leave of absence by my job back in June, I feel like I need that now more than ever. So, I'm considering looking into getting a pet of some kind.

The only problem is I don't know what kind of pet I should get. Ideally, I'd like to get something that would be low-maintenance, inexpensive, and that won't destroy the house if left unattended. I'm hesitant to get a dog or cat, since I have family and friends who are allergic to cats and/or dogs, so I was considering something else. What would you suggest?

Hello everyone! I just thought I'd take a moment to wish everyone a Happy Father's Day, and hoping that everyone was able to spend a meaningful day with their fathers or father figures and that all the fathers and father figures were able to just take the time and be happy with the people who care about you. If I'd had more than a half hour to post this before Father's Day officially ends in my timezone, I probably would have tried to say something a bit more meaningful. However, it's not always about having the best time together, or even the most meaningful or emotional time, but just being able to appreciate the company of those who love you that makes days like these special.

Thank you all so much, and again, Happy Father's Day!

...and if you disagree, then get out of my face, because I don't want to talk to you!

"God willing we'll all meet again in 'Assassin's Creed 2: The Search for More Ass."

...Yes, I have the brain of a fifth grader. You're welcome. X D

...Is there a video game out there that lets the player have a gay, bara werewolf boyfriend they can romance? I'm aware that there is a 'Werewolf the Apocalypse' game coming out later this year, and one of WhiteWolf's other games, 'Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines' featured lesbian and bisexual characters, so that has me hopeful, but I wouldn't be surprised if the option isn't available in the game.

I'm not sure why I've been thinking about this lately. I guess it's just an itch I need scratched?

Morning folks. I realize I'm kind of late posting this, but I figured better late than never, right? I'd like to start by discussing some of the stuff I've experienced in 2019 that I can remember going through. For the most part, I feel like 2019 was a generally neutral year for me. Not a whole lot great happened, though that was kind of balanced out by the fact that not a whole lot negative happened either. Some major highlights I'd like to focus on though are as follows:

-I attended two conventions (Furthemore 2019 and Anthrocon 2019) and had a very positive experience at both.
-I got started on a goal I've been meaning to start for a while: cleaning my room.
-I purchased a Nintendo Switch and many games for it, as well as more games for my PS4.
-I started taking voice lessons and have been told that I've improved greatly since beginning them.
-After several conversations with a good friend, I've started gaining more understanding of my sexual interests.
-I met someone over Grommr and we're planning on going on a date some time this month.

So, starting today is 2020, the Year of the Rat, and hopefully another step of progress in my life. Some resolutions I'd like to try and accomplish by year's end are:

-Finish cleaning my room
-Get back into exercising
-Finish any games I've started playing and not finished and get started on some of the games I've yet to touch so far
-Be more social and get out of the house more often
-Continue saving money and start looking at potential apartments to rent with people once I feel I'm ready to move out of my parents' house

Thank you all for making 2019 a decent year everyone. Remember, you have been awesome, and you are all awesome people. One last thing I'd like to express before I conclude: it's okay to ask for help and support if you think you need it; those who care about you won't think any less of you for doing so.

Thanks again everyone, and here's to a brighter future in 2020!

About a week ago, I attended Anthrocon. During this time, I decided to dust off my 'Pokemon GO' file and try getting back into it again.

So, if there are people out there who are still interested in playing, and who might be interested in being friends, I'll post my Trainer Code below:

0681 5970 4527

Let me know if you'd like to be friends, or if you live in the same area as me, if you'd be up for going on raids together.

One is good boy.

The other is good boy.

You are good boy!

^u^

So, I just remembered that today was Autism Awareness Day, and I feel like, since I have Asperger syndrome, which is a form of autism, I should at least try to say something, convey some part of my own personal story with this condition. So...here goes, I guess.

I was first diagnosed with Asperger syndrome when I was in elementary school. I got to lie down in an MRI machine and had pictures taken of my brain and everything. At least that's the experience I had outside of normal, everyday interactions with people in school and home and what have you. Those everyday interactions tended to not be pleasant, either because I was dealing with kids my age who were in just as bad a state as me if not worse, and at home I was caught between the struggles of my two siblings, one older and one younger. It only got worse once I myself started middle school, and even worse still once I reached high school and my younger sister started middle school, because middle school is an awful place and everyone in it is evil.

Anyway, during my time in middle school, I had to deal with all the other kids treating me like shit, the teachers putting forth no effort to try and address any of the actions that the other kids performed towards me, which included, but wasn't limited to, tripping me, teasing me, shoving me, slapping me, saying mean things about me behind my back, provoking me into fights to get me in trouble, and various other activities that I'd rather not go into the details of. Trust me; it sucked. Anyway, possibly as a result of how awful people were in middle school, I pretty much became a recluse once I got to high school. I interacted with very few people, except for my older sister and her friends. I slowly started opening up to people once I started my junior year, but for the most part I tended to not speak because I didn't trust myself to not say something embarrassing or stupid.

Surprisingly, starting in middle school, I'd developed an interest in art, and even took a few 2D art courses once I was in high school. I also played the trombone, which led to me performing in jazz band for most of my high school tenure, as well as in the marching band for one year (though I didn't get to play my trombone for most of it, since they were worried about the slide hitting people while they were on the field, so instead I played this huge, ugly thing called a marching baritone). I also performed in the chorus for a good chunk of my high school tenure, eventually joining the vocal ensemble in my junior year, but not really opening up to the other members until my senior year. That's not to say I was entirely closed off from people; I did talk to people, but I tended to apologize for everything, possibly because I didn't want to give the impression that I wanted to wish bad things upon people. Also because I felt like apologizing was the only way I could interact with people. However, I also found myself solving a lot of logic based puzzles like Sudoku, possibly because I'd found a fascination with solving number puzzles with logic rather than math, even though I ended up doing much better at math by the time I got to high school.

This was also around when I started dating girls. Mainly, I ended up wanting to go out with girls who showed interest in me,
possibly because I had low self-esteem myself. I never ended up having sex with any of them though, mainly because I was still hesitant to do so until I'd graduated high school. Granted, once I did graduate, I was still hesitant to have sex with my then-girlfriend, and I kept making excuses to cover up the fact that I wasn't all that interested in sex. It wasn't until around my second semester of college that I realized that I was more romantically and sexually interested in guys than girls. Of course, my coming out of the closet to my parents had me scared, but they were both very supportive, and I'm incredibly grateful to both of them for that, but even more so for my older sister, who was supportive of me right from the get-go. Sadly, this was also around the same time that I was diagnosed with severe anxiety and depression.

Fortunately, I've been seeing various therapists since then, and have been working with them to develop my skills at interacting with people, coping with stress, and gaining a better understanding of the world around me and myself. Of course, it also helped that college was around when I discovered the furry community and started interacting with people and making friends online. I found that I was a lot better about being open with people online than I was in face-to-face interaction. I've since gotten better at socializing with people in person.

Anyway, that's my personal experience growing up with autism. If anyone would like to comment or share their own story, I'd be happy to listen. Thank you all for taking the time to read this. Take care, and stay awesome.

So yeah, I turned 28 today. I got to spend time with my parents and we went out for Mongolian grill. For dinner tonight, we picked up a super salmon sushi platter from Wegman's, as well as this fancy chocolate mousse and a bunch of mochi.

Also, I got to spend time with my dad and chat about coffee and did a coffee tasting with him. Today, I tried the Kenya blend. I was told that coffee from Kenya is among the best in the world according to some. The Kenya blend tasted kind of interesting; it had kind of a nutty quality to it that became kind of acidic and citrusy when paired with the iced lemon pound cake. After it cooled down though, its flavor became more floral and naturally citrusy, without pairing it with the lemon pound cake.

Next week, I'll be having lunch with my younger sister, and I'm looking forward to that since she's awesome and I always love spending time with her. I think we were talking about going out for sushi. Fortunately, all of the sushi places near her have vegan options, so she'll have things she can eat too.

So I guess it's only two more years before I'm officially considered a grey muzzle. Not sure how to feel about that.

Closing thoughts: this birthday was nice, and I hope that it is an indicator of what's to come for the rest of the year.

...So yeah, my birthday's coming up in two weeks...I'll be turning 28...Still not entirely sure if I've reached the point where I should start feeling old or not.

*shroogs*

Dear 2018,

Good bye, good luck, and good riddance!

Love,

Valeyard

https://twitter.com/Goggle_Head512/.....80643659767808

I'm sure you probably aren't interested in reading about me ranting on Twitter, but I thought I should put all this out there in the hope that someone will listen.

#MakeSbuxSafe

'Blast Damage Days' (Jeff Rosenstock)

Actual Lyrics: "I'm afraid of my age"

What I Heard: "I'm afraid of my hands"

...Whot?

I wish I had some kind of special treat to offer to people every time I found myself reaching a milestone like this one. In lieu of that, I'd just like to offer everyone my deepest and sincerest gratitude for taking the time to look through my gallery and find something you liked. I hope that I continue to entertain folks with my shenanigans, and that we can shoot for another 1,000 soon!

Cheers, folks! ^u^

So, I recently came into the possession of a buttload of Steam points, which I have since used to purchase quite a few games on my Steam wishlist, and have started learning how to set up streams on Twitch. So, I figured I would try to start doing gaming streams on occasion for anyone that's interested. If people are interested, feel free to let me know. I'll include a list below of the games I have on Steam and if anyone sees anything they'd be interested in watching me play, feel free to comment below and I'll see about playing it next time I stream.

Games I Own On Steam:

-20XX
-Bastard Bonds
-BattleBlock Theater
-Before the Echo
-Borderlands 2
-Breath of Death VII
-Castle Crashers
-Castlevania: Lords of Shadow--Ultimate Edition
-Cogs
-Critical Mass
-Cthulhu Saves the World
-Dust: An Elysian Tail
-The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
-The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition
-Flight of the Icarus
-Ghost 1.0
-Gone Home
-Kairo
-Lego Harry Potter Years 1-4
-Lego Harry Potter Years 5-7
-Monaco
-Night in the Woods
-Ori and the Blind Forest
-Ori and the Blind Forest Definitive Edition
-Overture
-Poker Night at the Inventory
-Portal
-Portal 2
-Princess Remedy in a World of Hurt
-Psychonauts
-Quantum Conundrum
-Saints Row 2
-Saints Row: The Third
-Saints Row IV
-The Stanley Parable
-Super Hexigon
-Terraria
-Undertale
-A Valley Without Wind
-A Valley Without Wind 2
-Yu-Gi-Oh! Legacy of the Duelist
-Zen Bound 2

If people would like to suggest other games, feel free to use the comments section below to suggest them. If they're covered by the Steam summer sale, I'll take them into consideration.

Thanks for reading folks, and I look forward to playing with you!

To all of my dear readers, I want to start by saying I'm sorry that I haven't been good about posting material at a reasonable pace for the last nine months. I could make excuses, but that doesn't change the fact that my work has been submitted with serious lack of consistency. There are a number of reasons I could site as to why this is, but they basically narrow down to two things.

First of all, I've started working at a second job, which has taken up a good deal of my time. It is fortunately not as stressful as other jobs I've had, and I appreciate that I have an additional consistent source of income.

The second, and probably the biggest reason, is that making these reviews just hasn't been as fun as it used to be. I'm not sure I can place exactly why, but lately I've been struggling to motivate myself to write my lists. It's not even like it's a sudden thing either; I've been feeling this way for a good deal of time, probably since around mid-2017.

So, as the title of this post suggests, I'm going to be taking a bit of a break from making reviews or lists, at least until I can reignite that passion that got me interested in making them in the first place. I'm not sure exactly how long that will be. Maybe it'll be in a few days, maybe a few weeks, maybe months or years. Regardless, with how disappointed I've been with the lack of enjoyment I've been having making these lists, trying to continue as I am now would just be forcing myself, and you, my readers, deserve better than that.

That's pretty much everything. I apologize for dropping the bomb on everyone like this. Until next time, I wish you all well, and as always, keep being awesome.