Hey, Hello, Hi, Happy Groundhog Day!

As always, it’s been a while!

Hey, folks! Happy Groundhog Day! It’s that special time of the year when we honor former New York City mayor Bill de Blasio for personally taking care of America’s groundhog problem. We made fun of him while he was mayor, but now we’re stuck with someone who seems to be permanently set on shuffle.

I know it’s been a while and I’ve always got some excuse about why: I’ve been finishing up a draft of my book, “Good Game, No Rematch.” Right now there are words in documents which theoretically make up a book, but it needs to be smoothed out before I can beg you all to pre-order it. We’re a long way out, but it’s coming together and if even one of you buys it, I’ll consider that a victory.

The Horrors Of The News!!

Let’s do a hard turn! Everything has been awful in the news! People are even mad about a popular musician’s popular boyfriend playing in a popular sports championship. There’s literally a conspiracy theory that the NFL and Joe Biden fixed the Super Bowl to make Taylor Swift happy enough to endorse Democrats. Which is a really around-the-world way to convince yourself that everything you don’t like is a government op and not the disappointment of your life seeping through the cracks.

Meanwhile, Florida has once again proven itself to be a nightmare factory of hatred by banning transgender people from changing their ID to match their gender identity. There’s also legitimate fears that this law will be used to target trans people who already have IDs that match their gender identity. It’s monstrous and it’s intended to be monstrous.

It’s a bullshit, horrid law that’s solely meant to hurt people signed by a man who oversaw torture at Guantanamo Bay and then put in the extra effort to become an even worse human being. There’s literally no point to it other than cruelty which, of course, is the point.

That said, if you want to help in some way, donate to Equality Florida. And if any of you are reading this have a better one, I’ll post that, too. This world is bad enough with people like Ron “18 Charisma” DeSantis in it. They’re parasites who leech onto suffering for sustenance. They will never see the light of God.

Jokes About Video Games!!!

And another turn! It’s already an insane year for games. Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth and Persona 3 Reload will suck up my entire life. Only one of those titles has a colon and it’s driving me insane. For my part, I’ve been replaying Persona 5 Royal all month and I forgot just how insanely long this game is. In face, I’ve forgotten almost everything. So maybe in April or May I’ll be done.

I’ve also been still opinion joke game time articles for The Gamer. Here’s a few selections you, a discerning reader, might enjoy:

• I wrote a nice article about how solo tabletop role playing games made me a better writer.

• Here I talk about being fine with thousands of video game layoffs as long as a company jingles keys in front of my face.

• Like Palworld? I don’t know much about it, but it feels like I’m supposed to write about it, so I wrote about Palworld solely to get clicks.

• A gentle reminder that you don’t need to justify liking bad or unpopular games. At all. You can just play them!

• And finally, a classic pointless article where I discuss the 10 Game Boy Advance games that I do not want on Switch.

Recommendations!!!!

I’m very, very late to the party, but Scavengers Reign on Max is incredible.

Without spoiling much, it’s about survivors from a space freighter that broke down near a habitable, but extremely weird planet. It’s hard to describe the series and not give away the fun. Think a mixture of a survival story and a science fiction Alice in Wonderland. Okay, that makes it just sound cliche but look at the image above! Isn’t that nice? Wouldn’t you like that? I think you would.

That’s all I got. See you all again in four months when I post again.