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1This is the kind of night when I want to listen to hair metal.
I need…
-I need to write more. I write a lot, but I need to write even more.
-I need to go to more events. PAX Prime and E3 are not enough. Next hear I’ll do GDC and Pax East as well. More face time, more things to write about.
-I need to podcast more and make it live, take callers, make a show of it.
-I need to paint more. It’s been too long.
-I need to write new music, even if it’s just for me.
-I need crazy time. I need crazy, drunken, lust-fulled debaucherious crazy time.
-I need to film it all.
Times like these…
It’s been an amazingly busy week. One of those weeks where I spend all my time doing what I have to do, and not nearly enough time doing what I want to do. One of those weeks that I feel is completely wasted on the banality of life, rather than on the richness of it.
And it’s one of those weeks that makes me want to just scream ‘Fuck it’, quit my day-job and try my hand at Freelancing while putting in as much time as I can at 4Player. Yes I would be poor, but I might also be happier than I am during these times…and I would be putting all my effort toward working at something instead of working for something.
It’s tempting, but I also know to never underestimate the happiness gained through the ability to afford the basics of human need. That’s one thing I may be giving up if I go through with it, and believe me, it’s not the best place to be.
But sometimes you just have to dive in without fear of smashing your head on the bottom. There’s no knowing how shallow this lake may be. There’s no knowing what I may find at the bottom.
Inspiring Words
I read the blog Talking Points Memo quite a bit to satiate my political punditry itch. It’s a good, heady blog with just enough of snark to keep me entertained. A little lighter than The Nation and much more serious than Daily Kos. Today is the founders birthday and I think his words are fairly inspirational for me and the work I do at 4Player and, sometimes, other sites.
It’s my birthday today. I’m 43. It occurs to me that I’ve been doing TPM for basically half my adult life. Sort of mind-blowing to me. It’s like I cheated the whole grown up thing and managed to do what I wanted to do anyway.
A lot of readers to thank for that.
Thank you.
Yes, that’s pretty much exactly what we’re trying to do as well.
This is important.
Taking a page from the original game, The Darkness II’s tale is one of loss, love, and alternative realities. It’s a narrative of stark contrasts, where the very gritty streetwise world of the Mafioso is commingled with the temporal world of the Arcane, a world that seemingly has no limits. Jacky, and the player, walk the fine line between the two and his sometimes awkward interactions with those around him reflect this duality with great precision. Members of his crime family, though dependent on his power seem also completely terrified by it. They refer to it as simply “His thing” or “That thing that you do.” The NPCs here are not living in a vacuum. They are in this strange world with you. The writing and narration gets it across that all they wanted to do was make some money and smash some heads, and now they have evil serpents flying all over the place spilling their special sauce.
Joseph Christ - 4Player Review: The Darkness II here
Majestic Cyclone
A NEW PLACE
So I’ve decided that I needed a place to put my various writings, thoughts and other works that either won’t fit at 4Player, or are too verbose for other social networks like Facebook and Twitter. So…here we go. Expect layouts and formats to change as the week progresses.
-jc
