I'm kind of happy I'm only working part time at the moment. Life is pretty busy right now. Beau takes up a lot of my time, but in a good way. He's still moving his crate all around the cottage while he's in it, so I've taken to calling him my mini seismic event. I make sure he gets at least one hour plus walk a day, but I think I may have to try for two. He has boundless energy. But he also likes to snuggle up on the couch and he lets me get plenty of gaming in, when I have time to game. Oh, and tonight at the market, I had a customer who was a dead ringer for Gordon Freeman. I wanted to ask him if he'd ever played Half-Life in the worst way.

Just finished this book today. I liked it. It tells the story of a crisis that happens after the Covenant/Human war where Elites and Humans have to cooperate on a mission to the Forerunner Ark. The Ark is like the mothership of the Forerunners. It's where the Halo rings were made and managed. 

I'm going to put all the media in one blog this time. I'll mention a favorite I experienced at the time and then one I'd like to experience now. 

Just as promised, here's the second blog of my recount and just in time for Christmas Eve.

Without a doubt, Bioshock Infinite’s narrative is among the most sublime ever seen in the medium, treating gamers to philosophical conundrums and scientific paradoxes that most are still contemplating weeks after the game’s release.  Indeed, one could devote entire essays to any one of its many weighty themes, from the traps of predestination to the nature of evil.  But the game does more than challenge our conceptions of ethics and perceptions of reality—it also succeeds in critically damaging that long known fixture in digital storytelling known as the “silent protagonist.”

Today Jesse Miller posted an article about his view on video games as art. In addition the Hellblock Heroes here at Pixlbit did an excellent Pixltalk podcast episode on the subject. Both sparked a lot of thought and I've spent the last couple hours writing out long obnoxious comments on each thread trying to explain how I feel. I still don't feel like I'm completely done though. This blog here is one that I orginally wrote last year and posted at 1UP.com when I started blogging. I've buttered it up nice, adding things, and made it ready to post up here at Pixlbit. There's a couple older blogs I want to bring over here to Pixlbit in addition to this one because they are very important to me and still relevant regardless of when I posted them. Plus I love Pixlbit and want to share them here with everybody. Before I ramble on more, here is my blog. It explains the time in my life when video games became capable of being more than just a toy to me.