James David WardAs a quick addendum to my previous post, I got Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair for free from the Epic Games launcher, so I’ve been playing it a bit. I played through a bit of the previous game, which was a Banjo-Kazooie-inspired 3D platformer, and had some fun until I drifted, as I often do with video games.
Just had a conversation with my housemate where it turned out that we just watch family films and franchises. I won’t insult you with a top ten, then, but I will mention in passing that Dora and the Lost City of Gold is better than you might expect. (I knew it’d be good).
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Some days you wake up coughing, more tired than the night before, having woken up multiple times in the night for no good reason and you just know the day is shot before you even get out of bed.
You’re right, I’m posting a lot on this blog. I haven’t written much at all in a year, so making a commitment to post something every day (at least in January) is equally shaking off the cobwebs and going on a full-on word bender.
Read to end 1/1/7. Thoughts:
My first post on this WordPress-hosted blog is from 12 March 2012. It begins with the immortal words “This isn’t the first time I’ve done a first post on some blogging platform or another, but I’m hoping this one will stick.” It then goes on to talk about posting “every week” and, with around eighty posts to date in the nearly eight years I’ve hosted this website, you can see how well that went.
Productivity aside, I have stuck with WordPress for this length of time, mostly out of idleness – I’m still with O2, despite all reasonable advice saying there are better phone contracts out there. but also because it has handily succeeded as Good Enough for my purposes, and has changed over the years in response to the digital environment.
I drafted this at the end of July last year, then parked it because it needed some work. The fact I’m posting this now tells you a lot about how writing went last year. it could probably use more rewriting than I’ve done, but I just want to get it out there now. It’s a long piece for the TL;DR generation (approx. 3000 words), but I’m not going to post stuff that long too often. If anyone else has played Hollow Knight, I’d like to know how you got on, so drop a comment at the bottom.
Are videogames really just about fighting?
Posting on my blog hasn’t cured my need to refresh notifications. The point of push notifications is that they come to you, so why do I keep checking?
From 2011 to 2015, the best social media website around was This Is My Jam. Every week (at least!) you would post the song that’s your absolute favourite right now. New or old, hip or cheesy, link it up and let it reign. Sadly, it became increasingly more difficult to just link to a song and expect it to play, and the project shuttered.
However, a good idea is a good idea. In tribute to the years I spent there, I’ll be sharing my new jams here. You’ll find my first 115 picks here, and a Spotify playlist of most of them here. The 2020 Jams are here on the blog and here on Spotify.
Today’s Jam is:
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