Strat's Safe Space

Every couple of weeks, my friend L decides that it’s time to remind me of the “small” number of people who actively read the writing I do here.

The following text is an excerpt from The Power of Positive Thinking™ by Vincent B.

A speedrun is a play-through of a video game performed to complete it as quickly as possible.

Each day I take off work is a pleasure, but each passing day off increases the sense of dread I feel about having to go back to work.

There’s a big (but portable) blue button with the word “KILL” painted on it (called the kill button).

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh I don’t want to bathe in the blood of my enemies againnnnnnnnnnn.

Despite getting sucked into Hunt Showdown in a big way this year, I spent less time playing games than I usually do.

Here’s a list of the movies I loved (and hated) in 2021 in categories that describe how I felt about them (within each category, the ordering is irrelevant).

EDIT: Check out my new /books page where I catalog all the books I’ve read since 2021 along with my thoughts about them Please don’t judge me.

Tupper Ware Remix Party ¶ I don’t really want to write about Tupper Ware Remix Party.

Imagine if Pokemon, Final Fantasy and an assortment of your favorite opioids had a baby.

I can’t write a hook for my life right now so I’m not even going to try.

I spent all my free time today working on a discord bot to help me GM a tabletop roleplaying session of “Everyone is John” over Discord.

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I want to write some python python code that’ll take a folder containing Hunt Showdown video highlights generated through Nvidia Highlights (most of which are exactly 25s long) and automatically generate a “montage” video containing all the highlights com…

This is a test.1 Now I can add footnotes to my essays to make myself seem 100x more intelligent (or obnoxious).

I wrote some code to help me embed audio files into my blog posts easily… Your browser does not support the audio element.

nervoustestpilot Macross 82-99 Panchiko LukHash … I feel like my productivity gets boosted substantially if I’m listening to the right kind of music music?

My bars are low, almost completely drained.

Alcohol, being crushed, dull every freedom Gobble hetero immaturity Juggle KKK, layman money night Obsession perverted, quest running stop Toppling ultimatum vampiress Win xenon, yodeling, zigzaggedness Alps, butt cool, dying ebb’n flow, guttural High-min…

Ale brought chaos, down everywhere fortune Gaze him into jab, kill love man-of-war Neither of prison, quarter rocky stone Tainted undulation vain waifs XoX Yuppification.

All being cool, do everything flying Get high, inhale juvenile karmic love Make naan on pan?

The story of the Odyssey begins with Telemachus, the son of Odysseus, being a soy boy beta cuck.

I made this today.

I took me years of writing about video games (a visual medium) on here before I finally decided it was about time to make it easy for me to insert images with optional captions into my blog posts… Well, here you go.

Here’s an ordered list of all the cocktails I’ve tried since I’ve gotten into mixology from my most favorite to least favorite: Dark and Stormy : Ginger beer combined with rum, garnished with lime.

I forgot to set my alarm last night, so I woke up 2h after I was expecting to and that’s thrown off my entire day.

I’ve been cutting my own hair for the past few years.

6:30am.

Rift Wizard is a traditional roguelike (a turn-based procedurally generated dungeon crawler) that doubles down on the fantasy of being a wizard with a hefty leather-bound spell book at your fingertips, a legion of minions under your control and mastery ov…

On and off, since early 2017, I’ve been writing about the video games I play.

Suzerain is a text-based role-playing game where you play as President Anton Rayne leading the fictional country of Sordland in a political drama driven by conversations with your cabinet members and other significant people.

I spent a lot of money purchasing an Xbox Series X.

I’ve been lucky during these uncertain times to have been able to keep in touch with my close friends and forge new relationships through the internet.

Time always moves forward whether you like it or not.

Time stood still as a new kind of old evil ravages the world as we know it, freezing us in time and space, while we clutch our crosses in fear.

Nowadays, I lower my expectations as low as they can possibly go before playing a new video game.

2020 was definitely a year, but 2021 is just around the corner.

If you’re a PC gamer in 2020 then chances are you use Steam as one of your platforms of choice to purchase PC games.

Virtual reality.

Moving out of my childhood home to live on my own was going to be tough.

WARNING: If you’ve got pain in your body, listen to it.

I’ve been thinking of buying a 3D printer… It’s something I’ve always been interested in but until recently I haven’t had the space for it.

The world around us is mysterious, magnificent and beautiful.

In these UNCERTAIN TIMES, I’ve found myself with a little more free time than usual because I haven’t needed to commute to an office every day.

Hello fellow human.

You are a bounty hunter dredging through demon-infested Louisiana swamps in an alternate timeline of our 1895 but with some anachronisms thrown in.

Welcome to my second “A Gamer’s Guide to” blog post (check out my previous one on online multiplayer video games).

Welcome to my first “A Gamer’s Guide to…”.

Most games don’t matter.