Two years ago, in New Mexico. Early morning flight with a hot air balloon 📷. The dogs were barking at us from below, and this single home was standing alone in front of the rest ahead. I loved it there. #mbmar day 17
This was once a road. Now it’s just a quiet path. #mbmar day 16 📷
That nice feeling you get when you look at your blog and see a stream of thoughts, ideas, and pictures. I’m happy I’m here on Micro.blog
A pigeon observing the street with patience before taking flight. #mbar day 15
Updated the Micro.blog guides on the wiki. Still have much more work to do… Pages, best practices, updates to the short articles…
Today was a snowy stormy day, so here’s a nice picture from a walk a few days back. Horizon from NYC. 📷 #mbmar
Games teach you hard life lessons
Today I beat the Fire Bellowback in the Sigma vault in Horizon Zero Dawn. The boss’s weapon: stressful mash-button panic that makes me rage-quit a game and not pick it up for months, if at all. This time, I emerged victorious.
Games 🎮 can teach you life lessons. Hades, a game you have to try right now if you haven’t, (seriously, stop reading, buy and download it, and come back after you’ve died several times) is a masterpiece lesson in never giving up. I don’t think I would beat the Fireback if it wasn’t for the daddy issues in Hades (If you play it you’ll understand).
Facing fears is a lesson no game taught me better than Subnautica (turns out I have a phobia of being under seawater). A game about accepting death? Try What Remains of Edith Finch. Regrets and leaving a better world behind you for those you learn to care about? Try RDR2. In my opinion, the game succeeded where many movies failed.
That’s not to say there aren’t some terrible games out there (actually, I’m not a big fan of HZD, I think it has many issues), but even the bad ones can have some gold nuggets with things to teach you to become a better version of yourself.
When I was a teenager, my parents told me I’ll “grow out” of playing games when I’m older. I’m glad that’s one of the items on the “you won’t do or be X when your older” list, for sure. I don’t think I’ll ever stop playing games or cherish what they have to offer.
The stuff that keeps me connected: my loyal Raspberry Pi file server and my router. #mbmar day 13
As I mentioned a few days ago, I want to start creating S3 videos. Without getting into too many details, S3 is the general name I gave to stuff I create on my blog, wiki, and also on PeerTube and YouTube. The idea is to ramble about the week that passed, mostly as a way of summarizing it to myself for now as a way of practicing editing videos.
Curious?
Shiny cocktails with good people at the bar #mbmar 📷
