Dueling Analogs » Getting Older

Work and Play

Steve Napierski — Sat, 06 Apr 2013 00:00:10 +0000

I’ve reached staging four of this where work is my play. Looks the same as stage three to the untrained observer.

Just When You Think It’s All Clear…

Steve Napierski — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 14:53:00 +0000

I was going to post this over the weekend, but I didn’t have the time. Seriously. Art imitating life imitating art.

It’s actually been a few weeks since I have fired up any console to do more than play our Friday night family movie. But don’t cry for me Argentina, it’s not as if my life has been completely devoid of gaming. I finished Shantae: Risky’s Revenge for the iPhone last week and have been pounding through the achievements for Wizorb on Steam over the past month…I’m currently at 15 out of 20 and I have a global ranking in the game of #18. With that said, I only played Shantae: Risky’s Revenge for about four hours and my grand total for Wizorb stands at under eight. Which gives me an average of twenty-four minutes of gaming a day for the last calendar month. Not bad or is it.

Obviously things change and so does what and when we can do it. I think as early as four years ago I was able to squeeze in one to two hours of gaming a night on weekdays and anywhere from four to six hours of gaming on the weekends. That averages to be about 80 hours a month of gaming time or two hours and forty-five minutes of gaming a day.

Am I bitter? Not really. Do I miss it? Most definitely. But since spending time with and providing for my family is the main reasons for my overall lack of time to game, at least there’s a good reason why.

Getting a New Game

Steve Napierski — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 13:20:00 +0000

This theme is becoming more and more common in my everyday life.

On February 25, 2008 I bought Rogue Galaxy for the Playstation 2 from Amazon. Over four years later, that game is still unwrapped and sitting on the shelf mocking me. I have bought, beating and traded new games since then, but this game is one of an ever going trend in my gaming life.

My theory is that one day I will be able to play this vast collection of games I’ve amounted over the years. Whether this theory holds true or not in the long run is still up for debate, but in the short term I can still dream.

Buyer’s Remorse

Steve Napierski — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 13:02:00 +0000

I honestly should be getting ready to leave for Intervention in ten minutes, but I wanted to create this comic/post real quick keeping with the this week’s theme of Gaming That May Never Happen.

I’m actually thinking about gathering a full list of games that I own and will never play. Might be interesting to see it all actually written out in front of me.

How long do you think your list would be if you did the same?