Late to the Party - Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture

I love video games, but it's rare for me to play them right when they are first released. Normally it takes me a somewhere from a few months to a few years to get around to playing to a game. I've got a considerable backlog of games that I've been meaning to play and it hasn't been until recently that I've been able to start chipping away at the list. With that in mind, I've created a series of posts called Late to the Party, wherein I discuss the games that came out in the preceding years that I'm finally getting around to experiencing. Today's entry in the series is Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture, which was one of the free games available in November 2016 for PlayStation Plus subscribers. Downloadable games like Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture are normally not available for rental unless they get a disc release in the future, and unfortunately this means I pass over most of them, but thanks to PlayStation Plus I got a chance to play a game that I otherwise would never experience.

Back to Work

Back to the slave shift. Back to the grind. Back to everything I want to escape. Back to unproductive days in front of the screens of others. Back to hours wasted on meaningless tedium. Back to being robbed of life’s most precious resource. Back to my soul slowly dying inside of me. Back to talents shriveling in atrophy. Back to appearing positive on the outside but feeling dead inside. Back to the worst part of my existence. Back to work.

We Are Pigeons

Like I said yesterday, I won’t be publishing anything about the elections results for at least a week, if at all. Instead, I’ve got a story for you.

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On the right side of this website you’ll see in image in the About Me box that I use as my profile photo on Blogger and a few other services. There’s an interesting tale as to how I started using the We Are Pigeons image, and I thought I’d share it today.

Election Day

Today the American Republic stands at a juncture point. Today we choose who will lead us for the next four years, with the two leading candidates having demonstrated themselves to be supremely unfit for this role. On one hand we have a corrupt politician who has proven herself above the law, and on the other hand we have a populist buffoon who can’t keep his mouth shut. Neither is trustworthy, but after today one of them will be our president-elect. May God have mercy on us.

A Date with Destiny

I hardly slept Saturday night. It was the realization that I have a date with destiny. Assuming my information is correct, this next Saturday I will be contending with a foe I have read and heard much about, but up to this point never actually engaged with myself. This may be the first of many encounters, or it may be both the first and the last. As I type these words a panoply of strategies and tactics are surging through my mind, each with their own merits and I am struggling to nail down a battle plan. I will seek the wisdom of others, and I have a few days to prepare, but no one can anticipate every possible scenario. This next Saturday, destiny will come to me, whether I am ready or not. I shall not falter. I must not.

Late to the Party - LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens

I love video games, but it's rare for me to play them right when they are first released. Normally it takes me a somewhere from a few months to a few years to get around to playing to a game. I've got a considerable backlog of games that I've been meaning to play and it hasn't been until recently that I've been able to start chipping away at the list. With that in mind, I've created a series of posts called Late to the Party, wherein I discuss the games that came out in the preceding years that I'm finally getting around to experiencing. Today's entry in the series is LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens, referred to hereafter as just The Force Awakens.

Bethesda Reviews

A decent-sized ruckus erupted recently when Bethesda, the publisher of such notable games as Dishonored, Fallout, Doom, and Skyrim, published a blog post stating that they would not be sending out advanced copies of their next two games to the media. It’s a very short post that only takes a minute to read, and I’ve included a screenshot of it below for those who are curious about it.

20 Weeks

Last week I published my 400th writing piece to this blog. In doing so I passed yet another milestone, but it also got me thinking again about the future of El Progreso Del Peregrino. Back in June, approximately 100 writing pieces ago, I published a post about how I was starting to feel that it was time to move on from this blog and create a new website. That feeling has been building steadily since then, and lately I find myself dwelling on it more and more. Thinking about doing something will only take you so far, however. If idea is to become reality, it requires action. With that in mind, I’ve set a new goal. The goal is to have created a new website before the publishing of my 500th post to this blog. The new website doesn’t have to be live, or have all the content of El Progreso Del Peregrino transferred over yet, or have its layout finalized—it just has to exist. Of course, I’d love it if the new site was live and had all the old blog’s content and looked amazing, but I know it will be a slow process, so I’ve giving myself a reasonable amount of leeway with this goal. Assuming I keep to my pace of 5 posts published each week, it will take 20 weeks for me to reach my 500th writing piece. I thus have 20 weeks to take a dream and make it real. 20 weeks to begin a new era of writing, and change the world forever (ok, maybe not change the world forever, but humor me in this fantasy).

Nintendo Switch

Two weeks ago it looked like the official announcement of Red Dead Redemption 2 was going to be the video game story of that week, but then on October 20th Nintendo stole the thunder with the reveal of their next console, the Nintendo Switch. I assume that as this point just about everyone has seen the reveal trailer for the Switch, but just in case anyone hasn’t, I’ve embedded it below. Disappointingly, the Switch trailer did not utilize the music of a certain Will Smith song by the same name.

Voting

This past Friday I filled out my ballot, and soon thereafter it was sent out. I won’t tell you who and what I voted for, but I will tell you how it went. Where I live in Colorado, the ballot is two oversized pieces of paper, with three sides of those two pages covered in things to vote on. In addition to the presidential choices, I had the privilege of voting on US Senate and House seats, various local government posts, the retention of individual judges, and a slew of state ballot initiatives and constitutional amendments. Much like tax returns, voting in America can appear rather daunting at first, but just requires a person to take it one piece at a time, and slowly grind through the form until it’s complete. With that in mind, I grabbed the official state ballot information booklet that came in the mail, opened up a web browser to research additional information, and then started the long process of filling in the ballot, section by section.