Artemis' Bog - writing

In defense of scope

Unknown — Sun, 07 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Today (bear with me, I know it's pretty much the dark and stormy nights of essays), I felt like writing. As I begin writing this article, my very own country once again stands on the edge of the abyss. As a result, I decided to come back to the familiarity of my video game rants.

I do not hope to convince, only to express yet another yearning within me. As I have been experimenting with many formats, and touched a bit about this on my Why I write article, I open a window into myself, and wish that this piece is a seed from which more may grow.

What I crave, what I desire, what I long for is better scoped games.

Structure is a lie. Linearity is for weaklings. So I will say the big bad phrase and then immediately proceed to ignore it: I have never once in my life played an open world game that was good because it was an open world game, only in spite of it.

I miss the web

Unknown — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000

I promised. It's here. Spoiler alert, it's just going to be the usual but it is a direct sequel to an article intended as such from the start. So it's a new thing I'm doing.

That's probably better than most series I'm waiting for, so you have that going for you

-- Alfredo, about the previous article

Why I write

Unknown — Sun, 09 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000

I love writing. That's not the only thing I love in life. I also love my wife, our cats, or pizza. Writing is not the only activity. I love playing video games, I write about that quite a lot. I love having interesting conversation with nice people. I love complaining too, which brings me back to writing. I wanted to be an author when I was a child, amongst other dreams, some realized, some in progress, and others lost.