She started her day by incinerating her alarm clock with a spell. She cast another to make breakfast, burning a three of spades, and another with a ten of hearts to conjure a cute outfit. The cards burnt themselves in a puff of smoke, and Mars noticed she was almost through this deck, and had no idea what cards she had left. She was getting sloppy.
She checked her phone on the counter and through the cracked screen, saw she had no notifications. No messages, nothing from him. She burned a few more cards making the apartment clean itself and…
Immediate reaction to completing the main storyline for ‘The Witcher 3’ by CD Projeckt RED. It might be a bit messy, and I might update it later with further thoughts. Under the writing are some of my favorite screenshots I took during my time in the world. Also: spoiler free? I think.
2.7.16, 2:02 AM 94.5 hours later and it’s finished, the adventure’s over. An ashen-haired woman smiles from underneath a hood as she grasps her shining new blade. “The flash that cuts through darkness, the light that breaks the night.” The music cues and I am told the testaments…
We’ve all been here before: grinding levels, cleaning up sidequests or watching a cutscene and you suddenly realize: “I’m not having any fun.”
We’ve been here before, too: “Holy crap I have so many games to play! But… I’m just gonna play a little bit more Far Cry 4, just ‘cos.”
Obviously it doesn’t have to be Far Cry 4, but it usually is a game you’re not truly enjoying, but you’re enjoying just enough to keep playing — something about the game is still engaging in a way that makes it hard to move on. There might be no…
Originally published in Anyways Magazine Spring 2016
The political landscape of America has spent the last couple of years steadily, assuredly, burning itself to the ground — razing all reason and blocking out the average citizen to have any impact in the larger workings of the political machine outside of their Facebook feed. We are so saturated with our daily dose of doom that many have simply become complacent in its place in our society, and our place within it. And yet now we see the methodical, mappable rise of the tyrant-clown that is Donald J. …
Cross-posted from my personal blog, Fighting Fires with a Squirt Gun.
I had the apartment to myself for the first time in a while; I started my day with Rooster Teeth’s Lazer Team, which was kind of awful, then watched the melancholic My Girlfriend’s Boyfriend by Mike Birbiglia as detox, forgetting that that particular comedy special is less about the comedy and more is tragi-comedy. I really wanted to watch something else, something amazing, something new. It had been a few days of apathy and cynicism, and I needed something to wake me up. I had settled into the “comfort…
Originally a research paper for a ‘History of Interactive Media’ class at Fitchburg State University, edited to add related hyperlinks and images.
I. Introduction & Definition
It’s morning, and I’ve just arrived in Skyrim. I wear no armor, just simple clothing and footwraps. I carry no two-handed broadsword, just a small iron dagger. No fearsome warpaint adorns my face and no jagged scars tell stories of hard-fought battles won. I have no priceless treasures or magical artifacts, just a handful of gold coins and a single piece of fruit.
I won’t be looting ghoul-infested crypts or rampaging through bandit-occupied forts, I won’t be helping…
Ethan Thibault
Producer, Writer, cranky old man trapped in a twenty-something exoskeleton. www.ethanthibault.com
