Maximum Verbosity

For a long time I was hung up on the visual fidelity and quality of my games. It’s a thought process that has been ingrained in me since a young age — this idea of equating the value of a thing with the quality of its appearance. You could psychoanalyze that for two years, and only chip the edges of that stone, but let’s not go down that path.

Diablo 3 is better than Diablo 2. There, I said it. This is probably the part where I should mitigate that statement to make it more palatable. Something like, "... now that Loot 2.0 is here and the expansion is released," or "... as long as you don’t mind the required connectivity," or comparing the two only in terms of the gameplay expectations of 2014.

Forty feels nothing like what I imagined forty would feel like.

I picked up the guitar for the first time when I was in my very early twenties. It was the days before YouTube and easily accessible internet, so I went to Musicland — you see kids, they used to have these places where you’d walk in and literally buy music off a shelf — bought a book with some chord shapes in it and a book of tabbed out sheet music for Pearl Jam’s Ten album.