A recent exchange I witnessed about a suspension at the Washington Post got me thinking about the absurd way a lotta people talk to and about abuse survivors.

Several opinions about game design are offered by various people in a recent piece in The New Yorker profiling famous video game guy Sid Meier. The article is worth the read even if you have never played one of Meier's games, but many of the opinions in it are things I believe the exact opposite of. The perspective it offers is cohesive and consistent, which is not always the case with games writing and having all of these ideas in one place makes them easier to dissect. Also, I love Civilization, so I am appreciative of the fact that a guy of Meier's age and with his interest in niche strategy games, a genre that often attracts some of the most annoying people ever, is not offering up much worse thoughts here.

There's Taking Up Space, and then there's being a band called Viagra Boys.

Things I saw, listened to, read, or otherwise happened to me in 2020. Well, the things I liked.

https://www.absentmammoth.org began in a much different form all the way back in January. Getting it to where it is today took dozens of hours and occupied most of my free time for several months. Making this website gave me something positive to focus on and has been a sick learning experience. I pushed myself more while working on it than I have with anything else in ages.