The fun thing about blogs is that you write in them as if you have an audience in order to feed that egoistic part of your psyche that craves attention. Superficially fulfilling as that is, I’ve come to learn that I also like keeping track of my progress through life whether anyone is paying attention or not because writing ideas down is way better than losing them in the mental ether and, on an extremely meta bent, it gives you a sense of purpose, if inconsequential to anyone but you
. I’ve known for a long while that the former is a fallacy and that the latter is what I should be seeking but never pulled the trigger and would, inevitably, stumble because I did what I thought I was supposed to instead of doing what I should have.
Which is to say, in this, the year of our Lord 2025, I’ve decided to resuscitate Obtain Potion for the right raison d’etre.
I totally used a thesaurus to make “reasons” sound way smarter. Some things never change.
Nobody in my house wants to hear my thoughts on games – not my wife, not my kids and not my dogs. Well, maybe the dogs if I bribe them with a treat. But, their attentiveness is totally dictated by what’s in my hand. But I digress.
My days of dreaming of being some popular games writer is long behind me, not only because it’s not fiscally responsible but because it’s a dying profession in general, so I’m content with chronicling my adventures through my overly large backlog for shits and/or giggles. At the very least I get these thoughts out of my head and do something constructive at the same time, at best some of these obscure-ass games I have could get a little spotlight shined on them in a sea of too much. Maybe I could even become the top search item on Google for like Bombuzal! Probably not something to aspire to, but a guy can dream.
Mostly, I want to talk about games and what they mean to me in layman terms that make sense to an audience I may someday accrue and because there’s a lot of jargon in games media that makes me cringe. I can live my life without hearing the works “sicko” and “bespoke” ever again. My posts will probably sound a little reviewish, but that’s only because that’s the nature of retelling your experiences. However, I don’t have a rubric or style guide I need to follow, so I won’t be hitting a set number of points (i.e. how a game looks, plays or it’s, uh, impactful…ness? Is that a word, now?) as I blather on. Rather, I’m just gonna shoot from the hip and talk about what I found interesting. I mean interesting in the truest sense of the word: there are good games that can be bad and bad games that are good. Or games that are neither, which are the hardest fucking things to write about.
Regardless, I will write about games when I have time to; I used to stick to a Monday/Wednesday/Friday schedule, but I have four boys in various stages of their lives that keep me too busy to do otherwise. Also: I don’t get paid for this. Unless…you wanna throw me a couple bucks? Maybe I could finally afford to keep my own domain name. Obtain Obtain Potion. Heh.
I’ll also branch out into other things like books, photography and pontificating about future games as I go as well. Wherever my whims take me and so long as I’m enjoying it. So welcome dear imaginary reader to the revamped and from the heart Obtain Potion. Please enjoy!
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