Robot Jazz

  Well, this was unexpected.  I never thought I would be writing two  posts about a game I only dabble in, which is to say No Man's Sky.  Back on July 28, I wrote a piece about how NMS  was getting me to appreciate the less loathsome aspects of summer, the worst season of all. Now, as I sit on the precipice of Labor Day, the unofficial end of summer in America, I am once again compelled to write a piece, but this time about  Hello Games' recent update,  Voyagers  — a content drop that is blowing up the internet as I write this.  🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀 Voyagers  is not the largest update Hello Games  has ever released, but it might be the most consequential since base building was added to the game oh so long ago.  Voyagers  arrived with what is often considered the mic-drop of space games: incorporating spaceship interiors into the game for a maximum of immersion.  In a game that long had spaceships only interactable from the fa...

Here I sit during another warm and humid summer day, sipping a Tom Collins, and trying to recall how many days are left in summer (a dreaded sixty-four).  As someone who eschews air conditioning, I've got my fans blowing with abandon, as I try to keep the hairshirt of humidity at bay.  Likewise, I got my elderly but cool-running Chromebook as a companion to complement my furry feline friend, who is the only creature I know who despises summer more than I do. There are rumors of thunderstorms this evening, and rumors of rumors of thunderstorms as well, but at the moment, I continue to suffer from the baleful gaze of the sun as it continues to take an interest in making me as uncomfortable as possible.  It knows that I oppose its seasonal tyranny, this ridiculous charade known as 'summer' where people walk around with pained smiles as they reassure themselves, and everyone they meet, that summer is the best season, pinky swear and all.   🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞 It is at times ...