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2018, A year in review; Gaming and the Future

You know its funny, 2017 was probably one of the best years ever and going into 2018 I thought that would still be the case, turns out i was wrong, but not in a bad way.. I enjoyed 2018 immensely, i had lots of interesting things happen professionally and a lot of self-reflection personally but it didn't top 2017. To be honest I've been feeling kind of lost, my life since probably about 2014 has been centered around tabletop gaming. Its because of it I have lots of friends and made new ones. I'm still passionate about running my games regardless of the negativity that has occurred along the way. I've always kinda defined myself by my ability to run a game and so when my players didn't enjoy as much as I would have liked it didn't just make me upset it really hurt me. Similarly, when my players had a great time I would be on cloud 9 for the longest time and I would be very happy about it and everything I did in life seemed more fulfilling would. Neither...

Up and Down, mostly Down

Another blog post which means another time for me to reflect on my feelings and thoughts knowing no one is reading this or at the very least maybe one person. Truth is things are not going well. Physically I am fine but, as is the case with most people in the world nowadays, mentally and emotionally I'm not. I'm far from it. I thought getting a therapy service would help and it is but its also one of those app things which is all I can afford. Could use a real person to talk to that is professionally trained to help. Its mostly professional/work related I messed up pretty bad at work and since the mess up I have been on edge and just stressing out about everything wondering how much trouble I'm in or if I'm in any trouble. This isn't the first time this has happened (in this job yes) and it got me wondering more about why it keeps happening aside from my own personal mental instability and the reason is because of the field. I've been in my current field f...

Growing Up

Its strange really, back in February I wrote a post about how I'm back after a long time and then gave a quick update on the last three years of my life. One of things in particular was: "...I've fully delved back into the world of tabletop role-playing games so going forward (if i choose to actually keep this updated) that will be a huge topic I will be discussing. I've been effectively running a wonderful Dnd 5e game for about a year and a half now as well as running another DnD 5e game, running a Star Wars FFG game, AND being a player in a DnD 5e. Suffice to say I'm all in and I thought it would be a harrowing experience but I've actually been balancing pretty well, though I do admit I tend to be consistently tired." Well, here I am 4 months later and everything seems to have dropped. I'm still a player in a DnD 5e game though its a new campaign now and my second character in second campaign, the Star Wars FFG game has been on hiatus since about...

Now then....

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Hello all, its been a while, almost three years actually how time flies. I was going through some of the older posts I made and I'm really glad I tended to come off as optimistic because in truth I wasn't very optimistic. However, talking about optimism makes it easier for me to BE optimistic. I don't know if that is healthy or not but regardless its rather irrelevant considering where I am now. So three years. What has happened? Well I've fully delved back into the world of tabletop role-playing games so going forward (if i choose to actually keep this updated) that will be a huge topic I will be discussing. I've been effectively running a wonderful Dnd 5e game for about a year and a half now as well as running another DnD 5e game, running a Star Wars FFG game, AND being a player in a DnD 5e. Suffice to say I'm all in and I thought it would be a harrowing experience but I've actually been balancing pretty well, though I do admit I tend to be consistentl...

A Journey Of A Thousand Steps (Dedicated to the Class of 2015)

I know its been a while since I had a post on here but this blog is really for those moments where me, as a writer, just want to talk a bit about about my opinions or my thoughts or just plain ranting. If you're following me I say hello to you but if you are not its okay because I'm not on a regular poster so you don't have to hinge on all of my words. But if either of these parties just wants to come here and read some thoughts of a random stranger by all means you are welcome because that is what this is for. That disclaimer being said, onto my topic, well, more like my thoughts. Today I went to the cheesecake factory. I saw loads of college graduates and lots of senior prom people. There was something kinda magical about two different groups of people being in that place but both share so much. Ancient Chinese philosopher and poet, Laozi (or the more westernized Lao Tzu) once said, "A journey of a thousand miles begins with one step." To start you have tw...

Deep discussion Inbound: Moral Relativism

So by now I hope you have all read my first entry on this blog of mine and if not well then welcome to you. This blog has no "theme" it has not "genre" its simply things that are on my mind at the moment and as of right now I have just recently finished watching season 1 episode 14 of the flash and one of the main characters is doing bad stuff because he is thinking of the bigger picture that is to occur in the future. Yeah its time travel and yeah its complicated so I'll just leave it at that.  I personally just want to talk about Morality and Ethics because after seeing the characters "do whatever it takes" attitude I started thinking more. So here you go. Enjoy! I believe no one can really say they are a full on Moral relativist. Moral relativism branches out to three different categories: Descriptive Relativism, Meta-ethical Relativism, and Normative Relativism. Each form of relativism has its own pros and cons and I will have diffe...

Everyone's Got a Story- An Introduction

You wake up in the morning and you get dressed, you brush your teeth, shower, eat, and head out the door.  You go to work from 9 to 5 and you're home by 6. 7 if the traffic was bad.  You sit with your family and eat dinner.  You clean up, maybe shower again, brush, shave, and get ready for bed.  Then you wake up the next morning and you do it all over again.  This is your life. Its routine, mundane, like a broken record at times. Maybe, one of these days, you might think to live a bit dangerously and decide you and your family will go out to dinner today as opposed to eating inside. But that's it. Right? Right?  Or so you think. *insert winky face smiley here* Lets take a look at the story I just mentioned but this time, me, as a writer, will add my own little flair to it. I'll even make it a bit personal just for you. I woke up in the morning and I went into the bathroom and brushed my teeth. This new toothpaste is called "optic white" and I even...