07.06.2026
Last week was insanely hot (feels like 100+ temps in Boston for 4 days straight!) so I didn't do that much. Which is kind of a lie, I did stuff but it's stuff that's not really that exciting to write on here. I sold two switch games on facebook marketplace and got a nice chunk of change that I spent on beer and pinball (the rest of it going to my in-progress gamecube and snes repairs). Really started a gym and cardio routine after my apple watch scolded me for barely doing any cardio. Got a bunch of other mundane tasks done at home and at work.
Saturday my friends and I trekked up to Maine for our friends' annual 4th of July party. We don't really care that much about celebrating the fourth but it is nice to get together on a summer day. They got a nice little yard that we played a bunch of made up soccer and basketball in. Watched a few world cup games, hung out in a kiddy pool and on a trampoline. Ate a lot of good food and drinks. Lowkey I'm jealous of my friends that have outdoor spaces where they live!! If I had a kiddy pool and a hose to fill it up with I would be unstoppable in the summer.
On the way up to the party we stopped at Pop's in south berwick again so my friends that weren't at the launch can check it out. Still very cool. Ran into my friend who owns it and he was like Oh do you wanna come check out the farm nearby since you didn't get a chance to last time and of course I was like hell yeah. Drove in his little VW pickup truck down to where the pigs hang out but since it was so hot they were all in the shade napping and we didn't see them. Next time! Still a W to ride in his sick ass truck though.
Idk what else to write about this week. I wanted to write a post about the video game industry and how insane and bad it is now but I kind of don't have it in me to do so. A lot of people online treat following news and speculation about which studios are closing or who's getting laid off from their jobs as macabre entertainment which is kind of insane especially when you have friends who were directly affected by it! No empathy for workers from the average game consumer. Bleak!
Also the thing about playstation not printing discs anymore sucks but my devil's advocate take is that people online who are obsessed with "physical media" only care about hoarding and speculating on game values which makes things worse for everyone. I get a lot of posts from game collectors on facebook because it's effective rage bait for me and a lot of them are mad that they won't have any more games to flex on social media, scalp or resell for a profit. Video games will never be seen as a serious art form until game companies stop treating their workers and products as disposable and the consumers start being more critical and none of those things are going to happen unless the industry completely crashes which seems kind of likely at this stage. Let's all go outside and throw a ball around instead.
No links for this week but I'll have the Ireland blog posted by the end of the week I prommy.