09.15.2026
I'm a day late on this because I spent all of last night finishing Big Walk with a big group of friends. Easily one of the best (if not the best) co-op games I've ever played. We started about a month and a half ago, playing weekly with a group of about 7-10 friends each time and slowly made our way through, solving puzzles and just spending time with each other. Most of the games I play with my friends are competitive shooters or fighting games so it was really nice to play something in co-op and it was especially nice to be able to play with such a big group! One of the things I miss most about playing MMOs is being able to do low stakes games with such a big group so it was nice experiencing that again.
I did also get the Halo 1 remake from the library and finished it the day it was due back lol. I had a good time with it, the game itself looked really good (despite performance issues) and it's Halo so it's just fun to play. I would love Halo to be really popular again so I can get all my friends to play it with me more but I don't think Microsoft knows what they actually want to do with it. The video game industry is cooked anyway so the real answer is just playing Halo 3 for the rest of time.
Thursday I brought my dad to pinball league. Some of the guys I play league with are coworkers with an old childhood friend of mine who's dad happens to be college friends with my dad. Long story short they were all convinced to come to league for a night and it was pretty fun. The format that night was flipper frenzy but you could only use one hand to play. At the end of the night my dad was like "that was fun but next time I want to go to a tournament where you get to use both your hands" which made me laugh. As an aside, I've had a bit of a weird relationship with my parents over the last decade or so that we've been working to improve so it was really nice to see them take an interest in my world and come visit. Hopefully we can do it again soon.
I think I'm gonna try to look for a new job soon because I am kind of getting fed up with where I currently am and I still don't know about what's going to happen when my contract runs out next year. Work has been really crazy and I'm not really getting the support I need and I am getting tired of having to micromanage my coworker who can't ever get me what I need on time. So we'll see if a better option pops up somewhere or if things improve here. And ideally it's full time I think I'm done with the contract lifestyle even though I will miss getting paid hourly.
I don't really have links this week sorry. Actually it's fall now and it was crisp 50s this morning so go listen to Turn On The Bright Lights by Interpol because that's my favorite fall album of all time.