friction vs. the time respecters
The year opened with a bunch of arguments about "friction", which I like the idea of but then its proponents start talking about things like big open worlds without fast travel and bosses where you laboriously memorize animation tells and dodge timings. I try to be generous but there are places they go that I just can't follow. On the other hand!
this year for real
I spent all of last year saying that I should fire up the blog again, the social media ecosystem being what it is (rip Livejournal, nobody's done it as well since) and I had all the pieces lying around so here goes.