Why Red Dead Online Still Makes Me Mad – A Love Story Gone Wrong
You know that feeling when you watch something with incredible potential just… die? Not all at once, but slowly, like watching a beautiful old building...
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Finally Got Around to Amazon’s Fallout Show – Construction Guy’s Take on Vault Life
Never thought I’d be sitting here at 52 years old getting genuinely excited about a video game TV show, but here we are. My daughter’s...
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How SimCity Taught Me Systems Thinking at 40 (And Why I Can’t Stop Building Digital Cities)
I’ve mentioned before that I came to gaming backwards – discovered it as an adult, then worked my way through gaming history. But there’s one...
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How 90s Modding Communities Changed Everything (And Nearly Broke My Computer)
The first time I tried modding a game, I destroyed my computer so thoroughly I thought I’d fried the motherboard. This was around 2012, when...
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That Fallout Episode That Made Me Stand Up and Yell at My TV Like an Idiot
Settled down Tuesday night to watch Fallout episode six with my usual setup—beer, leftover pizza from lunch, and absolutely zero expectations that I’d end up...
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Playing Left Behind DLC vs Watching HBO’s Take – A Late Bloomer’s Honest Comparison
I fired up the Left Behind DLC sometime in early 2014, probably six months after I’d finished the main game. My daughter had been bugging...
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Fallout TV Show Episode 8 Hit Me Like a Sledgehammer to the Gut
Man, I thought I’d seen some heavy episodes in this Fallout series, but “Shadow of the Past” just about knocked me flat. Been watching this...
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How a Construction Guy Got Hooked on Digital LEGO and Never Looked Back
First time someone mentioned Minecraft to me was around 2013, I was working a job site downtown and this young electrician, Danny, wouldn’t quit talking...
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Why I Pay for Both Xbox Game Pass and PlayStation Plus (And You Probably Shouldn’t)
Look, I’ll be the first to admit this is probably stupid. Here I am, a 52-year-old construction foreman who didn’t even touch a video game...
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Why I Wake Up at 5 AM to Hunt for Plastic Cartridges
My ex-wife used to think I’d completely lost it. There I was, 43 years old, sitting in my truck at 5:30 in the morning with...
