The Pukester!

There's no more fitting an image for getting this place back on track than this:

pukeamania is dead!

My best intentions of writing about dated pro wrestling have failed. This is pretty common for me, all my life my interests have stayed the same, but have always had me as the knot in a tug-o-war. Sometimes I download a terabyte a month of wrestling videos and get phone calls from my ISP, and sometimes I spend whole weekends gaming. I have a good number of hobbies but I tend to give one more attention than another for extended periods of time before switching to another. As such, I am trying to focus my writing here on what's interesting me at the moment as opposed to a specific topic.

Much of this year I've spent doing two things with my free time; helping restart The Mr. Roboto Project, and exploring board games. In a way these have complimented each other well, and giving attention to both of these things together has really pushed me toward sandwiching community organizing with gaming. Though I still find time to watch wrestling and science fiction, go to the cinema, read comics, and find some new music, all kinds of things teenage weirdos do.

Board gaming, for me, is a progression/evolution of my years spent playing Magic: The Gathering. They have all but replaced Magic to me and I couldn't be happier about it. Magic is a game I learned in sixth grade and have revisited periodically throughout my life (see paragraph 1), however my latest stint with it caused the game to grow so stagnant with me that when I would devote hours or days to playing it, I would enjoy very little of that time. Board gaming on the other hand offers a seemingly unlimited number of options to match moods and tastes. Past that I find it inspiring, I tear through rule books and have spent a bit of time exploring design and social aspects of gaming (playing).

I'm looking forward to this new direction here and hoping I can write a bit more frequently.