Club PA Newsletter #65 (Patreon)

JULY

This one is coming pretty late in the month, because we weren't really here for most of it.  We planned vacations for the same exact time without once communicating about it which I think stands as a powerful index of our psychic and spiritual union.

I never really needed to consider vacation strategically before, but then I never had the level of responsibility I do now.  It's something I need to learn how to do in order to continue doing everything else, even if it feels kinda bad at first.  There are certainly portions of my job that don't track as "work," and so taking a break of any kind felt… I don't know.  Extravagant, I guess.  Where I've gotten to now, and I grant that this may not be my Final Form, is that these ethereal tasks - mental ones, interpersonal ones, worry, constantly clapping in order to keep a fairy alive - constitute exertions even if they don't look like it.  It's something I have to learn to respect.

Anyway, hi.  Life is weird.

Strip, though: Ultimately, it was the dialogue that killed Mike's affection for Dragon Quest Builders 2.  I think they've got a miracle formula here and wish there was less text and less content padding, but eventually it just choked itself out for him.  I basically carried him through the first chapter of the game on my back to get him to the multiplayer portion, but now he quit and my investment is RUINED.  There's probably a metaphor in all this.        

(CW)TB