Keeg

it wasn't balanced!

Chess was fine but it wasn't balanced!We need more design! We need more design!

Enter Chess 2: The Sequel, released in 2014 by Dave Sirlin, of Sirlin Games. That's right, the mastermind who rebalanced Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix (2008). This qualifies him to make the sequel Chess 2: The Sequel because chess is a fighting game.

Shut up, listen, shut up. I know what you want. You want CHESS. Well, close your eyes, imagine chess. What did you imagine? Was it this?!

we as a society were never truly ready for David Sirlin's vision

Commission for @yorigami ! Thank you so much!

Final Fantasy VIII stream. Squall and Rinoa are working on opening up to each other. They're trying. Really. Please root for them. Or pray for them.

Something I've been thinking about lately is how to channel vague concepts like "motivation" and "focus" into actual "routine" and "practice."

And I realize now that you kind of have to let yourself just be a freak about something.

Of course, I say "freak" with nothing but half-joking love, but I really do mean it.

I'm starting to question whether we should always frame people's accomplishments and skills through purely sanded-off positive language like "passion" and "drive" and "expertise." I think those things are definitely true, but I think that maybe a more neutral way to frame it is that those people channeled their obsessions and fixations and weren't too embarrassed to see them through.

I've been thinking about this lately in creative pursuits like writing, art, and music. But I've also been thinking about it when I go to the gym.