all the hubbub got me to redownload half-life 1 and honestly... pretty eh! cruised thru past blast pit and it's like i'm just going thru the motions y'know? Truly the Gaming Experience(that moment of flow, that feeling of awe and transfixion) is a fickle, ineffable, uncatchable thing...
not unrelated: i also started a new minecraft world about a week ago and I spawned in not too far from a charming little village clinging into a hillside, with a plateau of sheep overhead that gave way to a craggy cave mouth that went all the way to bedrock after quite some time spelunking and after a few sessions it's just like whump.. all the thrill and desire leave me like a gust of wind.
