{"id":4964,"date":"2015-01-04T08:00:30","date_gmt":"2015-01-04T13:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=4964"},"modified":"2014-11-26T12:41:32","modified_gmt":"2014-11-26T17:41:32","slug":"new-years-resomolutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=4964","title":{"rendered":"New Year&#8217;s Resomolutions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s 2015. Last year was a big ol&#8217; pile of crap for me, hopefully this one turns out better. But hey, let&#8217;s not dwell on past miseries. Rather, let us look into the future with optimistic eyes.<\/p>\n<p>Last year was the Year of Nintendo 64 here on TE. It was an&#8230; experience. Sometimes things turned out well, other times my hopes were dashed quite thoroughly. One time I actually got so frustrated that I pulled a cartridge (that shall not be named) out of the console and chucked it across the room. Ahh&#8230; good times.<\/p>\n<p>So with that in mind, here&#8217;s this years theme: The Year of Overdue Attention. It&#8217;s the year of buying fewer new games, and playing the ones that I already own but haven&#8217;t touched at all. This year isn&#8217;t about nostalgia, it&#8217;s about clearing up a little bit of my hideous backlog.<\/p>\n<p>There are hundreds of games in my Steam library. Many of them unwanted hangers-on that came to be there through Humble Bundles that I bought for other, more attractive\u00a0games. These are not the games I mean. I&#8217;m talking about the ones that have literally done nothing but sit on the shelf and collect dust since I bought them. Cases that have never been cracked open. Discs that have never been spun.\u00a0ROM that hasn&#8217;t been read.\u00a0Let&#8217;s have a look at the short list.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>Wii U<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Assassin&#8217;s Creed III<\/li>\n<li>Batman: Arkham Origins<\/li>\n<li>The Wonderful 101<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\">DS \/ 3DS<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Final Fantasy III<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #339966;\">Xbox 360<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Incredible Hulk<\/li>\n<li>Mass Effect III<\/li>\n<li>Tomb Raider (2014)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">PS3<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Drakengard 3<\/li>\n<li>Ico<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0436bf;\"><strong>PS2<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Castlevania: Lament of Innocence<\/li>\n<li>Siren<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c97900;\"><strong>PSP<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dead Head Fred<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is not the complete list, but rather the ones that I want to focus on. Now, most of these are big, meaty games. Considerably larger and longer than the average N64 game. I do not expect to finish them all. I chose twelve, but I am not holding myself to doing one a month. It&#8217;s simply me trying to justify all the money that I sunk into these games, only to end up ignoring them.<\/p>\n<p>Please note that I do have a second resolution: And that is to write and draw at least one comic strip a month. I went over this intent briefly before, and I really can&#8217;t flesh it out any more than I already have. Like, this paragraph is already longer than it needs to be. The games are just for me, but the comics are something that I get to share with the whole internet, so I hope that you&#8217;re looking forward to them!<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s my long-range plan for 2015. Here&#8217;s hoping it&#8217;s a pretty dry year for video games, because I clearly have way more than I need already.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s 2015. Last year was a big ol&#8217; pile of crap for me, hopefully this one turns out better. But hey, let&#8217;s not dwell on past miseries. Rather, let us look into the future with optimistic eyes. Last year was the Year of Nintendo 64 here on TE. It was an&#8230; experience. Sometimes things turned &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=4964\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New Year&#8217;s Resomolutions<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics","category-video-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4964"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4975,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4964\/revisions\/4975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}