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Game review: Darkest Dungeon and their characters

I've stopped playing this game due to how heart breaking it can be. Darkest Dungeon tasks the players with entering parts of an old mansion and killing off the monsters that lie within. It's a tribute to Lovecraft in every form. While the monsters aren't Cthulhu based, the story and backround are based in Eldritch lore. After a baron uncoversancient secrets buried in his family's foundations, he has tunnels opened and researches the abominations that he unearths. The result causes the local town to be destroyed. Fame and glory attracts characters who revisit the abandoned town. You take control of four of these adventurers. The game offers several types ranging from priests, to knights, to bounty hunters all seeking something in the catecombs. But there are four characters that caught my eye that I wanted to talk about. These characters are living stories, their actions and clothes tell the tale that led them to this place. Let's start with the Abomination. One of m...
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Attempt again

 I'll have to go back to work soon. I'm flip flopping between being happy and upset. I like work but I also enjoy the time I have to fool around. I just wish I was mentally healthy enough to enjoy it. It's been a long vacation but it's almost over. This means I'll also have to give up more time to pay for my expenses again. I don't want to work like a dog anymore. But I have no choice. I hope the medicine fixes me by then, I want to be better. These past four months, my birthday, the meeting with other writers, have been hellish. I want to be better. Please let me be better.  I've got this new mantra I've been using that's been helping me out. It helps when the medicine kicks in. I tell myself "I'm not Stephen King." It helps. Especially when I get down on myself for not writing or reading for the day. By afirming to myself my identity, or what I'm not, I can let my hair down a bit. There's no reason for me to torture myself by ...
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Weapons Movie Review

 I've seen Zach Cregger's Barbarian film before this one and I enjoyed it. But I went into this film with low expectations because I heard some people hated the ending. Even with low expectations I was blown away by this film. It's more of a thriller mystery than it is a horror experience. There's ample plot, great gore effects, and fantastic acting that borders on silly. You can tell the people making this film had fun with it. Where do I begin? How about a synopsis? A teacher is accused of hurting children after her entire classroom, except one, disappears one night. All the children get up and walk out their homes at the same night. What I like is the pieces that fall into place. You get several perspectives from the teacher, a father of one of the missing children, a cop, a drug addict, the principal of the school, and the one child that remained. Each perspective gives you a bit of the puzzle and by the end all the loose ends are tied up in a brillaint manner. One ...
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Current affairs with me

 I'm feeling meh. Not better, not worse. Just meh. Like I don't care about what happens. I'm bored beyond my capacity to think which is a shame because I'm behind on a lot of projects that I wanted to work on. There was a manuscript I wanted to write and some games I wanted to finish. But I can't bring myself to do it because I feel meh. It's an empty dullness that I'm actually grateful for. Instead of feeling suicidal or depressed I feel nothing. Null is a good word for it. I wish I could feel better but I feel so lazy and tired. Like I just ate a bunch of chips and want to lie down for a nap.
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Streak

Too tired today. Ill write a review tomorrow.
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Attempt 12 A breakthrough

 I had this idea churning in my head ever since my tooth was cracked. It was a fable about the caution one should take around dentists, those nasty, nasty men in white coats. After feeding myself Stephen King audiobooks I felt ready to tackle the story. Almost 2500 words later and it came out in one long, narrative from a first person view. That's my weakpoint. First person. I can see the residual effects from listening to Stephen King audiobooks. I'm experiencing it right now. And I don't care. It makes my brain feel lighter, like a tonned muscle that's ready to work out. I wonder if the same were to happen if I listened to Frank E. Peretti. He's the Sthephen King of the Christian book market. A talented writer.  I'm sent an email to my writer friend and my parents when I completed the story. I thought it was okay, I noticed some weak points and jotted them down as I was writing. The word "fix" popped up more than a couple times in my story. It's ...
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Attempt 11: Friends

 Another attempt here. I'm feeling better. Maybe it's because my meds are on the way, maybe it's because I've been talking to my friend Max. Max is the nicest man you'll ever meet. He's what I'd call a "comic lord" someone who knows comics inside and out. It's been my dream to earn enough money to give him something to live off of. Why? Because I have the urge to take care of him. He's also what I would call "soft souled." He's too kind on the inside and I worry about him. I shouldn't. I know he can take care of himself. But when you see a friend in need, you want the best for them. I want to help all the people that I care about and not be a burden. Maybe that's why I'm so hard on myself, I want to be better. But, money isn't always the answer. I know that but it's hard to believe when money moves things so easily. If I had more money, I could pay for Max's house so he wouldn't have to worry about ...
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