gaming

I'm not mad at Valve for the Steam Deck price hike

Valve raised Steam Deck prices and the internet is loud about it. I don't think it's a Valve story — it's a memory market story, and cheap tech is ending.

Turtle WoW's last days, and my own quiet server

Turtle WoW — the most ambitious vanilla WoW project ever built — shuts down in nine days. It's also the reason I need to get back into my own server project.

Heroes: Olden Era — they finally did it

24 years after Heroes III, Olden Era arrived and it's everything I didn't dare hope for — from a kid who was always bad at strategy games.

At some point, gaming to relax became something I had to learn

Gaming to relax sounds automatic. It isn't — and it took me embarrassingly long to figure out why I kept standing up feeling worse than before.

The Steam Deck as a dad purchase, not a gamer purchase

Parenting didn't kill gaming — it made the old way structurally impossible. The Steam Deck didn't fix the schedule. It fixed the structure.