Pixel Protein Renaissance

I am not a crypto expert. I just can't stop finding it interesting.

I can't stop finding crypto interesting, even now. The charts crowd, the fundamentals debate, the mechanics underneath — and yes, the scams are fascinating too.

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.

The accidental reader

I was never a bookworm — too much energy, not enough stillness. Then two kids arrived, gaming got complicated, and my wife's bookshelves happened to be right there.

I did a 3-day water fast. My body had thoughts.

A dad with chronic migraines seizes a rare prepared window to try a 72-hour water fast and sees what his body actually does when left to its own devices.

I don't even know how to start writing about this game

Six years of notes, and it finally has a design document. Two extinct civilizations, a hybrid creature, a soul-devouring false god — this is Papniskin.