What Video Game Did I Play Yesterday?

About

Here is my button, made by Gummy of The Gumball Machine here on Neocities! Please feel free to link me- I'm hoping to build a cute page for friends' buttons soon!

Also, here is my Switch friend code. SW-2640-7857-4015

Hello! I have no real reason to run this website, so this, in turn, is kind of a pointless About page. My job is pretty standard and not so bad, but I still felt really stressed out about it every night. Worrying about what might happen at work the next day, which is mostly a completely unfounded fear, was making it hard to enjoy all of the time when I wasn't working. I decided that I should try harder to do something fun every day and see if that helped.

When I was in grad school, one of the professors talked about teaching a freshman level course on gaming, where one of the assignments was to have students keep a game log, recording their daily impressions of the assigned games. Even though that was probably aimed more at introducing students to college level critique and analysis, I thought it sounded like a fun idea, so it stuck in my head for a few years.

More recently, I read an article about Neocities on Polygon, which you can read here, and even though I am not thinking so deeply about this service, either, it looked fun to play with. Since I want to learn some HTML and CSS, it seemed fun and interesting.

Combining those two things, I got the idea to make this website as a way to deliberately waste time and enjoy myself. It's enjoyable to make grainy, 56k friendly screenshots of modern games running on modern technology, and I also like sitting back and deciding how to make my page best look like an obscure Sanrio character threw up on it after a cotton candy binge. The games are fun, too, but if I didn't like the website part of it just as well, what would be the point of all this?

Nothing important is here, but if you are reading it, thanks!

About page last updated in December 2022