Incidentally, Happy Birthday to me! Now on with the show... I don't know when it happened exactly. 2015 or 2016 maybe? The exact point of origin is unclear. At some point around this time the rate at which I was playing and completing games was overtaken by the rate of new releases that I simply had to play. Free time was at a premium, the games industry itself was shifting into the live service online-only time sink model we see everywhere now and indie development was producing some soon to be big-names. Between reviews, articles, tweets and streams, the intrigue for established titles and new names swiftly took shape. All channeled through online sales and price-cuts which combined to form a hulking hybrid hell bent on eating up my free time.
An ongoing indictment of the internet in blog form.