Foo Fighters - Something From Nothing

Rob Zombie - Shake your ass - Smoke your grass

Smashing Pumpkins - To Forgive

Holding back the fool again. Holding back the fool pretends. I forget to forget, nothing is important. Holding back the fool again. ...

Siouxsie And The Banshees - Turn To Stone

The music in this song reminds me of a tune from the game The 7th Guest. I think it's as simple as a keyboard sound being similar. But, I always think of it.

Arcade Fire - Porno

Foreigner - Blue Morning, Blue Day

Valheim - Is Good

VALHEIM Official Site

A new game, now in early access, is taking over on the PC. And, I love it so far. This game is a cross between Minecraft and Skyrim in a world based on Norse mythology. You build and explore to improve your gear and weapons. The world is procedural. Each of the five zones have a boss to fight and new dangers to survive.

Building is intricate and fun, but you will need a lot of resources. It's way more time consuming to collect the things you need to progress than a game like Minecraft. It also feels more dangerous in each new area. So far I think the game has a reasonable balance of grind to reward, but I may change my mind as I advance farther into the game. I waited way too long to fight the first boss. I could have done it way sooner than I did.

I'm now building a new base on the edge of the 2nd boss area, and it looks like getting metal tools and equipment will be very time consuming, but I've only just begun. The game feels amazingly stable and complete for an early access game. I think it's very worth playing in its current form. There should be an amazing set of updates over the next year or two and it should only get better as time goes by. It will also likely get more expensive.

The only big negative I have so far is that it doesn't work on the Mac. It should play fine on any modern mac. It's not that demanding of a game. The developer just don't haven't made a mac port a priority. I really wish this would change with this and many other games.

Peter Murphy - A Strange Kind of Love

Kraftwerk - Home Computer

Half-Life Alyx

I recently got the Valve Index and started playing Half-Life Alyx. Wow! This is an amazing game that happens to be VR. I'm a little over half way through the game and I can't wait to play some more. My legs and feet have been aching from standing for multiple hours playing. Valve have been praised on many occasions for the ground breaking Half-Life series of games. Half-Life Alyx is another game worthy of praise. It feels like a natural fit with the others. But, it also makes VR feel totally normal. The puzzles and fights are all perfectly paced for VR, hard but not impossible. Fun and not frustrating but also not too simple. I have found myself feeling totally immersed in the world. I can't wait to see how the game ends.