Gaming Archive

Five Things


So, for those of you that don’t understand Dutch: the letter below says that the construction company will soon start to refurbish the entrance to our apartment block. They’ve actually started already, although by started I mean that they’ve just demolished a few things.

Updates


It’s been a while since I lasted post here. It’s not that I didn’t want too, but I’ve been busy with so many different things that at the end of each day, I’d lost the will to write about it. A lot has happened though, and I haven’t forgotten about this place. Before taking a [...]

Shopping


Found this one on my phone. I took it during the last Fonzie Lan back in November. During the journey back, things got… ’shifted around’, to put it mildly

Randomness


Random seems to be the word of the week around here. While playing a game of Rummikub we were discussing the best way to shuffle the pieces between games. My brother and I agreed it had to be done rigorously, but during one game my mother used the ‘old-school’ way of shuffling. I wanted it [...]

Why I Still Believe


A little over a year ago I wrote a blog entitled “Why I Believe” which detailed my belief in the existence of extraterrestrials. Reading back, I see someone who’s incredibly enthusiastic about believing in something that he cannot prove. Someone who does not believe in government conspiracies or wacky UFO-stories, but does believe in something [...]

Rest


I kind of destroyed my feet yesterday playing DDR! I don’t think I’ve ever played that much and intense in an arcade since I started playing late last year. And although I’m feeling a few consequences today, I really don’t mind. It was a lot of fun and totally worth it: I even cleared one [...]

Keep coming back


There are so many (PC) games I played over the years, and although only few managed to capture my attention for longer than a few weeks or months, I’m having a difficult time finding that one game that I keep coming back to. Well actually, now that I think about it, the answer is quite [...]