Author: DrewUniverse

  • End of Year 2021 – General Update

    I knew that between flaring politics and the needlessly-long pandemic that life would be challenging for myself and most everyone else. Yet for some reason this year still felt like more strain than I anticipated. I spent so much time playing catch-up between everything going on, that I had little room to work on my…

  • The Overdue Return To Blogging

    Greets again, at long last! At this point in my life I accept that unexpected hiatuses happen and that’s okay. I could go into a long explanation, but I will put that on-hold for now. Suffice to say that the COVID-19 pandemic took priority. Several months ago, or perhaps it was late 2020 (what is…

  • Video Game Closures and Sunsetting

    One of the many, many things that is tilted about the video game industry is the willingness – and sometimes necessity – to close or sunset creative titles. Instead of improving the game to be “worth more money” they are often shut down in favor of existing game titles that make more money. Yes, big-budget…

  • On Fandoms: Loyalty, Principle & the Nuance In-Between

    Today I came across an intriguing question on the Legend of Dragoon subreddit. A person asked if they were the only one who upvoted just about everything on the subreddit just because they liked the game and were happy people keep talking about it. At the time of writing, the post has garnered nearly 100…

  • The Obligatory “I Haven’t Blogged in Awhile” Post.

    Of the blogs I’ve come across since I was young, most of them ended up having random periods of inactivity. Life gets in the way, people forget, and “insert reason here.” It’s common, if not normal. What starts out as an exciting new adventure will inevitably have abrupt halts or change in some way. Yet,…