In early 2020, I was forced to work at home due to the quarantine caused by COVID-19. My daughter was just born that year, and I had just gotten a new job. It was a lot of change in my life. Working from home was a double edged sword. The positive: I got to be around my family more. The negative: I got to be around my family more. Not having time away from my wife in particular I feel like didn’t help our relationship too much as I really believe in “absence makes the heart fonder”. I got to see my wife 24/7 as my damn office was out in the living room. So whenever she was at the dining room table or playing with my daughter in the living room, I was always in her presence. Not ideal at all. I wished I could just go back to work in BSG’s dark ass, vampiric office space that had unlimited snacks. Ya know, to hide away from my wife and daughter, so that I could miss them. That’s good logic isn’t it. Becoming parents changes everything. Changes your relationship, dynamics, and priorities. In a good way, but it’s still a lot to handle.

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The idea of writing a top games of 2020 list seemed dumb as hell for me. My daughter was born, I moved to a new city, I started a new job; I was just busy as hell. I got to play some video games, but not too many as I also played a bunch of board games and started delving into some other hobbies. I might’ve been able to make a top 3 list, but even that might’ve been pushing it. Luckily for me, something changed this year. I started getting heavily into playing games on my Switch. I started noticing that incredible indie games that I had wishlisted on Steam and wanted to play were popping up on the Switch. I ended up playing a lot of video games this year, a lot of incredible games. So much so that I managed to make a damn top 10 list! And 8 of those 10, I played on the Switch. Now ain’t that something.

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I said I would write the top 10 games of 2021 list after my first post back, so I started writing a post for just that. But then I decided to write this instead. It is what it is. Anyways, 2021 was fantastic for video games, but holy cow, it was even better for music. When I left Fartsight Studios, I decided to stop watching podcasts while working. It was just way too distracting, and I wanted to take my new job much more seriously. I would be solely listening to music when at work. That’s 4-6 hours more of music a day than I was getting in before. To help aid this, I got rid of my premium Napster account (jeez I sound like an old loser), for a Spotify account. I only did this as a result of having added a smart TV to our house. There was no damn Napster app, so I got Spotify on it. It worked like a breeze, and after several years of Napster, I switched everything over. This was for the better as Spotify really helped turn me onto some of the best and my favorite music as of late.

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