Ramble for September 1, 2022

Now that the pressure is off and Blaugust 2022 is in the rearview mirror, I find that I am drawn to ramble a bit. Nothing major, but I figured that I have a couple of things I wanted to babble about for a few words, so here goes…

First off is my Angels. While they’ve continued to struggle as they have since mid-May, there is some hope that things may turn around. Other than a sweep of Toronto and winning two outta 3 from the Yankees, I am happy to see that Artie Moreno is looking to sell the team. I’ll have to do some research to see what the record for the team has been under Artie’s control, but pretty much they have been a 3rd rate team for the past six years – other than Mike Trout and Shohei Ohtani, that is. I am really hopeful that a new owner will come in and want to make a winning team out of them…not like everyone in baseball knows what they need -> starting pitching. Anyway, it will be good to see if we can get an angel investor for the Angels that will turn them around and help them become a winning team again.

Another item of interest for me today is my reinvestment in reading comics. While I haven’t jumped back in with both feet, I have done some research, found a few websites, and am trying to get back into reading some of the early DC and Marvel stories. Since I’m still subscribed to DC Universe Infinite and Marvel Unlimited, I figure it’s a good idea to use those subscriptions rather than waste the money. And I figure there is no reason not to start with good stories and origins so that I can get a better picture of the heroes from both universes.

Anyway, a couple of days ago, I read through the first appearances of Batman and Superman, and today I looked at the first issue of Batman from 1940. Of course, it starts with a retelling of the origin story. Thomas and Martha Wayne were brutally murdered by a thug looking to steal her jewelry. Such a sad start to a story and certainly a call to action. Basically, little Bruce could have withered and crawled into a shell of himself, he could have lashed out and taken out his loss on the world to make everyone pay, or he could do what he ended up doing…becoming a champion for victim’s rights, a defender of the innocent, and a terror to criminals everywhere. I wonder what he would do if he were a child now in our culture of victimhood and blame?

Finally, I wanted to touch on the status of my Minecraft adventures and something I realized that I’m gonna have to think more about. I pretty much put the brakes on Minecraft but not because I was not enjoying myself. Instead, it was because I seemed to run into a wall of death. Somehow I got myself into a situation where I kept dying, and I was kinda frustrated—dying from drowning, dying from lava, dying from spiders, dying from too many different things. I saved the seed of the world and am planning on restarting, but I need to screw my head on better and recognize that death is just a part of the game. And I need to plan things out a bit better, I think. Anyway, as I was dying and getting frustrated, I realized that I have really grown to shy away from death in games. I’ll take a deeper look at this in another post, but I think with my gaming in Wurm Online and Eve, where death is painful, and I feel anxiety over dying, I have started to turn away from games where I die too much. I want to overcome that so I can play games like Elden Ring and Dark Souls, but I have to take a look at things to get a better understanding of my gaming going forward.

Anyway, that’s all I have for today. I’m hoping to ramble some more soon, and In any case, I’m looking forward to making the rest of today a good one, and I hope you all have a great day.

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