Having lived in Minnesota my whole life-- so naturally, the entire time he's been governor-- I have a lot to say about him. First off, he's the one person in the entire country dumber than Cackula. He has a reputation, even among Democrat voters in my state, for being the most stupid person in politics. Between his obvious low IQ and his penchant for copycat North Korean-style authoritarianism during the WuFlu Scamdemic, people in the state started hilariously calling him "Dim Tim Walz".
The second notable thing about him is that he has zero views, ideology, perspective, opinions, or policy positions of his own. He's been nothing but an empty receptacle for the completely zany, outlandish, caricature-esque wackos actually running the show in Minnesota politics. Sound familiar? And now one can understand why he was selected by the Democrat billionaire donors: he will quite literally do whatever you say, no matter how outlandish, just like Cackula herself. He's perfect, just like she is.
So the Democrats have Count Cackula and Dim Tim to call "leadership". What a ticket!
In gaming news, I've completely abandoned modern gaming and have shifted towards building up a PSX collection. So far I've reviewed "Ridge Racer" and "Rayman". I have "Warhawk", "Suikoden", and "Tekken 3" on the way. On the Nintendo 64 side, I ordered one of those "Everdrive 64 x5" multi-carts. I was going to opt for a "SummerCart64", but the "x5" does everything I need, and was available on Amazon where I have a zillion dollars' worth of points accumulated. Thus far I've been reviewing games mostly available via the Switch Online emulator.
I'm currently playing through "Turok". I couldn't find it in spite if it having been advertised-- turns out one needs to install a second Nintendo 64 emulation application, called the "Mature" app. Is that not the most Nintendo thing, ever? I'd practically let a three year-old play "Turok", haha, there are Roblox games way more violent! But Nintendo has to lock away the ferocious "Turok" behind a special gate, like the porn section at a movie rental location!
The other system I've gotten back into is the Atari Lynx. I bought one many years ago, bought four games and loved them all, then set it aside. I pulled it out a couple of weeks ago and remembered how good it is. I got a $220 quote via an eBay seller to fully recap it for me plus install one of those "BennVenn" screen mods-- I'm asking wifey and the kiddos to do that for me for my birthday in October. Expect a flurry of Lynx reviews in the subsequent months after that, as I build up a mostly "complete-in-box" collection. Incidentally, I tried playing Lynx on the Steam Deck OLED, but the screen on that device is so huge the games look ridiculous, with two-foot tall pixels.
Finally, I wrote to a different friend-- TimeMage, the one who is doing those awesome Game Boy Advance reviews for the 'Wharf-- about that phenomenon of, "I have a giant list of ROMs to play, and suddenly I don't want to play anthing." I thought what he wrote back was very profound:
"As far as having too many games and psychology goes, I think I know what you mean. There definitely is some sort of opulence factor with owning too many things. The more you own, the less you actually do. People with thousands of steam games that only play like 2 or 3.
I'm going to go on a whim and say that this isn't really 'psychology' but rather 'religious'. Why do I say that? because there is actually a cardinal sin describing it perfectly: [Sloth] We often don't think about lazyness when we think about sin, lust and greed usually get the forefront, but sloth and gluttony do exist, often favoring each others company.
Whereas gluttony is more about accruing more, sloth is about not doing anything.
This fits perfectly with the attitude of having thousands of games and not playing any of them. My suggestion is to just try to kick that thought process out of your brain by habit. Sloth hates regiments and action, so forcing yourself into little actions will get you going so you can take on bigger ones, like playing games you don't want to play because of slothfulness."
I'm going to go on a whim and say that this isn't really 'psychology' but rather 'religious'. Why do I say that? because there is actually a cardinal sin describing it perfectly: [Sloth] We often don't think about lazyness when we think about sin, lust and greed usually get the forefront, but sloth and gluttony do exist, often favoring each others company.
Whereas gluttony is more about accruing more, sloth is about not doing anything.
This fits perfectly with the attitude of having thousands of games and not playing any of them. My suggestion is to just try to kick that thought process out of your brain by habit. Sloth hates regiments and action, so forcing yourself into little actions will get you going so you can take on bigger ones, like playing games you don't want to play because of slothfulness."