On Gaming, Passion, and the Constant Need for New Beginnings

Jan 01, 2023

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Screencap from Fire of Love, a documentary on two volcanologists whose lives revolved around each other and their work. Here, the closed captions read "When you could die at any moment", because their work had constant perils.

I’ve been thinking a lot about video games these past few days.

I couldn’t figure out why at first, until I realized that I’m approaching the five-year anniversary of my first day in Colombia: January 4, 2018. That was my birthday, for which I’d gifted myself the promise of a new beginning, after a miserable struggle to try to “make it” in academia, and …

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