My Dad was in a car accident two weeks ago. Just rolling from a standstill when the light went green and someone buzzed the red and t-boned him. Two broken ribs and totaled car, but thankfully he was otherwise unharmed. He is on the mend and we went to pick out a new car three days later.
I’ve worked in insurance for too long to know if “indemnity” is a word normal people are familiar with. If they aren’t or you aren’t, it is the contractual obligation to make someone whole again after some sort of loss. Pain and suffering has a definition and covers an objective and subjective amount of money related to your pain and bills associated with it. But no one is willing to insure your time and inconvenience.
Need to get a family member to drop you at the rental place, spending 20 minutes on hold with the autobody shop, or being forced into the financial decision to buy a car now instead of the amorphous “in a few years” you tell others. Nope you deal with all of that. Life throws us curveballs all the time, but when they are the mistakes of other humans they stink that much more. No conclusion or solution here, just shaking my fist at the universe.
Playing
Tactical Breach Wizards - I’ve been following Tom Francis since his transition from video game writer to video game developer and the release of Gunpoint. That was ages and ages ago. Now he is releasing his third game and you can really see the journey honing his craft as both a developer and game designer. Excellent stuff.
Watching
Monkey Man - We have been threatening our kids with a good time all summer. To “come watch a movie with your mother and me”. They never do, they always have a friend waiting for them to play a video game. I get it, but man did they miss out with this one. Little weird and pace issues in the final act, but overall I loved this cocktail of violence, striking visuals, and cool vibes.
Delicious in Dungeon - I’ve seen enough interesting, creative, and inspiring anime to not start a description with “weird”. But this is a little weird, and that is great. Cooking + fantasy dungeon crawling by Trigger, who also made Cyberpunk: Edgerunners.
Listening
Fidlar: Sad Kids - A new album from a band I like in a genre I only rarely dabble in. Skate & surf punk are what I assumed they were, but not until I looked it up did confirm that guess. Fidlar’s self titled album from 2013 has been in evergreen rotation for me and some of the song’s off this new album will join that fold.