Month: July 2022
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Old Gamers Never Die: ‘Acting Lessons’ Visual Novel Review – The Choices You Make Can Take You to Many (Hot) Places
Acting Lessons (2018) Designed by: Dr. PinkCake Published/Released by: Dr. PinkCake ( via Patreon, Steam, GOG.com) Genre: Visual Novel, Erotic, Adults Only On December 10, 2018, an indie video game developer who goes by the name “Dr. PinkCake” released Acting Lessons, an adults-only visual novel about a 30-something man who, during personal turmoil, saves the…
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Musings & Thoughts for Wednesday, July 27, 2022, or: Remembering Korea, the ‘Forgotten War’
It’s hard to believe, but today is the 69th anniversary of the signing – in Panmunjom, Korea – of the agreement that ceased major fighting and put on hold the Korean War. On July 27, 1953, the representatives of the U.S.-led United Nations Command (UNC), the Communist-ruled Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (aka North Korea),…
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Tempus Fugit, or: That Endless Summer of 1972 – Transitions, Changes, and Memories
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in Acting Lessons, Acting Lessons (2018 Game), Adults-Only Games, Beatriz Diaz-Granados, Being a DIK (2020 Game), Blogging, Computer and Video Games, Dr. PinkCake (Game Designer), Family History, Jeronimo Diaz-Granados, Life in Bogota, Life in Florida, Life in Miami (1972-2016), Life in South Florida, Personal Thoughts, Summer in Florida, Things I Miss, Victoria Eugenia Pineros Restrepo (Vicky)Tempus fugit. I am, as of late, preoccupied by the passage of time. Tempus fugit weighs heavily on my mind on this, my 50th consecutive summer since my mom, my older half-sister, and I moved back to the United States after living for six years in Bogota, Colombia. As you’ve probably noticed – if you…
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Tempus Fugit: July 1972, or: More Fragmented Memories from 50 Summers Ago
“Summer will end soon enough, and childhood as well.”― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones 50 summers ago, I was almost nine-and-a-half years old and getting accustomed to living in the hot, humid, and often rainy conditions in Miami after living for six years in the colder climate of Bogota, Colombia, a huge metropolis…
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Tempus Fugit: July of 1972, or: Things I Remember from Midsummer of ’72
Tempus Fugit. It’s hard to believe, but 50 Julys ago, I was a nine-year-old boy, living in South Florida with my widowed mother in a small apartment in Sweetwater far removed from the lifestyle – and the family we left behind – we had enjoyed in Bogota, Colombia. Four months earlier, less than a week…
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And Now, Something TOTALLY Different: A Quick First Impressions Look at ‘Being a DIK’
Back in the 1990s, when I subscribed to Playboy magazine, I read a short article about an adults-only computer game titled Virtual Valerie. Virtual Valerie was created by a guy named Mike Saenz and released in April of 1990 by a software developer called Reactor, Inc. It was described as a dating sim, and because…
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2,557 Days Redux
2,557 days. That’s how many days have passed since my mother, Beatriz Diaz-Granados, died at the age of 86 from a combination of age-related illnesses, including dementia, heart issues, and the effects of being confined to bed for half a decade after back surgery. She died around five in the morning; I’m sure the death…
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2,557 Days
2,557 days. That’s how many days have passed since I last heard my mother say my name before she drifted off to an uneasy sleep on the afternoon of July 18, 2015 after I gave her a dose of tramadol to ease the pain in her back that she complained about not long after our…
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The Weight of Memory
Hi, there, Dear Reader. It is midday/early afternoon in Lithia, Florida, on Sunday, July 17, 2022. It is a hot summer day in the Tampa Bay area. Currently, the temperature is 87°F (30°C) under mostly sunny skies. With humidity at 78% and the wind blowing from the southeast at 7 MPH (12 KM/H), the heat…
A Certain Point of View, Too 