At Long Last, it Arrives

What is definitely one of the most anticipated games to be released this years is launching on Tuesday, but the embargo for reviews ended this past Tuesday. The game is The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, and is expected to give many gamers 100+ hours of entertainment, for a single playthrough! One hundred hours is absolutely massive considering most games today last between 10 and 20 hours, for one playthrough. In fact I only have seven games with over 100 hours in them, and according to a Steam calculator, I have played 306 of those in my library. Quite a spread, and you can believe that those games with over 100 hours are ones I truly enjoy playing, so I kept playing them again and again. To invest that much time for a simple completion is amazing. Hopefully the game will live up to all of that time. (If it just matches The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings in quality, I'll still be happy.)

Limits are Important

I once worked with someone who had a rule that weekends were his time. Weekdays are when he would do work others put on him, like from jobs and school. The weekends were for him. At the time I paid enough thought to remember it, but did not really appreciate the idea. It's funny that I would now, but I do recognize the value of setting limits like that.
I am reminded of this now because a friend of mine recently had to make a very hard choice because limits were being exceeded. One thing he loved was taking too much away from other things, and now he is giving it up. I know how easy it is for the things you love to consume you, and even push out other things you love, which is why I remember and appreciate what that coworker once shared with me. All things in moderation would be another way to put it, though I would modify it to say 'firm moderation.' You can't just say you'll go easy, you need to say what you will do and stick to it as best you can, otherwise, what's moderate about it?

Age of Ultron is Out!

Many people declared Avengers: Age of Ultron as one of the most anticipated films of the year, and I know that was the case with me, so it was a lot of fun to go see it this past week. I don't want to spoil it for anyone, so all I will say is that I enjoyed it very much. It does have a different feel to it than the previous Avengers movie though. That was very much a popcorn movie, but this has greater depth to it, which I appreciate. Not the depth of Winter Soldier but given how many personalities are in this, that would be a lot to expect.
One thing though is that it is filled with a lot of action. It does take breaks for story telling and humor, so this is not an issue, at least for me and my family. Something else about it is that it sets up a lot for future Marvel movies, and is not subtle about it either. It does it pretty well, so no complaints there, but expect to have some teasing of the future.