Hard Reset
Let's try this again.
At the risk of confusing all my readers, and myself, I'm starting Tiers In Rain over again from scratch. I started TIR. . .oh jeez, over a decade ago now with the intention of writing about video games and cyberpunk stuff that had an impact on me over the years. Then I decided to keep the cyberpunk stuff separate and spun it off into its own website which I called Cyberpunkery. I did this with the intention of keeping TIR as an occasional outlet to write about video games I loved. I never really did get around to that and TIR's purpose kind of eluded me for a long time.
But as it turns out, using it to write about video games is exactly what I feel like it needs to be. And so I've decided to tabula rasa the whole thing and start over, mainly to write about video games. I may occasionally write about a good movie or album that doesn't quite fit in with the cyberpunk blog. But only if it's something that inspires writing about. I'm always inspired to write about games because I love games so much. Writing about them is easy. I'm not going to force this to be about anything else. I'll just go with my feeling on the other stuff. If there's something cool to write about, I'll do it. If there isn't, I won't!
Sometimes I put too much pressure on myself to fit a certain mold with the things that I do. And as my life has changed over the last year, I've realized that I absolutely don't have to. I can make this be whatever I want and for whatever reason I want. And that reason is video games. Because they're great and I love them. And I love to write. It makes sense!
Most of the people reading this are avid gamers anyway and so I probably don't need to explain myself any further, right? So I won't! I've spent far too much time explaining things in my writing and I'm kind of tired of it to be honest. So this is the last explanation I will give:
I'm going to be using Tiers In Rain to write about mainly retro or retro-adjacent games. Old games definitely but also new games that are related to old games or are new entries in long-running franchises. Or new games that are retro-inspired or styled. Or just new games. I do play new games now and then. Whatever it is I'm playing I'll basically be writing about here. Or I might just be posting my opinion about something going on with the game industry.
Meanwhile, I know some of you are Cyberpunkery readers too and have wondered what happened to the site. I am relaunching that—hopefully very soon—with a new name and a new focus. In fact it is going to be my primary writing focus going forward with this site kind of being secondary. Stay tuned, I will probably write an update post letting you know when that is live. I guess subscribe to this newsletter so you don't miss it.
Something changed in me recently. In the last couple of days even. I remembered that I still love writing and just want to do it. I'm tired of overthinking things and trying to make sure everything has to be perfect before I do it. It will never be perfect so I just want to do it. And so doing it what I'm going to do.
I also started playing Metroid Prime 4 finally. Just yesterday in fact. And my first thought while immersing myself in the beautiful world of Viewros? I need to write about this. That's when it hit me. I'm a writer. Did I know this already? Yes. I've known it my entire life. But somehow I didn't know it until yesterday.