The Steam Awards 2022 Nominations

It's that time of the year again when Steam is having its Autumn Sale event while taking in nominations for The Steam Awards for the year 2022. It's two days before Thanksgiving and I still have nothing solid to add to my current situation but let's forget about that for a moment and have a little bit of fun. Here are my nominations. Feel free to add the link to your nomination page in the comment section! I'd love to see your list of excellent titles for the year.

Alaska It Is, Then?

Not having access to most of my video gaming stuff that I have been accumulating over the years since my undergraduate studies a lifetime ago has been rough on me. There are the good days, and then there are the bad days. On a good day, I can forget about the aforementioned fact and actually have fun with the games that I am able to play, mostly on the Personal Computer, with the PlayStation 5 and the X-Box Series X being the only two consoles that are still hooked up to my entertainment center these days. On a bad day though, it's just downright depressing. You know that ever since I got the PS5 and XSX up and running in my Game Room, I haven't been able to use any of the old discs on them because those have all already been boxed up, ready for transport? It almost feels like a vicious and cruel sort of punishment on an intergalactic or even interdimensional scale. When the thought of not being able to see and touch my gaming stuff like I used to before suddenly flood over me, it is quite an overwhelming feeling. The fun of having my Game Room with everything in its place is the ability to be able to get to them at the time of my own choosing and to enjoy them at my own leisure. This has been the center of my gaming existence and being isolated from that for a long time sometimes feels like I don't even have these gaming items anymore. Out of sight doesn't necessarily mean out of mind though absence does make the heart grow fonder.

Trying to restore the gaming essence back into the room with strategic box placements.

Nathan Drake: The Chest Hair Delusion

I am still recovering from seeing Nathan Drake with chest hair, removing him from the status of being a sex symbol but you know what? While working on the thumbnail for my upcoming Uncharted: The Legacy of Thieves Collection video, I noticed that Nathan Drake is being shown as not having a fluffy chest on the cover art of the game itself as you can see for yourself below:

Aha! I knew it!

Nathan Drake Is a Hairy Man?

Is it just me, or has Nathan Drake from the Uncharted games been wearing a hairy chest on him all of these years we have known him? I always imagined of him, or fantasized I guess to be more accurate, having a smooth chest. But then I saw this screenshot during yesterday's launch of Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Collection on Steam - the series finally made it out of Sony's ecosystem, thank the galaxy - and I was disheartened with what I have seen because, as you can probably conclude, I am on Team Smooth.

The stubble is hot. The creeping bush is not.

Home and the Places In-Between

I thought that by now, I would have found myself in a new home, setting up my new Game Room by applying creative techniques to maximize the nooks and crannies of the room that I have chosen for such purpose. I still dreamed of the glorious days of Game Room 2.0 - It was the perfect amalgamation of all of my physical gaming items, embraced by a generous amount of room. The last two iterations have been a challenge for me with version 3.0 lacking any real open space while 4.0, where I am writing this from, being more of a temporary gaming station (if you want to call 2+ years temporary that is) which means that I couldn't customize it entirely to my liking. Things are not as simple as I would like them to be. Such is life. Situations evolve, things change, circumstances complicate. Now, I am not even sure moving is going to happen anymore.

Looking like a storage room than a gamer brothel.