Over a year ago I wrote about the toxicity in gaming culture, recent events have brought my feelings towards that to the forefront of my mind again and I feel the need to put something down on Bar Harukiya about it. In recent months this place has mostly become a combination of reviews and playthrough […]
Category: Mental Health
The Super Happy Love Award
It’s not often I get tagged in to join in with the community blog posts, so when I do, I do try and join in, this one was originally started on the Geek Girls Guide by Michelle and I was nominated by Emily at Monster Lady’s Diary, and if you don’t check those blogs out […]
Co-operentine
Hah! Do you like that title? Punnerific, right? Because we’re all in some form of quarantine and, well, we have to do things with our loved ones now, right? Right. Well, this is a post about that and how we’re doing things. Firstly, you’re all aware by now that I’m a family man, I have […]
Illness, Relationships and Self-Reflection
I’ve been writing here regularly for over a year now, but those of you who follow me may have noticed that aside from my bitparade posts, I’ve not actually uploaded anything since my The Handmaids Tale book club post, here isn’t the only thing I’ve let slip over the past few weeks, I missed two […]
Watching Bottom in your underpants
It’s that time of year again. When this post goes live there will be a little over a week until Christmas Day, and with that comes a hell of a lot of pressure, especially for those of us who have mental health issues. The one Big Thing, for me, is family, all you ever see […]
The Geeky Childhood Tag
I’ll be honest, I’m struggling this week, both from a writers perspective and with my own mental health, nothing untoward has happened (though there has been a few health issues for my Dad, Brother in Law and my partners Mum in recent months), but generally speaking I’ve been lacking motivation and am feeling very tired […]
Cult of the Company – The Outer Worlds and Edgewater
To begin with, I’m placing this under both my Gaming and Mental Health headers, the first reason is obvious as its a post about The Outer Worlds, the second is because I’m trying to look at the mindset of the people of Edge Water. I’m only a few hours into the game but will do […]
PSYCHODRAMA – Dave
People who have been reading this blog for a while may remember that I experimented with doing a regular thing on a Friday dubbed “#NewMusicFridays”, it was a short lived experiment that I only kept up for two weeks but I never wrote off the idea of writing more under the category of music, and […]
Mind Games: Men, Gaming and Mental Health
I’ve been sitting on this post since around the time I started writing regularly, but its something I’ve been struggling to put together, there’s been alot of self doubt in regards to me actually writing this as I’m really, really concerned that my writing ability isn’t at a level that I feel I can do […]
The Toxicity of Gaming Culture
Over recent weeks Angie @ Backlog Crusader has been discussing “Gaming Culture” and she’s inspired and encouraged me to write a few words putting my thoughts forward on the subject. For the record, I’ve been writing about videogames for over 14 years, maybe longer as all but the stuff I’ve been uploading to here on […]