Videogames – Iain Douglas Stewart

Direction decided. A fresh start.

By Iain July 16, 2024Reflections, Site Related, The Mission, VideogamesNo Comments

With reference to this post: https://iaindstewart.net/blog/2023/11/03/starting-again/ This is another one of those natural break points in my life where everything seems to be changing or shifting - this time it's not me waking up after a long period of apathy or feeling aimless, but I feel like things are going in the right direction this time. Lots of things are…

The Braking Point story mode in the F1 2023 videogame

By Iain June 15, 2024VideogamesNo Comments

I may be a year late with this, seeing as F1 24 has just come out, but the story mode in F1 23 is just awful. I think it fails in two key aspects. The first aspect is the characters. The story is based around a fictional Formula 1 team and some of their top personnel: the two drivers, the…

Sunday Service: Good week

By Iain February 20, 2022Reflections, Site Related, The Mission, VideogamesNo Comments

Wow. What a week I've had. I had two morning workouts, taken my supplements every morning, and I've felt motivated to DO STUFF, which I really have not felt for a long time. It's a nice feeling. I've bought some domains, and both have functioning websites on them. One even has Woo Commerce turned on and is integrated with Gelato,…

Four bags!

By Iain February 13, 2022Reflections, The Mission, VideogamesNo Comments

I filled four bags with my old clothes. Crazy. It was mostly old stuff that doesn't fit anymore, but some of it I don't think suited me nowadays, or wouldn't suit the person I'm projecting my self to be. Also sorted out my supplements for the next two weeks and had a tidy. Threw out a lot of stuff. Plan…

I own a car

By Iain May 27, 2021The Mission, VideogamesNo Comments

So this is one of the final steps in my last action plan - buying a car. All that's left to do on the old plan is pass tests and become legally able to drive the car I've just bought. The new plan is more about consolidating things, and streamlining processes. One post on here a week as a general…

Minecraft: Real life vs simulations

By Iain December 14, 2020Creativity, Essays, The Mission, VideogamesNo Comments

This post started off as a piece on how Minecraft evokes primal instincts in a person, but the more I wrote, the more it evolved. Have a read. You'll see. Survive the night. Is there a more evocative phrase? When you start a new Minecraft world in survival mode, that is your mission statement, your purpose. Survive the night. Granted,…

Saying you’ve levelled up on your birthday is cringe

By Iain December 8, 2020Reflections, The Mission, VideogamesNo Comments

It's my birthday today, and after receiving the card pictured, it struck me how cringe it is to say that you've "levelled up" on your birthday. Looking back on some of my previous birthday posts... I noticed that I've used the phrase once or twice myself. I get that it's a videogame analogy, but it just doesn't work when you…

Reflecting on ending self-isolation

By Iain June 24, 2020Physicality, Reflections, The Mission, VideogamesNo Comments

This Coronavirus thing has been a bit shit, eh? I'm due to go back to work next week, and I have mixed emotions about it. On the one hand, I hate my current job, and these twelve weeks have been eye-opening to exactly how much I do hate it. I'm anxious to go back because of the health risks as…

The “Lewis becoming an adult” thing

By Iain February 6, 2020Reflections, Site Related, The Mission, VideogamesNo Comments

This is going to be hard to write without sounding jaded, or bitter, but I'm going to try. My nephew, Lewis, turned 18 recently. He's Jane's sister's first-born, and I've known him all his life. I don't know where to start with how I feel about my perspective on all this, so forgive me if it seems disjointed. So, as…

So I took a year off, from everything

By Iain September 9, 2019Creativity, Reflections, Site Related, The Mission, VideogamesNo Comments

I mean, it was mostly not through choice. We needed to make sure we would make it through the year financially. Sure, an exotic cat was added to the family in 2019, but other than that, we were careful. Frugal. Thing is, I got lazy and complacent. I found the smallest possible reason to take a year off from personal…