10/26/17

i'm thankful that i quit playing stardew valley because it had stopped being pleasurable to me—increasingly, it just felt too much like a job, like a simple visual layer over the management of a spreadsheet. i'm thankful to understand that the games i like best, even if they do involve resource management, are usually defined by something more kinetic, by how they make it feel to move through the world of the game and the pleasure of that movement. i'm thankful that from what i've read, the new mario game seems like it's going to be a game that's going to nourish those feelings, and i'm thankful that it's coming in the mail tomorrow.

i'm thankful for this ranking of all the kinds of pasta. i'm thankful for the anime floppy disk tumblr. i'm thankful for the craziest eight-word story i have ever read.

i'm thankful for d's enjoyment of the new animal crossing iphone game, which you can get even if you don't live in australia. i'm thankful that we watched the two most recent episodes of ghosted—i'm thankful that though i snobbily thought i was done with network television, it and the good place are two of my favorite shows now. i'm thankful for the great jokes in episode three involving the song "walking in memphis." i'm thankful for adam scott and craig robinson, who have wonderful silly chemistry together.

i'm thankful for grand hotel abyss, which i don't yet think is a great book (it's kind of repetitive and yet also unfocused?), but which is full of interesting ideas and details and anecdotes. i'm thankful that i did yoga yesterday evening before bed. i'm thankful that we ate the last pieces of the apple cake d made for dessert. i'm thankful for the sublingual GABA tablets i got, even though they are sweetened with stevia, which i think is gross, and even though i don't know if they actually do anything but that they at least make me feel like i might be doing something.