2025
Dune 2: Even More Dune
“It sounds like you might be playing the ghost of a better game that lives inside this one.” – Claude Sonnet 4 Previously: Waking Up to Dune Awakening Part 1: How Stella Got Her Groove Back, or, When The Worm Lost its Teeth Okay, so. Uh. I’m still playing Dune: Awakening. Yeah, I also think that’s weird. I’ve never spent so many words explaining why I don’t recommend something only to go on and keep engaging with it.
Waking Up to Dune Awakening
Chapter 1: Dune. So hot right now. I’m not going to bury the lede. You probably shouldn’t play Dune: Awakening. The rest of this article is going to be an attempt to explain why, despite my own anti-recommendation, I’m still playing it. You should know that Dune: Awakening is mean as hell. Up to a point that meanness is clearly intentional. It’s a Dune Simulator, and Dune’s world is mean as hell.
Conventioneering
A couple times a year I get together with a few tens of thousands of friends-I-haven’t-met-yet at a shindig called PAX. I have the great pleasure of being an [E]nforcer with the Line Entertainment team, which is a great gig if you can get it. Bullying people (politely) into having fun while they wait for a panel? The best way to spend a weekend. We have a few tricks up our sleeve for this.
Love What You Do
There goes a famous saying: Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life. Variously attributed to just about anyone smart who is both old and dead. Word on the street is Confucius said it, though my money’s on a random high school teacher who wanted his students to believe it came from someone wiser than him. Or, alternatively: Convince someone to pay you for the thing you wanted to do anyway.
A Little Bit About Me
A Little Bit About Me It’s possible you might know me, but if you don’t: hi. I’m Professional Internet Wizard Contrariwise. I was born in the late 20th century on the West coast of America, but currently live in the sparkling southern-flavored Midwest[^Texas.]. Over the years I’ve done lots of things. I started my career in video games, worked on an MMO, burned out, did spreadsheets for nonprofits, got back in like with computers.