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Today's post was meant to be a 2020 video game report card--a look at how many 2020 releases I played, finished, and missed. After watching the Capitol Building in Washington, DC stormed this afternoon, I couldn't bring myself to post something so banal. It felt silly.
While I haven't committed to a specific niche for the content of this blog, I've intentionally avoided wading into the quagmire of America's precarious social and political situation. I published while Covid-19 was ignored and then our response mishandled. I published while social justice protests swept the nation. I published while the integrity of our democracy was challenged during election season. I published during our smaller struggles, too, but today I can't. I'm too exhausted.
If you're an American, I hope you can appreciate the significance of all we saw and heard today, regardless of your political beliefs or leanings. We witnessed something that hasn't happened in over 200 years (since the War of 1812). It's the wrong kind of history to record but we seem to be making a habit of that.
If you believe in respecting others, reasonable discourse, equality, and avoiding violence as a solution to your problems, then we share common ground even if you don't agree with my opinions or share my beliefs. I wish you well and I hope you check in next week for a regularly scheduled post. If those qualities don't describe you, then I still wish you well but I recommend you find an alternative internet destination to get whatever it is you get out of reading my words.
Be well and stay safe.