Honest thoughts on 2022 and beyond

 I think 2022 is going to be one of the worst years on record and may surpass 2020 in how awful it is.  I think COVID will mutate into a variant that doesn’t react to the vaccine and is super-contagious and murders everyone infected with it as the Republicanazis blame Biden for this, get swept to a super-majority of the House and Senate, and Impeach and Execute Joe Biden and Kamala Harris for the crime of being the Democrat representatives in the 2020 election, placing Trump back in office and ordering the genocide of all LGBTQ+ people, all African-Americans, the AAPI community, all Muslims, all Latin Americans, all reconciling congregations and anyone who has shown resistance on Twitter and lives in the United States.  They will declare Trump the One True Pope and Archbishop and Second Coming and that anyone who opposes him is a Satanist.  They will burn all Rachel Held Evans books and Miley Cyrus, Ariana Grande, Demi Lovato, Joan Jett, Tegan and Sara, K.Flay, Brandi Carlile, Vicky Beeching and Judas Priest CDs and put us all in permafrost death camps where we are to be stripped of our clothing and receive daily beatings within an inch of our lives, only to be nursed back to health so they can repeat the cycle.  They will only kill us when torturing us becomes boring.  Meanwhile, Seattle will be completely submerged by rising sea levels, as will the entire state of Florida and all of New York City while Hurricanes demolish New Orleans, Houston and Nashville beyond repair, the air in Western Washington ceases to be breathable from an unquenchable forest fire that incinerates Spokane and all of Idaho, North Korea bombs San Francisco, Juneau, Anchorage and Los Angeles off the map and China begins an embargo against the US, causing prices to skyrocket so that a candy bar that costs 79 cents now will cost $79,000 by June.  South Korea, Japan and Canada join China in the embargo, which helps the Republicans get elected and the last video games for the Switch and PlayStation ever are released, because Trump declares war in response to the embargo and drafts all the “clean” individuals 8 and up to serve in the military if they are not torturing the “unclean” individuals or serving as Republican senators and congressmen to get his lunatic and racist agendas passed.  Massive bloodshed begins in the Pacific as Trump sends more troops to the Middle East to stamp out Palestine, starting the apocalypse in a nuclear war with Iran that leaves Iraq, Egypt, Jordan and Syria radioactive wastelands devoid of life.  Extreme Southern Baptist-Catholicism (a made-up denomination that believes Trump is the reincarnation of Jesus) is made the state religion in the US under penalty of death and being LGBTQ+ is now a capital offense, also, if you murder someone who identifies as one, it no longer counts as a crime, instead, you get the Congressional Medal of Honor and Presidential Medal of Freedom.  Japan is reduced to four craters at the bottom of the ocean and the Korean peninsula becomes an uninhabitable radioactive wasteland.  There is bloodshed on a daily basis at the 49^th parallel.  Hong Kong and Shanghai are bombed to ruins, Tehran is engulfed in flame as Israel declares Trump the messiah.  This lasts for 42 years until Jesus comes back and sets things right by casting Trump, the antichrist, to the lowest pits of Hell where he burns with his true father, Satan, alongside those who participated in the January 6^th riots, the majority of the userbase of DeviantArt, Hitler, Stalin, Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy, Mark David Chapman, Charles Manson, the guy who shot MLK and other racists, murderers, white supremacists and rapists.

Reflections on 2021/Looking ahead to 2022

                We all assumed that the stupid would stop once we changed our calendars.  Like with most assumptions, we were dead wrong.  Instead, we have discovered that roughly half our country is now hopelessly lost, inducted into a cult that claims to be the “only true Christianity” that seeks an America with a theocratic government run by the irremovable High Priest/Archbishop/One True Pope/Second Coming Trump.  We are dealing with a Neo Nazi party that runs most of the Republican party and seeks to, in 2022, reclaim both houses on Congress to send Joe Biden and Kamala Harris to be executed for crimes they didn’t commit while they replace all secretaries of state so that it doesn’t matter who you vote for, Trump wins regardless.  Even if the left-aligned states were to secede, the right-wing states would declare war solely to punish the LGBTQ+ community, the AAPI community, African-Americans and all Muslims in the USA.  We will be fighting stupid the rest of our lives; this pandemic will go on for decades and this is our new normal.  Accept it.  Even without Trump, they’ll gravitate to someone that Pat Robertson, the KKK and the Proud Boys will prop up to rule the nation.  Accept it, this is something we’ll all be dealing with until we die.

 

               Like 2016-2020 before it, the music made this year miles better.  Miley Cyrus teamed with Elton John, bassist Robert Trujillo of the band itself, drummer Chad Smith, guitarist/producer/future amazing documentary subject Andrew Watt and cellist Yo Yo Ma for a cover of Metallica’s “Nothing Else Matters” that blew me away, while Brandi Carlile teamed with the remaining members of Soundgarden for a great rendition of “Black Hole Sun.”  Glenn Hughes of Deep Purple and Black Country Communion fame proved age is just a number by turning 70, joining The Dead Daisies as bassist/lead singer and releasing a new album last January that led to a show I saw in October, the first outside my hometown in two years and the first overall in 22 months.  Ariana Grande didn’t release an album, but made an album’s worth of collaborations with various musicians, singing duets with The Weeknd, Doja Cat, Kelly Clarkson and Jimmy Fallon with Megan Thee Stallion, all being enjoyable pop songs, the last two being Christmas songs, one about not needing much, the other a reminder to get your booster shot.  Sammy Hagar, Black Label Society and Nancy Wilson also had good albums this year and there were good songs from Geoff Tate and Grace McKagan, daughter of Guns N Roses Bassist Duff McKagan.  It was a career year for Jon Foreman, Carrie Underwood and Brandi Carlile in general, not a bad release for either in terms of singles or albums, and that includes Foreman’s band Switchfoot.  I also recommend “Finish Line” by Joel Hoekstra’s 13.  Elton John took the cover he made with Miley Cyrus and put it on a series of collaborations with several musicians called “The Lockdown Sessions,” featuring both Eddie Vedder and Brandi Carlile of the Seattle area and pop stars Dua Lipa and Rina Sawayama.  The album also featured Andrew Watt on the other songs and he is now helping Eddie Vedder with a solo album that drops in February.  Guns N Roses, Slash on his own with Myles Kennedy and Ozzy Osbourne are also planning on releasing albums in 2022.

 

               I tried to make it back to the ballpark, but overslept, thankfully, I found an easier way to Seattle for 2022 and bought tickets to two Mariner games.  Hopefully, the lockout will be resolved soon and we can get back to what was a very electric offseason, which will hopefully lead to the Mariners picking up where they left off.  They almost made the playoffs this past season and it is hopeful they will finally dethrone the Astros and champion the AL West in 2022 and then, who knows, maybe even win the World Series?  They certainly have the talent for it, though the sportswriters don’t recognize it because they’re obsessed with the Yankees, Dodgers and Red Sox.

 

               Video games provided a big escape this year and with a renewed interest in Twitter (now that Adolph Flappyhands Von Combover is out of office and hopefully soon hanging from a gallows pole), they became more than they have previously.  I beat Hyrule Warriors; Age of Calamity at the end of January, then got the DLC in October.  It’s a fun game, though it is actually an alternate version of Breath of the Wild, turns out when you time-travel in Legend of Zelda, you create alternate worlds.  Elizabeth Maxwell and Kate Higgins do a great job as Urbosa and Purah, as do the voice actors for Impa and Kohga.  Urbosa and her granddaughter Riju are fun to play as, Zelda is fun to play as regardless of weapon, Impa is great and Link provides a nice ferocity in the fray.  Robbie and Purah are also a fun choice once you unlock them as playable characters.

 

               Persona 5 Strikers came next, with familiar voices Cassandra Lee Morris, Xanthe Huynh, Matthew Mercer, Cherami Leigh, Colleen O’Shaughnessey and Elizabeth Maxwell.  Morris voiced Sothis in Fire Emblem; Three Houses, Huynh is Marianne in that game and Eir in Fire Emblem Heroes, Mercer is Chrom in the Fire Emblem franchise and the DM in Critical Role, Leigh is Lucy Heartfilia in Fairy Tail, Ilia Amitola in RWBY, Rhea/Seiros/The Immaculate One in Fire Emblem; Three Houses, as well as Caeda and Cecilia in other Fire Emblem media, O’Shaughnessey was Sora on Digimon, Jazz in Danny Phantom and Monica/Kronya in Fire Emblem; Three Houses and Maxwell was mentioned in the last paragraph.  Here; Morris voices Morgana, a wisecracking catlike being who assists the protagonist, Huynh is Haru, one of your party members who wields an axe and knows the Mayor of Sapporo personally, Mercer is the artistic Yusuke, a well-spoken, cultured young man who develops a personal stake in what’s going on in Sendai, Leigh is Makoto, a member of your party who punches hard, has a crush on the protagonist and dreams of being a police officer like her late father, O’Shaughnessey is Akane, the daughter of Zenkichi, a police officer who investigates, then joins, the team and Maxwell is Sae, the older sister of Makoto who is a defense lawyer the group helped in regular Persona 5 and now she helps them.  The plot (believe it or not), is that a smartphone app is trying to be God and erase choice.  The voice cast is great and the best performance was actually Kira Buckland, who I wasn’t as familiar with at the time, as Ichinose, the creator of the app who starts as a hidden villain and ends up getting redeemed by her other creation, Sophia, an AI who joins the team.  I’ve gotten likes on Twitter talking about this game with Cherami Leigh (the only like from her, it was that Makoto’s birthday is the same as my cousin, and my cousin likes Fairy Tail), Kira Buckland (that Ichinose’s backstory was rather moving) and Elizabeth Maxwell (that even though she didn’t have a big role, she did a good job).

 

               Next came Tokyo Mirage Sessions, which was like a more traditional Persona game, but with Fire Emblem characters instead of mythical, religious and literature figures.  It kind of offered the best of both franchises, great characters, humorous moments, helping characters deal with their personal issues and fighting tough bosses that had specific weaknesses.  Tsubasa, Kiria, Mamori and Tiki were easily my favorite characters and I was actually able to find songs from the game on iTunes.  My favorite is “Give Me!” by Tsubasa and Kiria, it’s part of the last story for Kiria, where she embraces all of her personality, that she likes cute things and she also likes to be “cool.”  It was also fun to see the villains be revealed to be from past Fire Emblem games as well, and today, when I encounter them in Spirit Battles in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, I’ll use the Rise Kujikawa from Persona 4 Mii Brawler to homage these days when we fought evil with performa!

 

               After that came Trials of Mana, a Switch-level remake of an SNES game that was never released in the States.  With the 8 points of interest on the map, the random objects and spells to get to towns once (because that’s how long you’ll need to be there), your party of colorful characters who conveniently know how to move the plot forward in certain spots and seemingly anachronistic items (you heal with chocolate and wrapped candy despite apparently living in a world that seems technologically around Columbus/Gutenberg), it definitely has the feel of a Final Fantasy game on the system, which is pleasant, looking back, I can actually imagine some of the scenes in 16 bits.  Sadly, aside from Brittany Cox, who voices Reisz, most of the voice cast is either unmemorable or stilted, Angela’s VA seems to only know the character is supposed to be a valley girl and comes across blending that and Weiss from RWBY and doesn’t become likeable until a chunk of the way through.  Brittany Cox seems typecast as blondes with spears, as she also voices Ingrid in Fire Emblem; Three Houses!

 

               Speaking of, in November, I finally decided to play New Game + of Fire Emblem; Three Houses.  Throughout the year, I was seeing fanart of the character of Annette, who I didn’t recruit because I didn’t know she was fun until it was too late through my first playthrough.  In October, the news came that her voice actress, Abby Trott, was going to work on a possible new animated series called “New Wave” (a cartoon send-up of the 1980s) with Tara Platt, who voices Edelgard in the game.  That was the last straw to light the fire under me, I started it up and since in New Game + you can carry over your stats, I was able to recruit everyone but Manuela I had the first time (as well as Annette) before the Battle of Eagle and Lion, meaning I got to see more relationships as well.  The only for-sure marriages that will happen are Edelgard-Byleth, Petra-Dorothea and Caspar-Annette thus far, because there are some relationships I want to see hit their A rank and I’m not sure how the game will work when someone hits multiple A ranks because my brother hasn’t completed his playthrough. 

 

               Tara and Abby are both people on Twitter I’ve come to rely on a little for confidence every now and then, I actually follow quite a few voice actors on the site and have found a lot of them to be fun, inspiring people who have some of the same fears, joys, sadnesses and angers I do.  Tara actually reminds me of a 21^st Century version of her character, speaking for people to listen to scientists and medical researchers to avoid making bad climate decisions and start making good decisions like getting vaccinated.  She will also stand up for LGBTQ+ people on occasion.  Her husband, Yuri Lowenthal, does much of the same and also posts about Spider-Man because he voices him in the PlayStation games (in fact, he posts about him so much I tend to forget who Tom Holland is).  Also, Yuri Lowenthal retweeted a screenshot I posted of his Persona character, Yosuke, and one of Tara’s Persona characters, Elizabeth, in Blazblue Crosstag Battle beating up the character Blitztank and liked a tweet I sent to Tara when we got into a mini-conversation about Bear and Brendan McCreary (because Bear McCreary’s brother Brendan helped with the theme song of their live-action series “Shelf Life” and also helped record the cover of Blue Oyster Cult’s “Godzilla” in “Godzilla; King of the Monsters”) that said “Watching the Rodan dogfight scene now.  Bear deserved an Oscar for ‘Goodbye, Old Friend.’”  Abby likes Larvitars from Pokémon Gold and Silver, is trying to help a homeless cat named OC get adopted and has liked Tweets I’ve made that include Annette screenshots and tag her.  Faye Mata, who voices Petra, is a fun kind of manic who mains Palutena in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, has read the pre-loaded gibberish in a Princess Peach letter (in a Princess Peach voice) from Super Mario Galaxy 2 and was at that bookstore in Portland, OR where I bought “Trust Me, I’m Dr. Ozzy.”  Cristina Vee, the voice of Shantae in the Shantae game series, is proud of her singing career and is good friends with Faye Mata (the two play characters on the anime Konosuba) and got to play Alexander Hamilton in a cover of “The Room Where it Happens.”  Laura Bailey, one of my all-time favorites, likes to talk about the YouTube show she does with other voice actors, “Critical Role.”

 

               “Critical Role” has become my new thing in 2021.  When I have 3-5 hours to kill and nothing else to do, I tend to put on an episode, enjoying Laura Bailey, Matthew Mercer, their spouses and their good friends playing Dungeons and Dragons.  This year started their third campaign, which brought in Robbie Daymond, who I knew as Hubert from Fire Emblem; Three Houses.  Sometimes, when Dorian speaks in a more refined tone, I can hear slight traces of Hubert.  Laura Bailey is an utter delight on the show, frequently talking in a high voice that reminds me of her Persona character, Rise Kujikawa, when she got excited.  Everyone on the show is fun in their own way and it’s the blend of personalities, styles and vocal repertoires that make it fun to watch/listen to.  In fact, one of my new goals is to get the Naruto/Boruto fighting game in the Switch eShop and (when it comes out in March) the Switch port of Persona 4 Arena Ultimax to add two more games to my collection of Switch fighting games with Tara Platt, Yuri Lowenthal and/or Laura Bailey in the voice cast.  Lowenthal and Bailey are in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (Lowenthal is Marth and Alucard while Bailey is Lucina), Platt and Lowenthal are in Blazblue Crosstag Battle (Platt is Mitsuru and Elizabeth while Lowenthal is Yosuke) and Power Rangers; Battle for the Grid (Laura Bailey is Chun-Li).  In Persona 4 Arena Ultimax, it is the same as Blazblue Crosstag Battle, only Laura Bailey is also in there as Rise Kujikawa, and in the Naruto/Boruto fighting game, Platt voices Temari, Lowenthal voices Sasuke and Bailey voices Sasuke’s daughter Sarada.  Another game I’m hoping to get in 2022 is Splatoon 3.

 

               All of this enjoyment of voice actors and actresses and the fruits of their labor in video games has led me to the realization that I cannot keep using DeviantArt as I have been.  I feel guilty seeing such disrespect to the hard work these people put themselves through to bring us entertainment and it deeply upsets me to see a website that routinely sexually abuses most of these characters, despises Amber Heard, despises Edelgard and adores Rhea and Dimitri at her expense and insists Yang from RWBY is heterosexual or that Blake from RWBY is heterosexual.  After my last request is filled, I intend to deactivate my account there.  I’ve changed since I joined it, it has also changed and embraced the madness of the last now-six years and it is full of people who were where I was back in 2007-2008, young, naïve and just dreamers, unaware of the back-breaking realities that await them out in the world.  They also are not satisfied and I have found the secret to enjoying life is to be satisfied with what you can have where you are.  There is a lesson in the musical Hamilton where he’s never satisfied, his appetite for a legacy, earthly success and what he feels is important almost destroys what’s really important.  You don’t need a million MP3s or DVDs or video games or fanart pieces to be happy, you just need the really important ones, and that is the journey I will try harder to go on for the rest of my life.

Personal thoughts on Social Media and Video Games

 Someone made a list of nine "comfort characters."  I made a similar list that numbered 12:

 

A dozen comfort characters:

1.)    Samus Aran (Metroid/Smash Bros.)

2.)    Princess Zelda (Legend of Zelda/Hyrule Warriors/Smash Bros.)

3.)    Yang Xiao Long (RWBY/Blazblue Crosstag Battle)

4.)    Blake Belladonna (RWBY/Blazblue Crosstag Battle)

5.)    Edelgard (Fire Emblem; Three Houses)

6.)    Byleth (Fire Emblem; Three Houses)

7.)    Erza Scarlet (Fairy Tail)

8.)    Wendy Marvell (Fairy Tail)

9.)    Annette (Fire Emblem; Three Houses)

10.) Petra (Fire Emblem; Three Houses)

11.) Rise Kujikawa (Persona)

12.) Callie (Splatoon)

 

I don’t like touching the dozen characters above unless it’s for comedic purposes or personal growth, which is why the developments in Fairy Tail 100 Years Quest kind of disturb me, it reminds me of a fan fiction where someone effectively murdered Erza and Wendy in the name of boners.  I doubt they’ll be “murdered” here again, but the similarity is enough to trigger a bit of irritability and stressful feelings.  I’ve seen too many fan fictions where someone tore these characters down into slobs, nerds or subhuman monsters and it makes me want to die because they make me happy.  It’s why I want to cut off DeviantArt, video games, anime and manga, so I don’t have to deal with people doing this shit anymore and I can just make a peaceful ending where nothing horrific ever happens to them again and they all spar in Smash Bros. and eat out together for the rest of their days, the end.  We all deserve that to be our fate in the end, a life with family and friends and no more psychotic monstrosities trying to ruin our lives or sanity, a life of peace.

 

I can’t take how horrific people can be to these characters, so I’m going to stop having anything to do with fiction very soon.  I will just get Metroid Dread, MiiTopia and Splatoon 3 (and maybe some other games that haven’t been announced yet, 13 Sentinels doesn’t look like my cup of tea), and the Fairy Youkais arc of that manga, then retire from purchasing that and all that they’ll get for my money are the movies until I die while my main focus will be music and baseball.  You beat me up too many times, now I hardly feel comfortable writing any fan fiction, feeling like anything I write will involve them going through worse and worse shit, making their lives suffer horrendously.  I already despise all the crap fan fiction I wrote over the last decade and a half where they didn’t power through it, which was too often because DeviantArt only cares about boners, fapping and fucking.  Apparently, though, that doesn’t matter to the vast majority of fucking perverted high schoolers who rule DeviantArt, who treat them worse than shit, like a combination of shit and whores.  It makes me wish I’d just take a knife and plunge it into my heart and die, because it shows humanity without compassion, soulless monsters who would assault and rape you as soon as look at you.  Hell almost seems too good for them.  If I could, I would hunt them down and murder them all myself to keep the world safe from their toxicity.  They are the reason pro-choice needs to be legal, women aren’t safe otherwise.  They worship their god, 45, and like him, they should hang for crimes against humanity.

 

 I have a metric ton of anxiety regarding the future, the stuff after Christmas.  Will curiosity get the better of me and I’ll betray one of my favorite video games/voice actresses just to see how the “other path” goes, despite the knowledge she deserves a good life and for her dreams of a meritocracy to come true?  Will I balance my monthly budgets for each event I want to see, though it means less free spending on MP3s and other fun things unless I’m willing to eat less?  March has K.Flay, April has Aly and AJ, May is my Birthday, June might have Brandi Carlile and definitely has visiting Dad and going to Mt. Rainier, July has the Mariners vs. the Blue Jays, August has a 4 band 80s rock celebration of Joan Jett, Poison, Motley Crue and Def Leppard I’ve been waiting for since December 2019 and September has the Mariners vs. the Braves.  All sound fun and wonderful, but all are also expensive and require $40 in the hostel if it’s reopened and roundtrip Greyhound tickets (save June, May also doesn’t require anything).  It’s a little rough to know almost half the year is going to require intense scrutiny of my budget or it will hurt in that “missed medication/missed food” kind of way which no one wants.  Will my neighbors tire of me playing video games, metal music and music by LGBTQ+ musicians and come in and “beat some sense into me?”  That fear has run prevalent for years with Michael’s revivalist sermons being broadcast on an almost-daily basis.  Sermons that practically call for the lynching of AAPI people, people who listen to Miley Cyrus, K.Flay and Judas Priest, the condemnation of Ozzy Osbourne and his fan base, calling Seattle’s grunge movement the “Church of atheism, homosexuality and anarchy.”  I often “live” in fear in my room, afraid to talk to him, afraid at some point he’ll just assault me until I start bleeding profusely, saying that God has ordered him to do so.  I am terrified.  Budgeting in general fills me with fear.  The Fairy Girls getting turned into Youkai reminds me of soul-of-platinum’s fan fiction where they got turned into Pokémon by a trainer who used them to attack the others as part of her goals to conquer the Pokémon world, killing their personalities and distorting their bodies, effectively murdering them, and he implied it was permanent, so they could’ve been bred with wild Pokémon, unaware they were once human.  I don’t even know if things will turn out okay here, either, I have optimism based on later chapter images and reviews, but the flashbacks are overpowering my ability to calm myself down.  It actually made playing Pokémon Shield difficult at times, because all I could think with certain types is “that’s (this character), I have to rescue her!”  I even think that fighting certain Spirit Battles in Smash Bros. Ultimate.  I used to fear losing my identity and being brainwashed into someone else’s mindless puppet or that this would happen to the people I loved the most, this story showed that happen in graphic detail and was praised for that.

 

Is it okay if I retire from DeviantArt and Twitter right now?  I’m not feeling like I belong there anymore.  I’ve lost any and all confidence in myself as a video games player, as an anime and/or manga fan or as anyone who makes nerd decisions.  I’d like to just turn it off because all I do is upset everybody.  I want to go home, go forget my Switch experiences and manga and just enjoy my music, which I don’t feel anyone judge me for.  I get into online fights over my Switch games, as well as the most dangerous obsessions I’ve had in nearly 10 years, to the point I actually want to hunt down users through their web connection and execute them for disagreeing with me.  I am a psychotic monster who seeks to murder people for having differences in their opinion, I am no better than 45.  To that end, I should be placed in prison for the rest of my natural life or executed for my thoughts.  Please, end my life, murder me for my psychosis and hatred of God’s children, for being the lowest form of life, a psychopath “in defense of women.”  Execute me with a nail gun, I have no regrets other than I didn’t stop myself from becoming a monster. 

 

 I have a ton of anxiety around DeviantArt, I would love to end my career there and only use Twitter and Facebook from here on out, but I have to admit, I have a bunch of fear around all non-Facebook social media.  The Switch will eventually be replaced, will I get all the games I want for it?  My income and desires for music, baseball and other activities after being cooped up for about two years say “no way, not even with a ton of gift cards.”  So, all the voice actors and actresses move on to other projects for this new system that I won’t be able to afford and will have no connection or understanding to.  Therefore, I’ll probably have to unfollow them on Twitter or quit it altogether, and probably quit DeviantArt altogether if I haven’t already because everyone will be embracing the new games and anime that I have no point of reference for and likely never will have any.  This is why I keep trying to set premature limits on the games, manga and anime I buy and ask for on myself, set an early stopping point so I’m ready when the announcement of the Switch replacement arrives.  The thing is, it keeps being so rigid and harsh when I keep wanting to try what I don’t have.  Right now; I definitely want Metroid Dread, MiiTopia and Splatoon 3, but am also willing to try Pokémon Brilliant Diamond, Pokémon Legends Arceus, Chocobo GP, 13 Sentinels; Aegis Rim and a Naruto fighting game that includes the cast from the sequel series Boruto, totaling a playable roster of 124 ninjas.  However, there’s no way I or my family could afford that plus whatever will be available that interests me by the time the Switch is retired, so I keep trying to beat the curiosity out of me.  Now, all I am is sad and curious if they would be fun games or not.