Matt's Madness – D&D, Comics, and Things

CultureQuest: Waterworld (1995)

I wasn’t planning on watching a second movie this week that was about post-apocalyptic humanity living in disparate colonies, preying on each other with a world that didn’t quite make sense but was still very evocative, but here we are.

Culture Quest: Mortal Engines (2018)

You probably saw the trailer to mortal engines, and, frankly, the trailer was the best part. The idea of giant cities that wheel around and hunt each other is a neat idea, but it was maybe 20 minutes of the actual movie. And yet, that’s going to be what I focus on for the rest of this reflection.

Matt’s Mind: Start of 2026

It probably is a sign of ill omen that during the first bits of free, discretionary time I had in the New Year, I developed a nasty head cold that sapped all my energy and drive. It’s taken a few days to get over it. Which might have been good, I guess, as I needed a bit more time to figure out what I wanted to try and make 2026.

Matt’s Mind for September 17 2025

I have problems with goals. Setting them is easy, but actually accomplishing them? Hard.

Matt’s Mind for September 11 2025

Wednesdays. That’s the plan now. I’m going to try to do these on Wednesdays, and that way, my current ideas can be presented, instead of trying to fit the last 20 days into one post.

Matt’s Mind for August 14 2025

Oh man, only 10 days since the last update? It feels like so much has happened. Or at least, it feels like I’ve made some neat progress. So let’s take a look at what’s been going on. It starts with podcasts.

Matt’s Mind for August 3 2025

Welcome to August! Let’s take a look back and forward.

Culture Quest – “The Power of Fun” by Catherine Price

I picked this book out at the library as part of my blind research floundering process. I was hoping it would be a book about how people interact with games. And it was, sort of, but not in the way that I was hoping. As I realized that the book was not going to be particularly helpful towards my research endeavors, I moved from deep reading to more of a skim, so there are a lot of specifics of the book that I didn’t delve into, so my report suffers related shallowness. But I think there are useful concepts in what I did read, and I can see it altering how I interact with the world in the future as I apply some of what I gleaned.

Matt’s Mind for July 15 2025

Hey, remember when I said this was going to be a weekly thing? yeah….

Matt’s Mind for June 8 2025

This was a bit of a hectic week for me. A big Mtg release makes life at a gamestore hectic. So I don’t feel I did as much as I ought’ve. But let me fill you in on what I did throw cycles at this last week.