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A New Hope

Where do I begin? Another year has come and gone. It doesn’t feel like 2023 is in a few hours. But here we are. Another year, another chance to be someone new.

2022 started of so well. I was in Colorado for a week, and it was one of the best trips I’ve taken. I had so much fun skiing and just not being home. In April, I went to Galena, Illinois. In July, I went to Michigan. In September, I made my return to Hilton Head, South Carolina. It was the first time I had been down there in about 20 years and it was amazing.

Overall, I did a lot of fun stuff in 2022. I’m truly grateful for it. But 2022 wasn’t all fun. There were things that really just sucked. As the year went on, it just seemed to suck more and more. And of all my resolutions from last year, I only kept two of them. They can all be found here for future reading.

So, what didn’t I do in 2022? I didn’t post two blog posts a month, I didn’t read one book a month, and I didn’t film any of my short films. Does this make the year a failure by itself? No. I just kind of wish I did more. I know I could have done more. I just didn’t feel like it.

I did improve my video editing skills. I edited countless hours of video in 2022. I also finished writing my movie. I didn’t specify what the movie was, but I’m pretty sure I know which one it is. That also means that I took that movie and turned it into a TV show instead. The idea works better as a TV show since there’s so much to explore.

I do want to do a few things in 2023. I want to read one book a month. I have so many books, and I just got five more for Christmas. I’ll keep editing videos. I also want to put a serious effort into submitting film scripts to contests. It’ll be expensive, but it’s something I need to do to get where I want to go.

I also want to learn to say “no.” I often agree to things because I don’t want to make people mad. Well, that ends with 2022. I’m going to do things for me in 2023. That also means I need to let the past go. I often look to things in the past or people, and it never works out for me. To go forward, I have to stop going backward. The past is set in stone, but the future is undiscovered. It’s new. It’s exciting. That’s where I should be looking.

2023 is a chance to start new. It’s a chance for me to be someone different. And I fully intend on doing that. I look around and see where I am. I see where I can be. I see who I can be. It’s time I changed who I am so I can be who I’m meant to be.

Battlefield 2042: The Excitement is Real!

It’s finally coming! A new Battlefield game has been long overdue, but will it be just as good, if not better than previous games? Only time will tell.

From the trailer (which can be seen here) we can see that the graphics look amazing! This is definitely a “next gen” game…or a high end computer game.

What I like, is that while it does take place in the future, it’s the near future. Most of what we see in the trailer we already have in the modern age. This excites me for a couple reasons.

First of all, I loved Battlefield 1 and Battlefield V. They were fun to play and I liked that all the guns and attachments weren’t that overpowered. The guns were from WWI and WWII. That meant no fancy thermal scopes for once. I always managed to find a way to get sniped by a guy with a thermal scope.

Secondly, the only place they could go was the future. The past had been done and the modern day had also been done. But they were smart about it. Unlike Call of Duty, it doesn’t seem like they went so far into the future, that things are unreasonable. The worst part about futuristic Call of Duty was the Exo Suits. I HATED when people would bounce around, land behind me, and kill me. MASSIVE RAGE QUIT.

From this trailer, I don’t see anything like that and I hope it doesn’t become a thing. That would ruin the game for me. It also appears that there will be plenty of map destruction available. One of the big things I loved about Battlefield games was the ability to destroy the map as you played. It added a fun dynamic to the game. And we can’t forget about the ability to jump out of a plane, shoot a rocket at another plane, and then land back in the plane. Classic Battlefield!

Overall, the trailer shows a lot of promise. I’m very curious to see if changes in the weather on the map play a role in how the game is played. In past games, sandstorms made it hard to see. They might amp it up for this game and make the weather devastating.

Nonetheless, I’m definitely excited for Battlefield 2042 and you can bet I’ll play it the day it comes out (work permitting of course). The first Battlefield game I ever played was Battlefield 4, many, many years ago on my PS3. I fell in love with it from the moment I played it. I just hope that Battlefield 2042 is as good as it looks.