I finished Disco Elysium. The Estonian-made adventure game consumed my entire weekend, and then it was done. But can it ever be done? There are so many character traits you can choose, skills you can level up, that you barely get a glimpse of all the possible narrative strands.

I woke up at 8 o’clock on Monday, and honestly I felt it was too early, considering I spent most of the weekend behind the screen. So I went back to sleep and had a cool dream involving Robert Downey Jr. in an A24-inspired remake of Less Than Zero.

What a funny week it has been. On Monday, Trump announced that Liberation Day was imminent. April 2nd would mark a new era for the American economy. Turns out he was right. It’s the end of the week and everything is still in the red.

Someone asked for recommendations regarding evening-long video game documentaries, and people were happy to oblige: EVE Online (6 hours), Alan Wake 2 (5.5 hours), Pokemon Brilliant Diamond (11 hours), Fallout (9.25 hours), and Robin Hood: Conquest of the Longbow (2 hours).

Apologies for not writing a newsletter last week, but I came down with a severe case of food poisoning. I was eating a donut which I presumed had a tart apple filling, but afterwards I was told it was actually peach. Peach?

I’ve been reading the Gospel of Matthew over the weekend, and there was one particular story that caught my interest: The Faith of a Canaanite Woman. In it, Jesus meets a Gentile woman who wants the Son of David to save her daughter. At first he refuses.

What is Man’s maturity: to have regained the seriousness that he had as a child at play. Yes, I have been listening to Nietzsche. To lectures about Nietzsche, I mean. Not that I have started following his philosophy.

The final batch of FBI documents concerning Kevin Mitnick got released, and sent me down memory lane. Kevin gained notoriety as a hacker in the 80s and 90s, breaking into government and corporate data systems.