<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Video Games on Chrizzle23.net</title><link>https://chrizzle23.net/tags/video-games/</link><description>Recent content in Video Games on Chrizzle23.net</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en</language><copyright>Chrizzle23.net and all blog posts © 2026 by Chris Anderson is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0</copyright><lastBuildDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2020 08:57:43 -0400</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://chrizzle23.net/tags/video-games/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>Dan Harmon on the Sexuality of Fallout 4</title><link>https://chrizzle23.net/posts/201202-dan-harmon-fallout/</link><pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2020 08:57:43 -0400</pubDate><guid>https://chrizzle23.net/posts/201202-dan-harmon-fallout/</guid><description>&lt;p>&lt;em>This is another recycled post from my old Wordpress Blog&lt;/em>&lt;/p>
&lt;p>At my core, I am a tabletop role player. I play a lot of video games, but table top RPGs are my jam. To paraphrase an obscure Fight Club trailer, after tabletop DND, playing video games is &amp;ldquo;like watching porn when you could be having great sex.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/p>
&lt;p>&lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIUmFpEthbc">&lt;img src="https://img.youtube.com/vi/zIUmFpEthbc/0.jpg" alt="FightClub: Watching football.">&lt;/a>&lt;/p>
&lt;p>I so when I &lt;em>ahem&lt;/em> play solo video games, there is some part of me that wants to put a backstory to either my choices or the choices the game makes for me. When I would marry Mjoll the Lioness in Skyrim and her boyfriend Aerin came along with her, I figured we were doing some kind of Viking age polyamory type thing.&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>Videogames and Depression</title><link>https://chrizzle23.net/posts/151026-videogames/</link><pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2015 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://chrizzle23.net/posts/151026-videogames/</guid><description>&lt;p>&lt;em>This is another repost from my WordPress days, back when I was playing a lot of Skyrim.&lt;/em>&lt;/p>
&lt;p>&lt;img src="https://chrizzle23.net/spidey_skyrim.png" align="right" />I have battled with clinical depression for most of my adult life. The primary reason that I have maintained a weblog in one form or another is that writing is one of the ways that I deal with my depression. I also play video games. Writing and exercise are positive things that help me to feel productive. Video games are a tricky balance. In moderation, gaming helps me vent frustrations, much like exercise does. If I am not careful, however, gaming can go off the rails, and become basically the only thing that I do, outside of the bare essentials like not getting fired from work and keeping the children alive.&lt;/p></description></item></channel></rss>