Why I Left and Why I'm Back

Hey, PRC gang,

Long time, no reviews.

It's not like I have a huge readership, but then, this was never really about reaching a ton of people. It was mostly just a way for me to stretch my writing muscles in a way that I found fun, on topics that I love. So you may wonder, what happened?

Well, long story short, life got in the way. I got married, got my wife moved to America, and then, shortly thereafter, noticed that my hands were hurting a lot. My wrists were stiff, and my joints throbbing. My day job entails a lot of typing. Like... A LOT. So I did some home remedies that helped ease the pain and stiffness enough for me to do my job. But everything else got put on pause -- typing essays out for fun, had to go, and horrifically, I haven't played any video games since 2017. I unpaused long enough to write my Black Panther essay early last year, and that hurt my hands quite a bit, so I put it back down.

BUT...things change. I got a promotion at work that allowed me not to have to type as much, which was cool. And I also got fed up with the current direction of film criticism. Or what passes as film criticism. I got tired of the YouTube dorks who think that nitpicking constitutes criticism. Or that hyperbolic ranting is the same thing as having a valid point.

And so I decided to try it again, albeit slower and probably not so often. Maybe focus on older stuff, so I don't feel the pressure to put out a review on a particular deadline. And definitely write shorter reviews. I don't wanna push it too hard, too fast.

So...let's do this thing.