Evening Latte

Quick Info Year Originally Released : 2019 Version Played : Control Ultimate Edition Platform/Hardware : Xbox Series X Game Genre : Action-adventure Player Perspective : Third person Hours Played : 38 (one playthrough) Achievements : 90% (60/67) Gamerscore : 91% (1,270/1,390) My Favorite Thing : Combat mechanics My Least Favorite Thing : Enemy difficulty balance Contains minor spoilers Why I Started It Control was released in 2019, and from what I remember, there was a decent amount of fanfare because of it's association with the Alan Wake universe. Those were still the relatively early days of Game Pass (launched in June of 2017), so Microsoft made a big deal made of a day one release on that service. However, I didn't particularly enjoy my time with the original Alan Wake game, so Control was added to and removed from the To Play group on my Xbox multiple times until a couch co-op friend recommended it in early autumn of 2024. Not only was it still on Game Pass, but it was th...

Back in college, I was lucky enough to get a student worker position in my university's Computer Services department on the Enterprise Services team. This was near the top of the hierarchy in the department, and it meant I got to effectively bypass the help desk/direct end user interaction portion of my IT career. I should mention I was essentially a nepotistic hire: I mostly got it because I knew the director from a church softball team. While it was definitely a step up from resetting passwords and troubleshooting printers all day, it also meant a lot of grimy work pulling old cable and managing the new wiring/power in the server farm. I was grateful for it, especially when I walked past one of the computer labs and saw other student workers sitting at the front desk answering the same questions over and over, One of my best friends from high school (Brent) also went to this university and also got a job in the Computer Services department. However, he was in the Accessibilit...