Mélange: Profanity-Spewing Dinosaur Animoji / GEARS OF WAR / Cursive

Good morning; it’s foggy. Well, it was. But it isn’t anymore. Except in my brain. Case in point:

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Spent much of the morning perfecting a tweet about the profanity-laden dinosaur animoji and thinking of how to best rearrange my office so as to maximize the impact of the tiny window of 750w warmth it provides. Deleted the tweet but will work on the office. Think it's time for one of those social hibernation periods – not out of any particular disdain for social media but simply a reflection of my preferred state of mental calm and a desire that my breath be more wisely spent.

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The accolades for GEARS 5 has inspired me to take another stab at finding the appeal of the GEARS OF WAR series. After 10 years and somewhere amidst the third act of the first game (the remastered ULTIMATE edition), I think I've finally found that appeal – though I can't put it into words, yet. A problem, certainly, but no more of a problem than the inability to jump in GEARS. I dig the cover-based gameplay but this lack of jumping is a cement shoe – this isn't a constant throughout the series, is it?

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Declaring it official: I can no longer write in cursive or in lower-case. (I had intended this to be a longer piece but this simple declaration of defeat will have to do.)

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Confronting the truth that I will have to return the bookshelf to its previous location and that the office rearrangement was, like the profanity-laden dinosaur animoji tweet, destined to fail. Happy Monday.