Ramadan, Comic-Con, and Iwata-San

Once again a lot has happened since my last post. I guess I keep realizing that real life eats up most of my work ethic on this thing. Ah well, before I go into my next project, I'd like to just have a summary of a few events that have happened in the past few months. 

First off, Ramadan came and went too fast. I was planning on having another post about some correlation between the virtues of Ramadan and some other video game, but I got lazy and decided to not do it. I might still write about this in the near future but it may be a ways out. I felt like I spent too much time playing video games during this month than actually experiencing the spirituality that it bestows. I basically ended up passing time instead of enjoying it. I could put the blame on the long days and the heat but in essence, it just was a reflection of who I really was. I definitely need to work on it. 

Secondly, Comic-con was in town a few weeks ago. I had the chance of walking around (but sadly, not inside) the convention center. I got to check out the Adult Swim area and win a few goodies but besides that, it was just people watching. Got to see a lot of cos-players. But I've realized that comic-con isn't much about the comics than it is about the shows and movies inspired by them. One thing that somehow flew past is that being a geek is now cool. It's like I grew up ten years too early. Despite my passive fandom for all things geeky, I was always socially pressured to not be "too" obsessed about it. Since it took too much energy to harbor my fandom for comics and video games, I toned them down. I still read them and followed them, but never really got too excited about it. And now, after spending so many years holding my enthusiasm to myself, I had the opportunity to express it and could not. I think it's just that total fandom scares me. Being obsessed about one particular thing makes someone seem crazy. I like certain things a lot, but never to point where I openly express it in public. But I guess I should. The reason I had for doing what I did are now obsolete. I guess I should go dig out my Batman costume form yesteryear....

Another topic I wanted to address upon was the death of the President of Nintendo, Satoru Iwata. It's a such a tragedy when someone passes away at such an early age (he was only 56!). It kind of puts my life in perspective. There is no minimum life expectancy for a human being. So we need to do what we can while we can. I think his death was the inspiration for me coming back to this blog. To talk about the things that I love. Iwata-san only was president for a short while and had a small career with Nintendo, but he had his hand in creating some of the best games Nintendo put out on the market.

So once again, I am going to start over. I'll still be using this as my writing exercise blog, but who knows? Maybe I'll start something else soon.

Lastly, for my birthday, I was lucky enough to get a handful of comics from a friend of mine. I've never read any of these comics before and will hopefully use this as a way to get more posts up in the coming weeks. 

Thanks for reading,

Suleyman