Adventures in Self Care: Video Games as Self-Care
It may come as no small surprise to those of you who know me well that video games were a huge part of my life growing up. Or, it actually may surprise you, since I've been more or less on a gaming hiatus since I moved out of my parent's house and away from our PS2. This March, when I moved in with my boyfriend, I also moved in with (drumroll please) an Xbox One. Initially this functioned primarily as the machine on which Andy played Warzone online with his friends, but in the back of my mind hummed the memories of long sessions spent on the red floral couch of my youth, playing my way through countless RPGs of the early aughts. Videogames were one of the few activities my polar opposite younger brother and I had in common. He played sports and ran around with his friends while I read books and cried a lot about how I didn't have many friends. But, some of my fondest memories of growing up with a sibling are of playing Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance together, or o...