Author Archives: Adam Randall

Mario Bros. (Game & Watch)

When most people think of a game entitled “Mario Bros.” they probably think of the popular arcade game, but this Game & Watch was actually the first game to bare that title. Not only is this one of the Game … Continue reading

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Writing Letters

As cynical as it may sound, I’m not an enormous fan of greeting cards. I don’t want to universally condemn them, because sometimes they can be very nice and people can write special little messages in them and so forth, … Continue reading

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Repairing The Damage

For the past ten months, I’ve been working in a toxic and unpleasant workplace. I don’t want to go into the details, but I was very unhappy and it was causing me a huge deal of stress, to the point … Continue reading

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Luigi’s Mansion

I love the Super Mario series, but like a lot of people, I feel more strongly endeared to Mario’s brother Luigi than Mario himself and so I was delighted when I found out that one of the first games on … Continue reading

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Taking Advantage

Something I find interesting is that a lot of people worry about others’ taking advantage of me. A few people have said it lately, but nobody has specifically articulated any specific examples. Why would people think that anybody is taking … Continue reading

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Hypothermia

When I recently took my trip to Scotland, I was telling my friends Rory and Mairi a story about something I had done several years previously. I thought it was just a rather interesting and unusual anecdote, but then Mairi … Continue reading

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Mario Kart 8

I always loved the Mario Kart series – the previous games had already been pretty amazing. Mario Kart Wii and Mario Kart DS are two games which I’ve had hundreds of hours of enjoyment with and which I continue to … Continue reading

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Touching People

Back in the past, I avoided making physical contact with people 100% of the time. It made me anxious and I did not like it. Of course, I was still forced to hug family members and so forth, but in … Continue reading

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Endless Art

There are so many books, video games, TV shows, movies and other pieces of art which I really want to consume. Honestly, with new things being produced all the time, there’s no way that I’ll be able to appreciate every … Continue reading

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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J. K. Rowling

This is the fifth book in the enormously popular Harry Potter series. When I read the first four, I felt like it just got better and better with each new books. I had heard that the fifth was a step … Continue reading

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