![]() The game had been widely praised for its difficult ethical decisions and unflinching portrayal of wartime hardship. ![]() That game was This War of Mine – 11 Bit Studios’ incisive simulator of trying to survive in a war-torn city. I turned off the game I was playing, and haven’t ever turned it on again. The college where she had worked for five or six years had mismanaged its finances and was facing major changes going forward, starting by laying off dozens of staff members, including her. Then, one day my wife came home from work early and announced that she had just been laid off. I had started substitute teaching at a local private school to help make ends meet. ![]() In the fall I’d dropped from a full load of four-to-five classes per semester, to only one. I had borrowed as much as the government was willing to lend me, and I was no longer able to afford to take classes full time. I was in my third year of classes at Baptist Bible Seminary, but I’d hit a roadblock. ![]() In January of 2016, I was living with my wife in our Pennsylvania apartment. Content Warning: Horror scenes/art, violence, depression/despair, cosmic horror, Nietzsche as interpreted by teenage boys, political stupidity (esp. ![]()
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