Jack McNamara
Bio
I feel that I'm just hitting my middle-aged stride.
Very late developer in coding (pun intended).
Been writing for decades, mostly fiction, now starting with non-fiction.
Stories (26)
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The Witcher vs Laser Beams
I've started playing The Witcher III: Wild Hunt - and quickly stopped playing it -approximately 17 times. Maybe 18 times. I've lost count really. Which is fitting for a game that requires you to keep track of approximately 17,000 different quests, characters, and locations across multiple massive areas.
By Jack McNamara4 months ago in Gamers
Emulating PS2 games in 2025
If you've got a laptop or desktop sitting around... then that's quite unusual in 2025, from what I can see. We've passed invisibly from "Oh, I've got a laptop but I rarely use it" to "I do everything on my phone now" to "what laptop?" Balls, is what I say to that. Balls.
By Jack McNamara5 months ago in Gamers
How I Rewired My Brain To Stop Caring What People Think
I used to carry around a personal tribunal in my head. My school English teacher (perpetually disappointed), my college roommate (effortlessly cool), my boss from three jobs ago (never satisfied), along with a rotating cast of strangers whose fleeting opinions somehow mattered to me more than my own happiness.
By Jack McNamara6 months ago in Lifehack
