JalapeñoOverdrive

Thinking about one of the reader mail questions you got, an experience I've had with using a video game to cope with real life was with Warframe, a free-to-play action game. There was just one moment in my life a few years back when it seemed like fate really had a bone to pick with me; lost my job, a social circle of friends, and a place to live. Things were pretty bad already. But then I also got the news that my mother found a lump, had it tested, and sure enough it was cancer. I really felt like I needed some kind of big dumb violent action game to vent my frustrations on, and figured I'd give Warframe a try since it was free and came recommended from a few folks. One enemy faction in particular seemed to fit the bill all too perfectly, the infested; as you could likely imagine, they are very much based around an aesthetic of cancerous-looking tumors and just ripping those things to shreds with my sword felt so cathartic at the time. There wasn't much I could do to help my mother other than offer words of encouragement, and it was so frustrating not being able to do anything more to help, this game really did help me with venting that frustration. It became my go-to game for about a year-and-a-half since I had a lot more free time to waste and I ended up getting a couple other folks into it. I talked about it a lot on a podcast that I was on, even. I guess it was something like my Farcry 2 or The Witness in that regard. I don't play it that much any more, but I do feel pretty thankful that I did have something like that at the time. Kinda sentimental for a game that is more or less just a hoard shooter/hack n' slash with micro-transactions.

Hello, I am Jalapeno Overdrive and I am a fighting game trash lady. I also occasionally post things on youtube.