Every day feels the same, but if you focus on the little things that you have some power over, you might be able to make things better. It’s just going to take some time, which is bad news, because time is running out. Doom is in the air, in the sky and all around us. Maybe we can prevent it and maybe we can’t. All we can do is look at what our options are in the present moment and pick the best one. Everything else is out of our control.
Maybe that’s why people are acting so weird. Politicians are fighting with the service workers about if the threat is real and what to do about it. Traveling the world reveals that everybody is going through something similar, but without contact with those outside of their individual communities, they have no idea how not alone they are. Do you want to visit one of those places, or otherwise leave the confines of your immediate surroundings? If so, you better bring a mask, more than one if you have one.
That’s the premise ofMajora’s Mask, one of the new releases that make upseason five of Boss Fight Books, now on Kickstarter.The bulk of the book itself was written a while back, so you won’t find a ton of direct COVID-19 commentary there, but the parallels between the game and the virus crisis are there regardless. Other titles in the season, likeSilent Hill 2from Mike Drucker, are bound to be more self-loathing, and I’m pretty excited. Drucker’s essay onwhy he subjects himself to gameslike Fallout 76is a new American classic, and I bet his relationship with one of the most internally conflicted games of all time will be just as relatable. Rounding out the series are books onResident Evil,Red Dead Redemption, andFinal Fantasy VI.
They are also taking votes for what books should be in season six.Castlevania: Symphony of the Nightseems to be in the lead so far, but personally, I’m hopingDeadly Premonitionmakes the cut in the end. I know at least one person who’d love to take a crack at it.
