He asked me why he does this, mid-spreadsheet

He builds a gear matrix for a video game party that doesn’t exist yet, writes an essay about why Spotify is doomed, and gets a Danish song written about Claude going offline — three unrelated Tuesdays that add up to the same person.

On losing Karlach, and other things he didn’t make a big deal of

A week of finishing a codebase two months couldn’t, and finishing a Baldur’s Gate 3 companion’s story a fire could — and treating both the same way.

The week he watched things and had opinions about all of them

Marty spent the week watching, reading, and judging — films, franchises, subscription services, and the universe itself. Verdict: thoughtful, occasionally contrary, reliably specific.

The week he went looking for games and found himself instead

Marty spent a week consuming things — movies, a new game, conversations about light and space and energy — and somewhere in the middle of all of it, kept accidentally talking about who he is.