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I miss stores. I miss malls. I’m only just now getting to a point in my life where I’m successful enough to have enjoyed them the way I imagined I would eventually. Now I can potentially go into a store and buy a thing if I see a thing I like, but now there are no stores for that. I know some larger places still have media store, or bookstores, but out here it’s just walmart or dollar stores, and the occasional Gamestop. It’s not that I don’t like the convenience of Amazon, or online retail in general. It was just fun to go out and forage. Most places have very limited selections of media if they have any at all. Having been burned by the move to digital media I am wary of letting physical slip away.

In 20 years the video game nostalgia documentaries on whatever replaces youtube will struggle to explain exactly what gaming was like since so much of it took place online in places that simply do not exist. I played Splatoon for quite some time and that era of the game is over. The online landscape is this weird mess of cheaters and die hard players. Plus it’s not the kind of game you can just port to a new system. It has features tied to a console specific controller. That time of the game being new and upkept is just over. Probably forever. The single player mode is just barely a full game. It’s meant to mostly be played online, and that’s true of so many defining games of this current era.

Things change. They end. That’s always been a theme of the comic. This linear progression to whatever end awaits everyone and everything. I wonder sometimes if I want to see what the world will look like in two more decades or more. I may not even get a chance. Nobody knows. Tomorrow’s not promised to anyone…