That’s right. I have heard the call to get back into Counter-Strike! The next LAN I am going to is LAN ETS 2023 or Dreamhack Montreal, whichever is sooner.

Counter-Strike for me is probably one of my biggest passions and true loves. I stopped playing it in college because I didn’t want to get distracted, but I think I can temper my playing enough to be fine with a bit for twice a week. Something that decidedly got me interested again was both the addition of Anubis into the map pool, and a Twitter post by someone who both remembered me and a teammate of mine. I think it’s finally time to return to something that I love so much with all of my being.

Everything else I do in life is… fine. Seriously. Like my major, sure, I know my way around after helpful reminders and dedication, but it’s not my passion. I’m surrounded by so many people day-in and day-out that are just so into doing things like doing bug bounties or coding, but I just do this because it’s a good career and they need hard working, honest and knowledgeable people like myself in the field that won’t turn around and be disloyal to people. Martial Arts are also nice, and I am glad I am learning karate as well, but Counter-Strike is just the best.

Fear not! I am still going to be posting various video game things for the people that do read this now and again. It’s not all going to be CS:GO once/twice a week. I have an idea for an article coming up that is going to take a lot of time and waking up early to pull off, but I seriously want to do it (it’s Pokémon related if that helps). I haven’t even written about Source mods, OpenRCT2, RiiConnect24, and a bunch of other things yet, so of course I have more topics to post about.

I’m just really excited about starting it up again. I will slowly be ramping up my game time until April/May and by the time I am done with this semester I hope to finally have a working PC again and not this gaming laptop that heats up to the temperature of the sun whenever I play any intense games.