HeyJaredThe Mood Bored
Geeking out on alternative music, gaming, and other hobbies, along with fighting my personal battles at full volume through electronic letters for total strangers.
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Mood Bored #16 (opens the original)
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Mood Bored #16Sept editionIf you’re new and just stumbled on this, welcome! The “Mood Bored” blog series summarizes everything I’ve gotten into for the past month. From media that have inspired me lately , hobbies, travels, experiences, music, and everything else I’m currently geeking out on. I encourage conversations about these and similar media, as well as welcome your recommendations based on them!Is it just me, or did that summer fly by and feel like it was only 3 weeks?Well, I definitely m
Played With Myself So Much, I Now Prefer It Over the Real Thing (opens the original)
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The More I Played With Myself, The Better I GotPt.2 of a newbie in Solo TTRPGI wanna start by thanking everyone who read pt. 1, 8 Months of Playing With Myself (A newbie’s solo RPG Experience). To summarize, it’s basically how I stumbled upon this fascinating hobby of solo tabletop gaming. Through that discovery, I found so many people here on Substack who play solo TTRPGs! I promised a follow-up. And in the same fashion, why not have the
8 Months of Playing With Myself (A newbie’s solo RPG Experience) (opens the original)
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Back in Jan, I wrote about my experience playing my first solo journaling game. I was very much new to the hobby and had never heard of it before. I always thought tabletop roleplaying games were limited to people with lots of friends and a good amount of free time. In both cases. I DO NOT.“Beyond the Rift” was the first game I picked up using some dice, a deck of cards, and a journal in hand. And this was the first game that made me understand the mechanics I first found questionable: being
The Games That Have Kept Me Busy This Year (So Far) (opens the original)
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At the start of 2026, I picked up a new hobby in solo tabletop gaming. And that’s eaten a lot of what I consider “gaming time”. Not to mention, I was creating my very own board game! But when I’m not in the mood to be rolling dice and the occasional headache of being my own GM and PC (I’m having fun with the oversimulation, honestly), I’ve bounced between huge open worlds, cozy exploration games, JRPGs, fighting games, Soulslikes, and games where the main attraction is basically sitting around d
Another "Best Albums of 2026 So Far" List (opens the original)
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I’m a little late on one of these with August around the corner, and even so, there are still so many recently released albums I want to hear before I make mine! But if I did that, next thing you know it’s December, then it’s 2027, and it’ll never get done. So here are my picks for 2026 albums so far with small blurbs on why I picked them. These 10 are NOT ranked in any order cause with so many genres I listen to outside my main (alt/punk/metal), how can you compare them like that?<a class="imag
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