π΄ About
Hello and welcome to my homepage! My name's Jordan and I'm a programmer from Southern Illinois. In my free time I do let's plays on YouTube and I stream on Twitch with a group of friends on the Alderoth Circle. I keep a more general blog for open-ended thoughts as well as canonical pages on games I play, movies I watch, etc. On those, I like to review them or post any notable thoughts I had.
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Blog Posts
| Post | Summary |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-22 YouTube Retrospective Year 5 | Thoughts on games I've played this year and my general plans for next year. |
| 2025-12-18 A Game That Is A Game | A useful phrase I've been using recently to descrbe a subset of games, and why I think it's important. |
| 2025-06-13 Bless You | Extremely important rant with widespread implications. The power that this has, the intelligence that this has, the clearance that this has... |
| 2025-02-12 Illinois State Flags | Review of potential Illinois state flag redesigns. |
| 2025-01-17 Dick Laurent Is Dead | Thoughts on the recent news of Lynch's passing. |
| 2024-12-23 Default Apps 2024 | List of apps and services I use day to day as of the end of 2024. |
| 2024-11-19 YouTube Retrospective Year 4 | Thoughts on games I've played this year and my general plans for next year. |
| 2024-11-08 Mr. Smith | A description of my ideal political candidate, if I could summon them from the aether. |
| 2024-09-25 My RSS Journey | My move to using RSS as my front page of the internet, as opposed to certain other websites. |
| 2024-08-20 I'm Tired of Being Asked to Care About the Robot | Rant about a frequent plot point/theme in recent media that I think has overstayed its welcome. |
| 2024-08-16 Music Make You Lose Control (Of Your Emotions) | Couple examples of some particularly emotionally-heightened songs I thought of from some games I've played. |
| 2024-05-28 Disney Magic Retrospective | Review of all the Disney animated films and whether I feel each is magical or not. |
| 2023-12-08 YouTube Retrospective | Thoughts on games I've played on my youTube channel and how I think things have gone up till now with it. |
| 2023-11-30 AFI Top 100 List | Short review of each of the films in the 2007 version of the American Film Institute's top 100 American films of all time. |
| 2023-08-14 AvP Retrospective | Short review of each of the Alien, Predator, and AvP films inspired by my enjoyment of playing Alien Isolation. |
Let's Plays
A big thing I do in my free time is make let's plays. Below is a list of games that I've played (or are in the process of playing).
| Game | Started | Finished |
|---|---|---|
| Alien Isolation (2014) | June 12, 2022 | August 15, 2022 |
| American Arcadia (2023) | February 10, 2024 | March 02, 2024 |
| Amnesia A Machine for Pigs (2013) | April 11, 2023 | March 16, 2023 |
| Amnesia Rebirth (2020) | September 13, 2021 | December 13, 2021 |
| Amnesia The Bunker (2023) | June 23, 2023 | July 01, 2023 |
| Amnesia the Dark Descent (2010) | August 05, 2025 | October 27, 2025 |
| Call of Duty (2003) | January 27, 2023 | February 25, 2023 |
| Call of Duty 2 (2005) | March 18, 2023 | April 02, 2023 |
| Call of Duty Black Ops (2010) | September 24, 2023 | November 19, 2023 |
| Call of Duty World at War (2008) | July 02, 2023 | July 24, 2023 |
| Call of the Sea (2020) | February 14, 2021 | February 28, 2021 |
| Control (2019) | October 01, 2022 | December 19, 2022 |
| Disco Elysium (2019) | April 05, 2023 | June 19, 2023 |
| DOOM (2016) | October 11, 2025 | November 16, 2025 |
| Doom Eternal (2020) | November 30, 2025 | February 02, 2026 |
| Fallout 4 (2015) | April 20, 2024 | May 25, 2025 |
| Hypnospace Outlaw (2019) | December 28, 2023 | February 10, 2024 |
| Kentucky Route Zero (2020) | April 03, 2022 | April 16, 2022 |
| Mass Effect 1 (2007) | May 16, 2021 | September 06, 2021 |
| Mass Effect 2 (2010) | October 05, 2021 | February 23, 2022 |
| Mass Effect 3 (2012) | April 28, 2022 | July 10, 2022 |
| Mundaun (2021) | April 28, 2024 | May 27, 2024 |
| Night in the Woods (2017) | January 02, 2024 | February 11, 2024 |
| No one lives under the lighthouse (2020) | August 27, 2023 | September 01, 2023 |
| Norco (2022) | July 14, 2024 | August 18, 2024 |
| Omen Exitio Plague (2018) | August 24, 2022 | September 18, 2022 |
| Outer Wilds (2019) | January 07, 2023 | February 04, 2023 |
| Pentiment (2022) | September 20, 2023 | October 22, 2023 |
| Resident Evil (1996) | December 29, 2024 | February 23, 2025 |
| Resident Evil 2 (1998) | March 22, 2025 | June 08, 2025 |
| Resident Evil 3 (1999) | June 08, 2025 | June 18, 2025 |
| Resident Evil 4 (2005) | June 30, 2025 | October 02, 2025 |
| Road 96 (2021) | December 02, 2022 | December 12, 2022 |
| Rogue Galaxy (2005) | March 20, 2021 | June 20, 2021 |
| Scarlet Hollow (2021) | February 21, 2024 | - |
| Silent Hill (1999) | June 02, 2024 | July 07, 2024 |
| Silent Hill 2 (2001) | September 19, 2024 | November 17, 2024 |
| Silent Hill 3 (2003) | February 15, 2025 | April 01, 2025 |
| Smile For Me (2019) | July 31, 2023 | August 11, 2023 |
| Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic (2003) | March 08, 2021 | April 18, 2021 |
| Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic II (2004) | August 09, 2021 | March 18, 2022 |
| System Shock (1994) | May 26, 2025 | October 08, 2025 |
| System Shock 2 (1999) | - | - |
| The Case of the Golden Idol (2022) | March 03, 2024 | April 06, 2024 |
| The Complex- Found Footage | December 16, 2022 | December 16, 2022 |
| The Final Station (2016) | September 17, 2023 | October 02, 2023 |
| The Pale Beyond (2023) | March 28, 2024 | April 27, 2024 |
| The Rise of the Golden Idol (2024) | November 17, 2024 | December 29, 2024 |
| The Witness (2016) | April 27, 2021 | July 09, 2021 |
| Tormented Souls (2021) | November 12, 2023 | January 08, 2024 |
| Total War- Rome (2004) | November 03, 2025 | - |
| Visage (2020) | July 07, 2021 | July 25, 2021 |
Streams
A list of games that I've streamed at one point or another on Twitch with TAC. There's a number of other games I've been involved with on the channel, but these are the ones that I myself streamed or at least was strongly involved with in some way. No super-specific criteria, just games I have an opinion on that we've covered. Start and end dates generally only relate to games with a clear endpoint that were definitively finished. Rather than evergreen games that we come back to. Or if I have some idea of when I first played something.
| Game | Started | Finished |
|---|---|---|
| 7 Days to Die (2013) | October 07, 2021 | October 27, 2022 |
| American Truck Simulator (2016) | - | - |
| Baldur's Gate 3 (2023) | June 03, 2025 | - |
| Barotrauma (2023) | January 22, 2022 | April 30, 2022 |
| Bloodborne (2015) | March 24, 2015 | March 24, 2015 |
| Book of Hours (2023) | September 05, 2024 | September 12, 2024 |
| Class of '09 (2021) | January 02, 2025 | January 02, 2025 |
| Class of '09- The Re-Up (2023) | December 16, 2025 | December 16, 2025 |
| Cuphead (2017) | September 09, 2023 | December 09, 2023 |
| Dark Souls (2011) | January 01, 2014 | January 01, 2014 |
| Dark Souls II (2014) | March 11, 2014 | March 11, 2014 |
| Dark Souls III (2016) | April 12, 2016 | April 12, 2016 |
| Death of the Reprobate (2024) | June 12, 2025 | July 15, 2025 |
| Diner Bros (2018) | December 07, 2021 | - |
| Earth Defense Force 5 (2017) | April 27, 2019 | - |
| Elden Ring (2022) | February 24, 2022 | July 18, 2024 |
| Escape the Backrooms (2022) | - | - |
| Four Last Things (2017) | June 07, 2025 | June 07, 2025 |
| Helldivers (2015) | March 31, 2019 | April 02, 2019 |
| If On a Winter's Night, Four Travelers (2021) | December 21, 2023 | December 21, 2023 |
| Jak and Daxter The Precursor Legacy (2001) | January 01, 2003 | January 01, 2003 |
| Jak II (2003) | January 01, 2003 | - |
| Kingdom Hearts (2002) | January 01, 2005 | January 01, 2005 |
| Kingdom Hearts 0.2 Birth by Sleep β A Fragmentary Passage | October 17, 2024 | October 17, 2024 |
| Kingdom Hearts 2 (2005) | March 28, 2006 | March 28, 2006 |
| Kingdom Hearts 3 (2019) | October 17, 2024 | December 05, 2024 |
| Kingdom Hearts 3D Dream Drop Distance (2012) | September 21, 2024 | October 12, 2024 |
| Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep (2010) | August 01, 2024 | August 22, 2024 |
| Kingdom Hearts Chain of Memories (2004) | March 28, 2006 | March 28, 2006 |
| Lego Star Wars The Skywalker Saga (2022) | June 11, 2023 | August 24, 2023 |
| Little Nightmares (2017) | December 22, 2022 | February 11, 2023 |
| Little Nightmares II (2021) | February 23, 2023 | March 02, 2023 |
| Lost in Vivo (2018) | December 23, 2025 | December 23, 2025 |
| Nightmare Kart (2024) | January 20, 2026 | January 20, 2026 |
| Okami (2006) | January 01, 2009 | January 01, 2009 |
| Paradox Games | - | - |
| Project Zomboid (2013) | August 24, 2024 | - |
| Signalis (2022) | July 04, 2023 | July 18, 2023 |
| Sims 4 (2014) | November 01, 2021 | March 09, 2023 |
| Sly 2 Band of Thieves (2004) | February 27, 2025 | March 22, 2025 |
| Sly 3 Honor Among Thieves (2005) | March 29, 2025 | April 12, 2025 |
| Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus (2002) | February 20, 2025 | February 22, 2025 |
| Sly Cooper- Thieves in Time (2013) | May 03, 2025 | May 31, 2025 |
| Sniper Elite 5 (2022) | December 29, 2022 | February 23, 2023 |
| Star Trucker (2024) | September 02, 2025 | - |
| Stardew Valley (2016) | August 09, 2020 | - |
| The Procession to Calvary (2020) | June 07, 2025 | June 12, 2025 |
| The Red Strings Club (2018) | November 06, 2025 | November 06, 2025 |
| Tony Hawk's Underground (2003) | July 22, 2025 | August 21, 2025 |
| Warframe (2013) | - | - |
| We Were Here (2017) | - | - |
| We Were Here Forever (2022) | - | - |
| We Were Here Together (2019) | - | - |
| We Were Here Too (2018) | - | - |