Hello! My name is Bradley Keene, also known online as Trash, and I’ve been a freelance games writer/blogger since 2011. Now to find out if I still enjoy writing. COVID has set the world on fire, everything outside is a mess, but my brain feels a bit healthier and I’m enjoying gaming again. From blogging, from gaming, from everything. I told myself I wasn’t enjoying it as much, but I think the truth is that I just needed a break. I needed to step away and really think about whether or not I even WANTED to keep writing. And before I knew it, I was in too deep - already struggling with depression and anxiety, my hobby had become a job and I had no additional free time to give it. A 70+ hour JRPG here, a 40-hour visual novel there… they add up quick. It got to the point where everything became overwhelming. What basically happened with Cheap Boss Attack is that, rather than ever saying “no,” I kept saying “sure, one more review couldn’t hurt.” A DVD rental at Red Box turns in to three. In World of Warcraft, I have every single class leveled to max and all of the professions covered “just in case.” Whenever I want to borrow a book from the library, I come home with five. My gaming backlog is horrendous, yet I juggle too many titles at once and still find myself buying new ones whenever the price is right. I have a habit of biting off more than I can chew when it comes to my hobbies. It wasn’t a “website” or a place I leaned on in order to obtain review keys for games I couldn’t otherwise afford. It was just a simple gaming blog where I wanted to discuss whatever I was playing with similar, like-minded people. At least, it was for me.ĭuring my time away I thought a lot about Cheap Boss Attack and what I wanted it to be when I registered the domain on WordPress back in 2011. Anhedonia struck me pretty good so blogging and gaming just didn’t seem fun anymore, and when you’re already in a rut with writer’s block and imposter syndrome, it’s difficult to dig yourself out. Been a while, yeah? As it turns out, my mental health wasn’t as strong as I thought it was, and I just needed some time away from… well, everything.

Kept you waiting, huh