Quest for Awesome

There’s just too much.

Too much to watch, too much to play, too much to enjoy. Its a first world problem without a doubt–but I’m a big ‘ol geek, damnit. I want to watch all the things and play all the games.

We have an endless number TV shows and movies to watch on Netflix, and countless games to buy on Steam. There’s a seemingly endless depth of content online and its ridiculously easy to consume. It’s awesome, but it also sort-of sucks. It’s a weird problem.

Maybe it’s just a millennial problem? Maybe it’s just a gamer problem? Hell, maybe it’s just a me problem. No matter whose problem it is, there’s one thing I think we can all agree on; there’s a hell of a lot of awesome content online, but a lot of it sucks.

Take Amazon Prime Video and Netflix for instance. There’s a lot of incredible stuff to watch, but there’s also pages upon pages of straight-to-streaming steamers. It stinks.

Browsing Netflix feels a whole lot like digging through the Walmart discount DVD bin. It’s an endless hellscape of discounted romantic comedies, but sometimes if you dig deep enough you’ll luck-out and find an epic action movie. Or if you’re really lucky, a cheesy 80’s horror flick.

But that’s just film and TV. Don’t even get me started on gaming.

Fire up Steam and you’re met with an insane breadth of games to buy, download and play. You’ll find tiles ranging from some of the greatest games ever made, all the way to strange visual novels about anime girls (wink).

So, what’s a 30-year-old professional wrestling fan and Silicon Valley tech worker to do in this era of endless entertainment you ask?

Simple. I must embark on a Quest for Awesome.

This blog won’t be a series of top-10 slideshows, and it’s not going to be any sort of thought-out criticism either. I’m going to search for awesome stuff to watch and games to play, and blog about what I find.

So join me friends, on my Quest for Awesome.