About

All those moments will be lost in time. Like Tiers in Rain.

My mechanical keyboard, on which I do all my writing. Mechanical keyboards rule.

Hello visitor! Welcome to Tiers in Rain. My name is Daniel and this is my blog/newsletter to write about whatever I feel like. I actually started Tiers in Rain way back in 2015 as a blog to write about video games and cool cyberpunk stuff. Then I got the idea to spin off the cyberpunk writing into its own site due to a new surge of public interest in the genre, thanks in part to the mega popular Cyberpunk 2077 which was still in development at that time.

That site became Cyberpunkery, and I kept Tiers in Rain as a personal sister site. Then life got a bit crazy and I didn't have time really to write much, so I kind of turned it into a simple link page with links to all my social media profiles, like a Link Tree thing, except it was my own site, based on Wordpress. Eventually I got the itch to start writing again and so, thinking I'd need to keep Tiers in Rain as a link page, I decided to start blogging again under a new name. That was Hard Reset. The purpose of Hard Reset was to have a place to write but also to test a new publishing platform (Ghost) for a while.

It's me, Daniel, cyberpunkified because I can't post a normal photo of myself.

Then, as we know, almost all social media went to shit in 2024 and this lead to me deleting all my accounts but one (Bluesky). Having no need for a link page any longer, I made the decision to move Hard Reset back to the Tiers in Rain domain and once again call it Tiers in Rain. Tiers in Rain is how I've been known online for many many years and I always wanted my personal, non-cyberpunk writing to be associated with it anyway so it all kind of fell into place, thanks to idiot tech. CEOs who seem absolutely hellbent on destroying their platforms.

What I Write About Here

Basically anything I feel like that isn't cyberpunk related. Cyberpunk is my main thing and has been a special interest of mine since I was a kid. But I have a lot of other interests outside of that. So you can expect a lot of writing covering things like video games, movies, tv shows, books, music, politics, culture, and technology. Or, y'know, whatever I feel like writing about, as I said at the beginning of this paragraph. Not gonna lie, it's probably going to be mostly about video games, my other special interest.

What Tiers in Rain Means

My favorite question to answer whenever someone asks is what the name Tiers in Rain means. It's a play on words taking the "Tears in Rain" monologue from the end of Blade Runner and switching "Tears" for "Tiers" as in levels or platforms in a video game. It is basically a way to show that my two favorite interests are video games and cyberpunk. I dunno, I thought it was clever at the time.

Where Else You Can Find Me on the Internet

This used to be a pretty extensive list but nowadays it's only Bluesky and my cyberpunk blog, Cyberpunkery.