Showing posts with label News. Show all posts
Showing posts with label News. Show all posts
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Breaking the rule and possible new posts.
Hey, I originally this blog was supposed to be about older things, but I've decided to convert it to a review site of the vanilla variety. I will still review all sorts of media from and older stuff, but I won't limit myself to reviewing older things. In other news, I may actually start updating again!
Saturday, January 30, 2010
Sorry!
I'm a horrible person, I know. But I decided at the last minute to switch from Tron to the original Legend of Zelda for my review, and I didn't finish Zelda in time for a review today. So next Saturday I will have a Tron review, and sometime before that a Legend of Zelda review (and so you know, I didn't actually play the original Zelda as a kid, I started with Link to the Past.
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Starting up Again
Hey guys, sorry that I'm three days late! (Ha, humor.) Yeah, I think I'm ready to finally to start re-updating on Saturday, and I think that will be the norm from now on. I am no longer doing a daily article partly because I don't have time to either write or read/watch the material I'll be reviewing. So I need to find something to write on, but whatever it is it should be up this Saturday.
Friday, August 14, 2009
No posts for a while
I'm in the process of moving, and seeing how one contract ends today and the other begins on the 24th, I'll be staying at somewhere not here. The place I'm staying doesn't really have internet that I can just plug into, and so because I cannot gaurantee regular updates I will just declare hiatus and call it that.
So from now until around the 24th I will not be updating the blog.
So from now until around the 24th I will not be updating the blog.
Thursday, August 6, 2009
No post tomorrow.
I am going camping with family so there will be no Friday post this week. However, I may do 2 posts on Saturday to make up for it. Sorry for any disappointment, and I'll see you on Saturday!
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
The Purpose and Mission of this Blog
No doubt if you've come upon this blog by mistake, the name has probably given you the impression that I am a teenage follower of the Emo clique asking a question concerning razors or ropes tied into certain knots. Hopefully you have realized that this is not the case as the purpose of this blog is far different.
I am not someone who lives on the edge (and I've dumped the suicide analogy, at this point I'm referring to the cultural and technological edge). In many regards I don't even stand close enough to the cliff to see down. I, in fact, have a tendency to live so far away from the edge that the only reason I know it exists is people who are sitting merrily upon it are calling me to tell me how beautiful it is and that I should really come see it. I rarely see anything when it's new, and have a horrible habit of finding something years old, enjoying it for the first time, and bugging off my friends ears until they tell me to shut up and go blog about it.
However, I have found that oftentimes something that was fantastic when new tends to decay in quality as it gets older and older and that by the time I get around to experiencing it, I find it rather dull and a waste of my time. In these situations it is amazing to me that those who have been telling me how awesome something was will continue to call it awesome, their eyes forever scarred by the rose colored glasses they wore in their youth.
And so I come to the purpose of this blog, which is to answer the eponymous question: should I do it? While I do not dare call this a critique or a review (for I will not consistently focus on the negative nor on the positive) it is an opinion piece taken from a more modern context, and generally ignoring the hype given by years of fans wooing over it. I will do this for all types of media: books, movies, video games, et cetera. In general, I will focus on objects fitting the following criteria:
1. Object is over a year old, regardless of medium.
2. I did not experience the object when it was new
3. Object is something famous enough that people would still consider doing(reading, watching, playing, etc.) it-for example, I would consider stating my opinion on The Matrix, but not Zardoz
4. I will have recently experienced the object (note: this does not mean that things I did see a long time ago are out, only that I have to see them again, if only to make sure I am not allowing nostalgia to gather on my opinions)
I do not expect this blog to gain any size or membership, but if those scanty few who happen to wander by have something they have heard about, but never experienced, hopefully my entries can help them decide. Also, if anyone has any requests, I'm always willing to try new things.
I am not someone who lives on the edge (and I've dumped the suicide analogy, at this point I'm referring to the cultural and technological edge). In many regards I don't even stand close enough to the cliff to see down. I, in fact, have a tendency to live so far away from the edge that the only reason I know it exists is people who are sitting merrily upon it are calling me to tell me how beautiful it is and that I should really come see it. I rarely see anything when it's new, and have a horrible habit of finding something years old, enjoying it for the first time, and bugging off my friends ears until they tell me to shut up and go blog about it.
However, I have found that oftentimes something that was fantastic when new tends to decay in quality as it gets older and older and that by the time I get around to experiencing it, I find it rather dull and a waste of my time. In these situations it is amazing to me that those who have been telling me how awesome something was will continue to call it awesome, their eyes forever scarred by the rose colored glasses they wore in their youth.
And so I come to the purpose of this blog, which is to answer the eponymous question: should I do it? While I do not dare call this a critique or a review (for I will not consistently focus on the negative nor on the positive) it is an opinion piece taken from a more modern context, and generally ignoring the hype given by years of fans wooing over it. I will do this for all types of media: books, movies, video games, et cetera. In general, I will focus on objects fitting the following criteria:
1. Object is over a year old, regardless of medium.
2. I did not experience the object when it was new
3. Object is something famous enough that people would still consider doing(reading, watching, playing, etc.) it-for example, I would consider stating my opinion on The Matrix, but not Zardoz
4. I will have recently experienced the object (note: this does not mean that things I did see a long time ago are out, only that I have to see them again, if only to make sure I am not allowing nostalgia to gather on my opinions)
I do not expect this blog to gain any size or membership, but if those scanty few who happen to wander by have something they have heard about, but never experienced, hopefully my entries can help them decide. Also, if anyone has any requests, I'm always willing to try new things.
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