Monthly Archives: May 2005

I Blog, Therefore I Don’t Have Time to Think

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That’s my story and I’m sticking to it. I can’t torture any of these into a full post, but I am nonetheless tortured by them:

1. I refresh my feedreader today … a lazy man’s tool to camp blogging freshness. Gamespy’s feed, which is only in my reader so I don’t have to wade through all the ads they stuff onto their site: early afternoon, three of five unread items were advertisements — late afternoon, two of three were ads. I realize the big boys have to pay the bills somehow but that’s bullshit.

*right-click, delete*

Come to think of it, I don’t think I’ve gotten any news I could use from Gamespy in years. Maybe ever, but I haven’t really kept track.

2. Quest for Antonia Bayle. (details) (Also discussed by Mr. Freeman, Aggro Me, and n3rfed’s Cosmik.) I think they’re all lovely girls making the best of a prickly situation with their essays. (heee) It’s not as if Sony said they’re looking for an attractive Antonia Bayle that can write a regular column of pithy EverQuest commentary. (There. I took the high road.)

Just a guess, but I think there’s no way in hell that SOE will let the Playmate win this.

One word: Photoshop.

3. My latest hairbrained idea for game blogging: Drunk blogging. In fact, I have at least a dozen drafts (posts, not beer) stacked up right now that would qualify as drunk blogging. Sometimes I clean up the language (the clarity, not the profanity) and publish, but mostly they just sit there because they are so insane and ill-conceived.

But announcing beforehand that I plan to have a few cocktails and attempt some game quest or raid that is sure to annoy the piss out of me, that could be entertaining. At least for me.

4. Odd thought: With the number of time wasters available in a game like, say, EverQuest, the published word count if I had been blogging back then would be STAGGERING. I think that one-eyed, bald guy posted about games that are conducive to multi-tasking, like TV while gaming. Same principle, blogging + gaming, message board flaming + gaming, doing homework or paid work + gaming. Although EQ days, I would read the newspaper or Sports Illustrated while sitting around … waiting and waiting and waiting …

I shudder to think of the damage I could have wrought. Not in a good, crusader type way — I mean embarassing for me and anyone foolish enough to call me an e-friend.

It’s probably for the best that I just have foggy (and therefore, fond) memories of those raiding days.

Something Wicked This Way Comes

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Coming to a blog near you … the first stop of the evil Carnival of Gamers will be at buttonmashing.com on Thursday, May 26, 2005.

The Carnival will be a recurring showcase of the best and brightest in game blog posts as submitted by their authors, with the Carnival picking up stakes and moving to a different host each time.

An evil carnival can’t stay in any one town for too long or the townsfolk will get wise to their diabolical plot to consume everyone’s souls. That’s why the carnies never have time to shower or shave … or brush their teeth. (Just one of the MANY reasons why it’s such an appealing lifestyle.)

Submission guidelines from buttonmashing:

So, if you are interested in submitting a blog post to be included in the Carnival, please email them to me at buttonmashing@gmail.com. There aren’t any real guidelines. They certainly should be about video games in one way or another but that’s about all the guidance I have. I’m all about free speech and creativity, but let’s try to avoid the obscene, profane, racist, sexist, you get the picture. Let’s just have some fun and see where this can go.

Ya, I see it. Big problem for AFK Gamer posts right there … profanity. Not to fear, I can self-censor my way out of that, and remember kids, you can always get the full-flavored version of AFK Gamer right here in all its profane glory.

Commence au carnivale!