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Monday, April 14, 2014
All the news that's fit to be on Goblin Axis
Alright, so here's what's goin' on in the video gaming world of your friend and mine, Gravity Zombie:
Sunday, April 13, 2014
CHANGE OF FORMAT
Howdy and good evening Goblinaxians.
So, under the (extremely) optimistic assumption that there were, at one point, people reading the reviews we've posted here, I am today announcing that we're going to do a change of format on account of not wanting to put as much effort into writing reviews as we had been. Please hold WHAT EFFORT WHAT SEXY DRESS jokes until the end of the post.
The thing about writing reviews that we're personally happy with (I shy from saying "proud of" because that's a pretty strong phrasing, but you get me) is that they actually require a modicum of effort. The problem with that being that Sly Ghost and I are lazy bastards with aspirations of greatness and delusions of grandeur.
If you have, for some reason, been regularly checking the site, you'll notice we haven't had a post in almost two months. Two GOD DAMNED months. Obviously this is a hobby blog: something we do in addition to our day to day lives of going to work and eating processed cheese and filling our mattresses with money to see how it feels to sleep like a millionaire and finding out it's not that great. But that said, I was basically blowing entire nights on doing these reviews, mainly due to having to actually play through video games I've picked out because they look interesting, but don't wand to grind through for hours on end to get a decent enough feel of the thing to do a review. That, and it's of course a lot harder to enjoy gameplay when you're taking down mental and/or physical notes for things you want to talk about in the review and generally treating a recreational activity like legitimate reportage. I dunno if you've ever heard Mark talk about doing work on Classic Game Room, but as I understand it he's basically grinding out games constantly. That's to say nothing about how he's shooting and editing a video (Two, actually, now that he's doing the promos on YouTube and the actual reviews on DailyMotion).
Of course, the difference here is that CGR is a source of income with an office and stuff, and Goblin Axis was a project my friend and I did when we were bored this past winter.
I now want to take a moment to apologize for the previous two paragraphs. It sounds like I'm bitching over the laborious process of reviewing video games, and that's not really what I'm trying to convey at all. It actually is fun when everything comes together, even if "everything" is just a thousand words and four pictures with hi-larious captions. I guess I'm just trying to come up with an excuse for why we haven't done a thing since February. Well, there's the excuse for ya: it takes a few hours to do a review and we said "I don't wanna do that tonight" for 60 nights in a row, give or take. We're lazy.
It was nice to have a place to write every once in a while, though, so we decided to do a bit of a revival of Goblin Axis. The main difference is that we're turning down our responsibility meters considerably and changing the format to more of a standard blog, where we basically just crack our skulls open and pour our juicy brain drippings all over the internet, no matter how pointless they may be. You may think this is self-indulgent bullshit, and in a way, you're right. In another way, however, you are right but there's nothing you can do about it. Maybe we'll go back to the old review format from time to time, but for now just expect a bunch of "rambling thoughts" style posts. You know, like a journal. After all, Blog is short for Weblogjournal.
As an aside, we'll probably keep the theme of the site to video games, because they're quite popular with the kids on the internet these days. Also, they're easy to write about and will keep this already obscure site from becoming a complete dumping ground of random shit. Ideally.
So, under the (extremely) optimistic assumption that there were, at one point, people reading the reviews we've posted here, I am today announcing that we're going to do a change of format on account of not wanting to put as much effort into writing reviews as we had been. Please hold WHAT EFFORT WHAT SEXY DRESS jokes until the end of the post.
The thing about writing reviews that we're personally happy with (I shy from saying "proud of" because that's a pretty strong phrasing, but you get me) is that they actually require a modicum of effort. The problem with that being that Sly Ghost and I are lazy bastards with aspirations of greatness and delusions of grandeur.
If you have, for some reason, been regularly checking the site, you'll notice we haven't had a post in almost two months. Two GOD DAMNED months. Obviously this is a hobby blog: something we do in addition to our day to day lives of going to work and eating processed cheese and filling our mattresses with money to see how it feels to sleep like a millionaire and finding out it's not that great. But that said, I was basically blowing entire nights on doing these reviews, mainly due to having to actually play through video games I've picked out because they look interesting, but don't wand to grind through for hours on end to get a decent enough feel of the thing to do a review. That, and it's of course a lot harder to enjoy gameplay when you're taking down mental and/or physical notes for things you want to talk about in the review and generally treating a recreational activity like legitimate reportage. I dunno if you've ever heard Mark talk about doing work on Classic Game Room, but as I understand it he's basically grinding out games constantly. That's to say nothing about how he's shooting and editing a video (Two, actually, now that he's doing the promos on YouTube and the actual reviews on DailyMotion).
Of course, the difference here is that CGR is a source of income with an office and stuff, and Goblin Axis was a project my friend and I did when we were bored this past winter.
I now want to take a moment to apologize for the previous two paragraphs. It sounds like I'm bitching over the laborious process of reviewing video games, and that's not really what I'm trying to convey at all. It actually is fun when everything comes together, even if "everything" is just a thousand words and four pictures with hi-larious captions. I guess I'm just trying to come up with an excuse for why we haven't done a thing since February. Well, there's the excuse for ya: it takes a few hours to do a review and we said "I don't wanna do that tonight" for 60 nights in a row, give or take. We're lazy.
It was nice to have a place to write every once in a while, though, so we decided to do a bit of a revival of Goblin Axis. The main difference is that we're turning down our responsibility meters considerably and changing the format to more of a standard blog, where we basically just crack our skulls open and pour our juicy brain drippings all over the internet, no matter how pointless they may be. You may think this is self-indulgent bullshit, and in a way, you're right. In another way, however, you are right but there's nothing you can do about it. Maybe we'll go back to the old review format from time to time, but for now just expect a bunch of "rambling thoughts" style posts. You know, like a journal. After all, Blog is short for Weblogjournal.
As an aside, we'll probably keep the theme of the site to video games, because they're quite popular with the kids on the internet these days. Also, they're easy to write about and will keep this already obscure site from becoming a complete dumping ground of random shit. Ideally.
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