I'm still here, I swear! Let me prove it to you. Here's what I was visibly up to online in May:
This Blog:
I seem to have fallen away from blogging. Part of it's that my lunch breaks, which are normally prime writing time, have grown shorter and fewer due to the demands of the new job I've been working for the last couple months. It's also gotten more challenging to use the Weebly post editor in the last year or so; I'm a big fan of em dashes, but the keyboard shortcut to produce one inexplicably kicks me out of the post and loses all my progress since the last autosave. Remembering to copy/paste one of my favorite punctuation marks is a small but obnoxious way to throw off my writing groove, and my e-mail subscriptions are still showing up with the same light text color used on the website and not the dark color I've specified that would make the text legible. I love writing, but conditions are not ideal right now.
- Retrospective: April 2015
I seem to have fallen away from blogging. Part of it's that my lunch breaks, which are normally prime writing time, have grown shorter and fewer due to the demands of the new job I've been working for the last couple months. It's also gotten more challenging to use the Weebly post editor in the last year or so; I'm a big fan of em dashes, but the keyboard shortcut to produce one inexplicably kicks me out of the post and loses all my progress since the last autosave. Remembering to copy/paste one of my favorite punctuation marks is a small but obnoxious way to throw off my writing groove, and my e-mail subscriptions are still showing up with the same light text color used on the website and not the dark color I've specified that would make the text legible. I love writing, but conditions are not ideal right now.
- Retrospective: April 2015
GameCola:
...That being said, I still do a fair amount of writing. I'm trying to keep my GameCola participation to transferring old podcasts to YouTube, editing the occasional article (mostly from the archives), and writing short articles that can be hammered out in a day and polished up in less than a week. Participating in podcasts and video commentary, as always, only requires as much effort as it takes to show up. So I've got a lot to show for myself.
Columns:
- The Lost Art of Good Game Design: Lufia: The Legend Returns
- Q&AmeCola: Classic Games Remade for Virtual Reality
- Q&AmeCola: Your Personal Theme Song
Podcasts:
- Process of Elimination RPGCast – Part 2: Save the World with Money
Videos:
- GC Family Game Night Returns!
- [NSFW] Zero Escape: Virtue’s Last Reward Playthrough – Part 3: Everyone Dies, Including the Commentators
...That being said, I still do a fair amount of writing. I'm trying to keep my GameCola participation to transferring old podcasts to YouTube, editing the occasional article (mostly from the archives), and writing short articles that can be hammered out in a day and polished up in less than a week. Participating in podcasts and video commentary, as always, only requires as much effort as it takes to show up. So I've got a lot to show for myself.
Columns:
- The Lost Art of Good Game Design: Lufia: The Legend Returns
- Q&AmeCola: Classic Games Remade for Virtual Reality
- Q&AmeCola: Your Personal Theme Song
Podcasts:
- Process of Elimination RPGCast – Part 2: Save the World with Money
Videos:
- GC Family Game Night Returns!
- [NSFW] Zero Escape: Virtue’s Last Reward Playthrough – Part 3: Everyone Dies, Including the Commentators
YouTube:
Nothing new to report, but some old to report. As previously mentioned, I've been dusting off some ancient GameCola podcasts, and I happened to appear in a couple of them this time around. These are from the days when the podcast format was still in flux, and before I started to hit my stride (which happens in the 20s, so we're close). I'm almost to the point where I'm ready to pick back up with Mega Man 7 bonus video recording; the break has been refreshing, but I'm starting to feel that pull again...
GCDotNet:
- Podcast #12: Cap’n Eric
- Podcast #13: The Unlucky Podcast
Nothing new to report, but some old to report. As previously mentioned, I've been dusting off some ancient GameCola podcasts, and I happened to appear in a couple of them this time around. These are from the days when the podcast format was still in flux, and before I started to hit my stride (which happens in the 20s, so we're close). I'm almost to the point where I'm ready to pick back up with Mega Man 7 bonus video recording; the break has been refreshing, but I'm starting to feel that pull again...
GCDotNet:
- Podcast #12: Cap’n Eric
- Podcast #13: The Unlucky Podcast
Comcastro:
A newcomer to this lineup, Comcastro is a fairly new website with, among other things, podcasts about business, politics, the entertainment industry, and geek stuff. I was invited to participate in an interview about my YouTube work and Mega Man in general, which of course digresses into deceptively erudite absurdity.
- Podcast 38: Gemini Laser – In Depth Retro Nostalgia, Is Mega-Man Allegory for the Russian Revolution?
A newcomer to this lineup, Comcastro is a fairly new website with, among other things, podcasts about business, politics, the entertainment industry, and geek stuff. I was invited to participate in an interview about my YouTube work and Mega Man in general, which of course digresses into deceptively erudite absurdity.
- Podcast 38: Gemini Laser – In Depth Retro Nostalgia, Is Mega-Man Allegory for the Russian Revolution?
The Backloggery:
My online gaming backlog has become a hub of social activity, so I've been keeping chatty with my fellow Backlogger...ers. I've also been busy curating my collection. Lots of new additions: My wife gifted me with some games she thought I'd enjoy from a bundle she picked up; I continued my mission to collect any Mega Man games I don't yet own (which I didn't realize was a mission until reviewing my purchases over the last two months); I snagged a review copy of something from GameCola; and I had a bunch of Club Nintendo points burning a virtual hole in my virtual pocket. You might notice a new abbreviation on the list, "VCH"; I think that's short for "Virtual Console Handheld", now available to me on my New 3DS, courtesy of my company's generous employee rewards system. I am officially as modern a gamer as I've ever been.
New:
- 3D Classics: TwinBee (VCH)
- About Love, Hate and the other ones (Steam)
- Dustforce (Steam)
- Hogan's Alley (SNES)
- Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga (WiiUVC)
- Mega Man Star Force 2: Zerker × Ninja (NDS)
- Mega Man Star Force 3: Red Joker (NDS)
- Mushroom Men: Truffle Trouble (Steam)
- Radar Mission (VCH)
- Rise of the Robots (SNES)
- The Last Tinker: City of Colors (Steam)
- The Silent Age (Steam)
Started:
- Grim Fandango Remastered (PC)
- The Silent Age (Steam)
Beat:
- N+ (NDS)
- The Silent Age (Steam)
- Ys Book I & II (VC)
Completed:
- Mega Man Powered Up (PSP)
- Mega Man X8 (PS2)
- N+ (NDS)
- The Silent Age (Steam)
- Ys Book I & II (VC)
Mastered:
- The Silent Age (Steam)
My online gaming backlog has become a hub of social activity, so I've been keeping chatty with my fellow Backlogger...ers. I've also been busy curating my collection. Lots of new additions: My wife gifted me with some games she thought I'd enjoy from a bundle she picked up; I continued my mission to collect any Mega Man games I don't yet own (which I didn't realize was a mission until reviewing my purchases over the last two months); I snagged a review copy of something from GameCola; and I had a bunch of Club Nintendo points burning a virtual hole in my virtual pocket. You might notice a new abbreviation on the list, "VCH"; I think that's short for "Virtual Console Handheld", now available to me on my New 3DS, courtesy of my company's generous employee rewards system. I am officially as modern a gamer as I've ever been.
New:
- 3D Classics: TwinBee (VCH)
- About Love, Hate and the other ones (Steam)
- Dustforce (Steam)
- Hogan's Alley (SNES)
- Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga (WiiUVC)
- Mega Man Star Force 2: Zerker × Ninja (NDS)
- Mega Man Star Force 3: Red Joker (NDS)
- Mushroom Men: Truffle Trouble (Steam)
- Radar Mission (VCH)
- Rise of the Robots (SNES)
- The Last Tinker: City of Colors (Steam)
- The Silent Age (Steam)
Started:
- Grim Fandango Remastered (PC)
- The Silent Age (Steam)
Beat:
- N+ (NDS)
- The Silent Age (Steam)
- Ys Book I & II (VC)
Completed:
- Mega Man Powered Up (PSP)
- Mega Man X8 (PS2)
- N+ (NDS)
- The Silent Age (Steam)
- Ys Book I & II (VC)
Mastered:
- The Silent Age (Steam)
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