So you may have noticed that it’s been a long time since
I last updated this blog. Like, a really
long time. I last updated Genericide four weeks ago, almost a full month. It’s
been the longest hiatus the site has endured since its inception. I can only
imagine the type of chaos and mass panic the outside world has been enduring at
my absence. To the people of the world I offer my apologies and a glimmer of
hope for your previously grim futures. Inform your neighbors, your friends and
family, your governments, shout the good word from the rooftops. Genericide has
not stopped updating, the end is not nigh, my hiatus was not an early start to the Mayan Apocalypse! I know this has been a
tragic and grueling time for you are, but a bright future lies ahead.
So now that that’s out
of the way, my microscopic audience may be curious as to what I was actually doing during the month-long exile from
the land of Internetblogupdating…opolis. Well the short is answer is I was in
the far less exciting but sadly necessary land of College, though that doesn’t
entirely explain it. I’ve had less free time lately but I’ve still had more
than enough to write some content. College has not only reduced my amount of
free time but has cut it into smaller chunks, meaning that overall I’ve been
playing less video games (usually spending time on the internet instead) than I
would if the same amount of free time were given to me over the summer.
Another
problem is that the games I have played have been ridiculously diluted. I’ve
played somewhere between, say, 8 and 12 games since starting college, but I’ve
been constantly switching between them and haven’t logged more than a few hours
on all but a couple of them. I think if I had
stopped updating this blog now, future generations who searched the post-apocalyptic wasteland would locate the crumbling ruins of my dorm and uncover under the dust a still
perfectly pristine and untouched copy of, say, Final Fantasy Tactics A2, with a
post-it note on it declaring my intent to get around to it later. And don’t
even get me started on my Steam
library.
The
final part of the problem is that I simply haven’t been able to muster up the
enthusiasm to write an update. That is, until now, assuming this update wasn’t
secretly written by an update-writing robot I invented who then altered my
memory of the events and furtively self-destructed. I’m assuming that didn’t
happen. I mean, I don’t see any scorch marks anywhere around here. Then again,
I am awfully forgetful lately…
But wait, if a robot
wrote this then why include this self-doubting part? Unless he knew I would make that dismissal and…that
clever bastard.
But ignoring the fact that I apparently am a savant at
building robots and forming needlessly complicated plans for blog posts,
Genericide is back! Anyway, we’re over 500 words in and I haven’t even told you
what I’m updating with to celebrate my return. Well you’ll be glad to know the
answer is…nothing!
You know, I’m getting
the faintest of hints from your
reactions that glad isn’t quite the right word.
Yes, I’m afraid the situation I explained above hasn’t
quite changed and I’m still not suddenly overflowing with excess free time.
However, I’d be overflowing with excess guilt if I didn’t post an update. I
just wanted to explain why you haven’t seen many updates lately and perhaps preview
what will happen when I finally start updating again fo’ realizes. So the shrewd among you have probably realized that I’m
essentially handing you an Update IOU and running for the hills, and are
promptly organizing a mob. There’s no need for that, so stop. No seriously, put
down the phone. I don’t care if Frank
knows a really good place to get discount pitchforks and torches.
So if you loyal viewers aren’t getting an update now,
when on earth will you, I hear you cry! Not literally, because I don’t have
cameras set up in all of your houses
yet, but I metaphorically hear you
viewers cry. Like, cry about the lack of updates, not just cry in general.
Though I’m sure you’re doing that too. Because of the lack of updates. Anyway,
if you guys will focus your short attention spans for just one second, I’ll answer your question: I don’t
know.
I’m starting to have a
sneaking suspicion that I might be bad at breaking news to you guys.
But what I can
assure you is that the breaks between updates will, at least for a while after
this update, not be as long as the last one. Hopefully by a wide margin.
Not very comforted by those vague assertions? I’d be insulted if I didn’t feel
the same way. So I’ll also throw you the equivalent of scraps of content
scraped off the bottom of the update pan, and mention what some of those
updates you’ll be getting in the near future are.
I’m probably going to do another entry in the Sphinx
series soon, as I played a bit but only enough for like half an update. So I’ll
someday soon play it again and post that when the full thing is done. Another
thing to note is that I actually have been doing some writing in the last
month, as I’m currently in a Creative Writing class. This has mostly consisted
of small exercises but I just recently finished the rough draft for a short
story that I see no reason not to throw up here before long instead of
having to put in effort for an actual update out of the kindness of my
heart. Finally, I have played enough of a couple
games to write about them, so another round of Mini-Reviews will probably hit
sometime soon. I’m not sure when any of these things will actually be posted,
but rest assured you’re sure to get something
within the next week. Probably. Unless you don’t.
[Actually, how about I
end this with some quick questions to you readers? Tell me which one of those
pieces of content you want more of. In fact, feel free to tell me what types of
content you like in general (er, again). In fact, you guys should just feel free to suggest topics within the
realm of video games you’d be interested in me covering in the future. I’ll
take them into account, and if I can’t cover them or don’t have much to say I’ll
respond to your comment. Well, unless you ask something like “Why are you a
huge scrotum?” I’ll probably ignore something like that. It’s a very sensitive
issue with me.]
Review Gears of War!!1!!
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