“…what? Oh…yeah. We’re,
uh, all so interested in that. Please go on, we’re on the edge of our seats.”
Since I started this blog
I created 38 articles, not counting
this one. A far cry from the one article a week I (very) vaguely claimed I was
aiming for, but oh well. On the upside, those articles are generally pretty
meaty. From those 38 articles I collected some data, though it became slightly
skewed when I couldn’t find the 38th. My archive of word documents
is scattered and interspersed with a number of incomplete/failed articles, so
you’ll have to forgive me there. So from the, uh…37 articles we have the
following facts:
I have posted 272 pictures total, which averages
around slightly over 7 images per
article. Considering that some of my updates have had absolutely no images
at all, that’s a fair amount of images, especially considering they’re all shamelessly
ripped from Google. These images also all have caption jokes. Since my Paper Mario: Sticker Star review last December
I’ve also started putting mouse-over text in the images, so that’s been in a
total of 7 articles (it would be 9 but 2 since then have been text only).
I have posted 84 videos in my posts total, and I
think 81 of them have been embedded
as opposed to linked. 61 of those
videos were video game music, which you may have noticed by now I have a bit of
a fondness for. The other 23 videos
were mostly to accompany my top list articles.
There have been about 10 updates that started with me making
jokes about how rarely I update, though if I dug deeper into the articles I’d
probably find more. I didn’t count how many times I indulge in self-deprecation
because it’d be too common to count, and I didn’t count how many times I make
jokes about me making jokes about not updating because it would probably cause
some sort of meta singularity. I’ve made references to Penny Arcade 3 times.
The blog itself has about
6,000 views, which seems like a lot
but it’s the internet, I’ve produced a lot of content and most of them are just
breezing through Google. This is exemplified by the fact that there are only 22 comments on my 38 articles, only one
of which was from a person I didn’t know and 19 of which were from either myself or my friend Zach. It’s okay
internet, I still love you (platonically and only sometimes), and I realize
that most of the people who read this are my friends who talk to me about
things outside the comments. Though I certainly wouldn’t be upset if you
commented a bit more…
Out of the articles I’ve
written, the breakdown is as follows: 12
game reviews, which reviewed a total of 14 games due to that one mini-review article. 3 top list articles, which are generally some of my longest and
have 45 individual entries between
them. 4 articles that start with the
title ‘Genericide Update’, all of which I think apologize for a lack of updates,
and 1 of which contains steamy beetle-based fan fiction. 5 articles on various things about game
design; 7 Sphinx Let’s Play articles
(all of which make a joke about Horus being bad at puzzles); and finally 7 other miscellaneous articles. These
consist of 1 introductory post, 1 awkward e3 news post, 1 post listing all the games I had ever
owned at the time, 2 posts that came
out of my school work, and 2 insane
transcendental ramblings of a madman.
This brings us to our
final set of statistics. Out of the 37 articles I could find on my computer, I
counted a total of 88,111 words.
This averages out to over 2,300 words
per article. The smallest of these was ‘A Paper on Environmentalism’ with 784 words, and the largest of
these was ‘Some Top Video Game Lasers’ with 6,128 words.
That is…quite a lot of
stuff. I’ll admit that I’m the first one to blame myself for not updating this
blog enough, and I still think I could be updating more often or at least more
consistently. But at the same time I’m mildly impressed that I’ve been able to
get that much information down, especially considering it was all thought out
and mostly, I’d like to think, of at least passably amusing quality.
So that’s it for the
first year of Genericide. It’s been an entertaining experience and though it
has been a fair amount of work and I’ve been rather bad about keeping it up
here and there I’d still say it’s been overall interesting and enjoyable. And
so you’ll definitely keep hearing from me. So without much left to say, it’s
been a pretty good year overall and I hope the next will be even better!
“…huh? Oh, you’re
done? Right, right, I was listening the whole time. Hooray for, uh, whatever
you were talking about.”
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