Category: General Blog Updates

Updates and information regarding the blog itself.

A Potential Subject Matter For A Future Video Project

Recently picked up this piece of business and am currently playing through its “massive” library of games. Much to my own surprise, Dreamgear is still a thing because this is a recent product with a copyright date of 2016. The quality of the games is as you’d expect something like this to be, but there are a couple decent titles on here that wouldn’t be out of place on a proper console (with the proper polish, of course.)

Of course, this being a portable device with an A/V output (but no A/V cable; I needed to supply that bit myself), this will no doubt be a subject matter of a major video to be released some time this year. I’ll let you know when to expect that.

Just as an excuse to revive this thing, here’s a re-up of the last time I touched a DreamGEAR product.

Contemplation

The dog is here to keep me company while I contemplate.

There comes a point where you can’t go on with something because you lose interest in it. It tends to happen quite a bit, but the really sad thing is that when you lose interest in something and it gets abandoned, you tend to lose a bit of yourself in the process. This is more often than not the case.

Every once in a while, I have people asking me when the next part of Reading Sonichu is coming along and more often than not, I have no real answer for them.

But as I’m assembling the pages and putting together the audio for this thing, I realized something; why am I wasting time with this stuff? That’s when it occured to me that this isn’t interesting anymore.

Here’s the thing; the Sonichu comic/universe/fanfic/whatever is awful material. For some, it’s that so bad it’s good that makes it worth riffing. The first couple issues that I did were fun to do, but when it came to the next issue, not so much. And as I jumped further into the lore of series, it eventually got to the point where I felt genuinely uncomfortable reading this stuff, let alone producing anything to do with that whole endeavor.

Reading Sonichu was never going to be an ongoing thing. At most, I’d touch about three or four issues before calling it a day. With the two issues that I’ve done, I’m more than satisfied to call it a run.

Maybe somewhere down the line, I might upload the first few pages of issue 2 that I dubbed as an Archive package, but for now… I think it’s time to kill off the Sonichu experiment as far as this blog is concerned.

1400 Posts… Does It Really Matter?

(2019 Update: Before the infusion of new material, this was technically the 1400th blog post on this particular Blogger webspace. Funny to read this now that I’ve ditched the numbers, but for historical and archival purposes, I opted to leave this up because what a difference five years make.)

So this is it… my fourteen-hundredth blog posting… and quite frankly, I’m rather unsurprised by the whole deal.

There used to be a time when I would make a somewhat big deal out of the whole thing. When I hit another hundred on the blog count, I’d make some big celebratory post or a snarky “This is all I have to show for it” kind of deal. Certainly was a big deal on the old DTM Blog, where the blogging system that Tripod implements was (and still is) cumbersome to function properly. And it’s still something worth admiring to a point.

But is it really big deal that I’ve hit another hundred posts since the last time I hit a hundred posts?

The answer, of course, is no.

There’s been several instances over the course of the past year or two where I seriously considered retiring the blog numbering system. It seemed to serve no real viable function beyond offering a funny little statistic that a very few minute individuals would care about and, quite frankly, I seem to be making so many posts in a span of a month (let alone a year) that hitting another hundred posts doesn’t seem all that special in the long run.

Although I’ve considered it, the numbering isn’t going away for two reasons;

#1 – It’s useful for searches, to a degree. The search engine that’s currently implemented seems to be slowly (but surely) working the way it’s supposed to, so you can look up certain topics and you’ll get some results. BUT, if you want to check out specific posts, you can simply type in a number and that post will pop up. This doesn’t work too well at times, but it does work, at least.

#2 – The numbering system seems to be something of a trademark on these blog projects that I pursue. The Review Archive lacks the numbering system only because it’s not supposed to be a series or anything, but it always felt empty and naked without the numbers. It’s part of the reason why I retroactively numbered some earlier postings in the original DTM Blog (and promptly stopped when it became too much of a hassle) and a couple earlier posts here.

So… yeah. 1400th post and this is all I had to show for it.

Later…

P.S. Added a Hang On (Master System) review over on YouTube as well as the Review Archive. Will post here when I feel like it.

Now Available At DTM666.COM!

The day Zordon of Eltare has feared most has arrived…

The Twisted Realm Of DTM can now be reached at dtm666.com.

Abandon ye all hope.

It’s a minor change, as one would say, but one with some significant possibilities. I’ll provide slightly more details in the upcoming Febturday Bites special, which will kill a massive time-sucking segment that I can now fill with more content.

On top of that, but I can honestly say that this blog now surpasses the number of posts on the original DTM Blog.

Some quick notes regarding Post 1000

Long-term visitors to the original DTM Blog (both of you) will recall the way I approached that blog’s 1000th post; by bragging about purchases and making half-hearted thanks. Well, this time, it’s going to be different… well, almost. It’s still largely half-hearted, but it won’t be just mindless text.

So what I’ve done is put together a quick compilation video of some stuff. A couple new bits aside (including a blog reading or two as well as three new game reviews from the back lot), this video will also contains a couple recycled random videos from the YouTube page. So this is more of a “best of” compilation if nothing else… one that clocks around forty minutes. Don’t know how many folks are going to stick around for that long, but if you do, you have my thanks!
Right now, I’m aiming for this thing to go live tomorrow… depending on whether the Internet will allow such an upload. One way or another, I intend on this thing going up before Monday.
I WILL NOT BE DENIED THIS ONE GOAL!
Will be back for Post 999.

Discovering Old Stuff

What little time I have at home during the week is spent rebuilding archives. I’ve done most of the old reviews (only a couple need be rebuilt altogether) and I’m halfway through the commentaries. However, I did come across some old files. One’s an old commentary that was never released (but will be now), and the other’s a set of videos that I never recorded any solid commentary. If nothing else, it’ll add to some reserve videos in the back catalogue of videos for future updates.

In-FAQ?

A couple folks who claim to have been followers of the old DTM Webstation website I used to do (I find that alone highly suspect, but I digress) have been wondering if there was any chance I was going to bring back the InFrequently Asked Questions page…

I honestly have no idea… it might not be a bad idea… but I have no idea… we’ll see.