Category: General Blog Updates

Updates and information regarding the blog itself.

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.

Greetings

I hope everyone’s had a wonderful holiday season and I wish you all a happy and prosperous 2011.

A little over a year into this new blog and I’m liking what I’ve been able to do thus far. Especially in terms of making videos down the road, it’s a lot more flexible than what I’ve been using in the past and I can appreciate that. In regards to the video front, I guess it’s safe to say that more is coming. I’m starting to get the hang of this Vegas software that a friend managed to get me and I certainly appreciate most comments coming along the way… while others… well, such is the nature of the beast.

Wish you all the best and I’ll see you all later.

FIRST… of a whole new blog (First Blogger Post)

(2019 Edit: For those curious, this was the first post to the old Blogger site that is preserved for archival purposes.)

Many welcomes to those who find their idle ways here. There has to be a fairly good reason behind my emerging from the dark shadows of insipidness or something to that extent and the reason so far has eluded me. May it emerge somewhere someday.

All seriousness aside, I would like to welcome you to my new blog. What can you expect from this blog? Well, you did read the title, didn’t you? A whole lot of random stuff, ramblings, and all in all, generally uninteresting stuff.

If you’re wondering a bit about me, I’ll fill out my profile soon enough (I just opened this up yesterday) and will add more details about this blog and what to expect. In any case, I hope that whoever comes by is somewhat entertained (or disdained) by what is eventually featured here and sticks around long enough to follow my hapless adventures in… stuff.

So, in any case, here’s to a new blogging experience… that ends up better than my last.

Later,
DTM

(As a bonus, here’s the post on the older blog announcing the move that was originally intended as a side-by-side thing before things fell apart on that front.)

I started a new affair yesterday during a dry period.

And with that, I’m “proud” to introduce the new DTM’s Blog of Randomness, which is my all-new, leaner blog at Blogspot. Unofficially, it’s called DTM Blog II: The Wrath of Crohn, but decided with the much happier, more ambiguous Blog of Randomness! Hooray!

What does this mean for DTM Blog?

Absolutely nothing, because there’s no rule saying I can’t have more than one blog.

But that doesn’t answer my question, asshack!

Watch your mouth, boy! All will be explained in the coming weeks.

Maybe…

*Updates will still made to THIS blog, but I also have another blog for leaner purposes… like I said, more details to come as soon as I straighten them out.