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Running On Steam (Not That Steam)

So here’s a post of random bits I want to touch on.

Things on the PC front is going well and slowly progressing forwards. With the second, larger hard drive installed, I’ve begun to slowly install a bunch of games on there from the Steam and GOG services, including a whole bunch of stuff I got from the Humble Bundle bundle things that I’m actually looking forward to trying out. It’s not the biggest upgrade, but it will give me a bit of wiggle room when it comes to storage and I can lay off plugging in the external drives every night. So that’ll be a nice step forwards, at least.

Weather around these parts has been ridiculous, with a couple days teasing a nice little heat wave before bombarding us with the traditional Canadian winter cold front. In fact, tomorrow, we may very bit hit with a good 20-30 cm of snow if the Weather Network can be relied on to provide an accurate forecast. They’re usually on the money, though. So I can’t complain too much there.

For those inquiring, the dog is doing fine. She’s had to take a dump in her special place indoors because trying to get her to go for a walk in Classic Canadian Winter temperatures is like trying to get Jim Cornette and Vince Russo to kiss and make up. Other than that, she’s doing fine and occupying her usual spot on the couch.

Two reviews coming for this week on the Youtubez: tomorrow’s Sonic Labyrinth and Friday will be the Goonies game that never hit the NES, but was available as an arcade machine for some reason. The Goonies game review will also be the 3100th blog post, so that’s a nice little something. Also, the next episode of the DTM-Cast due this Sunday will be somewhat on the light side unless something worth talking about comes up. More than likely, it’ll be about a couple blurbs and some Q&A. Not much else going on in these parts.

Not much else to say today. So I’ll be going now. Y’all have a good day, kids.

Review A Great Game Day on April 8th

A few years back, now-defunct gaming website One More Castle established the Review A Bad Game Day event, where people can submit reviews of bad games to be posted on August 8th. I’ve done one such event, thinking it was a one-off thing, but turns out it was an annual thing all these years. Just as I was thinking of jumping back into that fold, One More Castle closes its doors and the event was closed… I ended up adopting the concept anyway, to the point that for the past couple years, every August 8th, I’d review a bad game.

The other concept they’ve started up a year or so later was the Review A Great Game day, where people would post reviews of great games and see them posted on April 8th. This event, I never participated in and I’m hoping to change that.

Next month, on April 8th, it’s going to be a good day to review a great game here on the blog. What that game will be… well, that’s the kicker… and the surprise.

Another Dailymotion Experience

Been uploading the past month or so worth of game reviews over to the Dailymotion page when uploading privileges were suddenly suspended because of mass upload or something. Twenty four hours later and I can upload again, which means the DM side of things is up to speed in terms of reviews.

I’m wondering if this Dailymotion alternative is more trouble than it’s worth… probably nothing.

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.