Category: State Of The Blog

Monthly blog update reports.

State Of The Blog – May 2023

Well, the month of May is upon us, which means we’re done with the daily A.I. Paint postings. I may bang out a few more of these every so often, but not in the frequency that we’ve seen last month. This thing could also be useful for some smaller stuff, but struggling artists can rest assured that when it comes to the bigger projects, I won’t be using any A.I. Paint Program to produce

That’s what the Google Search engine is for.

We’ll go into the “finer” details after the break, but to make a long story short, this month is going to be relatively light on material. On the video front, it’ll be your regularly scheduled review fodder to go along with a House Show gimmick and possibly one or two other videos if all the pieces fall in place. Written posts will be even more sporadic this month, but maybe things will pick up in June. We’ll see.

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State Of The Blog – March 2023

Quick little update for the month and that’s about it.

First off, video reviews will uploaded every Tuesday and Friday for the next month. Nothing major planned on the horizon, though I’m hoping for something special to come up towards the tail end of the month. Won’t say anything until we get there, however.

PPV Musings will be posted every Wednesday, as per usually the case. This month, I’ll be covering the AEW PPVs I missed out on last year before eventually tackling this weekend’s Revolution PPV. If I end up watching an weekly show, I should have some thoughts on it a day or two later.

In case anyone cares, no, I will not be watching Ring Of Honor. Not that there was much interest beforehand, but to stick the show behind the paywall gives me even less incentive to pursue that show.

I want to try and get a Sunday Gimmick Table out this month. This one’s going to be a different beast from the usual format, because it also features archival footage that you probably haven’t seen before unless you’ve been around these parts since the dawn of time. I’d recommend lowering your expectations, otherwise.

Got a couple addition bits in the works. Might not be up this month, but could be up next month. I am hoping to expand the palette so that it goes beyond just gaming and rasslin, which seems to be the rut this thing is stuck with.

There will be a DTM-Cast at the end of the month and it’ll open with the long-awaited (not really) Q&A. I may also continue my thoughts on the Picard series going on now and by the time we reach the halfway point, I might turn that into a post you can read.

Other stuff might pop up… key word being might.

State Of The Blog – February 2023

A bit late to the party, but I’ve been busy with other stuff. Here’s your monthly state of the blog.

Game Review Notes
The next couple weeks will see three reviews uploaded each, which should bring the count to 950 game reviews done. After that, game reviews will be up every Tuesday and Friday… barring any prevailing circumstances, of course. This week’s batch of reviews will cover a trilogy of games, while the following week’s trifecta reviews will begin the journey through a storied Nintendo franchise. I had a much different plan in motion for the next couple weeks, but I had an epiphany of sorts and shifted gears to something that won’t break my brain.

Sunday Gimmick Table
There will be a new Sunday Gimmick Table next Sunday and it’ll involve something I’ve touched on in the past. That’s as far as I’ll go. As to what comes afterwards? Who knows?
General Blog Notes
The PPV Musings page has been updated with links to the recent Musings that I’ve posted over the past couple years. So everything should be up to date. Beyond that, I’ve been easing up on the phantom posts. There’s stuff on the side, but I’m holding that off for much later down the road. You’ll see why eventually.
Not much else to add here. There’s some other stuff in the works, but whether it comes to fruition is another story.

State Of The Blog – January 2023 (Two Weeks Of Hiatus)

happy New Year, everyone. Hope your holidays were as safe and festive as they were happy.

Anyway, first couple weeks of January will be nothing but radio silence. In fact, there will be nothing posted during this time up until January 17th, which will feature the first review of 2023. From there, I’m hoping to start building some semblance of regularity with these posts and trying to get some semblance of a functional schedule up and running. Until then, take care.

(2024 Update: Unless you’re reading this from the new blog, in which case, welcome, and enjoy the few AEW Dynamite Musings that were written back then and never published until now because I forgot about them. Oops.)

State Of The Blog – December 2022

The last update of the year is going to be brief. Sadly, sickness and stress had derailed a month’s worth of videos, so we’re going to have to make up for lost time. Don’t know how much that will entail, but we’re going to make up for lost time.
The idea is to whip a new Sunday Gimmick Table every week to build up to 25. The Retron1 video was a last-minute thing and not something that was planned, but the original video wasn’t ready, wasn’t going to be ready, and so it was delayed. Fine. Whatever. We’ll delay that. Debating on whether I want to do the 25th video on Christmas or New Year’s Day. If it’s the former, I may need to double up on one day. We’ll see on that count.
There’s only one DTM-Cast episode being uploaded this week. It’s the year-end edition, with the Winners And Losers of 2022 preview being the main thing, but if anything else worth talking about comes up, I’ll let you folks now. Once that episode is up (or once the SGT is up should I decide on New Year’s Day being the day, there will be a two-week period of radio silence on the blog before things begin to pick up. And I already have plans for the future.
And that’s about it. Nothing major on the archival front. PPV Musings are on hold for the time being until late-January. Next update might not hit until mid-January when posts resume then.
Enjoy your holidays and have a happy 2023.

State Of The Blog – November 2022

Not a huge update this month. More reviews and stuff, I guess.

Random Update Bits
October didn’t quite go as planned, but at the very least, the stuff I wanted to get out for at least a year finally saw the light of day. The Bloodstained review will probably be up this coming Friday if all goes well. Sadly, I’m dealing with some ‘rona issues at the moment that’s slowing me down somewhat.

Episode 225 of the DTM-Cast will up Saturday night and will be an extra long episode covering a number of topics as well as an extended Q&A segment. I’m also putting together a couple Sunday Gimmick Tables, hoping to hit the big two-five before year’s end. A couple of these are a doozy and one of them is something I said I would never get, but did because it was dirt cheap and that’s all I ever needed.

For those wanting a little more variety, be patient. I’ve been putting together some stuff on the side that’s being held off for the next year when I could start putting these out on a semi-regular basis. Some of it is reviving old ideas while others are somewhat new concepts. It’s going to be a fun time, I assure you.

Phantom Posts: The AEW Canada Shows
I did a quick write-up on the AEW Dynamite show from Toronto and forgot to ever publish it… or maybe it’s because I forgot to add a banner. And so it’s up now with the date of when it was written. Little bird told me that TSN was actually airing Rampage and I gave that a sample, but when it came to sitting down and actually writing something, it ended up turning into something asking why anyone should care about this ROH thing that is detracting from the AEW product. So, if you want to read that as well, it’s there. But links are provided below.

AEW Dynamite (Oct. 12, 2022): Unlike The Leafs Or Jays, This Show Didn’t Choke
AEW Rampage (Oct. 14, 2022): This Show, However, Did Choke

I also slipped some thoughts on the recent Director’s Edition of Star Trek: The Motion Picture that was redone for the Paramount+ streaming gimmick for those who want to check that out.

Random Thoughts On Star Trek: The Motion Picture – The Director’s Edition (2022 Release)

That’s about it. I’ll update the index pages in a week or so.

Later.

State Of The Blog – September 2022

Today’s update is going to be a lightweight one of sorts. Suffice it to say that there hasn’t been much in the way of updates other than the usual stock of reviews for a couple weeks before radio silence. For those who want a little more, I’ll discuss it on this weekend’s edition of the DTM-Cast, but some issues came up that required me to take some time off from this project.

The usual weekly PPV Musings continued, however. And I did attempt a live show test. With a few tweaks and fixes, I might consider doing another one. General consensus seems to be the mic being a bit weak. This continues to plague me for quite some time.

Reviews will resume tomorrow and the DTM-Cast returns this Labor Day Weekend on Monday. I may or may not be able to catch the AEW show this weekend, but I should be able to watch WWE’s Castle show, so there’s going to be something. Believe it or not, I’m actually looking forward to that show.

Not much else to say. Like I said, lightweight update. Hopefully, I’ll have more for the next one.

Later.