A Gamer Vacation
You probably don’t visit here often enough to notice, but as there seems to be this growing resurgence in personal blogging I am starting to consider this one of my many landing spots.
See, as it was, I used to blog quite frequently. Personal blogging stuff mostly. But mixed neatly into all of that for all the years I posted was a gaming category. I would write about what I was playing, throw mini reviews up on that site, and wax nerdy on my popular culture knowledge, largely centred around video gaming. So much of my gaming life was documented in those digital pages.
When I built this little micro-blogging applet platform thingy, I had really intended it mostly to replace my Instagram account, and to post travel photos and to share the kinds of stuff I had been posting on the socials but in a place that was both (a) somewhere i owned and controlled and (b) a place that lacked that pressure to post on a theme or to have more purpose or function behind what I posted. In short, more ownership, less shade.
But I was personally reluctant to clutter that space with gaming screenshots, so I built this little side space which is basically running as a multi-site backend and allowing me to talk about games, movies, science fiction, and whatever, but without the sort of “why are you following me then” vibes I was getting on other places. A whatever, this is my gaming log space, get it?
But the funny thing is that the freedom of this spaces has spurred me to add features and functions that I wouldn’t have bothered with on the simpler site, and now both of them are sort of rocking this low-res blog thing and are becoming my favourite places to drop pics and words and sounds.
I guess what I’m saying is that expect this space to keep growing and blossoming and that I might actually put stuff here worth checking out as I work towards that vague goal. Or maybe it’ll just be a lot of gaming screenshots. I dunno.