Hey Look, I’se Can Write Stuff!

Stuff that ISN’T like a concentrated ball of rage (for some reason I pictured an angry Danny DeVito running at somebody when I typed that).

A few posts back I talked about Reclaim Your Game, and the stuff I’ve been spending a lot of time on over there (They actually taught me how to use my newfound Admin powers to drop the ban hammer on someone…AHAHAHAHA! Power to abuse is finally within my grasp!). One of the projects I mentioned is the monthly games newsletter. Well, being pissed off yesterday and in a mood to write, I polished off the one for August. So there you go, productive anger!

Anyway, I figured I’d sort of explain a little bit better what precisely I do in these things. Organized chaos comes to mind as a description. I typically start off with those exciting things called ‘sales charts’. Then comes Gaming NEws, which is pretty much financial crap, who’s suing who, who’s taking who to court, ow this guy bought somebody and “Hey look, another political ass hat looking for a scapegoat!”. Then I finally get around to talking about some actual games that came out over the previous month. And actually, THAT part is half the reason I agreed to write them (the other half of the reason being the open invitation to fill the first section with open mockery of politicians and corporate executives). I get a chance to mix in some of the smaller developers with the big name stuff that comes out in a typical month.

The fact that I can amass that much crap that sounds like the epitome of sheer boredom and write it up in a way that people tell me they find it entertaining…I will happily accept that as a measure of success. Now, I was going to start posting them up here since they really are the only writing projects I’ve been working on for quite some time, and I do like sharing that sort of thing with people (you know, beyond the site membership). Then I realized that something taking up just over 14 pages as an Open Office document is going to make for a result that even I would qualify as a blog posting that’s just entirely too long. So, I uploaded the damn thing. It’s in a standard old school doc format, so that should work for pretty much anybody. If you’re interested, you can download it here. The intro bit is basically evidence that, after 6 of these written, I’ve already run out of interesting ways to actually start any of them off. And I actually forgot to write a conclusion. Aside from that, you’re pretty much seeing what they comprise of.