Like most people, I'm full of opinions that I think the world should be aware of. Of course, similar to most people's experience with their opinions, I've found that everybody else in the world is too preoccupied expressing their own opinions that they don't take the time to listen to mine. Fortunately there's a solution for people like us. Blogging! Thanks to blogging I can type out my opinions and submit them to the ether of the internet with the firm belief that -- while not highly probable, still possible -- my writings will actually be read by some random slider who stumbles across them while careening through wormholes of Google in search of inappropriate pictures of anime characters.*
(Oh, and friends and family, too. Thanks guys! ^_^)
The hope of this blog is to share with you my thoughts and feelings on the subject of video games within the scope of my experience. This includes game reviews, game development, game art, game moments and just having game in general. If it doesn't remotely fit into any of these categories then it will appear on the family blog that I have started working on for my wife months ago and was still preceded by this one which I started tonight.
I realize of course, that there are plenty of gaming blogs already in existence on the internet. The secret ingredient of this blog will be a strong emphasis on the good or bad contributions that games individually or specifically have on our society. Lets face it, we are now living in a generation in which games are no longer just for nerds**, but have become a mainstream media outlet in which opinions, beliefs and ideals can be expressed and suggested. Our children will be growing up in a world where video games are already common place, and as a result will be a greater and more accepted part of their lives that they were in ours. In short, video games have become to our generation what tv was to our parents generation, a source of not only entertainment, but of expression that was not readily accepted by the previous generation. Isn't it about time that we as a society -- as we did with tv, radio and literature in the past -- acknowledge the real effects this media can have on our society and augment the attributes that can have a greater positive effect?
I do hope that you're not expecting every post to be a deep insightful look at the philosophy of video games... more then likely they will be shallow insightful looks at best. But I will ask of every game that is reviewed on this blog "What contributions has this game contributed to our society?"
Plus I hope to have some fun and interesting comments to make along the way.
But to kick things off, I thought I could start by sharing some old posts from my old MySpace that I felt epitomize the goals of this blog that I outlined above. Enjoy!
Spacefly
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*Well you won't find them here!
**But don't worry, the term nerd still applies to anybody who claims they've just "pwned" you.
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