Hallos again, players.
It's been a while! I've been planning a return to blogging (see the last post, over a year ago, suggesting just that thing!), so here we go - a weekly blog, published Wednesdays, talking about a variety of games, movies, books...basically whatever nerdy thoughts I have that week. I really want to get back into a regular writing schedule - a writing groove, if you will. If you somehow find this blog, feel welcome to comment - my hope is to have real interaction with other people about there about these topics, in a way that isn't lost in a comment thread with eleventy-thousand other people.
Unless, of course, we get eleventy-thousand people reading this blog.
Besides writing, I've also been playing around with a few other ways to talk about and show off my nerdy interests. Now, you may know I play video games - particularly MMORPGs, but since the last time I wrote regularly, I've picked up a few other games, like Minecraft (of a few modded varieties), Overwatch, and a smidgen of Heroes of the Storm and Hearthstone.
Yes, I seem to be a Blizzard fanboy.
Fanman.
Whatever.
The point is, I have new games to talk about, but also new games to STREAM. Yup - I've got myself a decent microphone, an alright webcam, and a Twitch account. The experience has been...different. I haven't often had people interact in chat while I've been streaming (so far just Minecraft, WoW and Overwatch), but when they do? It's usually just to spam abusive, racist or sexist crap. I did have one awesome interaction with someone from Europe who decided to check me out. This is mostly awesome to me in relation to the others, but also in the fact that it was someone who shared an interest with me from half a globe away. Striking up a conversation with a stranger about anything has been a terrifying idea for so much of my life, so it's amazing that I could randomly, casually chat with someone from such a distance away about a thing we both found fun. I like Twitch, but I must confess that even after streaming several times, I'm still a bit shy. I need to stream more. Maybe I should work out a schedule for that, too.
And after streaming, I've been uploading the videos to my YouTube channel - partially in order to save the streams I've done (Twitch only holds onto them for a month, maybe?), but also because I myself have been going to YouTube a lot more for geekish news and content. What started as a way to get info about the alpha for World of Warcraft: Legion ended up introducing me to a host of channels from content creators about games, comics, and general nerdy news. I'd like to venture into the world of YouTube videos myself soon - proper videos of me talking to a supposed audience, rather than just copies of my streams.
Baby-steps. Let's just get the writing thing down for now.
So, since I lost wrote regularly, my life has changed drastically, and got itself sorted out again. I'm not really going to go into all of that here, but old posts may refer to situations and people, and new posts may refer to different situations and different people. Crap like that can happen when I forget to update my blog for 4 years.
I'm also currently running another Nobilis campaign with a fantastic group of players - most part of my old group, with one newer player - as well as playing in two D&D campaigns - one 4e game that I've talked about in the past, and one 5e game that's going pretty well. I have tons more to say about all of that, so I'll save it for later - just wanted to keep you all in the loop.
It's been a while! I've been planning a return to blogging (see the last post, over a year ago, suggesting just that thing!), so here we go - a weekly blog, published Wednesdays, talking about a variety of games, movies, books...basically whatever nerdy thoughts I have that week. I really want to get back into a regular writing schedule - a writing groove, if you will. If you somehow find this blog, feel welcome to comment - my hope is to have real interaction with other people about there about these topics, in a way that isn't lost in a comment thread with eleventy-thousand other people.
Unless, of course, we get eleventy-thousand people reading this blog.
Besides writing, I've also been playing around with a few other ways to talk about and show off my nerdy interests. Now, you may know I play video games - particularly MMORPGs, but since the last time I wrote regularly, I've picked up a few other games, like Minecraft (of a few modded varieties), Overwatch, and a smidgen of Heroes of the Storm and Hearthstone.
Yes, I seem to be a Blizzard fanboy.
Fanman.
Whatever.
The point is, I have new games to talk about, but also new games to STREAM. Yup - I've got myself a decent microphone, an alright webcam, and a Twitch account. The experience has been...different. I haven't often had people interact in chat while I've been streaming (so far just Minecraft, WoW and Overwatch), but when they do? It's usually just to spam abusive, racist or sexist crap. I did have one awesome interaction with someone from Europe who decided to check me out. This is mostly awesome to me in relation to the others, but also in the fact that it was someone who shared an interest with me from half a globe away. Striking up a conversation with a stranger about anything has been a terrifying idea for so much of my life, so it's amazing that I could randomly, casually chat with someone from such a distance away about a thing we both found fun. I like Twitch, but I must confess that even after streaming several times, I'm still a bit shy. I need to stream more. Maybe I should work out a schedule for that, too.
And after streaming, I've been uploading the videos to my YouTube channel - partially in order to save the streams I've done (Twitch only holds onto them for a month, maybe?), but also because I myself have been going to YouTube a lot more for geekish news and content. What started as a way to get info about the alpha for World of Warcraft: Legion ended up introducing me to a host of channels from content creators about games, comics, and general nerdy news. I'd like to venture into the world of YouTube videos myself soon - proper videos of me talking to a supposed audience, rather than just copies of my streams.
Baby-steps. Let's just get the writing thing down for now.
So, since I lost wrote regularly, my life has changed drastically, and got itself sorted out again. I'm not really going to go into all of that here, but old posts may refer to situations and people, and new posts may refer to different situations and different people. Crap like that can happen when I forget to update my blog for 4 years.
I'm also currently running another Nobilis campaign with a fantastic group of players - most part of my old group, with one newer player - as well as playing in two D&D campaigns - one 4e game that I've talked about in the past, and one 5e game that's going pretty well. I have tons more to say about all of that, so I'll save it for later - just wanted to keep you all in the loop.
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