Rants can produce a lot of content. I have found that when I go back through my blogs(all the way to Myspace!) the majority of the stuff I classify to private or erase all together ends up being rants. Rants are fleeting, and full of emotion, and they do not tend to stand the test of time. Plus, who the hell wants to read a rant? Is not there enough negativity? If you want to get your internet hate on, I'm sure you already have plenty of bookmarks to take you to places that piss you off real good. I could make post after post about how Ghostbuster's 3 is now bullshit and should never be made. I could make posts about how Pixar is just doing what drove Disney down in the early 2000's... and how Disney Studios is doing what made Pixar wonderful in the early 2000's, and how its bullshit things just don't coordinate. I could rant about how WOTC's worshiping of Magic the Gathering, and bowing to that team's wishes means that Dungeons and Dragons can't live up to its true potential, and how a corporation wide release schedule among all their products could create a giant nerd renaissance. Oh I have rants. I'm somewhat of a nerd after all.
But that's not what I try to do here. I try to keep my posts informative, and little less than dry, and nothing that's going to anger people that read them. That's not to say I will not rant in the "personal" spot on the posts below the main, but those posts are fleeting as well. Those posts aren't in my larger blog archive. Those are one day out of, hopefully, many. Fleeting, just like a rant should be.
I'd rather tell you the positive stuff. I'd rather tell you how I was surprised by a movie. I'd rather talk about how Japan is making good "family" entertainment that is smart, intelligent, and just not done in Hollywood any longer. I'd rather tell you about how Google+ Hangouts have changed table top RPG's, and for those that are brave enough, have lead to many new games, many new friends, and a good community. Somewhere in there I will stick a history lesson, or a "did you know" fact in there. That's just how I roll.
Anyway, this is as much an affirmation to myself as information to you. I will try and keep my rants in check.
March 19
I did a lot of writing today.
Almost all of it was blog content. I hit on something I can write a ton of information and opinions about and decided to do all I could think of so that I would have blog fodder for the coming week... or 2 weeks. Most people will find it boring, but fear not! All posts here have an equally boring summation of my daily life as well! Also I'm not insensitive to you people's plight... I'm working on getting several updates from my music stuff(ACDC listening is still going forward), some table top stuff, and maybe something random in between.
Read that the next Dungeons and Dragon's edition is being made without the thought of multiple editions of split content like they have done for 3.5 and 4th. That was the #1 reason I said "screw you" to WOTC from the get go with those editions. In case you are an old player and don't know what I mean, they split the core D&D classes in half, added a few new ones, and put out a Players Handbook #1 out, and like a few months later put out Players Handbook #2, so for you to get all the info from what 2nd and 3rd Ed's Players Handbook, you needed 3 players handbooks. Bullshit. Anyway, I have kept up with the pre-release test versions of the game, and I am cautiously optimistic. I've been looking for a blend of 3rd Ed with more modern "narrative" takes to the characters(13th Age came close), and I'm hoping WOTC does a good version. The background and skill system, as of the test packets, looks really really good.
Time to figure out what video game I'm starting next. I'm thinking Ni No Kuni, but I do also have God of War II and Metal Gear Solid 2 staring at me. I know I'm going to be playing and finishing up Flower as a change of pace while doing either. Since pretty much all my blog content I wrote yesterday was about Final Fantasy, I'm in a JRPG mood, I don't think I have any "traditional" ones to play through... wish I had Bravely Default or Lost Odyssey.
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