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30 Videogame Answers, No Likes Part 1

31 Tuesday Jan 2017

Posted by wolfyseyes in Nerdy Things

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atari 2600, chain letter, fandom, games, gaming, i'm joining the crowd lookit me, meme, MMO, nes, one like one answer, pc, snes

Sometime last week or so, there was a fun little prompt fluttering among those I follow on Twitter. Basically, you answer one videogame-related question for every like the posted picture got, to a maximum of 30.

It looked like a lot of fun, and since I’m always a sucker for cheap easy writing prompts, I decided to take the idea and write about it here.

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…I searched for “writing prompt” and got this. So let’s just move on.

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Personalities

31 Sunday Jan 2016

Posted by wolfyseyes in MMO Things

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community, content creator, fandom, fans, fansite, gamer, MMO, personality, streamer, youtuber

This whole blog post was prompted by one Otterdown and her forum post in The Secret World’s forums about how MMO health seems to be intrinsically tied to the interest of a select few community members. It got me thinking very hard about how communities in gaming operate, and how completely alarmist they can tend to be.

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Dramatic and charmingly animated re-enactment of said communities

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Geekmas Day 11: Eleven Supernatural Repossessions

21 Monday Dec 2015

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engagement, fandom, fans, geekmas, hashtags, ratings, superfans, supernatural, tv, tv show

This post is part of the 12 Days of Geekmas.  Check out the concept here, and let NerdyAlerty’s blog feed your eyeballs as well!

As a fan of Charmed and a passing fan of Angel and Buffy The Vampire Slayer, one would assume that Supernatural is right up my alley.  However, this one has dodged my notice for a long while.  Matter of fact, the thing still running arrived as a surprise to me.

….right until I noticed the fanbase.  And then it all came clear.

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Geekmas Day 10: Ten Sailor Scouts

21 Monday Dec 2015

Posted by wolfyseyes in Nerdy Things

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anime, fandom, femininity, geekmas, magical girl, sailor moon, sailor stars, scouts, senshi

This post is part of the 12 Days of Geekmas.  Check out the concept here, and let NerdyAlerty’s blog feed your eyeballs as well!

Sailor Moon is, quite literally, everything that is stereotypical of anime.  It’s the grandmammy of the “magical girl” sub-genre, and has titling that continues to be lampooned by people as being patently ridiculous.

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“Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon Sailor Stars” + those body proportions = the definition of low-hanging fruit.

Regardless, for all that is goofball about the series itself, it’s the sense of camaraderie and some of the show’s thematics that I tend to be drawn in to most by this series.

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Geekmas Day 9: Nine Pokeballs

17 Thursday Dec 2015

Posted by wolfyseyes in Nerdy Things

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fandom, fun, game boy, geekmas, pokemon, rpg, social, tournament

This post is part of the 12 Days of Geekmas.  Check out the concept here, and let NerdyAlerty’s blog feed your eyeballs as well!

This blog is going to be a little different from the usual ones because I don’t have a great connection to Pokemon.  However, I know a person who does!

jamieface

Hello!

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Geekmas Day 5: Five Lightsabers

11 Friday Dec 2015

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expansion, fandom, free to play, geekmas, MMO, sci-fi, star wars, swtor, the old republic, tor

This post is part of the 12 Days of Geekmas.  Check out the concept here, and let NerdyAlerty’s blog feed your eyeballs as well!

Talk about a softball topic.  For this day of Geekmas I have to somehow find nice things to say about Star Wars.  This definitely is not going to be hard for me, despite how perceptibly angry fans of the IP can get.

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I may have just roused a few of them with this picture alone..

So…lots of wonderful things to say about Star Wars.  I should just maybe bang home a few paragraphs and call it a day.  This being a (mostly) MMO blog, however, I’m going to limit myself specifically to Star Wars: The Old Republic…because there are some sticking points for me with that game, but like with almost every MMO I encounter, I can still find wonderful things to say about it.

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Geekmas Day 3: Three Charmed Sisters

06 Sunday Dec 2015

Posted by wolfyseyes in Nerdy Things

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action, charmed, charmed ones, drama, fandom, geekmas, magic, tv show

This post is part of the 12 Days of Geekmas.  Check out the concept here, and let NerdyAlerty’s blog feed your eyeballs as well!

Gonna tell you guys a secret.  I have watched the shit out of this show.  Like, literally, from season one to the very last episode.  There aren’t many programs on TV that I considered appointment television, but Charmed was one of them.

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Even if none of them ever could apparently look back at me without tilting their heads.

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Geekmas Day 1: One Ring to Rule Them All

01 Tuesday Dec 2015

Posted by wolfyseyes in Nerdy Things

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fandom, geekmas, lord of the rings, lotr, lotro, middle-earth

“On the first day of Geekmas, my fandoms gave to me…One Ring to rule them all…”

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So I was turned on to this 12 Days of Geekmas thing by the significantly more intelligent and prettier than me Hannah-Jaedia.  In it, the author proposes twelve posts espousing the virtues of geeky fandoms.  And, since I wrote a post about how much I love people loving things, it only makes sense that I would hop on.

Also, it’s easy-to-create regular content.  So it’s a bit of lazy AND a bit of fun.  Which, really, is precisely gaming, isn’t it?  So, let’s get started with Day 1: The Lord of the Rings!

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Vicarious

26 Monday Oct 2015

Posted by wolfyseyes in Nerdy Things

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fan, fanbase, fanboy, fandom, hater, liking stuff, scifi, show, tv, videogame

I read a blog written by someone who mostly loves EVE Online.  I am not a fan of the game, but reading those writings of himself and a few others still intrigue me, even if the game doesn’t.

My husband a couple weeks ago lost his mind with delight over the fact that an episode of Doctor Who included a rhythm guitar in the title theme.  I rolled my eyes and smirked, but I get it.

I love watching people love things like they do.  In a digital world where “fanboy” is used as a weapon, I’m here to announce that I fanboy over fanboys.

…which makes me sound a bit creeper-y, but whatever.

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Blaugust Day 16 – The Day Anime Died

16 Sunday Aug 2015

Posted by wolfyseyes in Nerdy Things

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anime, end of an era, fan, fandom, hate, love, series

I was a latecomer to the anime scene, entering the fandom through channels that probably make me not a diehard.  Never did understand how being a fan of a thing required you to go through some sort of idiotic attunement process to be taken seriously…but anyways.  I discovered anime through the Saturday Anime programming block that ran back when the Scifi Channel was actually spelled properly.  The first feature I saw was Project: A-ko.

It was probably one of the craziest and most hilarious things I had ever witnessed, and before then I watched a LOT of Saturday morning cartoons while growing up…so I had seen some shit, man.

But I never saw anything like this.  I never saw something that was both so fluid and so madcap.  It broke model but kept proportions that made sense in its world and its style.  It was action-packed and a bit lecherous but still just off-the-wall enough that I never really took it as being intentionally awful.  The whole setup was just nuts, but I enjoyed every second of the ride.  It was my first, and I was immediately hooked.

From there on, I kept to the Saturday Anime to get my dose because I didn’t have any idea how to find this stuff any other way.  A-ko moved to Vampire Hunter D.  Then to Akira.  Then Venus Wars.  Then Robot Carnival.  I was thrust in to a variety of genres and worlds and stories that moved and played like nothing I had ever witnessed.  Disney was the only animated movie I knew at the time…but here were robust, intense and fully realized cinematic experiences that were more than an animated musical.

I thought Disney had the lockdown on imagination. I was wrong.

Afterwards, the internet revealed to me an entire group of folks who felt the same way, and I was opened up to stories and series and movies and so many things.  I watched the old standbys like Dragon Ball and Gundam and Cowboy Bebop, but I also found things like Appleseed and Dominion: Tank Police.  Stuff that I felt maybe flew under the radar but were just as good as things that made their way to the U.S. broadcast.

And then, after years of watching series and movies and other things, I stumbled in to the show Clannad: After Story.  In specific, the episode “White Darkness”.

This episode really affected me in ways that I’m not sure I can properly put in to words.  I couldn’t even stand to watch the rest of the show after having experienced that because…I mean, dude!   DUDE!  It plucked a nerve in me that I really didn’t want to have plucked, and I don’t care how much was remaining because…DUDE!

Nagisa, you asshole.

After having witnessed that, I decided to dial back the dose.  I was finding things less and less appealing about anime, and hearing about series that were coming along didn’t re-ignite my interest.  And then I found the show Berserk and WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU, JAPAN?!

I mean, I get that the show’s world was not a nice place to be in, but by the time I finished the series I felt like I had been through an emotional wood chipper.  Everything about that show and the resolution and the characters just made me want to bathe in molten lead.  I felt gross for having forced myself to suffer through the whole thing.

It was the series that killed anime for me entirely.  I was done.  No more.

Nope, I’m not including caps from that show. Here’s a puppy instead.

From what I can figure, I’ve made the right decision.  Attack on Titan looks insipid and just about as awful as Berserk, and things like Madoka Magica just reaffirmed the move away from anime.  The last series I had watched that could be perhaps considered recent is Spice and Wolf.

I suppose, then, I’m just not the audience anymore.  I guess there aren’t any more anime out there that I really find compelling or stories that don’t really want to be involved in any more.  I mean, maybe there are series out there that I want to be a part of now or in the future, but…the thrill has truly gone.  I’ve been ruined by anime that decided to empty a bazooka in to my heart.

“I’m going to eat your soul through your genitals!”

The whole thing is still a bit sad to me, though, despite feeling like I’ve washed my hands of it all.  Perhaps I haven’t really cleaned off anime, then, because I am a bit upset that I can’t find enjoyment in the format.  I still go back to old series and old movies, but I still can’t shake the feeling that I’m missing something.  That maybe there’s more to the genre now than bait-and-switch horror nonsense or mindlessly indulgent violence.

Or maybe I just grew up.

So I suppose, ultimately, I fall to anyone who may be reading this to set me back on the track of re-finding a fandom.  I had opteed in for a 30-day trial to Crunchyroll pretty recently, and I am pretty much overwhelmed for choices with practically no clue where to really start.

And let’s be real, Crunchyroll’s filtering by genre just…it sucks.  I’ve seen the same title show up three different damn times for three different criteria.  Seriously.

So maybe I should seek suggestion.  Maybe I should just start randomly clicking at crap until I find things that strike.  Or maybe I should just truly give up and face the fact that anime is no longer meant for me.  It has died, and that can be fine.  Still, I can’t shake the feeling that a part of me died along with it.  And that’s not really a great sensation.

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