What I’ve Been Playing
I figure the best way to utilize this lovely little corner of the internet I’ve set up for myself is to just jump right in and do it. Yeah, yeah, I say that all the time, and one of these days it’ll stick. The key point here is that I’d like to try my best to avoid doing exactly what I’m doing right here at the introduction, which is to avoid blogging about not blogging. This is a boring topic, I fully realize this.
My efforts to rectify this situation are as follows: As you may recall from this previous post, my brother Michael and I are embroiled in a year long battle to play (and finish) as many video games as possible during the course of this two thousand and eighth calendar year (counting, naturally, from the biblical year zero, which is not to be confused with the Khmer Rouge’s ultimately failed attempts at, ahem, “starting over“). We have been embroiled in said battle ever since. Without resorting to the sports page model of team standings (hint: I’m losing), I will simply offer this brand new, uh, feature? Column? I’m not sure. Call it what you will.
I’ll call it WIMP. Yep. WIMP. That stands for “What I’m Playing.” I fully realize that, technically, “What I’m Playing” actually shortens to WIP, though if you expand the contraction within you end up with WIAP. Neither of these really resound with me. They’re awkward to pronounce or their pronunciations don’t particularly imply the actual shortening. Besides, I want an acronym, not an initialism. I’m stubborn like that. So, with WIMP you’ll get to read just what the hell I’ve been doing with those controllers in my hands you might see me with constantly. Hopefully in sharing the specific titles of games I’ve been playing, a little bit of interesting analysis, thoughts on design, etc. will ooze out from the pores of my rambling. Or one would hope.
Given that I clearly lack the discipline at this time to promise something as regular as a daily post, I’ll stick to something slightly more manageable. We’ll go with something weekly. Not sure which day of the week. I could probably go ahead and start now but let’s be honest here for a second: I’ve rambled on in this post long enough, yet another one of my meta-posts about posting.
Hope you’ll swing back by for a little video game talk, kiddos!
Tagged: acronym, brotherly competition, initialism, khmer rouge, me, video games, WIMP, year zero
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