If the general negativity, cynicism and third-thing of the two years’ worth of material on this blog have left you in a bit of a tissy about the state of videogame journalism, you might want to consider following Good Games Writing to be the antidote.
They’re highlighting the crème de la crème of vidjamagame jarnlzms, and they’re doing a bloody good job of it too. Though I don’t necessarily agree with every post they’ve made over the last three months (which begs the question - why didn’t any of you fuckers tell me about this three fucking months ago?).
Anyway, this blog is still done with. I just wanted to spread the word about a ray of sunshine. You may continue weeping openly, as I’m sure you have been doing for the last three months solid.
Caution: Watch out for this. You’ll enter a blog, and a pop-up looking like the one above will appear asking you to log into Tumblr to verify your age. DO.NOT.DO.IT. Basically, you’ll give the hacker your login information and they will use your blog as they have done the one above. Seriously, take my word for it. It’s NOT Tumblr. Please pass the message along. For some, our blogs are our lives. And it could all be gone in an instant.
Keep an eye out, Tumblr followers.
Everybody else, feel free to bitch about how this post isn’t “on-topic.”
(via lipsredasroses)
Tumblr’s been acting all manner of screwy these last few days. It’s mainly been affecting things behind the scenes - the site hangs in my browser now every time I go to add a tag, which makes the process of actually getting a post on the site take almost twice as long - but today I’ve been experiencing a number of “redirect loop” errors.
The guys at Tumblr apparently did some site maintenance yesterday. Ah wreck’n they need to do a bit more, because the way things are going I’m seriously considering shifting this thing off of Tumblr entirely.
Regarding rebuttals to the Panorama piece
By all means please submit rebuttals and critiques of the show, but keep in mind they won’t be posted until I’ve seen the show in question. I should hopefully have seen it by the time Wednesday night rolls around.
Speaking of which, today (Tuesday) is going to be a quiet day for me as I’ll be spending the day working for a company who sends out the sort of tat game journalists receive and subsequently blog about, which then leads me to blog about them wasting our time by writing about tat marketing companies send them. Oh no, I’m part of the problem! My wife is going to kill me!
And, while we’re on the subject (we’re not on actually on the subject but let’s soldier on anyway), why don’t you recommend this little blog for Tumblr Tuesday? It takes less than two minutes, and each time you recommend this blog a tiny kitten opens its eyes for the first time, exposing its relatively newly-minted eyes to the harsh light of day. It lets out a tiny squeak - a mew of contentment as if to say, “This is the world, this is my world, and I cannot wait to take in its glorious sights.”
Conversely every time you decide not to recommend the blog, a small dog explodes. It’s cruel, I know, but I’m not the one who’s in charge of these things.
*gasp for air*
We’re back. Jesus fuck, we’re back. Bloody Hell, Tumblr. Don’t do that again.
Don’t expect much from me this Tuesday
I’ll probably spend most of the day plowing through Super Meat Boy. Might even post some of my exploits on the intertrons, if you’re lucky. Or not.
Feel free to recommend the site for Tumblr Tuesday, even if it has been mostly troll questions and snarky answers these last few days.
Tumblr’s being dumb
I have two Submissions sitting in my Tumblr inbox, but the ruddy thing won’t let me see them. Annoying. Best way to get in touch at the moment would be email, at least until Tumblr sorts itself out.
Yet another podcaster who thinks I’m worth talking to. When will etc. etc.
Going to be another slow day here on GJAIF (or GJAIFW, if you’re a Nukezilla reader) as I’m going to spend it taking scissors out of their packaging for money, so submissions are king today. If you see something you think deserves to be on the blog, send it my way via email or using our submissions form and I’ll get it up (Careful now - Ed.) tonight.
Oh, and don’t forget to recommend the blog for Tumblr Tuesday.
I’ve always been busy around Tuesday recently - a job interview here, a mall opening there - but now I’m up early enough to justify meaking poast about it. Recommend this blog for Tumblr Tuesday, please. Pretty please. And so on.
It happened again
Three weeks’ worth of Fuckwittery of Yesteryear has been posted over the course of two days, and I’m not particularly happy about that. Tumblr’s queue system is apparently broken, so I won’t be using it in the future.
Anyway, I hope you enjoyed the posts.
And today is Tumblr Tuesday, so if you’re not suitably disgusted by what I do on this blog why don’t you go ahead and recommend it in the Gaming category? Go on. I promise I won’t try to take off your underpants.
I accidentally posted something here…
…that should have gone over here instead. Oh, the pitfalls of late-night Tumblr-ing! In any case the post has been moved, and I am an incompetent fuckwit.
