Another Notice to the Readers

Greetings and Salutations!

The King of the Blog could not post this week, so I have been requested to do this week's post. Unfortunately, there was no actual post, so I'll just take this time to discuss the state of the blog.

You may be aware that the blog has been "dying" (again) as of late. This was originally started as a sort of fun project for a bunch of nerdy friends to post about nerdy things. The problem is, a) we have little to no readers (hard to tell since no one talks) b) Without readers, the posters get lazy and consider this a low priority.

It just seems that this blog was never meant to last. With that in mind, I'm going to abstain from future blog posting unless this blog suddenly gains a decent reader base because without that, this is just sucking up time for no reason.

Farewell,
Professor of the Blog

Note to the Readers

I am officially renouncing my claim to update on Tuesdays due to the beginning of a new semester. The combination of classes, work, and homework is more demanding than can easily facilitate a regular updating schedule. Unless I am forced to do otherwise, I will still attempt to post occasionally on various topics when I have a moment.

Entropy signing off.

Synopsis for Week 9

Greetings and Salutations!

Our posters are enjoying their hiatuses! (I assume laziness is the root cause)

The only post this week was on Wednesday, where the King of the Blog gives an overview on what forums and chat rooms are, and what the main differences between the 2 are.

I can't speak for the others, but rest assured, I will be posting this week.

As always, feel free to go back and comment on our posts (please do) and to pointlessly argue negligible things, as nerds tend to do. Also, feel free to email the blog at tbcrh1@gmail.com

Signing out,
Professor of the Blog

Synopsis for Week 10

Greetings and Salutations,

This week The blog received an email address! tbcrh1@gmail.com

On Tuesday, Entropy posted about winter-een-mas, discussed its meaning, and explained how best to celebrate it in Happy Winter-een-mas.

On Wednesday, The King of the Blog started his discussion on internetiquette, discussing gaming courtesy, and introducing the first five laws of internet conduct in Gaming, Not Always Fun.

As always, feel free to go back and read these incredible posts if you missed them, to comment on them (please do, whenever you want) and to argue over things as commenting people are wont to do.

Live long and Prosper,

The king of the Blog

The Blog has an Email.

Greetings and Salutations,

Today we are here to inform you that the blog has a new Email address, so you can email us questions, answers, threats, allegations, random cool bits of information, etc. And if there are specific questions to an author that you don't want plastered on the web, send them to our address with their name in the subject line.

New address: tbcrh1@gmail.com

Live Long and Prosper,

The King of the Blog

Happy Winter-een-mas

Greetings, readers of the blog. This post is obscenely early, but it is on Tuesday. I am going to continue my deviation from the topic of music as I believe there are more important things this week. My subject of the week shall be the holiday that is in multiple posts and our group New Year’s resolution: Winter-een-mas.

As mentioned in previous posts, Winter-een-mas is a celebration for gamers designed and implemented in Tim Buckley’s Ctrl+Alt+Del webcomic. The holiday itself lasts the week of January 25^th-31^st, but is commonly celebrated throughout January. Each of the seven days is dedicated to a different genre of game described here by the almighty Wikipedia:

January 25th: Adventure games, symbolized by a man dressed as Indiana Jones.

January 26th: First Person Shooter (FPS) games, with a 21 year-old sleep deprived gamer as its symbol.

January 27th: Fighting games, represented by a martial artist with too many blows to the head

January 28th: Real-time Strategy (RTS) games, whose emblem is a large bearded man with a pocket protector inside another pocket protector.

January 29th: Racing games, shown as a racer with old-fashioned racing helmet and racing goggles holding a detached steering wheel.

January 30th: Role Playing Games (RPGs), depicted as an elf-like woman holding floating dice above her left hand.

January 31st: Sports games, with a round, middle-aged man wearing a #10 jersey and holding a beer bottle in each hand as its emblem.

Celebrations for Winter-een-mas vary depending on the person or the size of group involved. Most commonly, long hours are spent on continuous gaming and, notably, not sleeping. Video game music, small conventions, and game-related art may also be involved. However, another thing gamers should be looking for is the Winter-een-mas sale from EB Games and select other game stores, which do indeed recognize the holiday.

My personal plans for the season include several amazing games, the latter four of which are new to me:

Dungeons and Dragons Online

Minecraft

Spore

Fire Emblem: Blazing Sword

Pokemon Ruby

Pokemon Platinum

Fate

Fate: Undiscovered Realms

Torchlight

Gauntlet: Dark Legacy (something I bought on a whim today because it is the sequel to an arcade favorite in my family and was on sale for $3 – don’t ask me how it is yet)

Feel free to give any of your own plans or suggestions in the comments. If you have yet to read the comics pertaining to Winter-een-mas, you should do so. They begin in 2003 and continue in January each subsequent year, including this one.

A presto!

~ Entropy

Synopsis for Week 7?

Greetings and Salutations,

We at The Blog of Crazy Random Happenstances would like to wish you a happy New Years, and some apologies for the absence of posts. There will be at least one real post this next week, and I hope this absence of posts is not the reason for the lack of viewers/comments on anything whatsoever. We wish you a wonderful year, and hope to see you soon!

Live long and Prosper,

The King of the Blog