Category: Site Meta

I was just checking in on the site, without an idea for what to post, but hoping something would come to me. Maybe I’d write about the weird state emulation is in thanks to Yuzu being sued by, and settling with, Nintendo. Or maybe I’d write about the hassle I’ve gone through to sync a 20 year old iPod photo with iTunes today. I was considering writing about the state of social media and the emergence of competing open protocols ActivityPub and the AT protocol. But when I logged into my wordpress I found this comment:

Hello.
You have created a website but it is not attractive to visitors.
Maybe you need help?
To get started, you need a good template. Templates can be found here – [link redacted]
Help with setting up WordPress, writing content for the site and SEO can be found here – [link redacted]
Plugins will help you quickly set up your site, they can be found here – [link redacted]
A beautiful logo, fonts and other web elements will also make the site more attractive. You can find them here – [link redacted]
If you need unique photos for the site, you can find them here – [link redacted]
This will help you start earning faster with the help of the site.

But here’s the thing: I don’t really want my website to be attractive to visitors. I don’t need help, it’s a website I’ve deliberately hidden from crawlers and I’ve deliberately chosen a dated looking theme and don’t want to put fancy logos or graphics on it. It’s not for making money and I don’t care if no one ever reads it. It’s just a fun place to post that isn’t the property of anyone but me.

So thanks, spam comment that didn’t even make it to a post, go fuck yourself.

Welcome to my blog! I’ve been witnessing what seems to be a breakdown of the social web, and in that process realizing that the web I grew up on that was largely personal websites and blogs has not necessarily withered away, I’ve just not been participating in it. I decided there were a couple of great ways to revive it:

1. Visit more small scale blogs and sites instead of larger sites.
2. Produce my own small scale blog!

An inspiration for doing this was the excellent ff8isthe.best which is just a goofy blog dedicated to Final Fantasy 8 and stories about it. It’s clear it’s made just for fun, and is therefore fun to read! I’ve also found myself perusing blogs at ooh.directory and it’s just a lot of fun.

Some goals I have for this site are to just write things that might be more extensive than is worth of a post on my Mastodon or Blue Sky accounts. Things I might write about are retro video games, my observations of the games industry today, or just personal stories or musings. I also want this site to be as minimal on web-crud as possible. I don’t plan to “monetize” it by inserting ads or enabling any sort of tracking, and I don’t really want to focus on having a nice design or anything; I just want to keep it simple, clean, and loading fast. I hope you enjoy!