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October 28 [2008]Wedge55 might see this…but screw him anyways!!In case you were longing for some sort of post from me I took it upon myself to make a quick one. Since we have so much of a huge following here (read no following and probably if I ask you all for something I will get the opposite) I figured I’d tell you all how I have already voted in my lovely swing state of Nevada. OBAMA!! Comments Galore! P.S. I heard Wedge55 voted early in his opposite of a swing state California as well, and so did…your MOM! April 19 [2008]Members Only: A week in The DORK Club
Because I only cover topics I’m at least marginally interested in here, I tend to run out of content for the day fairly quickly, which is why I’m rarely left with anything post-worthy after noon or so. There are, after all, only so many MMO and DLC announcements on any given day. So, let’s celebrate another week of half-days filled with gaming news by reliving all the best stories posted on this site during the past week which, coincidentally, just happens to be every story posted on this site. Nothing but gems here. Monday: Tuesday: Wednesday: Thursday: Friday: April 14 [2008]From the pages of historyFive new Warcraft 3 replays are now online at the usual place, and with them comes the first fifth of a massive new feature on Warcraft 3 strategy. Not useful strategy, mind you, just the sort of strategy we tend to employ in these wacky replays of ours. This feature was originally intended to be little more than a brief footnote at the bottom of the replays page, a short definition of terms for everyone too busy to keep up with years worth of The DORK Club extended family’s Warcraft 3 lingo. Of course, as an obsessive-compulsive nutcase, I couldn’t leave things so unfinished. So enjoy this needlessly in-depth exploration of Battle.net stupidity that would’ve been relevant six years ago. This new feature also serves as the testing ground for the site’s new look, which as you can see, looks almost exactly like the old one. Specifically, it looks like the site currently should. It’s been a year since I re-redesigned the site, so I figured it was finally time to correct some of those formatting quirks. The new code will migrate to the rest of the site just as soon as I’m confident my faux columns and CSS wizardry display at least marginally well on computers other than my own. April 12 [2008]Members Only: A week in The DORK Club
I’ve looked into other hosting solutions, and found one that gets rave reviews across the board and offers a fantastic feature set. Unfortunately, it costs more than twice what I’m paying at my current host, and I just started another billing cycle here less than a month ago. If this site goes offline just one or two more times, however, I’ll suck it up and shell out for the superior host, even though it means I’ll probably have to eat the cost of the eleven months of hosting I’ve already paid for here. And it actually looked like this site was going to pay for itself this year. But enough talk! We have a week to review: Monday: Tuesday: Wednesday: Thursday: Friday March 29 [2008]Members Only: A week in The DORK Club
Monday: Tuesday Wednesday Thursday: Friday: March 26 [2008]When the server’s down, update in the morningThe site was down for a few hours again last night, meaning I had no opportunity to post a nightly update before bedtime. Frankly, I think more nights are going to go without nightly updates in the future. Rather than force myself to drone on and on about some tangentially-related, boring topic, I’ll simply reserve the right to post worthless blog posts whenever the need arises. We’re a week into The DORK Club’s new direction and I’m still playing with style and format a bit. I’m still not entirely sure how bloggy or newsy individual posts should be, and am trying to find some sort of balance between the two extremes. I don’t exactly want to sink to Kotaku or Joystiq (or The DORK Club circa one week ago) levels of baseless speculation and personal bias, but I don’t want this site to be so painfully dry either. Again, should have totally just let this site sit dormant for a week while I worked all this stuff out. So, expect to see nightly updates less often, and not necessarily at night. I’ll most likely only post them when the site is actually updated in some way (ding sound effects, Warcraft 3 replays). I do, however, rather like the idea of a personal game journal, but I play far fewer games than this site may lead you to believe. Still, this might be something you see in the future in place of the mindless nonsense of the past week. March 24 [2008]Aimless on the Internet
In other RTS news, three new Warcraft 3 replays are now online. The extended DORK Club family and I have been working on getting our 25 win icons on these terrible, terrible accounts of ours. If we actually used viable strategies, we might even earn them before this time next year. In order to ease this site’s transition from sporadically-updated personal site to rapidfire news blog, I’ve installed an RSS reader (specifically, RSS Reader) and subscribed to every gaming site with anything even remotely resembling an RSS feed. Every ten minutes the program chimes annoyingly and informs me of any new headlines. This allows me to spend my days watching news stories slowly crawl their way across the Internet, as every gaming news sites digests and regurgitates the same scrapes of new information. Of course, I’ve subscribed to this site as well, and I like to watch as this obscure corner of the Internet beats many of the larger sites to copy-pasting the news of the day. Take that, Kotaku. Mostly I’ve just been posting news stories that interest me which, as I’m sure you can imagine, significantly limits the pool of potential posts. As fun as it is to watch Guitar Hero and Rock Band stories worm through my tracked RSS feeds, I’ll refrain from adding to the rhythm game noise. Unless it’s to reiterate how much I suck at them. Also, I’m still not quite sure what to do with these nightly blog posts, as this meandering, self-indulgent mess clearly shows. Don’t be too surprised should they disappear entirely at any point in the coming weeks. For now, just be thankful I spared you the pretentious analysis of The Decalogue I got halfway through writing for tonight. Next time, you may not be so lucky. March 22 [2008]Members Only: A week in The DORK Club
Wednesday: Thursday: Friday: March 20 [2008]On second thought, nightly status report posts are dreadfully dullThis morning, Massively linked to that damned ding feature, providing a lovely writeup and increasing the page’s daily traffic by nearly 5000%. As an added bonus, the page also turned up as a subject of discussion on a few guild forums I don’t have access to. Clearly, the Internet loves my stupid sound effect collections and hates everything else I produce. Speaking of everything else I produce, I think we can consider day two of The DORK Club 2.0 a success, blatant formatting inconsistencies aside. Were I an intelligent person, I would’ve taken a few days off and hashed out all the particulars concerning style and format (and redesign?) before just jumping in and seeing where it takes me. But I’m not an intelligent person, and this is more fun anyway. One thing I have decided on, however, is to post at least one World of Warcraft-related story a day. I never did get around to making that Blizzard fansite all those years ago, so this will just have to do. March 19 [2008]Changes, they are a-comin’As you undoubtedly noticed, I’ve decided to change the direction of the site for the third time in the last six months. We’re one of those news blogs now! The idea hit me in the shower this morning: Why wait until tomorrow to discuss the World of Warcraft tournament realms when I could do so today? In fact, I realized, nothing’s stopping me from transforming my pathetic and useless existence to a pathetic and slightly useful one. So, from now until I no longer have the time to do otherwise, I’ll be posting 4-6 blog entries a day here, and as always, almost all of them will be video game-related. I might even top off each day with some sort of status report blog post not dissimilar to this one. We’ll see. It’s been less than 24 hours since I decided on this rather drastic shift in direction and I’m still experimenting with exactly how I’m going to play it. I may even get crazy and starting using my real name here. I’ve also placed a Google AdSense unit after the first, second, and last post on every page in an attempt to make an extra $0.05 a day. Of course, I in no way encourage you click any of the advertisers’ clearly labeled links. And finally, two new ding sound effects are now online. You’ve probably never heard of Fiesta or Secret of the Solstice, but now you can hear their level up sounds without ever having to touch them. You’re welcome. [Older Posts] |
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Because most of the people posting video game news in any sort of professional capacity know about the news before they post it, waiting for embargos to lift before sharing the information with the Internet, each morning tends to begin with an explosion of gaming news. Just a few hours into the day, however, most sites go quiet, having already regurgitated the new press releases, screenshots, and videos of the day. Particularly ambitious sites post news around the clock, stretching the definition of “news worthy” by covering Super Mario Bros. quilts, StarCraft tattoos, and Portal cakes.
