Hi there, everyone.

My name is Brilliam and I have a problem.

You see, I’ve been spreading myself pretty thin on the internet. I’ve got a Livejournal, to which I post occasionally; a Destructoid blog, to which I post a bit more than occasionally; two wordpress.com blogs (one general, one a specific project), which have languished in recent months; my game dev team’s blog; a twitter account; more, I’m sure, but I can’t remember anything else right now.

The rub is, I look negligent and lazy on all fronts, because any content I produce only fires out on one of these channels at a time, and keeps nobody’s interest. So, I have created what I hope will be my most encompassing blog, which is this one. I’ve even invested in a fancy, expensive .am domain name, so I’ll feel guilty if I neglect it.

However, I don’t intend for this blog to be entirely unfocused. I hope to write here about video games and the industry and culture that surround them. I also intend to write a lot of speculative “what if” pieces about things that those who like video games might be into (like “what if you were selected to go into the Fallout vault?”) While I don’t entertain any fantasies that I might be the first person to write a blog like this, I do hope that you, dear reader, will be entertained. After all, reading’s more easy than writing, right? You can fit it in.

The question is, what am I going to do with my other blogs? Well, here’s a handy-dandy list of where I am, and what’s happening to those places where I am, in the style of an end-of-television-series montage with wistful subtitles:

TabQWER

This could probably be considered more of an idea dump and test bed than it could a fully-formed blog, will most likely be retired. I also intended to use it for my sports-related ramblings, which are minimal anyway; I hope readers here wouldn’t be too alienated if I occasionally talked about sport here. That’s pretty much everything I did there.

Every Game Ever

This project (playing one SNES game a day and blogging about it) has languished, and languished hard (if languishing is something you can even do hard). I intend to bring this blog back, but perhaps with multiple writers (if you’re interested, let me know). It’d maintain the same flippant, comedic voice, ideally. Until then, though, it’s on hiatus.

Terr

This is my Livejournal (true fact: also the name of the main character of the first thing I ever published online, a Chrono Trigger fanfiction. Please don’t try to dig this up, I was thirteen and it’s incredibly embarrassing!). While I intend to maintain the account, because I want to keep up with some dear friends over there, any updates herein will probably just be references to things I’ve written elsewhere.

Brilliam@VOX

I think I only made this account because some old LJ friends said they were migrating five ears ago. I’m not sure I ever even did anything with it, so don’t mind it.

Destructoid

While I’ll still post here, I’ll most likely only post stuff related to their site, like Monthly Musings post (which I will also run here) and community-related blogs. While I’m downright addicted to the attention, it was hinted by The Quixotic Engineer that I may be squandering my talents.

Twitter

Nothing’s gonna change here. I’m still going to run my mouth like an idiot, misspell “separate” on a weekly basis, and talk about creepy dreams I have.

CIKRO BLOG

This is intended to be the blog for my game development team/art collective, and not for me. I’m going to leave well enough alone until it has something to do with the projects we’re working on. Which are super-secret right now. SUPER-secret! Subscribe to it by putting ?flav=rss at the end of the URL, if you care (blosxom is SO COOL).

THE SPOILERIST

The Spoilerist, which is Scott’s labour of love, is something I intend to continue writing for. Once it escapes its current state of flux, I’ll certainly be dropping truth bombs over there. I may cross-post them here.

Looking back, I’m realizing that this entry, which I have spent altogether too much time on, is mostly only relevant to me. Still, it marks the end of a lot of my web presence, and the beginning of a space that I have more control over. And that’s always a good thing, right?