I just popped onto the home page for the site here to see what it currently looks like and was presented with an interesting series of Google Adwords: Adult Only Video Games. How the heck did Adsense manage to decode THAT from the text that’s on the page? Mind you, the actual link takes us to a page with a bunch of M-rated games such as Grand Theft Auto San Andreas and Rule of Rose. Strange.
Time for a reboot of this site. I’ve just accepted a new job that will allow me a lot of time to spend time with my family and to get through my degree, and thus also all manner of gaming. Although I don’t start the new gig for another couple of weeks, I’ve already been getting in some gaming time before the midterms.
So, that long pause in posting? Should be the last of them. There’s plenty of gaming-related topics to post about. I’m going to focus mostly on free-to-play games, as well as games in my collection. I’m also going to expand more into tabletop roleplaying games, board games, and CCGs, which I used to play a lot of but pretty much haven’t in the past number of months.
I need to upload the latest version of Wordpress, and there might some minor changes to the layout of the site.
Enough chit-chat! Time to blog!
Well, the move to the new house is pretty much done, although there’s lots of boxes left over at the in-laws houses that are slowly being moved over on a daily basis. This is made much easier by the fact they’re only 6 miles away, which is close enough if we need them, but far enough that we get our own space.
The biggest trouble we’ve had with the move is fitting everything that used to fit into 1600 square feet into 1100 square feet, along with a new baby. We’re having to carefully go through everything that we own and decide whether it comes with us, stays at the in-laws, gets sold, gets donated, or gets trashed. For many items, this decision is hard. For all gaming-related stuff, that’s an easy decision.
We’ve brought our laptops as well as the kid’s desktop, which is nested inside the corner desk unit that takes up a fair bit of space in the living room. We’re back to video gaming with our 54" projection television that’s managed to make it through 9 years so far with only one major repair needed within the first three years. Connected to it are the Wii, the PS2 and the Xbox. Having a new baby means changing a lot of things to compensate, and one change we’re making is going with wireless controllers, particularly after the kids almost pulled the PS2 off the shelf via the cables. All of our games are in bulk game cases, but as we keep adding more games to our collection we’re starting to run out of space for those and will be looking at revamping that. My PC game collection is in two large tubs, mostly alphabetized and in order, although there are some stragglers.
We found that we had a little extra cash and we’ve been looking at upgrading the kids’ computer and making it the family gaming computer. I specced out putting in a 3.0 Ghz dual core processor, 8Gb RAM, 1 TB HDD space and at least an GeForce 8800GT. This would pretty much make the computer game-friendly for the next five years. When I told my daughter, she simply shrugged and then said that she doesn’t need the computer upgraded as she has the Wii, and that she’d rather have her own laptop. She’s nine years old. She’s obviously been replaced with a pod person.
In that same vein, I looked at whether or not I should get an XBox 360. The money that was being put aside to upgrade the computer would mean I could get the Elite, a few extra wireless controllers, and a bunch of games to start me off. It would also mean I could retire the XBox. However, looking at my family/work/study schedule for the next three years I’ve already got plenty of games to play and not enough time to play them as it is. Buying an XBox 360 would just mean spending money that I couldn’t appreciate for some time. At least upgrading the family computer would be useful, although it pretty much is capable of running most of the games the kids need right now.
So, I think I’ll be staying behind the curve for the next couple of years. I’ve got a ton of games here at home that I can play and review on this site, and there’s a lot of gems in there, some of which I’m playing right now and will post about soon. There are also a lot of awesome free games that are available online today that either play in your browser, or can be downloaded. On top of that, there’s a lot of casual games that are available as that market segment grows and those really are the types of games that I tend to be playing right now as it’s hard for me to get more than an hour at a time to sit down and play a game without interruptions. Without having to keep this site updated on a set schedule, I’ll be able to post as I come across all manner of coolness. At least, that’s the plan.
Thanks for hanging around so far, and thanks for sticking with the site.
I’ve been pretty remiss in keeping the blog up-to-date, and that’s mostly due to a really full non-Interweb life the moment. There’s a bunch of things happening at the moment, including:
A pretty packed life at the moment, and this blog has suffered for it, I’m afraid. Fear not though, because I plan to bring it back after we’re settled and will be focusing games that the family are playing, as well as on finding and sharing great free and low-cost games online. I’ve got some exciting news to share in the future as well, so keep an eye on things changing around here.
Sorry for the lack of updates. Things have been pretty hectic in the Bagder household over the past few months, and I’ve had a hard time focusing on the stuff that needs to be done, never mind the stuff that I want to do.
In saying that, I’m back to posting here, but I’m going to change things up a little. Instead of focusing heavily on finding and posting deals, which actually takes up a lot of time and energy, I’m going to post multiple types of content. I’ll still post deals, but rather than trying to just to copy ads and other sites that are out there, I’ll post links and articles on stuff that I think readers would find interesting. Being honest, I started to lose interest in posting a lot of deals because I was posting for the wrong reason. Instead of just posting stuff I thought people would like (the original idea behind the site), I started to post specific product links so that I could try and make a little bit of money and pay for hosting, and perhaps make a little bit of extra moolah for games. When you start thinking about posting for profit, it ends up becoming the driving force behind a blog, and when you don’t make much money, you start to lose interest in posting.
So, the upshot is, lots more content incoming on a regular basis, with a focus on it being interesting rather than being posted so that I can make a bit of moolah. I’ll also be posting around everything else going on in my life (family, work, school, gaming), so the site may be content heavy one day and less so another. Just FYI.
Now that I’m acclimated to my new job and on a decent sleep schedule, I’m going to be posting deals and links again, starting tomorrow. I’ve needed some time to adjust to things, so my apologies for the lack of content over the past few weeks. Normal service shall resume…
I thought I should post an update. The good news is that I’ve got a change of job which means that I’m going to be on a more regular schedule and will have time each day to post updates to the site here. I’m finishing the last two days of my current position and have the weekend off before moving into my new position, so I’m going to take the time to recharge my batteries and get my head in order so that I can start posting again on Monday. I may end up posting a couple of deals at the weekend, but regular posting will resume on Monday.
Yay!
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