Necros Says: Fuck.
You might have guessed the probability of seeing a new Rantoid in the next two hours before 12AM Monday is low. Indeed, it is true, this weekend won't have a new edition of Rantoid. How did this happen? Well, a few things prevented me from writing up a rant:
a) The hurricane of finals at SU sapped up a large amount of my time with pointless "studying" and "tests."
b) Making
this video took about a day.
c) Getting my stuff packed, rearranging my room, heading home for winter break, and settling in took a considerable amount of time.
d) It has not stopped snowing for a minute since I've come home, and that means I have to shovel the accursed precipitation even after the driveway is plowed.
e) There weren't any pressing matters this week that would inspire a rant. This could partially be because I was somewhat distant from the gaming industry during finals.
f) Gremlins.
So I don't need anyone to feel sorry for me, I just wanted to explain why I missed my personal deadline for the column. Or maybe I'm just feeling full of myself and you guys don't give a shit about my pathetic musings.
Anyways, I thought I'd take this opportunity to get some feedback from you guys. Do you like where the column is going? What can I do to improve it? Is there a certain topic you think I should address? If you need to refer to certain articles, you can find last week's edition
here, then follow the links in the notes before the article.
Also, I'd be interested in hearing your opinions on the subject of creating a gaming canon, a topic I'd like to cover in a future Rantoid. Literary experts have endlessly debated not only what books belong in a canon of literature but what process should be used to determine canon worthiness; similarly, the AFI has published their list of the top 100 American films. What are your thoughts on any aspect of the idea of a gaming canon?
We all love your ramblings, Good Sir Necros. In addition, I have stolen your first comment.
I have been busy to. I couldn't write my second Heaven or Hell, which made me sad. I have ideas for rants but I don't know if you have covered them yet.
...fuck.
Your post about why you wouldn't be delivering your weekly column was longer than most peoples columns so don't despair.
My finals are all this week: 1 on Tuesday, 2 on Wednesday, and 1 on Thursday. I should probably get on that...and it’s probably better that there’s no Rantoid this week to keep me from getting started. Still, I’m somewhat saddened. You totally could’ve ranted on Activision and how they let the title of “#1 publisher” get to their heads...
rantoid good, but (and I think this same thing about the Rev rant) there's only so much that can be ranted and raved about. Game would be an easy thing to do, get 5000 members of Destructoid to list their top 50 favorite games... then do science to those numbers.
@DynamicSheep: That’s not the best way to go about it, IMO. People’s favorite games don’t necessarily equal the most universally acclaimed video games ever. You’d have to survey people’s specific thoughts on a video game canon.
Well, I liked last weeks rantoid, so i suppose I like where it's going. I agreed on many of your points about sega. but dude, it seems like you're always late getting it out. other than it's cool. As for a gaming canon, I dunno. Sounds like a daunting task.
@ EDS
Well, I've dropped the "Friday" from the title and basically given myself the entire weekend to get it out. So while I shoot for Friday, if circumstances come up, I'm not going to feel bad about publishing it on Saturday or Sunday. I suppose it's become a community-published Weekend Reading, since DMV has been lazy with his feature.
...Gremlins?
Damn you Necros, stop sucking so much
<3 <3 <3
Fuckin' Gremlins.
Well at least you make excuses for not writing an article.
Even though I love Rantoid, your picture made me laugh my ass off. So it's all good.
NO, THIS CAN'T BE HAPPENING!
*RIPS TIME SPACE CONTINUUM*
*SHIT HAPPENS*
Coming up with a good topic every week and then actually writing about it must be hard on top of college and all, so i get where you're coming from. but keep it up, we all know it's one of the better cblogs out there.
No rantoid makes me sad :(