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I don't do blogs
Dan Hoyt | 11:45 PM on 05.19.2009 22 comments


For my first blog post I will write to you, my non-existent reader, about the fact that I do not "do" or "write" blogs.

Yes, this is a video game website, I know. I have considered writing posts about video games: topics such as why Sega should stop ramming Sonic the Hedgehog up the ass, why the PS3 is still underrated, and why video games should be appreciated as much as movies, at least. The problem is that every time I sit down to write a blog I think to myself, "Why?" Why would I spend a fraction of my day writing something that no one will read?

Since I was little I used to try time and time again to start a journal. People in my life always told me it would be a great way for me to get my feelings out in a healthy way. Maybe that was just an easy way for those people to tell me I had an anger issue, something which I still debate with myself to this day.

Regardless, during the dubious times I have tried to start either a journal or blog, I have gotten a few words in and just quit, frustrated with coming up with just the right thing to write. Hell, as I write this, with every word, I am tempted to just click the back button and go back to refreshing Facebook and Destructoid, clicking that Stumble button in the upper left corner every now and again.

But nah--I already have a good bit written. I don't even think I am going anywhere in specific with this. I just want a stepping stone from which I can launch my career in blogging.

But why blog? Here's my take on it. Everyone has an opinion, but few want to listen to that which others have to say. A blog is a way for someone to express their thoughts on this that or the other while also communicating their opinion to that odd reader that randomly stumbles upon (not StumbleUpon, stumble upon) the blog. I think the network of blogs across the internet is slowly weaving public opinion of planet Earth throughout its inhabitants without allowing itself to be tainted by those at the head of mass media companies.

Hopefully if you're reading this you'll hear from me again in the future... about video games. Because I am most certainly opinionated on those.



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22 comments | showing # 1 to 22
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Atlas's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/20/2009 00:18
Atlas
Liar
Diverse's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/20/2009 00:57
Diverse
Video games are kind of boring. Blog about something else!
smurfee mcgee's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/20/2009 01:13
smurfee mcgee
I do not exist
Y0j1mb0's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/20/2009 01:16
Y0j1mb0
I don't do comments.
IronPikeman's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/20/2009 01:19
IronPikeman
I don't do the Internet.
Puppy Licks's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/20/2009 01:27
Puppy Licks
I do not do your mother, but the Red Spy sure as hell does.
MrSadistic's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/20/2009 02:02
MrSadistic
Thanks for the making the internet 2.5 percent more miserable.
Mr Wrighty 987's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/20/2009 03:20
Mr Wrighty 987
I don't read these blogs
ParaParaKing's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/20/2009 04:45
ParaParaKing
I don't masturbate.
AgentMOO's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/20/2009 06:21
AgentMOO
I don't drink.
RonBurgandy2010's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/20/2009 06:38
RonBurgandy2010
I don't give spider monkeys blowjobs while sewing a giant stuffed dragon in a sky-dive chamber on the moon.
MEE's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/20/2009 07:08
MEE
i don't breath.
Tubatic's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/20/2009 07:16
Tubatic
I have an opinion about your opinion, but you probably won't read it.
nebones's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/20/2009 07:39
nebones
You're everything that's wrong with everything.
Jesus H Christ's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/20/2009 08:39
Jesus H Christ
I do everything everyone in these comments doesn't do.
Cowboy TTop's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/20/2009 08:55
Cowboy TTop
I know how you feel. I blog on here and no one reads it majority of the time. I ask myself why I bother, so now I just end up mostly reading and replying.

If you really want to blog, don't give up. Dtoid is but one of many gaming websites. If you feel no one will read here, I'd try other places like 1up or Edge Online.

Write something good and I'll certainly check you stuff out.
Char Aznable's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/20/2009 08:59
Char Aznable
Welcome to Dtoid, don't suck.
Chris Carter's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/20/2009 11:30
Chris Carter
Welcome to the blogs, where you don't do blogs?!
SephirothX's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/20/2009 13:13
SephirothX
i dont say i dont
GENACON's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/20/2009 13:54
GENACON
Don't Do What Donny Don't Does!
CelicaCrazed's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/20/2009 14:52
CelicaCrazed
Welcome to Destructoid. Maybe I'm one of the few, but I spend more time reading people's C-Blogs than the front page. I honestly like hearing someone else's opinion, whether I agree with it or not. It helps to expand your horizons. Just as long as it's "I don't do fail blogs" everything will be fine.

Plus the c-blogs are never in short supply of lawls and rape ^_^
Ascythopicism's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/20/2009 14:59
Ascythopicism
Is the set of all things that aren't members of their sets a member of its set?
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