Promoted Community blogs round-up for September & October

2:20 PM on 11.02.2009   |   Hamza CTZ Aziz

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As the site continues to grow, we continue to see the amount of great write ups increase that you all provide over on the Community Blogs. Anyone and everyone is welcome to write a blog. The good ones will get fapped and highlighted on the weekly Community Highlights feature. The best blogs will get promoted to the front page. The point of blogging is to put yourself out there and we do our best to make sure you get noticed by all on Destructoid when you deserve it.

I took a break from recapping last months promoted blogs (read: forgot) so here we are with a double feature of everything that was promoted since September. Nearly 50 blogs, both Monthly Musing and general awesomenss were promoted.

For September's Monthly Musing theme, we wanted to hear about old games that you think people needed to be made aware of again. We also saw a handful of other blogs promoted including ScottyG's epic PAX community mosaic project.

October's Monthly Musing theme was "Nothing is sacred" and we wanted to hear about standard design concepts that are overdone to death. October also saw other non-Musing write ups such as Scary Womanizing Pig Mask's huge examination of Giygas from Earthbound. Plus, there were a couple of art blogs that got promoted such as SiK99's Mr. Destructoid in LEGO form.

Hit the break for the full breakdown of promoted blogs.

All of the Monthly Musing promotions from September's "The Forgotten" theme:

• A Spy in HARM's Way -- Freefall
• The 7th Saga: My first foray into RPGs -- TripleZer0
• Crushing disappointment at the hands of Crash ‘n the Boys -- Kauza
• Cubivore: Survival of the fittest -- Trebz
• The Fantastic Voyage -- walkyourpath
• Real Life -- BulletMagnet
• Street Fighter EX -- NihonTiger90
• Battletoads on the go and in the arcades -- megaStryke
• A Storm of Romance Under the Banner of Love -- unangbangkay
• Life as a Lethal Enforcer -- Jack Maverick

And here are all the non-Musing blogs that got promoted for the month of September:

• The draw of exploration: Antarctica to Oblivion, Shackleton to Shadow Complex -- Kauza 
• Mortal Kombat 2: Completely offensive -- sheppy 
• Promoted stories: Suda 51 and the 'art' of videogames -- Canti-sama 
• Chiptunes in the streets of Seattle at PAX 09 -- Zen Albatross 
• The Destructoid community mosaic -- ScottyG 
• The people who have the power to change the world -- Kauza 
• My friends, we are now in the bright age of the "retro-revival" but I am sorry to say that I am not very pleased with what I see -- Tascar

All of the Monthly Musing promotions from October's "Nothing Is Sacred" theme:

• Hit Points and Damage -- Tubatic 
• Oh look, I found 20 bucks in the beast I just killed -- Euthanasian 
• The Taking of Life -- Y0j1mb0 
• Videogames -- Canti-sama 
• Zombies Have Feelings Too -- Necro BABS 
• Quick Time Events -- topcatyo 
• 'It looks like the lock is broken. I can't open it.' -- Stevil 
• These walls have torn my world apart -- nekobun 
• Sequels -- Wry Guy 
• Why We Fight -- John Johnson 
• Death of the Story -- Lenore Coffee 
• Kill the Controller -- megaStryke 
• Games taking themselves too seriously -- Awesome ExMachina 
• Smash it up -- vitaminh 
• Come with me if you want to live -- walkyourpath 
• The Zelda Recipe -- Vigilante8 
• Getting Into Character -- wanderingpixel

And here are all the non-Musing blogs that got promoted for the month of October:

• So you want to build a LEGO Mr. Destructoid? -- SiK99 
• Here's to you, Random-JRPG-Dialogue-Writer-Man -- Kauza 
• 'Immersion' is a nonsense buzzword -- megaStryke 
• A plea to the Squeaky Wheel, with Science! -- walkyourpath 
• Giygas: A Psychoanalysis of Evil Itself -- Scary Womanizing Pig Mask 
• Dtoid Discusses : UK Dtoiders Visit Capcom -- DanGale 
• 'Immersion', Videogame Worlds and You -- Y0j1mb0 
• The One True Gaming Masterpiece of My Generation -- walkyourpath 
• Enhanced Interrogation: Tales of an Omnipotent Public Servant, Part 5 -- walkyourpath 
• Thou seeketh soul power, dost thou not? Then touch the Demon inside me. -- y0j1mb0 
• Building the Brutal Legend Bus : The End (Photoblog) -- TheBigFeel 
• My Halloween costume for 2009 -- Sonic9jct
• Left 4 Bed 2: The raunchy sequel to Left 4 Bed -- TheYoungScot

Want to be promoted? Well then go to the Community Blogs page and write something up! If it's good, then it could possibly get promoted!