Seeing This Post Appear When Advertised...It Fills You With Determination!

"Hey, have you played Undertale?"

A regular at HumanKind Network's Game Day had asked me this as we were setting up some months ago.

Coming Next Week

Next week will have more posts than the last few months combined, likely followed by another dry period!

1. A rundown of Halloween Hijinks!

2. My latest Star Wars article (available now on Jedi News if you want a sneaky peek)!

3. My reactions to the trailers for Warcraft: The Beginning and WoW: Legion!

4. A sad, depressing tale of my personal life detailing why I've been away so long!

5. Reviews of what I've been doing to De-stress from the above instead of writing here!

I hope at least most of you will find most of it worth the wait. Expect the first post on Sunday, and I will ATTEMPT to make sure there's one per day through Saturday.

An Open Comment to Mainstream Media and Mainstream Geekdom

To whom it may concern,

You don't have to like every aspect of a franchise to be a fan of it.

However, if you purposefully refuse to show your Star-Wars-loving children Episodes I-III or even acknowledge their existence until your children are "old enough to properly hate it", then you are not a Star Wars fan.

You're just an asshole.

Sincerely,
A Star Wars fan.

Sneak Peek

Coming October 31st, 2015...

Why I Almost Left the Star Wars Fandom – And Why I Came Back

(Originally Written for Jedi News)

Hey, remember me?

No, I Wasn't Lying

Yes, I am still back. Yes, I've written more. However, life keeps being life-y and Jedi News is still sitting on my latest article (they've also changed web hosts apparently...)

I am aware of some upkeep issues on this blog which will be addressed soon. In the meantime, within the next month or two, keep an eye out for the aforementioned article (which I will probably post this weekend whether JN does it or not), What the hell's been keeping me from writing here, and what I've been doing to keep mellow through all this stress.

On the Road Again...

I stood at a crossroads recently.

Metaphorically, or course. I didn't actually walk to a four-way intersection.

The roads were all a tangled mess. Work and family. Creation and Contribution. Fun and Input.

And I evaluated. I evaluated my time. I evaluated my energy. I evaluated my resources.

I evaluated my opportunities.

With the added stress at work, and the added stress at home, and the added stress of actually caring about anything these days, I came the closest I've ever come to giving up this ghost.

Wow, that sounds worse than I meant. Naturally, I am still 100% invested in love and life and my job.

It's the little extra things that were teetering.

But no longer.

I'm back.

Maybe not in the same capacity as before. Things might still go a while between updates. But...

But I like having this blog to voice my opinions.

But I have a responsibility to keep writing for Jedi News, that I keep a positive voice in the Star Wars fandom no matter how much I want to just not even bother sometimes - because if I give up, then the haters win.

But I want to keep that built-in audience, however small, to start doing some new things - perhaps podcasting, perhaps YouTube, perhaps I'll even start working on my abandoned novel again.

Of course, all of this will take time, energy, and resources that I may not have right away. But the difference is that I think I'm going to start really banging out the logistics and actually go for something.

And I hope you'll all continue to take that journey with me.