Guess who's back? Sigh... I know. You must all hate me. For the second time in under a year, I have officially ended this blog and then come back to it several months (or, in this case, mere weeks) later to simply say 'hey guys, what's happening, it's me and I'm making posts again'. Keep in mind that as I write this it's around 10pm (on a school night, no less, and I should really be in bed) and this is just one of those stupid, spontaneous, mind-bogglingly crazy ideas that genuinely just sprang into my head. I was kind of inspired by myself (as egocentric as that sounds).
Recently, due to the release of Phoenix Wright: Spirit of Justice, I have been getting back into the Ace Attorney series after not playing any of the games for nearly a year. In fact, I remember talking about playing Professor Layton VS Phoenix Wright on this blog around a year ago, a little bit after my hundredth post. I was feeling really nostalgic for last Summer when I played all of the games for the first time (apart from Dai Gyakuten Saiban, which is only in Japan and by the way has just had a sequel announced) and as with LvW I wrote on here about a lot of my experiences with the series. In fact, the third post I ever made was right when I started the first game, which feels like an eternity ago and I barely remember the incredible way I felt as I first started this objection-filled adventure. As I said, I was feeling nostalgic so was reading on here around posts #90-#100 when I was talking about my top ten favourite cases in the series. And I just felt inspired. As seen in my posts before I ended this recently I'd been feeling pretty unmotivated and lazy in life sadly but looking at some of the things I wrote a year ago really reminded me of the interesting, descriptive paragraphs I may still be capable of writing if I can only rediscover that lost passion.
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| How I have missed the feeling of a cold whip to the neck. |
This probably sounds stupid to many people but one main reason I ended this in August was because I said I wanted to focus on my YouTube channel and it's extremely draining and stuff to do both a dedicated blog and channel. I still stick by those words and now realise that perhaps YouTube isn't my speciality and although I may occasionally upload videos I probably won't be doing Let's Plays (apart from maybe a short game or two once in a while). I did actually pause my Mario 64 LP halfway through and I do want to finish that at sometime in the future, but I won't push myself or it'll end up forced and crappy. So what I'm saying is, after possibly making the wrong choice in which of the two I want to really dedicate myself to... I am now correcting myself, and choosing this blog. I mean, I've written over 200 posts which is probably one of the most productive things I've ever done honestly (some are pretty damn big too) and the blog just hit 11,000 pageviews... that may be nothing to some people but it means a lot to me. So yes, I'm not deleting my YouTube channel or any of the videos on it or anything... but well, I'll just see what happens with that in the future.
As with post #151, I'm planning to make a post not long after this detailing some of the things I've been interested in during the past two months or so that I neglected to mention even before I stopped posting last month. However, I believe that the only way this will properly work is if I feel no pressure to post frequently and stuff so from now if I don't post for an extremely long period of time it just means I'm having a bit of writer's block or really don't have time (I am in my last year of high school now in the UK so, y'know, exams suck n'all that).
If anything, maybe this will get me to try and write more in English class. Besides... 212 posts is an ugly, random number to just suddenly end a blog at... right?
Thomas (I need to sleep now.)
