The last couple years I’ve applied a year-long theme to help me choose media to consume. Last year I chose from a different 5-year span every month starting with my birth year. This coming year I thought I’d make it decades and start at 1900.
January will be 1900-1909, February 1910-1919, etc. up to next December with 2010-2019. It’ll be a challenge to find video games that are set in periods before they existed or that use an art style from another time (like Bioshock Infinite is set in 1915), but that’s sort of the fun of it.
Of course, I’m not ignoring current releases (I’ll be playing Crackdown 3 day-one through Game Pass in February), but I'm going to be very selective and probably very late in playing them because I have to wait for sales.
I’m not stopping at video games either. I’ve already got a long book, film, and music list for 1900-09 that I want to tackle.
I’m also thinking of more expansive blogging ideas. I’m thinking of planning out a web site on paper. I’d like it to include everything I'm into. I want to do a lot of images and text. It’s, of course, time consuming, and I have precious little of that lately what with school, partial work, and looking for full time work. I don’t want to make too many plans I can’t finish. But, I’m crazy like that and will put a lot of thinking into it anyway. Whether it gets done or not is another question. I’m not pressuring myself right now. When I’m more settled in life, I’ll pressure myself.
Well, that’s my plan, a decade a month for twelve months. It’s like time traveling. Maybe there’s a book in it.
I used to use Squarespace for my website, but I’m in the process of switching to Wordpress, which I understand is much better. I have had it for a while but I have some new ideas and wanted a fresh start. I’ll let you know what I think of it.
I have a wordpress page, but I haven't done anything with it yet. I need to figure it out on paper first. I don't know where to start.
Just start simple with a couple things. Then add to it piece by piece. That will be easier.
You should move to Canada while you're at it. I hear they make good lists.
You did an awesome job this year! Im excited to see what you write next year, especially to the book suggestions. Im always welcome to add more to my to-read pile.
Happy New Year!
Thanks! I'd like to blog more about the reading. I usually just do video game related books, but I read so much other stuff. I'd like to write something about them.
I say go for it! This place is for more than just video games!
That sounds like an even crazier theme scheme! But I bet you'll have a lot of fun with it.
I just started my first book. 1900: Art at the Crossroads.
I have an idea for what you can do for the 1900's decade! I'm really interested in very old turn-of-the-century newspaper comic strips, and one of my favorites is Little Nemo in Slumberland by Winsor McKay. McKay was really cool and pioneered animation before Disney was in diapers! Best of all, there is a Little Nemo video game, too! It's called Little Nemo: The Dream Master, and it was made by Capcom and is on the NES. It's really good, too!
Oh cool. I needed a comic in my list. I think I saw the collection of the orginal strip in my library too. . . nope. Not there, darn it. I'll maybe hunt it down. I did find a McKay collection of his films in the 1910s though. Yippe! Thanks.
I have a couple of Nemo collections I got at Half Price Books a long time ago.
Ooo. I have one of those stores near me. I'll have to check it out. Seems they're kind of expensive on Amazon.
This sounds like a busy year. I think the website is a good idea, and you can slowly build it up, maybe break it down to a new section goal for each month.
I do like that you are keeping with the style for the era that you're picking for the month. It becomes a game in itself.
It's been busy for me since summer of 2017 when I started school and struggled to get something part time I didn't hate. I'm kind of sick of it now. I want a regular schedule again.