Response and Commentary: Pick me!
Besides completing the professed function of this post, I’d like to discuss a few things here that I’ve noticed about the video game blog circle. First of all it’s a circle. Well, more of a ball of yarn, but if you have a really big ball of very fine yarn and you observe a cross-section of the ball then it will appear to look very much like a circle. The name isn’t so important though, what I actually mean to observe is that they really like to link to each other and chat it up in the comment sections.
How do we get in on this action? We’ve got street cred. We were Chalktoid. Does one of us have to marry one of your daughters or something? Is there some initiation ritual? Will there be hazing? I’m not sure if I’m comfortable getting paddled in front of the other bloggers.
Or (and this brings me to my next point) do I link to all of your blogs so that you notice ours in the list of sites that link to you then, when you arrive, have quality content of our own worth discussing? Diabolical!
My second observation is that bloggers rarely post wordy responses to the other articles to which they are linking. I guess that’s what the comment section is for, but I dunno, I like the whole hegemonic “I have a URL, hear me roar” approach to discussion. It reminds me of academic discourse. I call the comments “peer review.” I also call my townhouse “Oxford” and wear tweed jackets as I sit around.
Wandering musings aside, I have a few pieces to discuss at great length. Sharp observers will note that all but one of these articles was linked by Level Up within the past two days. This is what prompted my “ball of yarn” diatribe, you see, because I actually found them independently while snaking around the community. It’s a small ball after all.
