we're finally notdotq anymore

Back in April, with a little help from Dr. Japes, I discovered Forumwarz. I completed Episode 1—the first part of the story—within a month or so, and then I began tapping my fingers. The tapping has ended. Episode 2 is here. I have not bought it yet—that is outside the scope of my current powers—but I intend to, and I have gone through the interlude cinematics.

And the Phoenix Wright knock-off minigame.

Didn’t something like this happen in the aniblogosphere recently?

internet games are scary—they hit so close to the mark sometimes

If you like things nice and Rule14′d, or if you like hacking and internet drama, or if you like cybering with old men who get turned on by phonographs, or if you like Phoenix Wright, then I suggest that thou getst thee to a Paypallery.

Seriously, it’s great fun.

And finally, to the shits who are thinking, “what? MONEY?! Where’s the free demo?”, you can still play Forumwarz Episode 1 for free. The Crotch Zombie fellows are good people, and their business model is more than fair.

So, the results of the People’s Choice Anime Blog Awards are out. As expected, Jason Miao (great king of ignoring the fact that there’s an aniblogosphere) took the award for funniest blog. As expected, Hinano (great queen of having accessible posts) took the award for best satire. I’ma quote a comment posted by Lametastic a couple weeks ago:

There will come a day when only animebloggers will read animeblogs beacuse the MASSIVE FAGGOTRY and DRAMA will drive people away. Have you noticed how most of the comments in animeblogs are done by other bloggers.

A long time ago, I had a lot of non-blogger readers. Then they all started blogs. Now I have a bunch of bloggers who read my site. That’s called aniblogospherical expansion. My posts cater to the people who’ve been reading the site for a long time. They cater to the people whose blogs I’ve been reading for a long time. They generally serve to strengthen the bonds between myself and others in the community. I stopped roping people in a long time ago.

As such, my posts don’t appeal to a wider audience. For the most part, they’re impossible to understand if you have don’t have the context, and the context is rarely anime but often anime blogging. So in total I have fewer readers than Hinano.

But.

I like my readers. You guys—bloggers, mainly—are awesome people to be able to withstand my usual trolling faggerism. And if there’s ever a judgment day that leaves only anime bloggers behind, I know that I’ll find myself surrounded by friends.

Now you guys could stop fucking sucking and go tell all your friends to read this blog; I need more readership so that I can win People’s Choice next year, damn it!