Plasterblog Overhaul 2019

I mostly started this blog to talk about freeware indie games. I still love the genre and play those games sometimes (I introduced a friend to Irisu Syndrome! the other week!), but when I started college, I began to feel more comfortable with spending money on frivolous things like PC games¹, so my tendency to download and gobble up obscure free titles by the bucketful has dwindled quite a bit.  The topic is also esoteric, which presents its own challenges — it’s hard to write about and always felt out of place on a blog that had my personal branding.

In trying to share less of my life and focus on what’s important to me, I’m aiming to wrap up such perpetual to-do list items s not letting my blog lapse into too much disrepair. Focusing on reviews I feel creates an expectation of consistent updates. It’s my hope that abandoning semi-regular² game reviews and re-purposing it as a collection bin-slash-diary will fix this problem. Therefore while my old game-related blog posts haven’t been deleted, they’re no longer online. I may make a separate blog for them someday³, styled like those inexplicably-Spanish freeware horror Blogspot review sites, where they will feel more at home and where I can invite friends to contribute.

In the meantime, the plasterblog will mostly be for personal garbage, including dreams I remember and feel like writing about⁴, as well as stuff you might actually like to read, such as my thoughts on writing music and other semi-professional artistic endeavors.

The other big change is that I’m trying out Patreon’s official WordPress integration. My list of freeware instruments and music-writing glossary are still freely available, but more specific music tutorial posts are now visible to Patreon subscribers only. Subscribe for $2 or more a month to access this tiny treasure trove, or pledge $5 a month or more to request which tutorial topics I cover next.

Changelog

• New theme and branding. It is Japan. Japan is the branding.
• No more reviews. I may dabble in media analysis and stuff on film but idk.
• Shitty dream posts for my own amusement.
• Some personal essays but they’re password locked.
• More music postmortems and tutorials which are sometimes Patreon exclusive.
• Squid Ink Cookie in the sidebar provides protection and comfort

1. I don’t know if swapping the freeware game scene for the bundle game one is an upgrade or a downgrade. Probably the latter, but look how many keys I have!
2. (Humor me here.)
3. Honestly, I have to talk about Grappi somewhere. What was that game?
4. I have evolved from writing about Yume Nikki to being a yume nikki.