Hey there, y’all! I’m going to kick this blog off with a little bit of info about me. My name’s Miranda and I’m what you’d call a ‘casual gamer.’ I play all kinds of things, but what I play and how I play is based purely on personal enjoyment. I’m not a competitive person, by any means, and I’m just as likely to play a Hidden Object game as I am to play an MMO. My very first computer games came as part of a package on my parents’ Tandy 1000. I was no older than 3 or 4 and I LOVED the drawing program, which was a bit like a digital Etch-a-Sketch, but you could change the color you were using as you went.
We were never without a computer in my house from that point onward, and it wasn’t long before my parents started buying actual games to play. I quickly became a fan of Sierra Online, and cut my ‘baby gamer’ teeth on classics such as Winnie the Pooh in the Hundred Acre Wood, The Black Cauldron, and Donald Duck’s Playground. ;) When I got old enough to read/comprehend, I also enjoyed a handful of text-based games, my favorite probably being The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, though I vaguely recall playing the first Zork game and another fantasy game that my mom checked out from the library, but I could never beat before we had to return it. >.< LOL!
Anyway, this is all to say, that I’ve been enjoying various kinds of games for my whole life. I play a game for one of two reasons (usually) - story and/or art style. My tastes haven’t changed over the years, but I feel that they’ve broadened. This new blog is a way for me to share some of the things I experience in the games I play. Maybe it’s a cool landscape, or a favorite scene, or an awesome creation that some other user has set up for the enjoyment of others - whatever it is, it’s something that I think is worth sharing.
All of that said, I don’t expect this blog to get a lot of traction. I kind of view it as more of a personal photo album of gaming memories. If you happen across something you see and like, please feel free to reblog it. ^_^ I would ask, however, that you keep any negative opinions to yourself. If you don’t like the game, or the company or any of the people involved with the making of said games, or whatever else - don’t voice your negativity here. That isn’t what this blog is about for me, and I’m not above blocking people in order to keep my blog free of those kinds of attitudes.
Right then, now that that’s all said and done - I’m going to start this blog off by reblogging a bunch of screencaps and gifs I originally made and posted on my personal blog and from my gif blog. From there I’ll start adding new things. I’ll do my best to keep things tagged well for searching purposes, but if you think a different or new tag is needed, just ask and I’ll see what I can do. I’m also happy to chat about games via the Ask and Submit features, so feel free to ask questions - but again, please avoid negativity. It’s okay, if you didn’t like a game (all of our tastes are different, after all) and you can say as much and ask me why I DID like something, but please don’t trash talk anything. ‘I didn’t like that game because the graphics were outdated and the story was weak’ is very different from ‘THAT GAME SUCKED BALLZ!’ ;)
So, there we are, then. Enjoy the blog and happy gaming!
