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Social Media Exodus and Personal Musings

I’ve not abandoned this site, and I do have some gaming-related posts slated for the near future. When I updated the design of the site earlier this year it was partially to update the code back-end as I had been using a homemade engine that was multiple years old and that I was well-behind on updating to the latest versions of PHP. My other thought with the redesign was to get back to personal blogging.

In the very late 90’s I launched an In Nomine fan site. Following the launch of sites like LiveJournal and Blogger in 1999, I added a personal weblog to my site. Separate from tabletop gaming, I became involved in a small community. We’d each post about our own world, but would sometimes reference each other. I made friends and even met fellow bloggers face-to-face.

Over the years, I took my personal musings to various website domains as I changed my primary focus or, sometimes, hosting platforms.

With the rise of social media sites like Facebook and Twitter, my own writing became displaced to multiple platforms, each having their own focus. At the time, my own website was focused on making webcomics (which I will transfer back to the site someday soon) and not tabletop gaming. So, in 2017, when I re-launched my site as a tabletop gaming site, I had multiple options to place personal momentos.

Over the past four years I’ve slowly retreated from various social media. The larger services I have found as toxic, a time sink, or a dangerous combination of both. Smaller, independent, services often lacked the focus they promised. For some reason, Twitter was the longest hold-out, but I have decided to finally shed myself of that service as well.

I want to get back to writing for me. What I want, when I want. While that will include personal postings, I’m also expanding my site topics to include more board gaming, computer games, and other geekery like comics and movies. While I experienced an overall burnout before the pandemic, this past year plus has certainly taken its toll on my enthusiasm in general. But I like writing. There’s a certain release I find in the act of finding what I feel is the right word in the moment… even if that “in the moment” sometimes means I re-read my own works later with a more editorial eye and sigh.

In addition to increasing my scope of writing I’m still working on re-adding older features back to this site, figuring out how they fit. My page of commissioned art and the various comics I’ve written will eventually return. The only thing that won’t be returning are my curated Spotify lists. The account I used to create them was linked to my dead Facebook account and I have since left both services.

More rambling posts to come in the future! Stay up to date using the latest in RSS technology, here https://www.attercap.netfeed/ !