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A monkey’s past

When this blog started the focus was on Heymonkeybrain.com which is an offshoot Squidoo.com. What HMB does is gives users a very easy template to create arguments, and allows other users to add their own info to each page whether they agree or not.

This blog chronicled what I found to be the most interesting arguments, and it allowed me to expound my (worthless?) knowledge and opinions upon the masses, and hopefully generated some traffic for the arguments I featured. Now that I am moving my focus to the video game related Squidoo pages I’m not gonna nuke everything I wrote until now, if you are interested in finding something it is all listed under The Old Focus of Monkeys category.

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Yarrr Mort! I like your blog. I tried a blog once but never had enough stuff to say, even though I can rant non-stop to my wife and buddies. You have to keep me informed about AoC, since it sounds very interesting and I just built a PC this Spring. I’m tempted.

-Kat from IP

Comment by Kat | May 21, 2008 | Reply

What the heck: Version 2.5

After starting with Heymonkeybrain as my focus, the focus then shifted to Squidoo based lenses on Video games. This was a good time and I enjoyed my time working with the wonderful folks at Squidoo. But that partnership came to an end a few months back and this blog sorta floundered while I wondered what to do with it, while also working tons of overtime and going through some family heath scares. But I’m back.

I have two ideas floating around in my head currently that I hope to have sorted out and started by new year. First is that I definitely want to do something based on the PS3 trophy system, maybe making easy to use guides on how to get trophies in games. I obviously can’t and won’t play every game that has trophies, so maybe taking on another writer or two to fill in the gaps will be something that happens. There is no money to be made here, this is purely just out of a love of gaming and writing. It’s a decent resume filler though.

What I don’t know is whether I will make a whole new blog for that and keep this one as a more personal blog, which would be updated less frequently but would get back into matters of politics, entertainment, and just personal crap going on in my life… and then maybe buying a domain name (I’m thinking Trophywhores.com, if it isn’t taken) for the new site. Or I may just convert this into that. That remains unclear.

But change is coming, and by new year I hope to have launched on this new project.

I think we have reached a point where the Corporate Video game media is failing us, reviews are almost always garbage, previews are just free advertising and hype for companies trying to make a fast buck. It’s for this reason that I think blogs like this and tons of independently made voices are a must for the more discerning videogame fans. I hope to do my small part to fill that void.

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What the heck: Version 2.5

This is me in the past.

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