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New layout, new start.

Stephen Belanger — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 22:37:22 +0000

The old layout was getting old and falling apart–the site wasn’t even working properly, so I’m trying out something new and will be reapplying the plugins to get the functionality back to what it was (minus the glitches >.>) over the next few days. Hopefully I can get the site running reasonable stable, then I can get back to delivering the usual quality content.

If I don’t actually stay this time you have official permission to hurt me.

Stephen Belanger — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 05:28:56 +0000

I’ve been really busy with work so I haven’t had any time to post anything…is what I really wish I could say right now, but that would be a lie. I was just being really lazy for a while there. I always seem to get really lethargic like this over the winter months. I’d just like you to know that despite my month long absences from posting I have in fact still been working on the site and have some really big changes coming. I’m going to push myself to try and update somewhatÂ regularlyÂ again because I have so much cool stuff to talk about. I’ve also decided to begin broadening the scope of the site a little more beyond just the Otaku sub-culture–Otakus aren’t the onlyÂ kind of Nerd, after all.Also; look forward to my review of NANA and NANA2 that I’ll have up in the next few days. Yes, I did in fact actuallyÂ watch the NANA movies. Â I’ll also have a review of theÂ enormouslyÂ shiny Cowon A3 I picked up a short while ago.

Introducing the spiffy new Nerd Culture Forums!

Stephen Belanger — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 23:43:51 +0000

I’ve been debating whether or not I should add a forum to the site for a while now, as they can become rather spam ridden. I decided though, that I would just make it anyways and do a sort of trial run. If I feel it’s getting out of hand I’ll just delete it altogether, so please don’t abuse this privilege. Hopefully this will encourage more people to register as, even with daily views sometimes exceeding several hundred views, there is only 11 registered users. >.>

November Stats – Month #3

Stephen Belanger — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 09:13:29 +0000

It’s Month #3 already! I’ve really got to get more posts happening! I apologize for the relative inactivity lately, I have been very busy, but I promise you I have lots of things to blog about in the coming weeks. I have been finding it somewhat difficult to find things to talk about that I deem truly worthy of actually being blogged about. I like quality over quantity, but I’m wondering what sort of middle ground there is on it. I don’t want to be posting once or twice a month, but I also don’t want to be posting about things that are already fairly known or things that aren’t really that interesting. I think a poll is in order! Anyway, this month was better than last month, but not by much. I have noticed that the visits have stabilized somewhat compared to previous months that were all over the chart. That peak at the end is from my recent post about Revenant Wings, which is rapidly catching up with the all time top posts despite being so recent. It was on the front page of Reddit’s gaming section for an entire day!

Top 5 Posts:

How To: Make Crysis even more freaking amazing!
Revenant Wings – Portable roleplaying done right!
Dark_AleX is back with a custom 3.71 FW!
Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep – A glimpse into the futu…err…past.
Moetan is lolitastic.

Top 5 Referers:

Reddit
Danny Choo
Digg
TotalFark – Your guess on why I got referrals from that is as good as mine. :S
Otaku.fm

Those three traffic spikes, in chronological order are; the back end of the traffic my Crysis post got me, the Dragonaut post and the Revenant Wings post. It looks as if you readers like video games and adventure stuff so I’ll see what neat things I can come up with to blog about this month. Trust me, I’ve already got some neat stuff coming and I’ll do what I can to find more awesome stuff for you readers to discover here. I’m always trying to shorten the gap between my readers and the hidden gems they would appreciate as much as I do. I’ll have some big things to talk about in the coming months, but for now, check out the new post on Sin & Punishment, that game is crack in video game form. It’s so much fun.

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October Stats – Month #2

Stephen Belanger — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 00:38:59 +0000

Sorry for the late stats, I was busy working on other things and forgot to post it. Month #2, despite being somewhat problematic with all the WordPress glitches I had to iron out, was 3 vists shy of 2,800 and had over 5,000 pageviews!

Haikus are easy.

Stephen Belanger — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 02:13:25 +0000

Translation:

Haikus are easy
But sometimes they donâ€™t make sense
Refrigerator

Seleria over at Scrumptious wrote a post about a hilarious shirt on Threadless that I really wish there was a Japanese version of–pic very related.

What kind of Nerd Culture related things would you like to see on a T-Shirt?