What's this even all about?

Hey peeps and welcome to the blog.

You're probably asking yourself, what's this blog about? Why the hell am I reading this blog? How did I even find it?





To answer that third one, I don't know but thanks for the click and maybe reading the content.

To answer the second one, I don't know but thanks for reading it.

The first question, though? That requires a little more explanation.

Growing up, I honestly missed watching a lot of pop cultural touchstones. Movies weren't a big emphasis in my house, unless they were Disney. I watched other movies, but I honestly don't remember them like I remember the Disney movies. The problem was that I was never guided to a world outside of the Disney movies, mostly when I started to transition out of them. To transition from the kids section of Blockbuster to the rest of the store was a daunting task for me. I didn't know what I liked. I didn't know how to pick a movie. Of course, that's normal for a child, but I'm a person who shuts down from too many choices. (This comes into play with this blog).

Once I became a teenager, going to Blockbuster wasn't a thing. To go to the movies was a rarity, and I honestly never dared to ask to go, even by myself. It never stopped me from absorbing the information about these movies. I know so many plot points about movies I've never seen, but I do want to see them at some point in my life. Just to make it a little more authentic.

For me, television was my media choice. It was much more readily accessible to me and introduced me to the online world. Granted, in hindsight, that online world did not help me much and probably actively hindered me. When streaming started to become a viable option, it seemed like a whole world opened up to me. And it did, for a while. Then, like the overwhelmingness of Blockbuster, my mind shut down when trying to find something to watch. There were other factors in play as to why my mind functioned like that, and honestly still does, but it set me back in a time when television started flourishing.

Video games and I have an interesting relationship. I've always grown up around games. We had a SNES where I just played the first world in Super Mario World dozens of times. (I was little and the game was already beaten). There was the countless Gameboys and an Nintendo 64 (I had the awesome green one that came with Donkey Kong 64). From there, it moved to a PS2. After that came the Wii. Once I became immersed in the world of let's plays, I got a XBOX 360 (note that XBOX 1 had been out for a few years even). A few years later, I switched gears and received a PS4. I still own those latter two consoles, though the Wii might also be kicking around in my closet somewhere. Basically, game systems have always been a part of my life.

Here's the confession time: I very rarely ever finish a game. I'm not what you would call an intuitive gamer. It's not that my reaction time is bad or that I can't understand how to do commands. I just can't do them efficiently. Right now, the only games I have ever completed across all of those platforms listed above are a bunch of the Lego games and the two Injustice games. That's it. I've started so many games for me to reach a breaking point in not being able to finish. It honestly sucks because I do want to experience more games. The storytelling is amazing and the gameplay is great, if I were actually good at gaming. I'm unfortunately not and I get so frustrated when I get stuck that I just give up. It's a bad character flaw of mine and I try and blame it on the fact that I don't have people to help me work through my frustration, but I shouldn't need that.

So, back to the point: this blog. For a long time, at least since college, I've been interested in writing about media. It was because I read a book called "The Revolution was Televised" by Alan Sepinwall. Reading that made it clear that I could actually turn something I liked into a job. That honestly destroyed me. The more I read recaps, the more I realized that I didn't write like that. That I didn't write about television like it was a thesis paper. I can analyze, but I'm honestly not great at it.  There didn't seem to room for someone who couldn't coherently string together a thought or watch media in a relevant time frame.

This is where I take back those thoughts. The thoughts where I think I'm not good enough to write about various media I watch. Not the thoughts about being bad at video games. There's enough evidence for that, as you'll read. No, my voice isn't unique and my writing is most likely on par with a middle schooler. No, this may never make me money or get me even close to what that original dream was. No, I don't stand out or even have completely original opinions. But I'm tired of not trying.

After those long winded paragraphs that you basically skimmed over, here's what the blog is about. It's about me experiencing movies, television, and video games. Maybe for the first time. Maybe I've experienced them before. They might be brand new to the scene (don't get your hopes up). More than likely, it's years old media that's faded from most of pop culture's collective existence. Hence, the new-ish in the title. For someone, no matter how old the media is, it's their first time experiencing it. So, it may be that I'm watching a show that's five years old, or playing a game that's eight years old, or watching a movie that's nineteen years old. It's new to me, for the most part. And if it's not new to me, it's new to someone. I know this goes against every algorithm that's set up, that to make money and be relevant, you need to talk about current media. But that's not how I live my life. I constantly live just shouting into a void of not being noticed. Why not try and make it constructive?