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Separating the blog from the blogger

Posted on March 18, 2012 | Leave a comment

As you probably already know, I’ve been messing around with Twitter for almost four years now. While I like to post my blog updates through my main account, “social networking wisdom” suggests that I set up a separate Twitter page for Player 1′s Diary in order to build “brand recognition” and hopefully boost traffic, just as I’ve tried to do by adding Facebook and Google+ pages. It took long enough, but Facebook actually let me shorten my URL to use as part of their page – it’s a lot easier to remember than the gobbledygook numbers I have to deal with when copying and pasting Google+ URLs. Twitter’s easy like that, too – just post http://twitter.com/(yourusername) and you’re good to go.

I tried the separate main Twitter/blog Twitter thing with RMNFB a year or so ago, but couldn’t figure out how to keep the two accounts separate until I learned how to use Tweetdeck (I used to send most of my tweets through the Twitter website, and it’s not exactly easy to switch from my main account to my sub without mixing up my passwords), and eventually abandoned the sub because I’d still been tweeting about my blog articles under my main account anyway. Now that I’m a lot more social media savvy, I’m pretty confident that I won’t make the same mistakes again.

You can read all of my P1D updates over at @player1diary, and the Facebook or Google+ pages are still open to anyone who wants to follow.

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Random non-Neptunia updates

Posted on December 12, 2011 | Leave a comment

I spent the last week or so waiting for an update from DCCC to determine how many of my credits could be transferred from my college degree to be applied to my attempt at scoring a professional certificate in web development. It turns out my English Comp I and Calculus I credits transferred over, but I won’t need to take those. Instead, I’ll use the credits I got from taking Intro to Computer Science and skip those and take Web Page Development as one of my first courses (the other being Networking, where I’d have to understand and explain TCP/IP and other such concepts). I haven’t used Dreamweaver since I first started to learn HTML, but I suppose there’s no time like now to start learning it again, even though I prefer using notepads to code.

I also bought an Android-based tablet computer from CVS last week (the Sylvania one, not the Craig one) as part of my first steps into tablet computing. It’s decent if you’re looking for something simple to carry around with you, but I have some complaints about this device:

  • Short battery life (only three hours, and the battery indicator doesn’t seem to work properly)
  • Can’t access the Android App Store, as it’s only licensed to work with certain Droid tablets and cell phones. Your best bet is to go to the Amazon App Store, as their selection is way better than the built-in SlideMe App Market.
  • The USB ports don’t seem to work properly. I tried connecting it to my computer, but it wouldn’t recognize my device. I sent a tech support inquiry to Digital Gadgets (the manufacturer); hopefully they’ll have a solution for my problem.

I won’t be doing the “Gift of Game” feature this year, or any sort of “Top X Games of the Year” list. I have played a lot of games, but haven’t given all of them enough attention to make decent write-ups. Maybe next year once I get myself a Nintendo 3DS or a PlayStation Vita, I may consider bringing the feature back.

And last but not least, if you haven’t played Sonic Generations by now, you should. It’s quite a good game, and not bogged down with most of the problems that many of the other post-Genesis Sonic titles had. I just finished it a few days ago, and now I’m ready to go back through the old levels to try to get the rest of the Red Star Rings. I think I may actually have a chance to get a Platinum trophy on this one, if I can sink enough time into it.

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Revisionist history

Posted on September 15, 2011 | Leave a comment

If this blog were still under the Red Mage Needs Food Badly domain, today would have been its fourth anniversary.

…at least, as far as having the blog on my own domain is concerned.

I’d totally forgotten about the few short months in 2006 when I had RMNFB on Blogger, and I’ll forgive anyone else for not remembering, because nobody read it back then, either…at least until Facebook opened up its site to the masses and I could do a better job at self-promotion.

And now that I think about it, that wasn’t even the original name of my first blog after departing from my Sky Tower Games website. Here’s a look (through the Wayback Machine) at double//slash, the blog I started when I had taken my leave from the RPG Maker community, but still had connections to most of my old STG fans (a link to the forums is surprisingly still active, but frozen in time).

Dating back to the grand-opening of double//slash on August 4, 2004, I’ve been “solo” as a web designer/blogger for a little more than 7 years. Interesting…

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Player 1, start!

Posted on July 29, 2011 | 4 Comments

Greetings! To those of you who’ve been following me since I started up Red Mage Needs Food Badly (the old title of this blog), welcome! To any of my readers who’ve been around longer than that and knew me when I still went by the pseudonym SiliconHero, you’re damn dedicated, and I salute you. Oh, well…enough of the boring history lesson. Welcome to “Player 1′s Diary”, the new name for my old personal blog, and one that will hopefully be completely devoid of the drama, gimmicks and failed experiments that weighed down RMNFB toward its end. Feel free to comment on my entries here, or catch up with me on Twitter (@willyfoureyes).

UPDATE (7/31/2011): You can also join the P1D Facebook group and chat with fans there, if you’re feeling so inclined.

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