As the readers of this blog know, it’s multi-topical. In other words, it contains content about all the things in which I am interested in. Primarily I have discussed computer and video gaming, but I have also discussed roleplaying games, electronics, books, movies, politics, science, and education. Enigmatic diversions is, therefore, an online diary or a “web log” in the most traditional sense of the “blog.” You can find lots of different topics here, and that will continue to be the case.
The big advantage to a multi-topic blog is that one can post just about anything to it, and the content “fits.” However, the disadvantage is that if one wants to follow a particular thread or theme — if one wants to concentrate on something — that theme can become lost in the “clutter” of the other topics over time. Certainly, clever use of categories and tags can ease this difficulty, but there is something to be said for a more narrowly focused blog that concentrates on one topic.
I had an extra blog here briefly (for several months) when I was working on my Sims 3 Legacy, until two things conspired to cause me to retire it. First, as the legacy grew and the content on the lot developed, my computer could not keep up and performance suffered. There’s not much I can think of in the world of recreation that is less enjoyable than watching your computer game turn into a slide show, so this was a turn off. Second, the Sims 3 screenshot system required too much overhead. In Sims 2, I could write, edit, and deal with screen shots and make stories up in-game. In Sims 3, you had to do all that by hand using a web interface outside of the game. That’s why I made a blog instead of using the Sims 3 site in the first place, and it both annoyed me and caused me to fall way, way behind on my story. In the end, I gave up.
Since then, I’ve continued to just maintain this one blog, and because it’s mostly been a place for me to rant about MMORPGs, but I don’t play them much anymore, I haven’t written here as much. In the mean time, I have gotten back into the hobby of model railroading for the first time in almost 25 years (yes, I’m that old), and because two of my other main hobbies are photography and blogging, I thought I could combine the three into a new blog, which I call 1:160.
I will continue to post to this blog on all topics other than model railroading, but the new blog gets all the model railroading links. I realize most of you aren’t interested in railroads or model trains, and that’s fine… but I’ve always had an interest in it, which has been dormant for decades, and now my nephew and brother-in-law have rekindled it. I went and bought myself a nice N-scale train set this past weekend, and slowly over time I will be getting myself more of everything — more cars, another engine or two, more rail, more (or any, at this point) scenery, and the like. I’ll be posting over there as well, so if things seem slow here, you are welcome to check 1:160 and see if I have been more active there instead.
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