A new blog

 For whatever reason, I find it difficult to embark on a new project without writing about it. Something about the process of writing helps me process and codify the tasks I have and the steps I need to take. I also seem to be able to think through problems better when I process them with an 'inner monologue'. I used to do the same thing in university when I was taking exams. Talking to myself to solve the problems presented to me.

No matter the reason for it, I have decided to start a new blog for my Winter 2024 fantasy army building project. I used to have a blog that I used for exactly this type of thing but I deleted it a few months ago because, due to the extreme age of the blog, it had become a long list of incomplete projects or painted armies that I sold in the midst of an ADHD-driven fevered pursuit of 'something new'.

Hence the need for a new blog.

I have decided to host it on Blogger for two reasons. First, Wordpress has devolved over the last five (or so) years into a company that has focused their platform and writing tools to SEO-bloggers. The amount of UX and theme crap you need to wade through to make a simple blog is tiring. Wordpress is still a useful tool, and has some good features, but it long ago decided to chase a market that was more focused on SEO and promotion than writing.

The second, and perhaps primary, reason is that Wordpress blogs receive almost no comments or feedback. In order to post a comment on a Wordpress blog the site either has to be set to allow comments from anyone (a disaster) or comments from people with Wordpress accounts. So you either set yourself up to have to moderate 100s of spam comments or get comments from the small pool of hobbyist bloggers who also use Wordpress.

Blogger, owned by Google, has a much wider potential audience. The Blogger software is an utter load of steaming shit so you have to pay for that potential audience with a blogging tool that appears to have stopped being updated in 2004. Normally I would tell people to not worry about an audience but I found that I missed the comments posted by other hobbyists. People would have insights or helpful comments and it made the projects seem more fun. 

The blog will start off with some general posts about game systems and armies and then, hopefully, move into more detailed posts about painting and gaming. 

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