The New School Geek Cynic(TNSGC) is a fairly clean looking weblog with a banner at the top that looks kind of sucky. “Sucky” is a technical word that us professional reviewers use that means the thing we’re looking at is not very good. A common example of usage might be “That Nebyah writes some pretty sucky reviews.”
Anyway, the author, NSG, has what he describes as a personal weblog, and before you all decide to just switch over to another channel let me interject here and say that there are very few posts of the “I think Cadburys chocolates are great” variety. There is absolutely no mention of relationship difficulties, or pet cats or any of that mindblowingly tedious stuff.
Rather what you’re going to find here is game reviews, movie reviews, TV show reviews, and some rants, mixed in with the occasional diversion into website design issues he may be having, or the merits of Cadbury chocolates. (And by the way NSG I am totally with you on the subject of mindless blogs.)
I cannot comment on the accuracy of his reviews, since I have not seen any of the movies or shows he mentions, or played any of the games. However the reviews seem to be well thought-out, and the writing is good enough, and entertaining.
The design is pretty standard Blogger fare, which is fine by me. As long as it doesn’t interfere with the content I really couldn’t give a toss about design. And anyway who the hell do these airy-fairy arty types thing they are, dammit. The web is for text, and all of this awful graphics stuff is just a massive bandwidth wasting con designed to hide the fact that most sites have no content whatsoever.
Ok, so here’s the thing. As a personal blog it is not very personal. As a movie review weblog it has far too many game reviews, and vice versa. So who should read it? If you want to read reviews of movies and TV and games… but then why not just go to IMDB for movies, and one of a million specialist game sites for game reviews?
I’m inclined to think that NSG needs to pick a topic, but what the hell do I know.NULL