koopaul
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Post by koopaul on Oct 8, 2011 22:28:23 GMT -5
C'mon guys lets get active and do something awesome with our fandom hm?
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Post by Koopalmier on Oct 9, 2011 3:12:06 GMT -5
*starts building a giant fortress of evil and world domination*
Erectin' a-
oh, wait, that's maybe a bit too much.
*throws it away*
That's why I was thinking about a Mario blog all of us would participate to. It could even fuse with Mario Smorgasbord at some point, if we're lucky enough.
And, Beta, I'm sorry, but it WAS not noticeable. At least it was an extremely minor thing. Sure, the "i'm a mario nerd with no life" thing was brought up once in a while, but did anyone care... ?
Also, yes, personal life has an effect when making a blog. That's EXACTLY why Arte shouldn't have hidden he's in a relationship for the sake of a "reputation" nobody even noticed. It'd have gotten rid of the "i'm a mario nerd with no life" thing but that wouldn't have made Artemendo into an entirely different person, or something, and it'd have given a much less dramatc reason to stop updating, instead of "i'll quit the mario fandom forever for some reason". Heck, maybe Waluigious would still exist right now.
And I personally think your blog will have success. It just needs time.
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Post by cheat-master30 on Oct 9, 2011 7:51:09 GMT -5
It doesn't have any effect for me. Maybe I was somewhat harsh, who knows? But if people bring up their personal life in a blog that's not about their life, I unsubscribe. Easy as that. It's why I do not follow most 'popular' blogs, it ends up being more about the person than the topic. If a site's about gaming, I have no interest in their personal life/social/political/religious/philosophical views that do not directly tie in to gaming. If Artemendo had either just said in some random irrelevant place that he had a girlfriend or not, fine. But it's not a reason to shut a site down for. I honestly do not care And so what about your time? If I don't have time to post on my own sites one day, I just don't post that day. I don't shut the whole site due to life circumstances. Who cares? Money wins. I love the sad attempts at ethics practiced by people on the internet, all their whining about others taking their ideas or work. Not trademarked, doesn't care much. Okay, maybe this was harsh, but truth be told, it's how the real world works. People judge websites based on first appearances. Do you know how long your average user stays at a web page? www.useit.com/alertbox/page-abandonment-time.htmlLess than a minute. Maybe even less than TWENTY SECONDS. I judged it far longer than that, it's just at this time I have no interest in the content. Maybe I'd read it more if longer articles get posted. It does have a great design though. Mariology the topic gets maybe three posts a day at maximum and has last been updated in August. That's not quite active enough for my liking. Then again, nor is the Mushroom Kingdom as a website this day and age. Remember I'm used to forums with activity. As for the activity here, while I do check a few times a week or month, it's kind of depressing to see a forum with less than 200 members in more than five years running. Hardly active. |
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Post by Sarisa on Oct 12, 2011 13:42:16 GMT -5
What I can make out from my nosebleed seat to the show:
1. Artemendo decided that his relationship with his girlfriend was more important than his relationship with his online readership. Good call. He then decided to end his relationship with his readership in the manner patented by teenagers desperate for attention; quitting the fandom forever, without explanation. Very bad call.
2. Said online readership (including me) was left confused and hurt; confused, because Artemendo didn't have the online persona of an emo teenager, and hurt, because we really liked Waluigious and losing the archives and author in one blow cripples this small segment of the fandom.
3. After a few months of confusion and shock, Beta comes to explain the situation and we find out that there was no psychotic breakdown or religious conversion involved. Instead, Artemendo had decided that having a happy life with a geeky girlfriend was incompatible with his online life, and instead of posting that personal life would slow down Waluigious's publishing schedule, or handing the torch on to Cheatmaster30, or closing the blog with a farewell message and leaving the archives up, he went for the most dramatic route. This didn't go over well with the online readership, since we don't see any contradiction in being obsessive nerds and having a love life.
4. Yet more drama, as the readership vents their feelings regarding the previous bout of drama, and Beta defends her boyfriend against their claims to Artemendo's writing as a common resource.
The sooner this show is over, the better for everyone. An apology, on anyone's part, is too much to ask for; but can't we acknowledge that a lot of feelings were bruised?
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Post by cheat-master30 on Oct 16, 2011 16:49:12 GMT -5
Well, now Mario Smorgsabord and its connected Deviant Art group have been shut down as well, with the posts apparently being deleted earlier today. I guess this whole new Mario Blog thing worked about as well as every other attempt to make a new Mario blog under the sun: First it was Coin Heaven... Which has been deleted. Then The Nintendo Fan.... luigi821.blogspot.com/Then We Are Nintendo... tehlivingpencil.blogspot.com/And then Waluigious itself... And now Mario Smorgsabord. I think there was another one too, Mario sister or something? That got shut down some time in between as well... Wow, I guess the Mario fandom has been nearly obliterated now. Every 'intelligent Mario site' under the sun (including my own old one) is permanently closed or deleted, the fan sites are (bar Mario Wiki apparently) nearly dead and it seems the fans have packed up shop. But some appropriate music: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cLcO4DK-xkOr, considering it's nearly christmas... www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zb4bz4kkNhM&feature=relatedBut wow, it's depressing to see that not one intellectual Mario fan site even exists any more. Or that now people are just deleting them left and right and that as well as Mario's Smorgsabord, Coin Heaven has deleted everything and vanished. I guess I can say Waluigious and its 'legacy' have been lost to the ages now. |
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Post by Koopalmier on Oct 17, 2011 2:17:15 GMT -5
"Mario ? Intellectual ? Get the zern out."
Basically what I constantly get everyday. ugh.
that's not a reason to-
Wait, Mario Smorgasbord was closed down ? What the zern ?
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Post by kingkoopa on Oct 17, 2011 14:12:53 GMT -5
... so we gonna just go back to how we were before and not worry about all those blog stuffs and just talk about Mario here?
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Post by Koopalmier on Oct 18, 2011 0:10:16 GMT -5
With a post every four months, yay.
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Post by Koopalmier on Oct 19, 2011 7:36:17 GMT -5
deleting it was a hasty decision I made when under stress. you definitely fit with Artemendo. *chortles* Great. I hope this blog will become the nect Waluigious. (and, please, for Grambi's sake, Arte, re-upload some Waluigious articles as "Waluigious Classics" or something) |
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Post by PDoogan on Mar 14, 2012 17:13:43 GMT -5
I've been planning to make a Mario blog for about a month, and I finally opened it yesterday. I'll link to it on here once I have a couple of posts. Artemendo will be helping me maintain it. I like it. You have a lot of rare photos on there. It reminds me of the Bow on Birdo bowonbirdo.tumblr.com/I'm following you. |
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Post by PDoogan on Mar 15, 2012 17:25:34 GMT -5
Wow, you post a lot of stuff every day! I hope you don't run out of pictures!
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Post by PDoogan on Mar 28, 2012 11:24:14 GMT -5
Does the new site have a feed? I can't find it.
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Post by Banzai Bill on Apr 2, 2012 15:08:27 GMT -5
So is there really that much of a demand for more Mario-themed blogs? I wrote a couple of guest articles on Waluigious and am currently brainstorming my own blog/website. Would you lot be interested?
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Post by Indigo on May 6, 2012 18:29:08 GMT -5
This is spectacular! I just spent the last hour or so checking out every little thing you've posted. Especially memorable was the concept art of Mario looking all gangster in a hoodie. :3
Oh, and THAT MAP. Where did you find that map of the Mushroom World? It's absolutely awesome!
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