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A Blog About Blogs

One thing that always amused me about Quests was the Blog that was required in Off Topic section that people had to do in order to complete a quest. Blog or thread, I forget, but the point was that I use to see a lot of blogs that seemed made just to gain that quest. Blogs just saying Sup (Sup), or asking who Spider-Man (Miles Morales) was or just saying Hi (Hello), or asking about whether you would do Aunt May (why not, she seems nice) and even less brief and or random threads. Not for me to judge though, like I said I was amused. Plus I have a tendency to ramble in other peoples blogs, maybe brief blogs are better than longwinded blogs *smile*  
 
Anyway, to me, the idea of having an avenue, any avenue to share one's own ideas, experiences, observations, opinions, just seems so... nice. Like 4000 years ago, if you wanted like 300 people to hear, or listen to your opinion, ideas and so on, you like needed to be a king or living god incarnate or like high priest or like a... talking dinosauror something... and then like paper was invented and so like, the way you could share and project your ideas and perspectives got a little bit easier and a bit more accessible for more people. Though like you know, still wasn't until the 19th century when paper really got easy. Uhm, so we have phones, and TV, and megaphones, oh and newspapers, radios, ugh, talkback radio, so on. Still, computers, internet? Powerful stuff. Now like anyone with access to a computer and internet can have a voice that 300 other people can hear. Minimum of 300 people. I mean, we can even tell this by looking at thread views. One time, I made an art thread and it reached like 50 thousand views. Not that like, all those clicks were people looking to read my opinion (and half were probably spam bots, and half of the rest was probably myself), but... am I the only one who considers a cave man or even just a random nobody from 100 years ago, having like 50 thousand (or uhm, 10 000) people to just hear them out? Inconceivable. Not only can we put out more info than ever, and have it reach more people, we can receive more info than ever. Right now, I have more access to information and knowledge than like 99% of all other people who have ever lived. Not just me... you too. So like, if you didn't have strong, varied, informed, weird, absurd, strange, opinions, ideas, perspectives, its pretty easy to get some... which leads me to blogging.   
 

Even Galactus Likes To Blog 
Even Galactus Likes To Blog 
 
I don't blog much, I sort of really like the idea though, I consider the difference between a blog and a thread (creating a thread) is that a thread aims to be informative and news, and information. Blog, well its more egocentric, narcissistic bwhaha, well its more opinionated and you get to give more of your personality across. So I really like the idea that CV gives you an option to blog. I think one of my favorite things about CV is getting to read fellow users blogs. Some very interesting and seriously smart people let alone savvy and knowledgeable comic fans. Great way for a bored insomniac to pass the time. I do sort of always feel that people trying to complete that quest though, are sort of missing out though. Missing out on an opportunity that literally billions of people though out time have not had. I mean, Quests are great, sure, but why not take a random opportunity to give your opinions about your favorite character, or the Pacific Trash Vortex, or Jane Bunford, or like, the largest cool animal that ever lived in your country, (mines is probably the Haast's Eagle - 15 kg Eagle!?!?) Nazca Lines? Grahams's Number? So many random things for a person to blog about... if they wish... in the Off Topic Section as well as more on topic with comics? Oh stuff you think is underrated is great to blog about! Comic, band, movie, physical attack maneuver. Deconstructing stuff as well, critical thinking, stuff to do with tropes? S'all good. I just think more people should blog *nods* People have shed blood and... uhm tears to be heard, to have a voice, to share their ideas and opinions. I mean... the fact that so many can, sort of takes the shine off the idea, and the appeal lessened. Now that anyone can create a thread, blog, website, so on and have hundreds of people view their efforts, not so many people care as much. Its sort of like happiness, and money and a few other things. People don't want to be rich, they just want to be richer than the people around them. That's fair, but its all relative. That being said, none of the appeal is lost to me, so I think I might start blogging more. I have appreciated many of the various blogs from others I have read here at CV and now wish to give back. Oh, and I thought I should also post links to other peoples blogs I thought were especially cool/interesting. Oh this was a cool Blog - Super-Heroes, the Modern Myth: The Call to Adventureand this was nice, Apophenia MacGuffin this was nice, Natural Progression oh and Mr Unknown has a lot of cool blogs pitting characters against each other (not Battles threads) here is one. Clash of the Ladies oh and then, this one The Concept of Obsession as a Medical Diagnosis Part 1 and Defining Desperation Part 1fihiannlly, Mistaking Memory for Imagination Just some of my favorite, among many.  
 
Feel free to post/lists blogs from other Viners you felt were underrated. Two of the blogs I posted above were accidental silent blogs that never made their way to forums. Hence I felt they were very underrated. Plus sometimes blogs just fall behind other threads fast and get buried. Whatever etc. (that should take care of one quest...)
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