The 5-4-5 of My Biggest Screw-Ups

When you blog, you try to spell-check and proof-read everything you put out.  This not only makes your work look nice and at least somewhat professional, but also grants you some necessary skill work for an office setting (if that's your jam) and also makes it look like you give two shits about what you put out on the internet for everyone to read.  However, every once in a while, you tend to get the ever delightful error slip through.

Although, maybe if they introduced themselves, we wouldn't be

having this conversation, your thoughts Link?

I looked back through my blog and found some of my biggest screw-ups, some that were simple typos to things that were just plain wrong, or even just things that only I noticed, here are my Top 5 Screw-Ups!

5
In the Beginning... Was I Drunk?

In this we are going back to the VEEEERY beginning of this blog, back to last year.  After my intro piece, I wrote a blog that was supposed to be a review of Snow White and the Huntsman.  I mention that the movie felt like it had ADHD.  Talk about the movie having ADHD, that whole post needed to be on Ritalin, no offense to people who have ADHD, I'm not neurotypical either.  But I digress.  This was also before I established the "No names of friends and such unless I have permission" rule, so that was a bit odd when looking back.  So, of all my friends, you know know the names of three so far.  Again, I digress.

Was it so hard for me to keep on track?  Well, maybe it was.  I grew so much as a blogger, so much, that you can see it in my writing.  However, comparing that to my other posts back in the early days, there was no excuse.

I must've been drunk...

4
Game Trek III: The Search for Rock

Let me tell you a story about this image here:

This was taken way back when I first started playing Neverwinter Nights, and in the post called Just Don't Barge In, I referenced the story of which this picture was for.  So I type up the story, and that is when I realized that I didn't have the picture, so I searched the old desktop, no pic.  My thumbdrives turned up empty to.  In fact, one of them was completely empty, but I digress.  I knew it was on my old derelict MySpace, but I was unsure of the password.  This lead me to messaging Destiny, since I somehow got onto my MySpace on her laptop, but alas, the password wasn't saved.  So I sat there, MySpace staring into my soul like the evil abyss it is, and I typed in the first thing that came to mind...

The point of the story was that, I spent about two hours trying to find one pic that I probably didn't even need.  I mean, it's not like I take pics of the games I am playing, so already you HAVE to take my word for it.  However, all things had to be dropped until this pic was found.  If it was between finding the Grail or this pic, the Grail would be relegated to being a simple little dinky cup compared to this picture.  I feel silly for wasting a lot of time on this pic, but now you all know the backstory.

3

Grandia and I are in Couples Counseling

I still LOVE Grandia, which is still, for the lack of better terms, my favorite video game ever!  In fact, I remember stating that everytime I say the word LOVE when it comes to this game, I would put it in capital letters, LOVE and not love.

I LOVE Grandia, LOVE it, so much so I have to put LOVE in capital letters every time I write about this game.  Honestly, I don't know what it is about this game.  The plot is for the most part predictable, I've only beaten it once, so why do I love it so much?

Let me emphasize that a bit more

I've only beaten it once, so why do I love it so much?

This is just as bad as a business man who is in a monogamous relationship having a mistress, and when the wife meets the mistress under the assumption that she is just a friend, and he says to his wife, "here is my girlfriend Cindy!"  I guess the honeymoon is over...

Justin was not amused...

2

Fire in the Fast Food Joint!

Chronomancy is fun.  It's like Doctor Who meets your fantasy RPG, except without the incredibly awesome form of transport that is basically a British police box form the 60's that is basically it's own universe inside of it.  Forget Planescape and Spelljammer, this brings up the awesomeness to Matt Smith.  However, when half of your ebook discusses the complexities of the "grandfather paradox" in a magical setting, while interesting to me, you would lose people quicker than a political bandwagon.  Futurama probably couldn't keep people interested long enough!

But this is not about Philosophy, this is about Fast Food, and one thing you find in every fast food joint, fire!. Yes, fire, one of the Four Elements, and the most fun to.  This is also about fries, those delicious little cuts of potato that America loves so much, an attempt was made to change their name from French Fries to Freedom Fries

Well, I think, when you order fast food, and it has been a while since I did this, last time I went my friend ordered for me since I lost money at a casino like an idiot (never play slots), but I think you don't order any fire with your meal.  What is this, the Neolithic Era?  What's next, ordering a good Auroch Steak?  Yet, there I go...

It just too bad the only thing a Philosophy degree would ever get me is the chance to ask why someone would like fires with that. I kid, I kid.

Destiny pointed out this error to me, and I found it too funny to not keep.  So there it stands for posterity.

 Okay, so you apparently CAN order fire from a restaurant.  Thanks

for making shit invalid yet tasty Taco Bell!

1

Amadeus, the Not-So-Punctual Paladin

So right after the Winter Solstice in 2012, as we were picking up the pieces of our post-apocalyptic world (since, as we all know, the world ended December 21st, 2012), I wrote up a blog post about how I finally got to see The Hobbit, which answered, for me, what happens when one's best-friend and bromantic partner fakes their death by falling off of a tall building.

My apologies to the Sherlock Fandom, which means apologies 

to myself to

However, the reason I bring up that post is that at the end of it I mentioned that the next blog post would be about Amadeus the Naked Paladin.  About half-way into January and we finally get to him.  What brings this up, and why is this my biggest screw-up?  Well, it is the best example of my procrastination.  This also inculdes why there is no Post for the number 7 in my Blogiversary count-down, or why Table Plan didn't exist for a while.  I am a procrastinator.  Scrap metal in my truck?  Let's leave it sit in there for like two months and not go to a scrapyard (yet I will HAVE to do so next week).  Temp Agency?  We'll just see where my current application gets me, maybe it'll work out.  

However, I also bring it up because, as fate would have it, my post about the Naked Paladin turned out to be the most popular post on my blog, now pushing triple digits (it's not the most read, however), and the words "dnd" and "naked" are together one of the most popular searches for my blog.  Most of you were probably looking for this awesome blog, called Playing D&D With Porn Stars, it is an awesome blog, and was where I found out that Stoya plays D&D.  Sorry Milla Monroe, but until you start rolling the 20's, Stoya has taken your spot as the #1 Porn Star I would like to meet..... kind of creepy that I have a list like that.... moving on.

While Amadeus may no longer be with us, we now have, in the campaign I am playing, Lazlo inside Amadeus' body, and the blog describing that chapter is still forth coming.  Maybe Lazlo the Rogue Paladin shall become the biggest meme of this blog.  Move over Charlemagne!