On the Motivation
Hey guys, whats up?
Fundamentally, my motiviation for creating this blog comes generally from the charm of old rough internet media, and specifically from a highschool friends youtube channel “Zgrossing”. They motivate me in different ways: firstly in the content of my blogs, and secondly in the style of my website.
The real driving force for creating my website was the quaint charm of amateur youtube drama videos. I think immediately of the gaming channel Zgrossing, and MrMangoTango’s “Zgrossing Rant” where he addresses to his fans how that Zgrossing “Taking the game more serious than normal people would” justified the killing of a Pteranodon in their Ark server.
I think the charm here is a combination of the raw roughness of the video (unedited rambling discussion over some pretty noob Overwatch footage) as well as the simple motivation: posting for their “fans” on their path to inevitable youtube fame and fortune.
Such naivety. How wonderful that I am the exception, destined for this fame and fortune. I have you, my loyal fanbase, to thank for that.
One stylistic motivation was “Sexy Hiking”. Bennett Foddy discusses it as motivation for his game Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy: “Sexy Hiking”, a “b-game.. too rough and unfriendly to gain much of a following”.
Sexy Hiking is a product of its time. ‘b-game’s’ and ‘b-media’ seem to be no longer so blatently unrefined. Modern internet software and services allow us to create better and cheaper things than ever. Using these modern digital tools it is, in a sense, harder to make ‘bad’ content than it is to make something decent.
It took considerable effort to use modern templates and software to create my website and de-evolve it into the state it is currently in. If I did not insist on this traditional HTML website design I could have created this much more simply.
Why code a website in HTML and CSS when Wordpress does it for you.
Why create assests for a game when they are free on Unity?
(This is without even mentioning AI! For discussion on this topic see here)
All this being said, I would not genuinely recommend Sexy Hiking any more than I would the Zgrossing Rant. Unfortunately, the charm of this old media seems inversely proportionate to their quality and appeal to the modern palate.
But save the lacrimation! You now have the perfect balance of old-school charm and new-school quality right here: lucanbuckley.com.
Remember to like and comment, and I’ll see you again next time for some awesome content.