Hello! And welcome to my new blog, my first attempt to share my thoughts with the internet at large. First attempt for a while at least.
So rather than jumping in headfirst with every thought I have, lets start at the basics. First, what's the blog name about? Well, a while back, writer Stephen King wrote a series of novels called The Dark Tower series. The genre was best described as 'epic post-apocalyptic fantasy-western' and it was truly epic. Until book 6 where it started to drag and the final book 7 where things fell apart, and it ended badly. More on that in a later post methinks. But anyway, up to and including book 5, I loved this series and that's part of the reason why I chose the name.
The other reason is sarcasm, or 'snarking'. While I haven't quite decided what to focus this blog on, or even if I should focus or just make it a generalised blog for my thoughts, I can guarantee that each post will feature some sarcasm. Whether I want it to or not perhaps. Years of living in a modern society, going to a British public high school and working in customer services, while enjoying the comedic styles of many different people, has given me a habit of being very sarcastic most of the time, so much so that my friends have started to differentiate me from others with the same first name by adding 'sarcastic'. Am I happy about that? Meh, sort of. Being funny is a good thing, but it does sometimes get in the way when you're being sincere and people who know you are not sure you are. But I digress.
Hmm, those buttons at the bottom of this post box keep flashing every time it autosaves. Bit distracting but I'll live with it. So, what will I be talking about with this blog, besides being bitter, cynical and ironic? Well, things that interest me. You've probably guessed that I like books and you'd be right, I do. Current reading: War and Peace. No, really. And it's actually very good. The writing style is odd, the setting is not something I've tried before (upper class society in Napoleonic Russia) and the characters are a little hard to keep track of, but I do like it. Which helps, it's over 1400 pages in small font.
Another interest of mine? Roleplaying. Now, if you don't know what that is, let me explain. To truly comprehend the nature of what is today called "Modern Roleplaying", we must first step into a time machine to Ancient Greece... well, maybe not. Roleplaying is part board game, part improvised acting. Like acting, you have a character and they have a backstory, goals, attitudes and desires, but like a board game, they have numbers and rules that represent their abilities and how well they do things, and these are tied together by dice rolling that adds random chance to the game. And I love it so I will also talk on that. By the way, well done to those who got the reference at the beginning of this paragraph.
Finally, I will probably talk (at length) about my life and the world in general. Economics (my university subject of choice), philosophy, politics, science, working in customer services, religion and more, all of it will come under my half-arsed scrutiny and be subject to my over-analytical personality. And the sarcasm, oh believe me, those will get plenty of sarcasm.
Well, with the first post out of the way, lets move on.
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