An Avaunt Guard Ending (BaD 28)

On 03/12/2014 at 06:48 PM by Vice's Assistant

Linked to Article Series: Blog a Day (BaD) 2014

After getting a pretty restful sleep, the first in a long time, I finally came to a conclusion about how to end BaD...by just ending it. You know all avaunt guard like. Just an instant cut to a black screen, no "the end", no credits, and more importantly none of that weird feelings you get after watching an avaunt guard film. What ever an avaunt guard film really is. Look I'm happy that I did 28 days straight of blogging but its so nice to end now. Maybe its because my life is fucked up right now but I just need sometime without the pressure to keep going. Of course, all of this pressure came from me, including my slightly stupid decision to cross post all of my BaD on 1UP (which is pretty active by the way). It wasn't as fun as last year's BaD, which was only fun until 1UP's sudden closure, I'm still happy I did. And made and met a bunch of new people along the way too, which is always a plus. So thank you everyone for reading and commenting. Hopefully I'll see you all next year, which I hope will be better than this year.

I leave you with one final video, though not a Giant Bomb one. This comes from surprisingly Game Informer's Super Replay which is a thing apparently. Its pretty funny. Enjoy.

Nicoleb1989

03/13/2014 at 01:27 AM

You did ten times better job then me at BAD this year, Im glad you got to meet some new people through it. Im hopeing next year I can actually be apart of it with yall. I havent logged into 1up in awhile, I pretty much decided to just post on here and let it go.

Vice's Assistant

03/13/2014 at 05:44 PM

Surpsingly there are a bunch of people who still write on 1up. Every once in awhile someone does come in and posts a where's is everyone/ This place is still on? blog. I don't plan on posting up everyblog there but its nice that some people are still there.

KnightDriver

03/13/2014 at 02:12 AM

The short film from The Mighty Boosh TV show instantly came to mind when you mentioned avant garde endings.

I just love The Mighty Boosh.

Ah, The Mighty Boosh. Good stuff.

Matt Snee Staff Writer

03/13/2014 at 06:43 AM

glad u got some sleep!

03/13/2014 at 05:45 PM

Thanks Matt. I feel so much better, rest wise!

Super Step Contributing Writer

03/13/2014 at 09:31 AM

Incoming English trolling: avant* (it's not spelled the same as it's pronounced)

And you made new people?! Wow! Glad you got to meet them, too!

And now I'll stop being a hypocritical dickhead:

It's awesome you got some sleep and made it to the end. I'm sorry life isn't going your way right now, but I hope it all picks up for you soon, man! It's been good seeing these funny Let's Play videos. You ever watch Game Grumps? They're my favorite.

I know all about self-induced pressure for something stupid. See: my MaD blogs, which isn't even a community thing. You're not alone there.

Speaking of avant garde films, my old professor Herbert Midgley has a lot of those on his YouTube channel. He made a video a while back of him in his Stormtrooper outfit playing guitar that went viral.

Cheers to the end!

03/13/2014 at 05:50 PM

Funny I originally spelled it like that and the text editor said I was wrong. I should have known that was right, I took French albeit ages ago. I love Game Grumps but I haven't seen it in a while. My last few episodes I watched were Punch-Out (2009) til the temporary end of that series and Steam Train Metal Slug 3 which also temporarily ended. I wish they start both of those up games again soon. I know they are doing I think Shadow of the Colossus, but I don't want to spoil that game until I play it.

03/14/2014 at 11:42 PM

Ah, it's fine, I didn't realize avant-garde was hyphenated when I typed that troll comment, either. One of the many reasons I say I'm a hypocrite.

Yeah, I got excited when they started playing SotC. I am more up to date with their FireRed playthrough, but I haven't watched that in a while either.

Alex-C25

03/13/2014 at 10:37 AM

Congrats on doing BaD the full 28 days!

Thank you Alex!

C.S.3590SquadLeader

03/13/2014 at 02:09 PM

Nothing like a fully restful sleep. Haven't had one in a while myself, hope that changes soon.

03/13/2014 at 05:51 PM

I hope you do CS. I know how much its sucks when you don't.

PixlBit