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Well-- I told myself I'd never participate in another Blog A Day challenge because when I finally participated last year on 1Up, the site closed down just when I was hitting my stride.  So I cursed BaD's name while shaking my fist in the air as thunder and lightening crashes in the background.

I still don't think I'm particularly good at self-description, but here I go anyway.

All of you dedicated bloggers have me inspired to at least try participating in BaD this year. I’d never even considered taking part back on 1up (where I wasn’t all that active anyway), but I figure I might as well give it a shot this year. Since I know I won’t have anything too interesting to talk about from my daily life for an entire month, I came up with a gimmick – and one I’m excited to undertake.

While I initially considered the possibility of taking part in this years BaD festivities, I made the realisation that I would inevitably miss at least one day no matter my attempt/effort. This would of course proceed to wreck my usual high spirits and lead me to ask one aggravating question "why did I even bother?". In that vein, I choose victory by avoidance and will step aside before the battle commences (what is dead may never die, perhaps?) and merely look forward to enjoying my time reading everyone elses entries.

BaD blogging on weekends! What's next? Egging your neighbour's house? Getting high on cough syrup? Racing Lamborghinis?

The ubiquity of phone gaming, and it's creeping impact on the console space, are well documented. The extensive use of microtransactions and the like in $60 titles has been a flashpoint in the gaming community for years. My main concern is that it risks devaluing the base game by making the experience more dependent on paying extra--a well-worn tactic in the mobile space (in game timers, paid weapon repair/upgrades, etc.) that is spreading into retail titles. Hell, one of the leads on Forza 5 pretty much said the game was designed with high-spending "whales" in mind.

This is going to a quick and dirty list of games that I would love to see and play on my 3DS.   Shall we begin?

Well it's about 6 am right now and I decided why the heck not post in the waking hours of the morning when it's still dark out. Anyways what do I blog about? I guess anything is up in the air. Well lets discuss a little about me. My name is Jon....as if you couldn't guess. I also like Nintendo. (Well duh get on with it you say!) Alright alright...well since the Wii U has been out for a year I figured I'd post my thoughts about it since I managed to buy it and some games. All in all everything cost me $500 plus tax. You might be wondering just what I got well I figured as much so I will tell you.

Let the BaDness comence!