Welcome to Paragoomba Shift

A Paradigm Shift, most simply defined as a change of perspective, or a change from a universally held viewpoint to an new one. Though the term is mostly used to describe abstract scientific views, we laypeople can simply use it to describe a change in perspective.

And the keyword there is change. There are many interesting things to say about what was before, as well as many things to say about the end result, but the most interesting things to be said lie with the change. Think of it this way: The beginning of a video game, you're introduced to the concepts, your limitations, what's expected of you. It can be fun viewing all those things for the first time, and it can be hard to deal with it too. However, at the end of the game, you get to use all those powers to your fullest to finnally conquer.

But the real magic happens in the middle. Your journey is what makes the game, and what makes it fun. You go into the depths of what the game has to offer, find out just how much can be done, and improve yourself as the game gets harder. You didn't beat the game because you saw the end credits, you beat the game because you went through the whole thing.

And I just lost the game, but that's beside the point.

But yes, here at Paragoomba Shift I hope to look in the middle along with what has come before and what has come after. Put much less flowery than I seem to have taken to describing throughout this, looking at old games/consoles/anything else that could be interesting in conjunction with newer versions of that / list and not favoring one over the other. It also includes looking at what actually made that change happen, cause not much really happens by chance.

I guess that's the gist of what we've got here. I don't necessarily intend on sticking verbatim to the themes here for every single post, but rest assured they will always be kept in mind. I hope this blog will help others to look at things from a new perspective, including ourselves.

Read the much less philosophical and more self indulgent description of myself tomorrow.