Meet JoeReviewer

Hello Internet! My name is JoeReviewer. You can call me Joe, but not Reviewer, cause that's too generic.

Anyways, welcome to Paragoomba Shift. I hope you've enjoyed what you've seen so far, whether you're seeing this place for the first time or if your from the MYSTICAL FUTURE! But enough about that, let's talk about me.

If school has taught me anything it's that it's nearly impossible to speak about oneself without sounding conceded, so given how incredibly awesome I am this may sound a bit pretentious, so apologies en avance.

Okay, focus time. Who am I? I am but a mild-mannered person who plays video games and thinks he's got some important things to say about them A.K.A. this blog. As far as these games go, I'm really a Nintendo guy, but I'm not afraid to dabble into other markets and I do own a PS3. As far a PC games go, I'm not well versed mainly due to the fact that around the time of this post my 4 year old computer has about as many Giga Bytes left as it has years owned. Perhaps I'll go into more detail at a later date, but for now if you're really curious then you can check out my Backloggery to see what I got. More on that place later too.

Hmm... What else? Oh, I run my own Youtube channel where I post my random adventures while I play games. I like to show off simple things that are part of playing a game, not just a polished play-though (although I'm not opposed to such). I also work on a collaboratory channel called Yashichi, who may feature a few faces you'll see around the blog. Well, not their faces per se, but you know what I mean.

I'd say I'm a nerd I guess, though not in front of the public. Not because I'm embarrassed but more that people would think that my statement was a problem. As such most of my interests are kept on the "downlow", as the kids say, in my everyday life. I can tolerate immaturity, as long as it's intentional and not viewed by the immature as "sophisticated". Despite any complaining I may have, my life's pretty good 'round here. It's not perfect, but then again, few things are. I also can be very skeptical, but at the same time I often give people the benefit of the doubt. It's a situational thing I guess.

This is falling apart into random tid-bits, but we're not going to break continuity!

I hate thunderstorms. I use the internet often. I have an old jacket I wear throughout the year. I'm pretty good at editing videos. I sometimes throw a little French into my speech to mix things up. I live in the EST time zone. No you don't get anything more specific than that. I like Mega Man, Kirby, Mario, and sometime Legend of Zelda. I've run out of things to say for a bit so I better stop now or I never will.

Thanks for reading and don't worry, soon we'll get to the good stuff around here.

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.