So Ditto has been blogging a lot here for quite a while – over 5 years, if you can believe that!  When I started thinking about things to write about for this ‘blaughust’ challenge, I realized by blog has been a little stale lately – that’s kind of the point of the challenge, I guess.  I post a lot of my Wizard101 and Pirate101 gameplay videos, and I post contests, but not much else; I haven’t even been doing my video bloggy thingys, which I was planning on doing weekly.  I want to change that and to diversify my blog, by posting more than just game updates.  What else I’m going to post I’m not sure yet, but I’ve got some ideas.

• Updates and gameplay vids from different games.  Now that I have my new laptop I should be able to play more games and record more games! What games should I add to my repertoire?
• More craft projects – I got a lot of great feedback on my wand making project, so I’ve thought this might be a good idea.
• Ditto’s movie reviews?  Ditto likes movies, so maybe movie reviews would be fun?  I think that might be fun…
• Get back to the Video Bloggy Thingys – try to keep up with these weekly; though to be honest, sometimes I don’t have a lot going on that’s worth talking about.  I’m kind of a boring monster sometimes.

Ditto Blogging

I was reading the very excellent blog of ‘The Friendly Necromancer’ and he was talking about this challenge, ‘Blaughust‘, which challenges bloggers to post every day in August.  The first thing I thought was ‘Wow, is that a terrible name for a challenge.  I mean, who came up with that name?  How do you even pronounce that?’, but soon after that I thought – well, this might be a good idea, something cool for me to try, and it’s highly opportune timing, because I’ve got plans for updating Dittomonster.com

You see, I just got a new laptop – my trusty old Asus has been with me for over 5 years, and though we’ve been through a lot together, I felt it was time for an upgrade, to a brand new Asus laptop!  It’s a nice 2 in 1 running Windows 10 and a GeForce 940m, so it’s pretty sweet for gaming.  It can also handle something my old machine just couldn’t – live streaming game sessions!  That’s right, Ditto now has a Twitch.tv Channel and will start streaming games and things there!  I was playing around with it today and so far it’s pretty fun! I’m also going to try to start recording videos differently – instead of the ‘over the shoulder’ shot with the video camera I’ll try to record the videos with the ‘picture in picture’ style a lot of gamers use – my face on the webcam in a little corner window.   A number of people have said that some of my videos are harder to see because of the way I shoot them, so I’ll try this.  It should be easier to set up, too… though Carl the Camera-Bear might be upset that he’s out of a job.  Sorry Carl.

So can I pull this off – a good blog post every day, with real content and not just me going ‘la la la la la…’ Probably not, but I’m giving it a try!