Well hey there! Welcome to my newly renovated corner of the still clinging to life blogosphere! Whether you're a reader from back in the day or someone who happened to trip over this somehow, I'm glad you're here!
Without retelling the whole story from the About page, I go by Parallax Abstraction and I'm a middle-aged, opinionated nerd who lives in a small town outside Canada's capital. I've been into gaming, tech, charity and learning about the world my whole life and have things I want to say on those things. I originally started this blog back in 2012 to talk about what I wanted to in my own space and also to improve my writing skills. It's changed homes and had hiatuses several times since. I've also done YouTube and Twitch, though both are on their own hiatuses at the moment.
I've recently had the urge to write again about various things and social media is not the place to do it. After trying out Medium and getting fed up because it sucks, I decided to do it myself. The site is now hosted on my own server, using the Ghost platform. Getting this up and running has been a journey let me tell you, but that's a story for a future post.
Most of my old posts I've archived because they weren't very good, but I kept the ones I thought held up and they're here, backdated to when I originally published them. My aim is to publish more frequently and with more brevity, with long-form posts being an occasional thing. We'll see if I can stick to that. Posts will probably be about gaming, tech and their surrounding industries most of the time, but I'll also likely talk about my mental health journey, other random interesting things and maybe even politics on occasion, though I know I've got to be careful there. I used to do audio versions of posts and I might still sometimes, but only when I can manage so they might not do up day and date with the written ones.
To comment on posts, you do have to "subscribe" as Ghost calls it. If you haven't, you'll see where you can on the home page and at the bottom of every post. Ghost also can send new posts straight to your inbox so you never miss one, or you can use the RSS feed in your favourite reader (I like Inoreader myself). I have a privacy policy but the TL;DR is this is a hobby I don't make money from so I'm not going to sell your data and I know how to secure a server, but nothing's bulletproof.
I don't mince words here and call things like I see them. I don't suffer fools, nor assholes. That said, I am not always right and will make mistakes and have no problem admitting both when they happen. If you disagree with something I wrote and can make a good counterpoint, bring it on! I love good debate and learning from others, as long as it's respectful. There's nothing wrong with strong debate, but I also won't let this become like social media or the comments on news sites.
I have a small but chill Discord community and everyone's welcome to come hang out there. I'd like to have discussions on posts here mostly done in the comments to help grow the site, but if it ends up happening there, I'll make a dedicated section for it. And if you need a mood lift in your day, there's always the growing galleries of my awesome animals.
That's about it. I welcome any feedback and if you find any lingering bugs, please let me know. Feel free to have a look around and let's talk about what interests you! And hey, if you like it and think others would, sharing the site to help it grow and subscribing to the newsletter would be super cool. Cheers!
