It's hard for me to believe, but this past Saturday marked the one-year anniversary of Pointless Side Quest. From its humble beginnings Pointless Side Quest has become a colossus of the blogosphere, drawing threes of readers each and every day.
At times like this, it's only fitting to take stock of the past. Cue up the schmaltzy romantic flashback montage ballad of your choice as we look back on a year that brought us:
My groundbreaking proposal for what promises to be the hottest game yet in the ever-popular "God of War clone based on Macbeth about fighting an army of genetically engineered monstrosities in a steampunk alternate-history 19th-century Scotland" genre!
A chilling look into Mario's secret world of underground blood sports, drug smuggling, medical fraud, and gangland brutality!
The most terrifyingly evil artificial intelligence since Ro-Man!
Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger and the phrase "time-traveling Otacon in drag," in the same sentence at last!
The day Fist of the North Star opened my eyes to a new world of crudely pixelated, ludicrously violent entertainment!
Ill-fated attempts at legitimate commentary!
Final Fantasy brings us an epic saga of childhood orthodontia-related emotional trauma, those obscenely expensive bags of nuts sold at hotels, and Cloud Strife's dark and tragic history of minimum wage recreational facility employment!
Sentient talking birds who sell insurance and challenge our rigid binary conceptions of gender!
A cavalcade of middle school-level jokes about topics including, but not limited to, porn, women's sanitary products, venereal disease, constipation, sexual aids, and much, much more!
My inexplicable recurring fixation on regicidal 17th-century statesman Oliver Cromwell!
My ability to enjoy Christmas, Star Wars, or Bea Arthur is destroyed forever!
Illegal drug use!
Subtle, tasteful discussion of EA's subtle, tasteful marketing for Dante's Inferno!
Crude sexual objectification!
Crude 19th-century anti-Irish propaganda!
A ten-year PlayStation 2 retrospective that degenerates into a distasteful anecdote about the time I became violently ill playing Half-Life!
Quite a year, indeed.
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