Welcome.

This Crappy Controller is a spin-off from my regular blog. Because even when I'm not playing them, I'm thinking about video games--and more than willing to write about them--a lot. My hope is that if I have a place where I can write about them at length, I'll feel compelled to keep a healthier balance of material on the other blog.

But this is blogging at its most onanistic--and I think there are some interesting reasons for that, which I hope to get into as the blog goes on--and I'm trying to honestly write it as if I was sending an email to a friend who shared absolutely 100% of my exact tastes and absolutely wants to hear my thoughts about Metal Gear Solid: Subsistence in excruciating detail. And not just "MGS: Subsistence fails in its attempts to recreate the atmosphere of the Cold War precisely because the single-player console video game is the ultimate refuge of the apolitical" type stuff. But also "I sniped The End in MGS: Subsistence before the boss fight with him, and it was fucking cool!" type stuff.

If this was a D&D blog, in other words, a lot of the entries would be about what my fourth-level thief did. For better or worse, it's what I most want to write about. Maybe if we're lucky, I'll be able to figure out why as time goes on.