About Reviews

This blog is slowly coming together as I do a lot of scratching on a notebook at work. As previously stated, I intend to use this as a means of reviewing different products that happen to pass into my hands. I feel as though I need to state a few ground rules so you understand the game I'm playing with this whole venture.

• I assume that you care when chances are that you don't. I am a lowly college student with no ties to any industry that I speak of. You do not know me from Adam. However, I wouldn't be writing this if I didn't think you'd read it and give it some thought.
• This is not Amazon.com and I will not treat it as such. If I wanted to write the type of review that is found at the end of a product listing, I would just do that there. A few things come along with this, relating to format and content. I will assign no numerical rating to any product or any aspect of a product. I will not itemize, be it in the form of breaking a game into "Graphics," "Sound," and "Gameplay," nor will I do a track-by-track breakdown of an album. That is poor form and not conducive to forming a cohesive opinion about a subject. This is not eBay, and there will be no "A+ would listen again."
• This is an opinion blog, and these are just opinions. Read and digest to get the views of a person who cares to write about things he's used or experienced. That is all of the weight I put into these words.
• I will not always be current. I am late to the party with many of these writings. Fact is, unlike professionals, I do not get my hands on a product before public release, and writing this isn't my full time job. I will often be months late with my appraisals of a product, depending on a number of factors, not the least of which is pure whim. As of this writing I still haven't beaten Zelda: Twilight Princess, which came out months ago and has been covered to death by all forms of press, but chances are I'll throw my two cents in anyway. I am a full time student with a full time job, and time doesn't permit a lot of commitment to this project. This leads into my next point, which is
• I will not report on something until I'm through with it. If what I'm saying is an initial impression, it will be clearly marked. Otherwise, I abstain until I have seen a satisfactory amount of the product.

I think that's all I intended to say. Those are the ground rules of this venture, for you to understand and for me to follow. This understanding makes it easier to write this blog. I hope we're all on the same page, because my first reviews are right around the corner.