Einherjar

I've used this thing more over the past three days than I have at all other occurrences (I cannot spell that word for shit; gotta love Firefox's British-English spell checker) since its inception. Combined. For those keeping score at home, this is my 7th "blogging" over the past 3 days.

Why is this? No fucking clue, but it's time for a change in the name I think. Yeah, yeah, I changed it to "Do You Like My Wang?" days ago but that kind of reference gets lost on people and someone sent me a PM asking why I had a sexual innuendo title despite writing nonsensical ramblings of DS games. I promptly replied explaining how a Wang is a type of Macintosh computer and that "Do You Like My Wang?" is a song from the Freezepop album Future Future Future Perfect.

So, anyway, the new name: Einherjar. The name has a sneaky bearing on the actual content this time, as Einherjar is a weapon-item from Riviera: The Promised Land for the GBA (I added a few images of this to my gallery since I can't use Waffleimages outside of SA) but that's not where the term originated.

Einherjar is from Nordic mythos and means Lone Fighters. The Einherjar are those that fell in battle and were taken to Valhalla by the Valkries. Whilst at Valhalla, they eat the meat of the creature Sæhrímnir, which resurrects itself daily, and drink mead from the udders of Heiðrún. They constantly prepare for Ragnarök, during which they will do battle at the field of Vígríðr.

What relevance does any of this have with me? None whatsoever. I just love Norse mythology... Scratch that, I just love mythology. Most mythological references I am able to pick up on easily (I can excited as hell to find out that Tidus' celestial weapon, on Final Fantasy X, is a sword that is able to cut a hill in two - for example) and the ones that I don't is usually because it's insanely vague to the point of being all but non-existent (much like the number 13 in Japan for that matter).

Now that I've written about the things name for 4 paragraphs, I could just end this here but I'm beginning to hear this said in Yahtzee's voice somehow (Yahtzee being Ben "Zero Punctuation" Croshow from the Escapist) and that is pretty damn awesome.

When I updated the blog's name to Einherjar, I added a bit to the blog description (but no-one reads those anyway amirite?), about donating to me if you're that damn weird, as a joke... although I wouldn't mind taking your cash. I do need to buy the stuff I write about after all, for legal reasons and such and I've almost run out of interesting games to right about (the only other one I really have that you could call "interesting" is Psychonauts and I already reviewed it. I guess there's always my RTS games that no one likely cares about (Europa Universalis, Hearts of Iron, Victoria etc. (yes I like Paradox)) but there's not much to write about with them...

I suppose I could do more podcasts or something, or maybe books? I dunno; I prefer to think of Retronauts as filler personally, but it's an idea. There's also activisting stuff I could about, I guess, but... blarg, give me ideas people.

I've spent this entire blog post thing writing about the blog... is that normal? I can't say I'm experienced in this matter (I actively avoided blogs until this one came around...) but it seems like they're mainly written by angsty bastards who are whining about how their life sucks and blahblahfuckingblah. I could do something like that, but nah. My life isn't a pile of rancid faecal matter... and I'm a British guy who plays video games for the internet (and writes about 'em too, to a lesser extent).

Oh, I guess there is something bad I can think of: with the exception of Quest64, the N64's RPGs all suck. I'm including Paper Mario and the Zelda stuff (Action RPGs) in that. Baww.