loonyblog.

So sadly, we didn’t get the mother of all apartments. It was close, but in the end we were competing with another couple who were willing to pay more than we were. Oh, well. We’ll find another place I’m sure, although that really was the nicest apartment I’ve seen to date.

On a much happier note, I’ve been working since the weekend on getting the loonygames archives back up and running at full speed. The static pages are all there, of course, they have been since I moved everything to POEHosting not too long ago. But the includes have been all kinds of wonky, breaking a lot of the intrasite navigation. The search engine’s been dead for a year now, but rather than bother installing ht://Dig all over again, I’ll probably just use a local Google search. I’ll also be replacing the old broken UGO ads with internal looniverse ones, linking to this site, as well as the various other ones hosted by me.

The thought crosses my mind every now and then about actually bringing the site back, but it fades pretty quickly when I try and wrap my head around the enormity of such a proposition. The economics of the Internet have changed so much, that I really can’t ask people to give me the kind of time needed to run loonygames again without any compensation, and I certainly can’t devote that sort of time to it myself. I’m sure I’ll bring it back in some way eventually, even if it’s only as a place where I publish the occasional editorial, but for now at least, that job is being suitably filled by Shacknews. I would like to update the front page with a more recent status update on everyone, so maybe I’ll do that once everything’s working again. Besides…I can’t help but chuckle when I think that Duke Nukem Forever still isn’t out, despite being the subject of one of the first cover stories we ever ran.