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The Running with Ninjas Primer By: PoisonRamune, the Apathetic Lizardman Well, if you’re here someone has either sent you here or you found this site by searching for something ridiculous or perverted (just admit it, since I check the keyword searches near weekly). Either way, you’re probably asking yourself a couple things about the site’s content and why it looks like we’ve been living in some internet time capsule that was buried in 1996.
Basically, this is supposed to be comedy a website. I started it a couple years ago with the intentions of looking very primitive and generally being some sort of throw back piece to the mid to late 90’s. Recently, we’ve been working on a site redesign (read: I’m dragging my feet on this redesign), since I feel that the irony has sort of passed. The site was actually started as a way for me to get laid (yes, you read that right). I had just started to date some really driven/motivated girl and felt like I needed to be doing something more than just working my day to day job to impress her. I decided the best thing to do would be to create and run a gaming website, since she, having near no interest in video games, (aside from a couple random nights where we played SMB2 and Bubble Bobble together) would never really care about the content around here. I also wanted to do something different than just a standard gaming site, since I don’t really like the standard announce, preview and review format of most sites out there. Plus, if I were to attempt that, there’s no feasible way I could out do the big boys like Gamespot or IGN. So I decided to go with what I knew best: drugs, being sarcastic and gaming and so far it’s been working out for us pretty well.
Around this time I was also in a writing club with Josh (read: drinking club) where we were both trying to work on some side projects, such as a musical he never finished and some comic that I didn’t really care about. At some point I think we realized our Tuesdays weren’t really spent on furthering any projects and were just stupid evenings filled with cheap beer, gin, fast food, youtube poop, my distracting chatter and classic games. I don’t honestly remember if Josh volunteered to do some articles or if I said something idiotic like “You have an English degree. I bet your articles would be pretty cool...” but I do remember picking him very early on during the site’s conception. Our site was launched, we did a few articles and the plan ultimately worked with my girlfriend at the time (I honestly believe she only looked at my site once and said “That’s nice, babe” without giving half a crap about what I had posted). So in essence it was kind of mission complete for me, but being the moron I am I kept working on the site when I could have just closed shop and just lied ex about still updating it.
Eventually, I dragged myself so deep into the site (even getting 2 people who were in some online gaming guild/clan with me to write some articles) that I just couldn’t abandon the site. At best/worst I would just poop an article out once a month, despite me still holding on to that stupid “Weakly Updated Weekly” (though in my defense you can’t say some dumb crap like “Updated Once Monthly” and think you’re even remotely clever).
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