User blog:Berrybrick/I'm experimenting

Don't look at me like that.

So, apparently something in the review space is broken, and new pages can't be created or even previewed. I was going to publish a review, and then a blog about reviews, but it looks like it might just be a blog. I hope you know what a review is, because I can't give you an example of one fresh and hot (actually, if your laptop is hot, it is probably because you have your laptop on the fur pelt about your waist and should remove it immediately; it is not good for the fans).

Anyway, I don't like my reviews. Every year, after we get new sets, I think about the high scores I gave to old ones and think "Hm, this new set puts that one to shame. I should have been harsher". Even knowing that I will do that, I can't think ahead. I don't have the big picture, and I don't think that makes me a reviewer. My mind rationalizes why choices would be made (I would be a better person if I could avoid Eurobricks these days with all of the "LEGO is cheap and/or lazy" comments used, and interchangeably at that when they are two different things). What's more, I don't take terribly good pictures, when I bother to at all, and my turnout rate is generally slow (though, to be fair, my purchases are generally late). I don't (and won't) do videos. What is there to read my reviews for but the iluferscent prose? I tend to rant, enjoy going out on tangents (because I probably am more interest in the accidental symbolism of an axe blade than is healthy). I also fear that my personality usually doesn't come across like I would like it to.

I even worry about that here, when I generally feel better about it in the blogosphere. Granted, personality and perception of it are really complex questions which aren't answered satisfyingly (aside from "they are only illusionsSSSSssssSSSSSsssss...). Still though, this is the internet where even dull average Mary-Joes and Mark-Janes can spice up their personality by trolling ship forums ("the Titanic would make much better babies with the Queen Anne's Revenge than a plain old cargo freighter") or news articles ("Just give the presidency rights back to Marvel already!").

All of this is to say that I am looking to do some experimenting in my review style. The review I was trying to publish was, honestly, probably not the answer, just being a regular review without headings. That allows me to write what is important, but I think that it creates a text wall and makes navigation difficult. I don't know. Maybe in my next review I can express my feelings for the set through interpretive dance, or just include squiggly lines in the margins to represent that life is meaningless without 4-5 daily servings of fruit.

Any ideas?