Last night, I was originally going to convey the following in the form of another beloved codec conversation. However, I gave up after the first couple of lines because: 1. I was going to wing it with Raiden, a character with whom I am entirely unfamiliar and 2. Apparently my mind wasn't up for the sort of humor my codec conversations tend to have at that hour. As such, I'll just stick to more standardized conventions and address a couple of things in a more normal manner, at least relative to what can be considered normal on this blog.

As many of you know, I've been a wiki submissions moderator for Giant Bomb since soon after the site's launch. Although the submissions queue is (very thankfully) not nearly as large as it initially was (proposals actually appear within 24 hours now!), that site has nevertheless been eating up a lot of my time. From composing articles of epic lengths about somewhat controversial topics (albeit with editing help) to simply observing the forum members' hilarious charades to chatting it up with Jeff Gerstmann himself about the Left Behind game (no joke), it's been a really, really fun ride. Lots of inside jokes have been created, plenty of interesting users have been spotted, and trouts have become a mainstay.

All of that only partially explains my absence up until now, as well as why things will probably continue that way for the forseeable future, save for intermitent entires.

You see, I've got a university to attend. A pretty nice one, in fact. I'm attending it for part of my college career in order to start to formally learn Japanese for reasons beyond playing Final Fantasy XIII before everyone else. (The remainder of my college career and beyond is very likely going to be spent in Japan itself for the purpose of fluency refinement.) Since I'm an incoming freshman, there's a lot which needs to be done. Book buying, dorm furnishing, and scheduling logistics, let alone actually learning, all need to get taken care of and things are therefore going to need to get put on the back burner for an uncertain amount of time. Unfortunately, since GameSpot has already been on there for quite some time now, chances are that that's not going to change, so don't be surprised if it's a while before I drop by again.

Unlike many other blogs of this tone, this is hardly a good-bye, but rather a "until next time" sort of thing. I don't think I want to ever see this blog die off simply because my time is spent more excessively elsewhere, but the reality of things is that I won't be able to post nearly as frequently here as I once did. (My time at Giant Bomb is naturally going to be affected by all of this, too.) Life always knows how to mix things up and I'm not one to question that. Besides, I get to pursue my life's dreams as a result and those have been a long, long time coming. That makes me pretty happy, even if that does poignantly affect how much contact I'll have with you all on here.

I thought I should write all of this just so those of you who are curious about where my musings and random posts have went finally have an answer to those particular questions. It might not be a desirable answer, but I prefer to think it's better than nothing at all.

Once again, though, this isn't a good-bye. Far from it. I'm not emo enough to write one of those things anyway. Those who feel especially compelled to keep tabs on me, though, are free to do so via AIM, where I have the same screenname there as I do here. MSN also works as well, where you can reach me by adding comicalkd@hotmail.com to your friends list.

So until next time, you guys, this has been allmybase. Thanks for all your support and keep on doing your thing!