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Originally Posted by bauhaus
I used to love the I-mockery website and still check back at least weekly out of years and years of habit but since the new weekly music.game movie thing and the addition of doc mock the site seems to have gone down hill.it's mostly promotion about doc mock with a few extras thrown in now and then.
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So I don't have to type this over again (and since Dr. Boogie already brought up some of the same things), I'll just copy-paste what I responded to somebody with in the blog just last month (
originally posted here) and then follow-up with some additional comments:
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Nobody's gonna bash ya for expressing your opinion, and I really do appreciate the support for the site so I'll be happy to address what you had to say. I've always tried to keep myself busy with new projects as I think too many people stick with working on just one thing and eventually end up beating a dead horse. I'm all about variety, hence the inherently chaotic nature of this web site which I've always tried to keep wide open so myself and the other writers can literally cover anything we want without having to feel boxed in. Doc Mock has definitely been a huge part of my life in recent times, because I'm absolutely loving it and it's a total change of pace in which I get to interact directly with my audience as it happens. It's very exciting because I know there's absolutely nothing else like it out there on the web.
That said, I've been doing my best to continuously keep this site updated with fresh new content and maybe you just haven't noticed. Aside from the batch of four new Weeklies that we put up every week, there have been plenty of new things on the site in the past month:
Coverage of the He-Man Art Show:
http://www.i-mockery.com/minimocks/he-man-art-show-2010
Robodemons:
http://www.i-mockery.com/shorts/robodemons
Santa Fu - a brand new flash game:
http://www.i-mockery.com/minimocks/santa-fu
Tales From The Longbox #34:
http://www.i-mockery.com/comics/longbox34
Christmas Comes To Pacland:
http://www.i-mockery.com/minimocks/pacman-christmas
That's a LOT of all new content on top of new Doc Mock episodes each week. And before all of that, we had another two full months of nonstop updates during our Halloween season.
So with all that in mind, I'm not sure how you can really expect much more from us. I've always been a quality over quantity kind of person as it is, and anymore productivity and I'll be officially burning the candle at both ends.
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We update when we can and when we have something we really want to write about. There are plenty of sites that are more than happy to churn out bland new material every day with the same old, quick "top 5 (whatever)" lists that take under an hour to write. I've always tried to keep I-Mockery different by having a ridiculous amount of content that is always changing. I'm not trying to toot our proverbial horn here, but there's probably more variety on this site than there is on any other site out there. Articles, rants, reviews, comics, games, shows, blogs, travel adventures, etc, etc. There's really not much myself and the other writers aren't free to do on here and that's what it's all about.
Also, contrary to popular belief, we don't make a living doing this site. As Dr. Boogie already said, he's still looking for employment. This site is simply done out of a love for writing about anything we feel like at the time.
I'm currently working with Pox on our biggest flash game ever (the one we showed at Comic-Con last year) in hopes it will be ready this summer. I'm also trying to get some paying writing / development gigs outside of I-Mockery. So while the site may not be as busy as it used to be, since there are bills to be paid, it's still being updated each month with new content that we
really want to write about. Not a lot of sites who've been around for 10+ years can make that claim. We're still doing this after all these years because it's something we genuinely want to do and hearing what you guys have to say about whatever we write has always kept us going. I know I speak on behalf of the other guys when I say that it's pretty awesome (and rare) to have a large audience like this, so we never take that for granted.
If you like the way we used to update all the time, that's great... we did too, so you can always go through the 10+ years of archived content for some additional amusement. The site is still going to be updated whenever we can and it's still going to be the same quality of work that it always was (just look at Dr. Boogie's latest rom hack review that went up this past week, for example).
I could add on additional writers to try and compete with all the other sites and lose what I-Mockery was really all about, or I could stick with the same great group of people who really made the site stand out from the rest of the pack. I choose to do the latter.
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