“Life In The So-Called Space Age”
Thanks to my brother, I did indeed obtain some more blog statistics and one in particular is very surprising…
On average over 300 unique people read this blog monthly. A great many of these are repeat visitors!
I can probably count on two hands the number of people I actually know that read this blog. I wonder who the others are?
Until I reactivate account registration (unlikely), I may never know…
Today I went to the prerelease for the new Magic set called Innistrad.
It was the most popular I’ve been to, with 43 entrants, but I was alone and felt sick so I have to say it wasn’t anywhere near as much fun as previous events.
I opened my six boosters and assembled a green/white deck based around humans. In fact I had so many humans (especially in white) the deck almost built itself. In particular I had high hopes for this guy:
My first round was against another white/green deck that was very similar to my own. Although the games were close, he beat me 0-2. He was one of those OCD players, and used a pencil and paper to calculate combat damage every battle (no joke) since he was using an artifact that doubled damage dealt and received. In neither game was I able to summon the Patriarch, but this guy served me well (and I flipped him both games):
What is flipped you ask? Innistrad introduced double-faced cards to MTG, which can be flipped over when certain conditions are fulfilled. Virtually everyone at pre releases use card sleeves, so hiding the backs was not an issue. But if you don’t have sleeves, a checklist proxy cars with a normal MTG back is included in almost every booster.
My second opponent used a red/green werewolf deck. It was stressful to play against because the onus is on the opponent to keep the werewolf cards from flipping to their more powerful sides. He ended up winning 1-2, and the last game was a walkover because he got this monster out:
I left after two rounds for the reasons listed above. From what I saw Innistrad looks like a lot of fun, although I seem to be looking at the cards more now for inclusion into Commander decks than for ‘normal’ decks. I’m looking forward to opening my box of boosters next weekend 🙂
Fun fact learned today: tokens have rarity! Although they all have the common rarity symbol, creature token cards share the rarity of the card that creates them. Or so a few guys were claiming…
In the last year, my blog has been visited 17,448 times by 13,591 unique visitors. Each visit viewed, on average, 1.5 pages. So entries on my blog were viewed 26,356 times during the year.
Most visitors found the blog via google, and the most popular search term that led them to my blog was ’emily skins’ (which led them to this post). The second most popular term was ‘doctor who’ which (mostly) would have led them to my history of Dr Who games.
The top five most popular posts of the last year, indexed by views are:
1) Doctor Who Games (I have never played…) (4373) {Well researched and written; I’m proud of this!}
2) I’m Your Fan (3158) {A crappy post, now I look back on it}
3) Enough With The Monster Hunter Posts (933) {Someone probably linked to the tattoo}
4) MHFU Update (425) {Obviously the pretty girl cosplay…}
5) Ningen (417) {I’ll have to do more crypto posts…}
Somewhat alarmingly (since it was creative, rather than documentive), my Cthulhu beat-down was #6, and there was a massive spike around the posting of the Altamont Fair photos (which means Florence is now famous)!
The top five countries visitors came from: USA, UK, Australia, Canada and France
Aside from numerous Google referrals, I was intrigued to note that 65 visitors were referred to my blog from Wikipedia?!? Some quick detective work turned up this page.
I wonder if Google retains statistics beyond a year? And if they do, if my brother could provide them?
On to Youtube, my top three videos with views are:
1) UFO Catcher Unexpected Win (43,000+)
2) UFO Failing (25,000+)
3) Darling Harbor Dinosaur (9,000+)
These also happen to be the only ones that I can earn money on if I sign up to have ads included.
For the first video, the most popular demographic continues to be Japanese girls aged 13-17. There’s also been a spike in popularity in the last 4 days, so it must have been linked somewhere recently.
However the video of the Stinger at Altamont Fair is rocketing up the charts! 1200+ views in only a month is nothing to be sneezed at, and I don’t doubt it that rate continues it will be in the top 5 and maybe top 3 in the near future.