Day One

So I had a thought. (Which is scary enough in itself if you know me, but for those of you that don't, feel free to give me the benefit of the doubt!)
I was on Deviant Art and saw someone's designs for a virtual pet site that they'd sold recently. I went to check out the site for myself, and, as usual, you can't check anything out before you make an account. Which is kind of...feh. I mean, seriously? You're going to try to get commitment out of me before I've even gotten in the front door? That's like asking me to buy a Season 1 set of a series on DVD before I have even watched one episode--and unless I've got like four friends chanting at me to doooo iiiit because they know for CERTAIN I'll loooove iiit, it's not going to happen.
And those virtual game websites with their so-called reviews? Yeah. Those aren't reviews. Those are glazed-over summaries of what you can do on whatever site you're looking up. Which usually includes three or four lines of "you can adopt your own virtual pets, play games, and interact with other virtual pet owners!" which is like saying "If you buy this sofa, you can sit on it, sleep on it, and your friends can join you to mock soap operas on Saturdays when you have nothing better to do!" Not to mention whoever writes those things always sounds so dang happy about life. Everything ends in exclamation points and every other sentence either involves the word "fun" or "exciting". I mean, has this person ever even actually played those games?
Which brings me to my point. Movie critics don't write reviews without seeing the movie. Restaurant critics don't write reviews without eating the food. Book critics don't write reviews without reading the book. Game critics don't write reviews without playing the game.
I happen to love virtual pet sites. Really. I like shiney, pretty pet graphics and I like it when there are ways--paintbrushes, potions, elixirs, whateverhaveyou--to make the pets even prettier and shinier. If I can make them hardcore shiney, like, monstery, with spikes and stuff, you will find yourself with a very happy Thaddeus Grey.
But how am I supposed to know I can do that when there's no reliable source of information? "You can feed your pet, play with it, and even change its colouromgexciting!!" is not a reliable source of information. People that get paid to hunt down links to pet sites for game review sites and slap halfheartedly falsely cheerful summaries onto said links are not reliable sources of information. One or two "reviews" from users (which are more like ten-worded comments than anything) do not really count.
So I thought, hey. Since no one else is doing it, and I have nothing better to do(like my 3d modelling class homework, my two essays for AP Lit, or studying for AP Exams) why not?

Plus, this is actually a fantastic excuse for signing up on impulse to shiney pet sites and spending a couple weeks before dropping off the face of its planet without feeling guilty.
Will I be updating this every day? Is anyone actually reading this that might care? Heck no on both accounts. But I will try to update with semi regularity.
Which means whenever I find a shiney pet site and sign up for it.