The New Flesh

So yeah… that was a bit of a pork pie as the cockneys might say. The site isn’t dead but it is rather comatose at the minute and probably will be for the next couple of weeks. I know you probably don’t want to hear about my private life but I can’t explain why I’m being so rubbish without it.

Basically in the real world I’m a postgraduate philosophy student and I’ve been coming to the end of one of my courses so for the last couple of months I’ve been working stupidly hard to do two things: finish the thesis for my MPhil and secure PhD funding. Neither of those is easy, the first is hard and time consuming the second is quick but incredibly stressful. Oh and I’ve also moved house. All this hasn’t left a lot of time or energy for other things so I’ve mainly been playing Team Fortress 2 and written pretty much nothing except my thesis and the odd ramblings I post on RPS form time to time. That’s why I haven’t posted anything for the past two months. Sorry.

Fortunately for me I did achieve both of those goals so in the next few days I’ll be moving down to London to do my PhD and I’ll be there until September 2012 (a date that is clearly in the Future with a capital F). So where does that leave you as a reader? Well most likely not here. Seriously though The New Flesh is currently a much lower priority than moving to London and getting my PhD started so don’t expect too much of me for the next couple of weeks. However I do still of course love gaming and this site so I don’t intend to let this place die but it might never get the daily updates I’d like and would be able to provide if I was unemployed. Also since I’m moving to London I might be able to do some exciting stuff like go to the Eurogamer Expo later this month and do some reports of that.

Now if you’ve made it this far you’ve clearly got too much time on your hands so let me see if I can do anything about that. I happen to own two copies of Neverwinter Nights 2 which is a pretty darn good PC fantasy RPG and so I figure I should give one of them away rather than have it collect dust. If you’re interested the then drop an e-mail with the address you’d like me to send the game to thenewflesh [at] persus-9.co.uk. I’ll leave it one week and then pick the subjectively best (as in most amusing) e-mail I receive in that time on the subject of “1985 in Norway” (what can I say I just clicked random article on wikipedia). If I don’t receive any (which doesn’t seem unlikely given my current traffic figures and the fact I’ve hidden this at the end of the post) then I’ll roll it over for another week.