rammfan518.wordpress.com (and later rammfan518.com) was a blog that I ran from Feb 2007 to 2015. While the site is still active and live, I have not updated it or written for it since 2015. From 2007-2011, posts were frequent. At the height, the blog had around 210 articles, with topics mainly going over reviews and thought-pieces regarding movies, video games, television, and other media. The subtitle of the website was “A blog about movies and life, which are often one and the same.” Rarely, a post about real life would seep in there.
My most popular articles were Top 10s and also what I would now call my “hot take” articles, which were often very long diatribes concerning particular pieces of media. Online reception to these was often highly negative. Some nerves must have been struck!
Sometime around 2014, I removed the majority of the articles, and kept just the most traffic-driving articles on the site. Due to the high number of hits the website used to get in the past, I have considered posting on the blog again, although the I don’t feel like the rammfan518 persona anymore.
As of July 2024, the site has 194,747 hits.
Notable Rants
Why Star Wars: Revan was a HUGE disappointment – where I describe what a massive let-down the novel Star Wars Revan was over the course of 7,000 words.
Lord of the Rings Conquest Review – A review that starts off level and then quickly devolves into anger talking about the game’s bad controls. The rant continues when I bring up the game’s canonical differences from Tolkien lore. Perhaps the most nerd-rage thing I have ever written.
The Legend of Drizzt and Why I Stopped Reading – A lengthy article where I explain how the Drizzt series of R.A. Salvatore went down in quality with subsequent books. This one received a lot of heat from his horde of loyal fans.
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II was a piece of crap…and how it could have been done better – where I take the truly dreadful, lazy, canon-breaking plotline of Star Wars: Force Unleashed II to task, and offer up an alternate take on the story.
The House M.D. Plot Formula – where I explain the plot formula for every episode I had seen of House, M.D. In truth, I had not seen many, but when I was forced to watch the show, it felt like I was watching the same episode over and over.
Feisty Reader Comments
Here is a short collection of comments from adoring fans of my articles:
From Jan 22, 2009: “my guess is that you just dont have any taste for good reading, so you can go and finish reading that collective lump of shit known as the twilight series, cuz someone without any ability to appreciate actual writing isnt worth my time.”
From Jan 29. 2009: “*smacks the writer of this*”
From June 10, 2010: “the books are genius and if u had any idea about forgotten realms nd all tht jazz then ud think so too so quit ur bitchin. seriously u deserve a smack by R.A salvatore himself. love the books and always will”
From July 30, 2011: “I really feel like america fucked up by giving idiots like you the ability to voice there ignorant opinions. Nothing you say makes any sense whatsoever. You sound like someone who jacks off to the wheel of time series. Please kill yourself. This is also my first time ever posting on a blog, and im 22 have been reading since 5. I wish I could see you so I could knock your fuckin lights out ppl like you make me wanna buy a sniper rifle. Goodbye sir and I hope you grow up”
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