Blog / 0verhyped

Ever look back on your life and have regrets? I did. And instead of bettering myself I decided to just bitch about it on a blog.

— Jaded X. Gamer

0verhyped is a confessional blog by Jaded X. Gamer, a jaded former member of the gaming community who spent a year writing about his misadventures with gaming (often caused by his own obsessive tendencies) and the community and industry surrounding it.

This blog provides examples of:

• Cluster F-Bomb: Lampshaded: in "Observed Weirdness of a Weblog", in which Jaded wonders why his WordPress statistics show that many Google searches for porn have linked to his blog. He realized that his common use of a certain four-letter word was the cause.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Heavily implied.
  • Jaded once mentioned his need to begin taking psychotic medications after attempting to strangle his brother.
• Easter Egg: The first image of almost every post links to something relevant to the topic (or just entertaining).
• Exactly What It Says on the Tin: The post category names.
• Lampshade Hanging: Common. Jaded once even lampshades his own lampshade hanging.
  • His FAQ is full of lampshades.
• Lucky Charms Title
  • Relpacing the O with a 0 is also employed in his categories:
    • 0ddities
    • 0ff-Topic
    • 0veranalyzed
    • 0verhyped
    • N0t Hyped
• Oddly Named Sequel 2: Electric Boogaloo: His sequel to "Observed Weirdness of a Weblog" is subtitled none other than "Electric Boogaloo".
• Pun
  • "Skyrim? I'm Tyrim of Hearing About It."
  • "Rob-Bing Microsoft A Few Pennies At A Time"
  • And the sequel post, "Ka-Bing! Milking Microsoft One Month Later"
  • "Was Metroid: Other M Sexist?: Part 4: Disasterpiece Theater"
• Review Blog: For video games, provided Jaded isn't complaining about his experiences with gaming.
• Self-Deprecation: Common, especially with regard to his nearly non-existent audience.
• Title Drop: One of his post categories is 0verhyped.

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