The Domain
2001 - 2005
For those unaware (which I would assume are most of you), I have been doing my stupid "writing about crap only I care about" thing for a long while. Back when everyone was putting their sites on Angelfire or Geocities, I created my little slice of the web, Darkmoon's Domain, and it was exactly as awful as you'd expect for a teenager. The tone of the articles was, essentially, conversationally belligerent, and I'm not at all certain why anyone read what I was posting. People did, I know, but it boggles my mind as to why.
Over time, a couple of friends volunteered to write a few articles for the site as well. At that point I dropped my online name from the title and it became "The Domain". It was still wretchedly written, but now in a collaborative sense.
And then eventually I deleted the site from the web. The site was awful and I was glad to be rid of it... but I did keep all the old articles around. And I really hate getting rid of anything I've saved. Thus, despite my protestations in the past that I was never going to post these articles, here are all the old Domain articles that I haven't, over the years, repurposed and reused in other projects.
These articles are bad. Read at your own risk. I simply post them to show just how far this site (and my own writing style) have come over the years.
Note: Dates posted are estimated, at best. Due to edits to their HTML templates, the actual dates these articles were written have been lost to time. Also some articles are missing as well. I preserved their original numbering, as I could, but any gaps in this archive will likely never be filled, sadly.
2005
- 04/12/2005: Where I Stand (Darkmoon's Rants #82)
- 04/05/2005: Stupid, Egotistcal, Bastards (Darkmoon's Rants #81)
- 03/30/2005: Freaking Over-rated Movie (The Graduate)
- 03/16/2005: A Hero is Needed... to Earn Money (Fable)
- 03/09/2005: Down with the Sith (Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic)
- 03/02/2005: From the Boob Tube (Darkmoon's Rants #76)
- 02/23/2005: Creativity (Darkmoon's Rants #75)
- 02/16/2005: Cagematch, Worf vs Wookie (Darkmoon's Rants #74)
- 02/09/2005: I Be Cubin' (Darkmoon's Rants #73)
- 02/02/2005: All My X-es (X-Men Legends)
- 01/24/2005: The Incredible, Edible X-Men (Astonishing X-Men Vol. 3: Book 1)
- 01/17/2005: Blog Blog... Grrr... (Darkmoon's Rants #70)
- 01/10/2005: Frying My Brain (Darkmoon's Rants #69)
- 01/03/2005: I Need a Hero (Hero)
2004
- 12/30/2004: Movies, Lots of Movies (Darkmoon's Rants #67)
- 12/09/2004: Flying Monkey Dragon Crane Ninja Lightning Kick (Shaolin Soccer)
- 12/02/2004: Time After Time (Darkmoon's Rants #63)
- 11/11/2004: Great Times at the University (Darkmoon's Rants #60)
- 10/29/2004: Time Rifts (Darkmoon's Rants #58)
- 10/22/2004: I'll Show You Texas Hospitality (Darkmoon's Rants #57)
- 10/15/2004: Damn You, Globes! (Darkmoon's Rants #56)
- 10/08/2004: Hyrulian Makeover (Darkmoon's Rants #55)
- 10/01/2004: Feelin' Kinda Goofy (Darkmoon's Rants #54)
- 09/03/2004: Explosions, IN YOUR FACE! (Worms 3D)
- 08/27/2004: Castlevania Gone Multiplayer (Darkmoon's Rants #49)
- 08/20/2004: Good Covers (Darkmoon's Rants #48)
- 08/13/2004: A Fairly Belated Look (Grand Theft Auto III)
- 07/30/2004: Fast Food and Toys, Glorious (Darkmoon's Rants #45)
- 07/09/2004: To Infinity... and Stuff... (Darkmoon's Rants #42)
- 05/28/2004: Praise Be (Saved!)
- 05/07/2006: It's Like a Million Arteries All Cried Out at Once (Super Size Me)
- 03/24/2004: The Cleaning Power of Dawn (Dawn of the Dead)
- 03/03/2004: So Bad It's Not Even Good at All (Darkmoon's Rants #38)
- 02/21/2004: The Final Frontier (Darkmoon's Rants #37)
- 02/04/2004: Damn You, FCC (Darkmoon's Rants #36)
- 01/28/2004: That Tree Looks Arty (Darkmoon's Rants #35)
- 01/22/2004: The Good Old Systems (Darkmoon's Rants #33)
- 01/19/2004: Do the Time Machine (Darkmoon's Rants #32)
- 01/16/2004: Word to My CV Homies (Darkmoon's Rants #31)
- 01/13/2004: Comics, Simply Comics (Darkmoon's Rants #30)
- 01/07/2004: This Really Just Boils Down to Another Rant on Fanboys (Darkmoon's Rants #28)
- 01/04/2004: It Goes With Me, Like a Bad Rash (Darkmoon's Rants #27)
- 01/01/2004: I Like Good Tracks and I Cannot Lie (Darkmoon's Rants #26)
2003
- 12/30/2003: Critics Suck (Yes, that Means I Suck, Too) (Darkmoon's Rants #25)
- 12/26/2003: Build a Better Slasher (Darkmoon's Rants #24)
- 12/22/2003: A Dash, a Double Dash, a Dishy-Dash (Mario Kart Double Dash)
- 12/18/2003: Comics to Movies (Darkmoon's Rants #22)
- 12/14/2003: Darkmoon vs. Ratings (Darkmoon's Rants #21)
- 12/09/2003: Behold, the NGage (Darkmoon's Rants #20)
- 12/02/2003: Going Old School (Gaming Classics)
- 12/02/2003: The Matrix Experience (Darkmoon's Rants #19)
- 11/25/2003: Gaming Mags Suck (Darkmoon's Rants #18)
- 11/19/2003: Blue Bomb Me (Mega Man X)
- 11/18/2003: Some Various Thoughts (Darkmoon's Rants #17)
- 11/11/2003: 2D vs 3D (Darkmoon's Rants #16)
- 11/04/2003: Sucky Games (Darkmoon's Rants #15)
- 10/29/2003: More on the Gaming Industry (Darkmoon's Rants #14)
- 10/01/2003: Thoughts on Music (Darkmoon's Rants #10)
- 09/12/2003: Flame Wars (Darkmoon's Rants #7)
- 09/05/2003: Thoughts on Religion (Darkmoon's Rants #6)
- 08/28/2003: The Castlevania of the Future (Darkmoon's Rants #5)
- 08/21/2003: A Castlevania Game by Any Other Name (Darkmoon's Rants #4)
- 08/14/2003: But What If I Wanna Play with Myself... errr... by Myself? (Darkmoon's Rants #3)
- 08/07/2003: No! No! Don't Take Both Pills... (Darkmoon's Rants #2)
- 08/02/2003: What's the Future of Nintendo? (Darkmoon's Rants #1)
2002
- 08/21/2002: Video Games are All About Getting Laid (Domain Rants #7)
- 04/26/2022: It's Uber-licious (Jason X)
2001
- 08/24/2021: Two Reviews Done at Different Times (Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back)
- 08/12/2001: Life and Loss (Domain Rants #1)