Awesome, forgotten blogs

Some years ago, I was an avid reader of a guy called Francesco Poli, who ran a blog called Videogames are Only for Those Who Deserve Them. He was one of the most prolific bloggers I have seen, writing somewhere around 800 posts a year. You would leave his blog open in a window, refresh it 10 hours later, and he would have posted three or four more dense 1k word slabs of hard-hitting game criticism. It was unbelievable.

His opinions were “unusual”. He was a borderline neo-Nazi, praised Microsoft, loathed Linux, and thought that Firefox and Thunderbird promoted communism. I didn’t always agree with him, of course, but in a blogosphere filled with left-wing liberals and whiny open-source fans, his opinions were a breath of fresh air.

Go here to see what he was capable of. He had a witty writing style that made his blog very easy to read. He seldom used curse words, although when he brought out the big guns and blasted a game he hated it was a sight to behold.

He had an encyclopedic knowledge of games. There seriously did not seem to be a single release for a single platform that he hadn’t at least looked at. And of course, there were his huge 10 thousand word end-of-year roundups that packed more entertainment than most gaming blogs manage in their lifetimes.

But one day, his blog went dark. He stopped writing posts, and eventually the blog was taken up by a cybersquatter. I have never heard or seen of him since, and only a few pages of his blog are available in internet cache.

To the chase…does anyone else remember this guy or know what happened to him?