Found this at a local Japanese store. I’m shocked they didn’t call this the Official Face Roller, but then the folks who named this probably had no idea. Yaay for engrish.
Next time someone in raid claims to be facerolling, I will know what (wtf?!) they are doing.
Yup, I finally got a gold membership. I feel like I’m slowly being sucked into a Microsoft pit of doom. First a new Xbox, now a gold membership and downloading games!
What prompted this conversion to the dark side? Friends.
Last night, I sat down to finally finish portal 2, when I noticed that I had a friend online. Never having seen a friend online before, I had to send a message (oh the novelty). Big mistake. Turns out other friends were online and Dungeon Defenders was on the docket and how could I not go play with them? Clearly all it takes for me to overcome my dislike of throwing money at Microsoft is pier pressure. Ten minutes later, I’m chatting with my buddies over a game of Dungeon Defenders.
Turns out the Dark Side is where all the fun is. Though I do feel a little dirty.
Happy Year of the Dragon!
This fabulous print is by Stephanie Pui-Mun Law of www.shadowscapes.com. Love her work so very much. <3
I didn’t know I had any firsts left in World of Warcraft. Then again I was pretty sure I was done raiding, so what the hell do I know. =P
Yup, for the first time ever, my warlock has her four piece tier set bonus. What makes this even more amazing is that it’s the current highest gear level. That’s right, tier 13.
The highest gear was only ever available to high end raiding groups, this means militaristic 25-40 people, methodically dying week after week, until the gear and learning curve were sufficient. Then it’s just grinding through the raid over and over. Sounds fun right?
Most like torture really. Loot hasn’t been much of a motivator to participate in such masochism, since the days of EverQuest anyway. And so I have forgone set piece completion in favor of sanity.
But with the latest patch, Looking for Raid (LFR) was added to the game. This is a cross server collection of 25 people, very much like the looking for group system. What makes this really work is that they dumbed down the encounters to such an extent that hardly any coordination is required and completing the event takes very little time.
So lots of success to be had in LFR, high end gear is finally available to all a wider range of players. But like all LF experiences you still have to deal with 24 other random people, replete with ninja looting, complaining, afk-ing, quitting, failing, and so forth.
Thankfully my warlock now has her 4 piece tier bonus, so I never have to LFR with her again. Sadly my druid isn’t quite as lucky.
Watch me procrastinate some more. =P
Actually these were some of the links I had saved up for a while. Might as well post them. Yaay FB, my source for fabulous, strange, and enthralling tidbits.
George Takai, the broker of space peace. Star Wars and Star Trek need no longer fight, because there is a new enemy in town. /bow Mr. Takai. Well played.
http://www.youtube.com/embed/mvTCr5Z-0lA
Mario Kart IRL. This would be so incredibly fun to do.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=N2dlREU0xT4
Voltron short film. Nice.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=1g6QJ5TfA7w
Sci-Fi Acapella sung by the Novis Acapella Group. Do you recognize them all? I missed a few. =(
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ht24mZ7W_r4
Cello Wars – Star Wars Parody, made me smile! Plus some crazy ass cellos.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgAlQuqzl8o&feature=share
I fight Dragons – The Geeks will inherit the earth. Best geek song I have heard in a while. ‘I Fight Dragons’ is actually the name of the band. Awesome.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Do61etbvpa4
Holy crap, my ‘Currently Playing’ list is getting a bit on the long side. I should really get my act together and start reviewing some of them, or I could break down and just rename the damn list to ‘Games I should really really review, if I wasn’t so busy avoiding said review by playing something new.’
That is a bit wordy (and oddly, rhymes), so I guess I will just stick with the original and GET OFF MY ASS.
Look at that. New years resolution. Win.
I do so love to close out most years with a glance back at my performance, be it cringe-tastic or worthy of a small pat on the back. Though I prefer the pats, I do tend to learn more from those cringy moments. =D
2011-
Reading Challenge didn’t go quite as well as I had hoped. I started off strong, but burned out around October. Though I only read 35,101 pages of the 50k I had planned, I still managed to hit the 100 books read tally. It does look like 50k pages is a bit ambitious, life is a bit too busy. Maybe I’ll aim for 40k this year.
91 Posts this year, eighteen of those reviews. Always a goal to ramp that up a bit and I think I managed that nearing the end of the year. One thing that helped was realizing that not everything I post has to be a five page dissertation. Soundbites are fine sometimes.
Tumblr was a big fail. I so don’t have time for extended social media. Sorry. What it really comes down to is that ultimately the site is here to give me an opportunity to get more writing in. Though I would like to get my post count up, I have more chance of succeeding, if that is what I focus on instead of trying to juggle various social media extensions.
Podcasting was fun, though its not something I’m very good at. Like all things, I would need more practice to get better at it. Though I have run out of spare time to do more Podcasts with the Mulititap folks, I might record some of my own. Eventually.
One great thing about having the site, is that it has encouraged me to branch out and try a larger variety of games. I think 2011 was particularly successful in this regard. (Taking a break from WoW was also a huge help.) =p
Knowing that I will be reviewing something also makes me struggle through more of the content. I’m always trying to give the game more of a chance, so I can review it with as much information on hand as possible.
Overall a pretty good year for TFG. Onward to 2012! <3
