Token Female Gamer

I finally updated my pages read yesterday and something tells me that I might not make the 50k pages I was aiming for. Granted I still have 26 days left, which is only 636 pages a day.

Yeah that’s not going to happen. Oh well. I still managed to read 94 books, giving me a fair chance at hitting 100 books this year. So yaay.

Moving right along, ElfQuest was one of my all time favorite graphic novels when I was younger. I just found out that every single edition is online!! http://www.elfquest.com/gallery/OnlineComics3.html

Not quite as good as the real thing, but since they are all out of print I thought it a pretty decent find. =)

Super awesome bonus, someone made a fan film. It’s all the female characters which is great, but thats only half the story. Ah well. Its quite impressive production quality. http://elfquestfantrailer.com/

Felicia Day is my heroine!! If I were a famous actress, this is exactly the sort of thing I would want to do. Running around pretending to be a heroic elf, awesome!

And she wrote this!!!

The show is actually really well done and so worth the ten minutes it takes to watch the first three episodes. Watch it and support the awesomeness that is Felicia Day. =)

Dragon Age: Redemption Episode 1
Dragon Age: Redemption Episode 2
Dragon Age: Redemption Episode 3

Finally a win in Fantasy Football. The previous two weeks were dismal. Really poor showing with almost the lowest scoring team both weeks. And then week 3 breaks through like a kick return for a touch down!

Fantasy Football is back!! I might actually pay attention to my team again.

Matt Schaub, even though he lost, still threw for 373 yards and 3 touchdowns. Mike Wallace managed 144 recieving yards and a touchdown. And the fabulous New York defense sacked the QB twice and intercepted the ball 3 times, all while only allowing 16 points to be scored on them.

Go team! Ra Ra!

As we were strolling through our neighborhood this afternoon, we saw this hilarious cake displayed in a local bakery. Sorry for the poor picture quality, but cellphone picts were my only option at the time.
Never the less its a great looking cake. Feast your eyes. =D

Title: (Big) Boggle Boardgame

I would have never thought of myself as a word game fan. My Scrabble skills are horrendous at best, even Bananagrams is a challenge, but then it really comes down to my horrible spelling. At least that is what I blame my aversion to word games on. But Boggle changed all that.

Boggle is about creating words out of a fairly large pool of random letters. Short words are encouraged, the more the better. And since there is no need to fit the words on to a board in a specific manner, all that really matters is that it’s a legal word. Yaay!

So I may be a crappy speller, but I certainly can manage a few short words. And even if I did misspell a word, it wouldn’t matter much because there are always plenty more words that I did manage to actually spell correctly.

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Ack I am slacking this month. Too much RL stuff planned.
Onward:

Stephen Fry Serenade – This cracks me up and gets stuck in my head all at the same time. If that talented lady wrote an album dedicated to Steven Fry I would so buy it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGYEMXoVHUs&feature=player_embedded

Julia Sweeny – sex ed video! Tears. Laughed so hard.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ry-LwxR746s&feature=player_embedded

How to make great female characters in games – OMG make them human, the secret is out! (DUH!)
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/extra-credits/2868-True-Female-Characters

Simon Pegg and Nick Frost’s Star Wars (HAHAHAHAHAHA!) Then again they could be talking about dirty socks and it would be funny.
http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1949406

From the awesome Pokemon group: Set Pokemon free! – This is the current theme in Pokemon Black and White. Its nice seeing these guys explore the topic a bit. Hehe.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YfWR438wkg&feature=player_embedded

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Scott Pilgrim vs. the World is a romantic comedy with superhero and computer game tendencies. Scott meets the girl of his dreams and must face down her evil ex-boyfriends to date her.

At first glance this movie seems like just another quirky Michael Cera movie, but blindly lumping it into that odd collection would be a huge injustice. The awesomeness of this movie really sneaks up on you. Not until the end is the full extent of this movie’s brilliance recognizable.

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The Kirby franchise has never really drawn me, nor have the previous Kirby games I played impressed me much. But with all the fabulous reviews that Kirby’s Epic Yarn was pulling in, I admit I was curious.

So I set my expectations low, partially because it is a Kirby game, but mostly because I don’t often agree with the average reviewer. Those favorable reviews have sucked me in before, sucked me in a burned me!!

With low expectations and lots of caution I sat down to play the game and was blown away. I was simply stunned at how fabulous it was – mouth agape shocked!

It’s simple, it’s fun, it’s light, it’s cute, but most importantly it’s the most adorable game ever made.

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I just recently discovered the Cake Wrecks site and its been making me giggle ever since. I know I’m a bit slow considering the site has archives back three years and has been featured on dozens of other websites. But even this delayed its well worth sharing. =D

But its even better, because the author of Cake Wrecks started another site called EPBOT.com. A fun geek (crafty) girl blog. At first I was skeptical (always am of crafty sites!), but just the other day she posted probably about the most awesome tee shirt of all time. If there was any doubt left about the site being worthy, linking this shirt instantly trampled it all to bits.

Best shirt EVAR! Only failing, no woman’s sizes!! Seriously, that was one of my favorite childhood movies of ALL time, and they cant make at least a girl shirt. Booo! /sigh

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