Token Female Gamer

Santa brought me a new Xbox 360, which should be good right? It is, in that I can finally finish Portal 2. But I’m still bummed that our old Xbox which had so little actual run time, crapped out. I don’t relish giving more money to a company that made such a crappy product.

While the new Xbox is actually really great (pains me to say). It is far smaller, much cuter, and so unexpectedly quiet. But it also didn’t have any of my saved games on it. Get this, to get my saved games off of my old Xbox I would have had to purchase a special wire to facilitate the transfer. More money to Microsoft? Hell No! Thankfully a friend of ours offered to download all the hard drive content to a USB drive. So now I really can finish Portal 2.

Santa’s gift, though mostly necessary, wasn’t really what I wanted. Thankfully my family came through with these awesome Star Wars lunch boxes. I might just have to find some excuse to go back to school. Picnic maybe?

To go along with the lunch boxes, were Marvel and Star Wars cookie cutters. My holiday baking will obviously have to continue!

I hope you all had a wonderful holiday season.

<3 TFG

The single iPad in our house really belongs to my husband. This has never posed a problem, as I haven’t found much use for it. Then he shared Battleheart with me. This addictive little game is almost good enough to cause iPad fights.

Although Battleheart is a very accomplished game, the few items of great annoyance have tempered my addiction enough to save us from having to purchase iPad #2. =)

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This is brilliant! These folks figured out how to make a wedding album worth sharing.

http://mlkshk.com/p/69H1

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

Last month I received an email from a Josh, who was kind enough to say that his wife and he enjoyed reading the site. (Yaaay! Thanks!) Also that he opened a shop on Etsy called Dice Designs.

Curious, I checked out the site. Its a cute little shop that sells the perfect accessories for any girl D&D gamer, jewelry made out of dice. =D

Turns out that there is a whole market of geeky jewelry on Etsy. Places like Josh’s that sell earrings and necklaces out of dice (quite fetching really) and then there are other places that make a variety of computer game jewelry and various accessories.

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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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December 10th is ‘Support Girl Geeks Everywhere By Wearing Star Wars Gear’ day.

All came about from a blog post about a little adopted girl who got teased for liking Star Wars. The whole thing has the interwebs of geeks up in arms! Which has resulted in the facebook event of the month!!

Bust out all those Star Wars tee shirts and let geek pride shine. =)

<3 TFG

ps. I spent quite a bit of time trying to find an actual star wars shirt today. Turns out I don’t own any. FOR SHAME!! So I’m borrowing one of my husbands shirts. Not passing up on this!

A few more articles about Katie and her sudden Star Wars fame. =)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jenna-busch/may-the-force-be-with-kat_b_786657.html
http://www.cnn.com/2010/LIVING/12/09/katie.starwars.geek/index.html

It’s always a pleasant surprise when a sequel manages to exceed its predecessor’s fun value. By retaining the chewy inner nugget of goodness and strengthening the original game’s weak points, Super Mario Galaxy 2 certainly succeeds.

From what I have read it wasn’t actually supposed to be a full-fledged sequel, but more of a continuation – a bit more fun to be had. But I guess the developers were inspired because it ended up as a bit too much more. =)

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Our Sunday was spent amongst the mass of people, sixty thousand strong, at Maker Fair. I will venture to say that it was crowded, and it took me about an hour to find parking, but every second of discomfort was worth it to see the incredible inventions of these amazing people.

It was our first time going and we were not really prepared. Turns out almost the entire event was held outside. Yeah I read convention hall and figured no need for sunscreen and hats.

And one day? What were we thinking??? It was not nearly enough time to experiance the entire event.

We finally left the event sunburned and exhausted, but it was so incredibly worth it. People have made some crazy, ingenious, awesome, and beautiful stuff. And really I can’t not love an event where I can say: “Lets go see the burning thing over there!”

<3 TFG <– will be going next year, all weekend!!