In other fabulous April news (quick before the month is over!), Geek and Sundry has been renewed for season 2 and its already begun airing brand new shows!! The announcement went live very close to April 1st, thankfully it wasn’t a joke and Geek and Sundry will remain alive and youtubing for another year. (Yes, I just turned youTube into a verb!)
Much of the show line up has changed and though I’m sad to see Sword and Laser go, I am super happy that Space Janitors finally has new episodes. It is by far the most entertaining show I’ve seen on youTube, probably ever. Then again I don’t go in for most of the reality based stuff that youTube panders.
But the best thing to come out of this announcement was the message that Felicia Day shared in her announcement video. After lamenting the commodification and hate mongering that has become the Geek online life, she made a call for taking it back, to honor the Geek we want to be regardless of anyone else’s opinion. “Your Judgment is not my problem” sums is up quite well and is a sentiment that I can fully support. Go Felicia Day!
Real life has been busy of late, which of course means I dont write as much. Well not online anyway.
Lots of writing on paper, that ancient style of keeping records, which is quite appropriate since I have vaulted myself in the nebulous world of Game Mistressing. I am quite privileged to have my first GM experience include introducing six young ladies to this fabulous past time. Its a huge responsibility, but I am taking the fact that non of them wanted to stop playing after two and half hours as a sign that I did something right.
When the husband and I first conceived of this idea, we debated which system to use. We finally settled on Pathfinder (aka Dungeons and Dragons 3.75 and not WoTC). Having now played it, also for the first time (lots of firsts today), I have to say that its a really great system that keeps the core of what made D&D 3.5 great, but enhances is just enough to heighten playability. Its really well done.
Since we were all so new to the system, we took advantage of their beginners set. But I wasn’t going to stop there, when in doubt, buy more books. Did I mention I’ve been reading a lot of late? The Patherfinder Players Book is quite impressively hefty.
The great thing about the beginners box is that it made creating my own little story quite easy. Everything I needed to know in one small book.
For anyone wanting to get into pen and paper RPGs, I highly recommend the Pathfinder system. Its satisfyingly meaty, while still maintaining ease of play.
In an effort to avoid turning TFG into a Puzzle and Dragons blog, I am confining all my latest PnD stuff to one post. I’ve been saving up, be warned. =D
I was lucky enough to play on two different servers with two very different, yet awesome guilds. Inner Loop (last post’s pictures) ended up being my raiding guild, while Fourth Wall was my role playing guild. (Yup, I am that nerdy!)
While my bard in the Fourth Wall guild never made max level, she had a ton of really silly fun. Some of the best stories came out of spending time with these crazy people. =P
Look at me already being more productive! I finally updated my reading challenge for 2012 (I know, totally overdue!) and even though I managed to read 80 books last year, it only came to 25,860 pages. Bleh, that’s what I get for reading graphic novels. Ah well.
Onward to 2013s challenge, 100 books or 40,000 pages, whichever I manage first. (If last year is any indication I have no hope at 40k pages.) =P
New Years Eve at our house has evolved into an almost forgotten holiday and thus tends to be a quite affair. Having done the whole crazy, drunk, excessive, crowded party plenty of times, I find myself quite happy to leave it all behind for some snuggling and champagne. (Really! The idea of being sandwiched in amongst thousands of drunk, sweaty bodies is singularly unappealing.)
This year I took advantage of the guaranteed quiet evening at home and built myself a new computer.
For anyone who hasn’t kept up with my sporadic posting, my husband built himself a new computer as an anniversary present. And though I claimed that I would wait for a new computer until our next anniversary (I tried to wait, I really did!), I only made it as far as the New Year.
That’s me playing Guild Wars 2 on my Desktop PC with chocolate and port and tea. My husband’s computer is directly to the left of mine. Side by side gaming. =)
Its so messy, but that’s all for authenticity, yeah. Authenticity. Lets call it that. =D
I’m a big fan of pets, from D2’s Necromancer with his hoard of minions to Pokemon’s wide selection of tamed battle pets. Maybe it’s just that I like minions, but I often find games where I have the option of having pets/minions as helpers, preferable. This is opposed to the games like Nintendogs, where the entire game revolves around the pets. Not that I don’t like these games, they are after all very cute and lovable, but I definitely prefer to go on adventures with my pets.
Though I really enjoy the hoard of mindless minions like the Necromancer’s skeletons, or the imps in Overlord, or Pikman, they aren’t very permanent. In Overlord the entire point is to sacrifice your minions, which makes it rather difficult to get overly attached to them.
Pokemon made this leap from random mass of pets, by encouraging each one be named. Not that I ever did this, because I was devoted to Pikachu. SOOOOOOOOooooo adorable. It was a hard day for me when I finally realized that Pikachu was not a very strong combatant. Never the less, Pikachu was certainly my first favorite pet. (Don’t even get me started on how much Pikachu paraphernalia I had.)
My geekiest pet award goes to my hunter dino pet that I named Grimlock. Though I originally thought that hunters in World of Warcraft would be pet collectors, akin to Pokemon Trainers, they ended up having a very limited selection of pets. This means that I chose my pets very carefully, thus Grimlock came about. Turns out that the Beast Master spec at the time was a total waste of space, so I had to give him up.
But they did put Battle Pets in WoW (probably to make it up to all those disappointed hunters) and my favorite for that is the very awesome Star Craft 2 Collectors Edition bonus pet, Mini Thor. What can I say; I have a soft spot for robots.
As for mounts, the game I play with the largest mount selection (!!!) is, by far, World of Warcraft (shocker!) And though I started my Warlock mostly because the class mount was a Nightmare and I really wanted to ride a flaming black horse, my current favorite is the very awesome Ice Skeleton Dragon mount (its actually called a Bloodbathed Frostbrood Vanquisher, but my name is really more descriptive.) =P
This is by far the best pumpkin carving I have ever seen. Maybe its the programmer in me, but a jack o’ lantern that doubles as a Tetris Game, COME ON! Win.
Wedding anniversaries are not usually a big deal around our house. Fancy dinner tends to be the height of our extravagance. But this anniversary marks ten years, which seemed like it was worth celebrating in style, geek style of course.
Like most couples we decided on a weekend get away at a fancy hotel. Unlike most couples, the hotel we picked was located near a Fry’s were we spent one of our weekend days shopping for a new computer, computer parts to be exact. Building of said computer commenced once we returned home.
Work in progress
New computer – his anniversary gift; him not complaining about his crappy computer anymore – my anniversary gift. Well that and the fancy hotel. Reveling in the luxury was definitely a highlight of the weekend, between room service, the enormous bed, and the pool sized tub, I couldn’t have asked for a better experience. I must have taken five baths over the course of the weekend. It was clearly impossible for me to resist the gigantic bathtub.
It was really the most perfect weekend we could have planned for ourselves – relaxing and fun, plus a new computer, which is pretty awesome. I’m a little jealous now.
Anyway here are the Computer Specs:
Finished product.
Cooler Master HAF XM Mid Tower
Intel Core i7-2600 Processor LGA 1155
Zelman CNPS9900 CPU cooler
ASUS P8 Z77-V LX Motherboard
ASUS DirectCU II OC GeForce GTX 660Ti Video Card
16GB DDR3 – 2133MHz
256 GB SSD Crucial M4 Drive
Seagate Barracuda internal Drive 2TB
LG Super Multi BLUE Internal BD-ROM/DVD Rewriter 12x
Cooler Master Silent Pro Gold 800W Power Supply
Windows 7
In other fabulous April news (quick before the month is over!), Geek and Sundry has been renewed for season 2 and its already begun airing brand new shows!! The announcement went live very close to April 1st, thankfully it wasn’t a joke and Geek and Sundry will remain alive and youtubing for another year. (Yes, I just turned youTube into a verb!)
