Token Female Gamer

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.

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

SWTOR was released yesterday. The official ‘buy it in the store’ version; the beta has been floating around a while now. Never had the time to play it in beta, even though I got a few invites.

A new MMORG always has me hesitating. It’s a big commitment and most of them are just so disappointing, its better to set expectations low to avoid total heartbreak. But the husband wanted to try it, so I went out and picked up two copies yesterday.

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It’s time for the Fantasy Football playoffs, for the rest of the folks in my league anyway. That’s right, I finished LAST!
An abysmal year for me. My worst yet! Ah well, lesson learned. Put a bit more time into it. =P

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/

Guess its time for another Fantasy Football update. The news isn’t good.

My team is currently 2-9. That’s right, two wins, two losses. That puts me firmly at the bottom of my league’s pile. Though in my defense I do have the most points scored against me.

Take this past week for example. I scored 84 points, my opponent 115. Clear win, yet had I played almost anyone else in my league I would have won. The second highest score for the week was 90 points. Just my luck that on a poor scoring week I get to play the one exception. ~sigh~

So only three weeks left before Fantasy Football Playoffs. Since only the top 8 of 10 will make it, I am pretty sure that I have no chance.

Poot!

Misfortune came to me as an email suggestion. I do try and accommodate such requests, though it sometimes takes me a while to find the time. I was also suffering under the misconception that this was a social game, which only enhanced my reluctance, but as I said, misconception.

While there are options to share your progress with the world, these do not seem to be required or automatic. Something I appreciate. =)

The game is in fact a browser based single player RPG with a decidedly Steampunk Piratey slant.

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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

So the new World of Warcraft expansion was announced at Blizz Con this past weekend. Titled Mists of Pandaria, it features a brand new race. The panda, sorry, Pandarians (yup, walking talking Pandas!)

Had to be a joke! After the april fools joke that featured the large cuddly bears, Blizzard swore up and down that Panadarians would never be a playable race in World of Warcraft. Which makes me think they are seriously running out of ideas.

The whole story even reads like a joke. And yet April is still five months away.

So not a joke, just another dubious design choice from the WoW team. It’s certainly not a confidance building announcement for me. My WoW time has already dwindled to almost nothing.

Though I will try the new Panda race and give the new Monk class a whirl, its going to have to be pretty spectacularly fabulous to keep me playing. And it might be. I do have a small amount of eternal hope left.

Final judgment will be reserved for after release. Until then I will continue to avoid Cataclysm as much as possible. =)

If this were Football in my fantasy world, my team would be scoring better (shocking, I know!). But alas I have to share with everyone in my league and thus have to play ‘fair’. (Poot!) I should really reclassify it as Horror Football, as that would be far more accurate to my current experience. =P

Currently my team is 1-4 and that is with me switching people around. Picked up Eli Manning (who did awesome this week!) and Jermaine Gresham who is better than my old TE.

Not that any of that matters as my opponents seem to be rolling in the luck. Last week my opponent played Aaron Rodgers, you know the week that Mr Rodgers essentially played the entire offensive side by himself, with 408 yards passing, 4 passing touch downs, and 2 rushing touchdowns. Ridiculous. Aaron Rodgers alone almost outscored my entire team last week.

This week I had such high hopes. And I was doing great, ten points ahead by the end of Sunday. We both have one team member to go. Tight End vs Line Backer, could have gone either way. Monday night, I loose by three points. =(

And so I am 1-4. Horrific. ~sigh~