Token Female Gamer

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

I might think of Facebook as a rather pointless time sink, but it does have some great features, like finding age old friends and keeping track of said friends. But what I enjoy the most is all the random stuff people share. Its a little window into strange and new webstuffs. =)

Sometimes its stuff that’s totally worth sharing.

Totally fun band that does great covers. Awesome!
http://www.youtube.com/user/PomplamooseMusic#p/c/F125407272F3C1A4/0/Uolz7V12evc

Pokemon Apocalypse Trailer – Hilarious!! Would totally go see this!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDX1m0Y2Vkg&feature=player_embedded#!

Elder Dragon Highlander – a different way to play Magic: TG. Sounds fun. Now if only I could get someone to play with me. =)
http://99edhproblems.com/2009/11/17/learning-how-to-play-edh/
http://www.dragonhighlander.net/rules.php

Fear of Girls — has to be watched to be believed. (NSFW!!!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Mp7Ikko8SI&feature=player_embedded

<3 TFG

Back in the day Warlock pets used to come with a new name every time you summoned them. Recently it was pointed out to me that this changed, meaning the pets now keep their names. The comment was that my warlock was lucky to have gotten a decent name assigned to her Voidwalker Pet.

And so I present to you Grass Moth, my own personal Voidwalker Pokemon!

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Token Female Gamer

Yesterday was the release of the new Pokemon game for the DS – Pokemon Platinum. Of course we got two copies, one for the husband and one for me, plus the strategy guide.

Its possible to play Pokemon without the guide, but it tends to make everything take twice as long. My use of the guide tends to be as a reference. I play in an area and once its been all explored I check back with the guide to see if I missed anything.

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I view Pokemon Ranch as wildly misunderstood by the general public. Whether this was due to bad publicity or lack of transparency I don’t know. (But lets face it the developer to user pipeline is infinitely flawed!)

Upon release the web waves were awash with the cries of foul – there is no real game, the graphics are crap, this is not the game we paid for, and so on.

Ultimately what was understated (or overlooked) is that this is not a standalone game. Most Pokemon games tend to be interconnected, but this game took it even farther. Pokemon Ranch became the game that linked all previous Pokemon games into one gigantic quest to capture Mew!

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