So I opened up the comments to anyone meaning that there was no log in required. I was getting a lot of email spam and was hoping to cut it down.
Result: email spam went down, but comment spam skyrocketed!!
Conclusion: Though time is saved on email, more time is spent on comment culling. Thus for authors sanity’s sake requiring log in for commenting is suggested.
There you have it folks. I am choosing sanity over open commenting. Sorry.
So I was going do a little bragging dance about how I got a Diablo 3 Beta key and all (yaay me!) but it turns out that my version crashes at the character selection screen.
My Diablo 3 beta experience is all in technical support right now. Which by the way has been pretty responsive.
Am hoping that I will get a chance to play…someday…before the beta is done. =(
<3<3<3 to my husband for getting me the beta key. <3<3<3
This dastardly tale begins in a rather well lit game store – a surprisingly clean and well-organized game store, which is probably why our fair heroin enjoys shopping there. Though only on days when she can afford too, as every trip into the well organized and friendly game store results in purchases.
This particular day is no different as she discovers a new wonder, a miracle, a fabulous gem of a game and thus cannot leave the store without it. ‘Dungeons and Dragons – the Wrath of Ashardalon’ calls to her like a siren and she is helpless to resist. (See why she avoids going into the store?!!?)
Giddy with anticipation, she hauls the gigantic box to the counter. The weighty game promises not only cooperative game play, but also loads of figures and tokens and tiles and cards; all wrapped up with a nice Dungeons and Dragons bow.
Long has our heroin mourned the loss of a regular pen and paper RPG night. Might this game fill some of this void? Mayhap the friendly clerk at the store spoke the truth by calling the game a simplified Dungeon and Dragons for busy people.
Thus she called together her fair adventurers (yup, three dudes) and they set forth on their journey to vanquish Ashardalon, with a detour to Castle Ravenloft.
They invited me back for the podcast, suckers! Muaahahahhahaha! They being the guys (and gal) over at theMultitap.com.
Go listen, http://themultitap.com/?p=774, but remember NSFW. (Possibly NSFB either.)
And for the record I do not endorse anyone’s opinion but my own! Don’t get paid nearly enough for that. =P
This whole name thing has been on my mind a lot. Much can be conveyed in a name; especially in online situations where they are often the first impressions others will have of us.
This is particularly true in a game like World of Warcraft, where the name choice is one of the only character customizations allowed.
Here a name becomes a way to stand out and be unique, a way for people to remember and recognize each other. This name represents us in the game!
Which is why I am surprised when people pick such terrible names. Strangely enough these poorly chosen names still tend to be pretty accurate personality wise, but I would think people would want to put their best foot forward and not necessarily announce their asshole status to the world.
There are of course plenty of inconspicuously named characters that turn out to be dicks and assholes, but why advertise?
With Zynga’s purchase of the Words with Friends title, it was only a matter of time before the onslaught of ‘with friends’ titles began. I am positive that ‘Hanging with Friends’ is mainly the flagship, the forerunner in the ‘with Friends’ campaign that Zynga will launch on the social and mobile networks. Quantity over quality does seem to be their modus operandi.
But my Words with Friends devotion overshadowed any Zynga concerns and so I tried the new Hanging with Friends.
Oh, Final Fantasy! So many great memories!! What a Legacy!!
This is 13 after all!! What other game series has come out with this many titles and remains as successful? It’s quite incredible really.
And yet, after playing this version, I wonder how the franchise has managed to hang on this long. Legacy coattails?
Last night I was wrapping presents and wanted something to watch to make the process a bit more entertaining. After perusing the instant watch list on Netflix, G.I. Joe seemed like the a good brainless option.
Its brainless alright. Beyond brainless really and more like the worst movie of all time!
I say this as a lover of bad movies, a believer in the “B” genre, and a devout snide commentator. Even all my childhood G.I.Joe nostalgia wasn’t enough to save this movie. (I played with GI Joe figures for crying out loud, there is nostalgia there!! Though it might be dead now.)
The plot made no sense, the script was irritating, the characters were strange, plus there were like five million of them which made it impossible to keep track. Just terrible. I found almost nothing forgivable about the movie. The CG was fine. Oh and it did encourage me to hurry up with my wrapping.
Worst movie ever! Not even going to bother rating it. Its so bad I’m embarrassed to say I watched as much of it as I did. Turned it off fifteen minutes before the end because I was done with my present wrapping and had no interest in watching any more. Spare yourself, avoid this movie.
Its amazing how much I can get done when I’m not playing World of Warcraft twenty-ish hours a week. (I might be underestimating a bit there…)
I can do things like take long, luxurious, sudsy baths or post more often on my site. CRAZY!
/sigh I miss WoW. All this productivity is getting too me.
(edit for clarification: I miss the OLD WoW! The new fancy “we changed everything without actually really affecting any change” can suck my a$$!)
As the Gamer Girl/Geek Girl phenomenon has taken off, more and more lovely young ladies have taken up the cry of nerdhood to ply their warez. And though I enjoy cheering them on from my very happily anonymous sidelines, one question does arise for me: are these really geek girls or are they just publicity hos?
