Token Female Gamer

Fantasy Football Champion ‘09, that’s me!

I ended up drafting first, which might have helped, but then I’m never sure who to draft, thus my draft order is always a bit wonkey. Never the less I got a team that started out a bit slow but ramped up nicely.

The team finished the season middle of the pack and as luck would have it, most of my players actually participated in the final fantasy playoff weeks.

I dedicate this win to Wes Welker ~sniff sniff~ who kept us strong but had to leave us at the end for a serious knee injury.

Thank you team! I couldn’t have done it without you. =)

<3 TFG

Even though it might like to disguise this fact, Goodreads.com is still very much a social networking site. Oh it might hide its overall intention with books, but without a community to rate and discuss the books, it would be one very dry site indeed.

I recently joined a group – a far more actively social section of the site. Groups are essentially forums that link into the Goodreads database allowing for easy book linking and displaying. They provide a place to discuss and share about the group topic.

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I’m sure everyone under the sun (or should I say hiding from the sun) has seen this already, but I just couldn’t refrain from posting it. Simply because its AWESOME!

It turned out to be an add campaign for season three of The Guild. As far as advertisement goes, I found this music video to be not only effective but also extremely enjoyable. =)

(Its not that often that I actually enjoy an advertising campaign. In general I find most advertisements to be more of an unwelcome intrusion.)

Besides Felicia Day wrote the lyrics (and sings) and they are hilarious, especially if you have ever played on an MMO.

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Long have I been a hater of social networking sites. The idea of sharing personal information with the world is completely unappealing. Posting every single detail of ones life, like the need to defecate, or which restaurant is currently being eaten at, is incredibly strange and distasteful to me.

First of all, I don’t really want to know most of that stuff about other people. Second, I am much more interested in living my life then writing about it or reading about someone else living theirs (this is a very similar problem I have with games like The Sims.) And probably most important, I am an intensely private person, sharing is not something I do naturally.

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Like most things ‘online social’, I found out about this via email invitation. This sneaky invitational spam, propagated by well meaning friends and email contacts, is usually the first thing to be deleted; yet the avid reader in me just couldn’t ignore this. (That’s how they getcha!)

At first glance I though ‘oh no not another social obligation site’, but with not much digging it became apparent that Goodreads is indeed about books and not just a clever front for social networking. Oh sure people review books and everyone gets their two cents, people friend each other and even authors get a chance to promote their own books, but in the end the books stand for themselves.

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Since my last top five list revealed the serious lack of quality in game to movie adaptations, I thought I would follow up with some great online material.

While there are a ton of game related videos out on the web, it has been challenging to find the ones of higher quality. All of these were given to me via web word of mouth, aka group emails.

Be warned, some of these are not kid or workplace friendly.

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Web Comics have become a dime a dozen (sort of like web blogs ~cough~ lost in the crowd ~cough~). I gave up looking for new ones long ago and subsequently only check out unknowns by referral. Even then it takes something special too hook me.

Well tonight I ran across just such a comic. The beginning was cute and entertaining enough to keep reading, and then I reached panel #77. It knocked me off my chair, I laughed so hard.

So I want to share.

Yet Another Fantasy Gamer Comic

This is definitely going to stay on my links page.

Enjoy! <3
Token Female Gamer

ps, thanks darktouch for the referral! =D

I thought it was about time for a new look, after all it has been over a year now. Time for TFG to grow up a little, move away from the pinky purple, into the grey purple!

Okay so really my web hosting service told me I had to upgrade my Wordpress or they would shut down the site (yeah its been that long!) Anyway I thought it was probably a good idea to just update the whole thing all at once. Spring cleaning as it were. =)

But being a programmer at heart, all the artsy stuff was rather agonizing for me, thus it too far longer then I expected to come up with something I (and my Husband) would like.

I managed something, somehow. Still lots of little fixes to do, and if you find anything severely broken please let me know!!

Hope you like the new look!

<3

Token Female Gamer

The end of 2008 has seemed like a mad dash to complete everything. Fantasy Football wrapped up just last weekend, Seasonal Achievements in World of Warcraft are coming to an end, and Animal Crossing has been peppered with day long, not to miss extravaganzas.

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In fantasy football that is. I even managed fourth place (out of ten) with and 8-6 (wins-losses) record.

This last week was a huge win for my team, even though Antonio Gates (TE) didn’t have a single catch. MVP will have to go to the Arizona Defense who scored 21.50 points. Nice!

The previous two weeks are hardly worth mentioning. My team was crushed both times. Last week, my benched players outscored my actual players. Dismal.

Now I just need to convince Payton Manning to pass to Reggie Wayne again for the playoffs. =D

<3
TFG