Token Female Gamer

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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In case you havn’t seen the new Modern Warfare 3 ad -  ‘The Vet & The n00b’, here is the youtube link. Really worth watching!

Harnessing the combined star power of  Jonah Hill as the n00b and Sam Worthington as the Vet and packing it into thirty seconds of action, comedy, and redemption, make this the most deviously effective commercial I have seen in a long time. I wouldn’t be surprised if MW3 sales double.

If I didn’t know better, I would want to go play the game. Sadly the game doesn’t come bundled with either Jonah or Sam. Bummer.

So I might have been a bit hasty in declaring all my Xbox problems solved. It turns out that the warranty is expired, which means it costs $99 to send it in to have fixed. Plus they dont guarantee anything. Red ring of death happens a month later, gotta pay another $99.

Our Xbox is like first generation 360. It’s huge, it’s loud, it’s old. Not really worth fixing.

But then the husband came back with this trick. (The multitap guys told me about it too, but I ignored them so husband gets full credit.) Wrap the whole console in towels to overheat it, thus rebooting the chip (or something like that anyway.) The video is a bit long and has strange filler, but I can tell you that it works. =)

Xbox is back to functioning, for a while anyway. Enough for me to at least get my saved game off the hard drive. But this means we will still eventually have to buy a new one. Now I just need to figure out what to get.

So according to the Xbox website, we have to send in our broken one to get it fixed. It takes about three weeks but hopefully this means we dont have to purchase a brand new one.

All good news! Only it will delay my finishing a few of the Xbox games I have laying around, like Portal 2. But Uncharted 3 came out today (PS3), which means my Xbox was going to be shelved for a while anyway.

Serendipity.

It’s official. The Xbox 360 is not coming back from the ring of death. A simple restart has ceased fixing that problem.

It’s good I have all this candy just laying around so I can drown my sorrows in chocolate.

And by sorrows I don’t mean mourning. I hate that stupid over priced, over hyped, noisy, and hugely fallible piece of crap machinery. No, I am sad about having to spend money on purchasing a brand new one so I can finish Portal 2.

Damn j00 Microsoft. ARG!!

Look what I got for Halloween – the treat of imminent Xbox failure. I might just have to take this opportunity and dress up as an Xbox Basher, sledge hammer included. Always wanted to see the insides of that thing. =)

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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. =)

Every year, around Halloween (or major conventions), this overwhelming urge to dress up (~cough~ Cosplay ~cough~) arises. I dream of elaborate costumes with complicated props and armor, running around pretending to be Wonder Woman or some fabulously giddy anime character.

I formulate a strategic plan of attack, what fabrics to use, which shoes to modify, and a basic timeline (which usually doesn’t take into account the 5 million other things I have to do). I research online, which is of course when reality sets in and I realize that I have neither the time nor the stamina to really pull it off.

But this month the Codex pre-made costume was released. Right up my alley in the geeky department and it’s the perfect amount of time commitment for me. (Codex is Felicia Day’s online character in the web series “The Guild”. WATCH THIS!)

I might be able to pull off a costume for this Halloween after all. =D

This is just too awesome not to share. Awesome and so very true.
http://www.dorkly.com/article/25398/fifteen-people-youll-see-at-every-nerd-convention?ref=nf
The only one they missed was a Storm Trooper.

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