Token Female Gamer

You know that nasty illness that’s been going around and lasts forever. Well I got it. I can’t breath through my nose and I’m hacking up a lung every five minutes.

And we are moving (IRL) at the end of the month. So I’m trying desperately to pack everything but the computers and the TV and have an Internet connection set up before I move. Important stuff.

But being sick and packing dont mix well, and for some stupid reason I can’t make myself get extra sleep because I might miss a raid. Plus we got the second season of Chuck on DVD, so I really can’t convince myself to sleep.

Stupid I know.

<3 TFG

Professor Layton returns to us in this fabulous continuation of his puzzle solving and crime busting adventures. And he certainly doesn’t disappoint, with a mysterious murder, a stolen box, and a town shrouded in mystery.

Love, redemption and curiosity fulfilled await us at the end of the journey and it is well worth the effort.

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November completed with flying colors (okay I actually finished the last page on the last the thirtieth, but I still finished!), its time for a brand new reading challenge in the wonderfully cold month of December! Should be interesting to see how much I actually get to reading with all the holidays and events this month is filled with.

So here are the rules for Dec ’09:

December’s challenge is called To Be Read (TBR) Clean-up Challenge.
DURATION: Dec. 1, 2009 – Dec. 31, 2009

Here are the rules:
1. Pick 9 books from your current physical TBR pile (preferably books that have been there for quite some time). Also pick 6 more books as ‘alternate’ reads just in case.

Unlike previous challenges, once you put up this list, you CANNOT CHANGE it. However, you can drop down to an alternate book, if you really cannot finish a book that you have selected in your original list. Fair enough?

Excellent Challenge as my bookshelf is starting to overflow. Here are my picks (only the most cultured literary list to be found anywhere ~snort~):

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The outside of the house we live in is being painted, which means there is a huge mess of scaffolding covering the entire front. This includes our front stairs with five feet of clearance, and two treacherous low hanging bars to duck underneath.

Its the second bar that got me. Jumped me while I was just minding my own business, walking up the stairs to my front door and WHAM!

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…Finding them.

Once resigned to the fact that PUGs are necessary and need to be suffered, finding them becomes the challenge.

Sadly in World of Warcraft the Looking for Group function is horrible. It is incredibly limited and hardly anyone seems to use it.

On my server the big alternative is the trade channel. This channel is only available while inside a major city. Since it is literally the only channel that gets used with any frequency everyone joins it, the good, the bad, and the ugly. Imagine every PUG experience rolled into one very overused channel. It’s awful and I avoid it as much as possible.

Overall finding PUGs is not that easy, especially if you are a damage (DPS) class, as they tend to be a dime a dozen. Either you sit in town reading through agonizing trade chat, or you join the severely limited in game Looking for Group feature.

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One of the suggestions that I got from my WoW raiding 101 write up was that I hadn’t mentioned anything about PUGs and how those should affect peoples class role choices.

PUG – Acronym for the phrase ‘pick up group’ – meaning to play as a team with random people.

Pick up groups are something most aspiring raiders will have to deal with, especially in World of Warcraft as it is today. Unless of course gifted with a very dedicated set of friends to play with, or part of a large guild that has enough daily active members to provide frequent group and raid buddies.

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Geeky Teen Girl Romance!

As a general rule I tend to pick up anything that involves the words ‘gamer’ and ‘girl’ (or various forms thereof). Those two words have been tough to find in the same paragraph, much less in the same sentence. Clearly the machines that drive capitalism have scented a new market as these words have been showing up together far more often.

Gamer Girl completely capitalizes on the newest trend in geekyness; girls play computer games too! The thing that rankles most about the whole ‘targeted market’ is that the book is merely a standard teen romance novel coated with a layer of geek.

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Its time for the November Challenge!

November’s Challenge is a hybrid version of the popular A-Z challenge format. This month’s challenge is called Characters Alphabet Parade Challenge.
I have divided the alphabet into 9 groups and your goal is to match characters from your chosen books whose first or last names start with one of the given letters.

1. A/B 2. C/D/E 3. F/G/H 4. I/J/K 5. L/M/N 6. O/P/Q 7. R/S/T 8. U/V/W 9. X/Y/Z

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Definitely harder to find character names out of books I haven’t read, but after some juggling I managed an acceptable list to match. Looking forward to reading them all.
Now that I’m four months into this, I’m finding it easier and easier to finish the books on time. I finished the October list with two days to spare! =)

<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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It’s been two weeks and I can’t seem to get anything done for the site. I sit and sit and stare at the computer and play WoW. (Of course I’m still playing World of Warcraft!)

But really I can’t blame WoW for my lack of posting, because I was in full throttle WoW mode long before my writer’s block showed up. (In fact it’s taken me five days just to write this little blurb.)

I blame Sookie and Elf Porn.

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