Way back in the day I wrote a review for Geometry Wars.
A little quote from the article:
we couldn’t figure out what to call those thumb stick things on the controller. My favorite was Controller Nipples. Sounds much better then thumb sticks.
Well someone made a shirt!! Controller Nipples Shirt!!
I just recently discovered the Cake Wrecks site and its been making me giggle ever since. I know I’m a bit slow considering the site has archives back three years and has been featured on dozens of other websites. But even this delayed its well worth sharing. =D
But its even better, because the author of Cake Wrecks started another site called EPBOT.com. A fun geek (crafty) girl blog. At first I was skeptical (always am of crafty sites!), but just the other day she posted probably about the most awesome tee shirt of all time. If there was any doubt left about the site being worthy, linking this shirt instantly trampled it all to bits.
Best shirt EVAR! Only failing, no woman’s sizes!! Seriously, that was one of my favorite childhood movies of ALL time, and they cant make at least a girl shirt. Booo! /sigh
Some people have fancy cars or big houses, some have fine clothes and jewelry, but when we have company over, my point of pride is always our game closet.
I have this pattern with guests and it goes something like this: welcome welcome, greeting at the door, rush through living area, kitchen, bedrooms and bathroom, and then finally our game closet! When I open the door, I envision a choir of angels singing, the clouds parting and rays of light illuminating the fabulousness that is the game closet. (Note to self: figure out way to hook up audio and lights to game closet door.)
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The whole clearing out my DS games was incredible long overdue. Going through them I noticed games from back in the day (eons ago!) when the DS first came out. YES, all the way back in 2004. Just don’t be surprised if one of the reviews is six years past due.
Turns out I have accumulated over sixty DS games in the past six years. That is only ten a year, not unreasonable. I took out a few of my husbands and a few I had already reviewed and paired it down to fifty. Still way too many to review this month.
Scribblenauts was a natural first choice as I had just finished playing it. That still left me with fourty-nine to pick from.
The only solution I could come up with that would significantly cut down on the time I would spend agonizing over deciding, was to throw them all in a bag and let randomness decide, ala scrabble Carcassonne =D
Viva la Random!
<3 TFG
Left: DSi XL - Right: DS lite
It might be a sign of getting older, but I am LOVING the larger screen. Brings to mind large print books. Can’t see? Lets just make it bigger!
Okay, so I exaggerate a bit, its really just a slightly enlarged DSi. =P
Actually the whole size thing had me a little worried. The portability of the previously sized DS’s was quite convenient. I needn’t have worried, the size increase is noticeable and does mean that you can’t carry it around in your pocket, but its plenty small enough to carry without looking like you are lugging your laptop around. =P
Funny, size wise, it seems like Nintendo’s hand helds have come full circle. GameBoys of old were pretty much the same size as this lovely DSi XL. Amazing all the stuff you can pack into that size now a days – two much larger screens, camera, SD card, and wireless internetz. Only thing its missing is a GameBoy cartridge slot. Guess I will have to save one of the old DS’s just in case. =D
<3 TFG
Blizzard has released some buy-for-real-money items in the past, but never before have I been tempted. “What a grandiose way to waste your money!!” I would think to myself. But then this past Wednesday they released The Celestial Mount – purchasable from their online store for $25. Its a flying hours that has variable speed, but can be a ground mount or a flying mount and its incredibly pretty.
I had to have it.
Turns out tens of thousands of other people had to as well, because I ended up in a queue of seventeen thousand people waiting to purchase my brand new mount. (From what I hear the queue got up to eighty thousand at one point!)
That’s right I spend $50 and two hours of my off line time to purchase both my accounts some Bling. Yes I am a loot whore and have the fancy mount on display for everyone to see my dirty little secret.
But its soooo pretty…I think I need to go shower now.
WonderCon was indeed this past weekend, an event that completely snuck up on me. Then again I’m terrible at planning for these things, which is probably one of the reasons I have been unable to make it to ComicCon the past few years. (If you don’t get a hotel room within the first hour that the phone lines open up, you are so out of luck!)
Thankfully WonderCon (the con of wonders and delights) is hosted near enough to home that a simple reminder from my husband the week before the event is plenty of notice to assure my attendance.
Just one of the many reasons that I love WonderCon. =)
Its hard for me to believe that its already been over a month since my last WoW Rant. This whole moving my entire life from one house to the new one has taken up much more free time than I expected, but then most things take far longer than I expect. =P
That plus raiding four nights a week and my goal of reading one hundred books this year have left me bereft of almost all my spare time.
How do people do it??
(Its such an awesome title how could I not run with it?!!? Probably should have been Monthly WoW Woes, but that certainly doesn’t roll off the tongue as well.)
DPS (Damage Per Second). The never ending quest for the all time highest damage output EVER. What is the DPS ceiling and how can I get there???
Since both of my World of Warcraft characters are DPS-centric, this question comes up for me often. My love-hate relationship with recount doesn’t help, as I can’t seem to get by without it, but playing with it is almost as impossible. Would I do better without it? Keeping track is eminently distracting. Though having such a clear display of ones performance (compared to everyone else) is highly motivating.
Okay, so maybe not all woes, but all it is certainly time for my weekly WoW ranting. (Hmm maybe I should do this weekly, might be cathartic.)
Somehow I have gone from being mildly interested in raiding, to raiding consistently four days a week. Since the new dungeon came out, Ice Crown Citadel (ICC), I got invited to be a guest (Hunter) on a regular ICC10, which turned into semi permanent. Then my little guild started running an ICC10 (Warlock does guild runs) and we got invited as a guild to join an ICC25, which has been taking two days a week so far.
The guest gig currently has the best success rate, as it’s a more consistent set of people. Our guild is too small so we always have to pick up a few extra random people (same with the 25man run). But overall the challenge is exciting and succeeding is invigorating.
