Token Female Gamer

Finally a win in Fantasy Football. The previous two weeks were dismal. Really poor showing with almost the lowest scoring team both weeks. And then week 3 breaks through like a kick return for a touch down!

Fantasy Football is back!! I might actually pay attention to my team again.

Matt Schaub, even though he lost, still threw for 373 yards and 3 touchdowns. Mike Wallace managed 144 recieving yards and a touchdown. And the fabulous New York defense sacked the QB twice and intercepted the ball 3 times, all while only allowing 16 points to be scored on them.

Go team! Ra Ra!

Thanks to my fellow Diablo 3 beta-ite, my game is finally fixed and playable. Turns out that Comcast users are getting DNS errors after logging into battle.net, which looks like a crash trying to load the character selection/creation screen.

Took advantage of my fixedness last night and played with some buddies online. Polished off the entire beta in an hour and a half and got my Demon Hunter to level 8.

(Just checked too see about the NDA for the beta, turns out it’s not being enforced so I can blab all I want!!)

First impressions – Liked that I can play a female version of any character. Really liked the teleport instantly to party member. Liked the instant selling. Graphic seem bland and ridiculously dark. Ranged game play is almost all the same and the only way to go. Gold is abundant. Redundant game play, like health bubbles and health potions, or two types of mana.

Going to play more and get a better feel for the game. Also try out single player and the crafting system. So far having a good time playing, but it’s not hooking me. Feels like something is missing. Am hoping this is just due to beta.

<3

Week one of Fantasy Football is over and my opponent had the highest score in the league. Its not looking so good for me this year.

(>_<)

Behold my starting line up. For this past weekend anyway. My team is far to mediocre for this line up to remain.

QB – Matt Schaub
WR – Mike Wallace
WR – DeSean Jackson
RB – Chris Johnson
TE – Kellen Winslow
W/R – Maurice Jones-Drew
K – Stephen Gostkowski
DEF – New York
D – Shaun Smith

Weak links currently are Quarter Back, Defensive player and Running Backs. Tight End isn’t so hot either, but its a low scoring position. Don’t think there is anything I can do about QB since all the good ones are taken already.
Time to find new players. Any good ones out there?

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?

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This is brilliant! These folks figured out how to make a wedding album worth sharing.

http://mlkshk.com/p/69H1

The guys and gal over at theMulitap.com were nice(crazy) enough to invite me to be on their podcast.

http://themultitap.com/?p=739

If you do decide to listen to my virgin podcast experience, take note it is NSFW and filled with name calling, hair pulling, bowel movements, and maybe a bit of game news.

I did laugh a lot. What I didn’t do was enhance the quality of the project. Not sure why they invited me. =P But hey if they are desperate enough to invite me again, how can I afford not too?!

I’m always a little slow to get on the bandwagon with things. As nearly the last person in the USA to finally have a Facebook account, it shouldn’t be surprising that I hadn’t really heard of tumblr before.

Turns out it’s really twitter, but more. Twitter never really seemed to make sense to me. Facebook already has a ton of inane one sentence updates, why bother with something as limiting as Twitter.

Tumblr on the other hand allows for all sorts of fabulous media, yet like Twitter, encourages brevity.

So I thought I would try Tumblr. Might be shortlived, but it seems fun so far. =D

Take note that I my Tumblr account is about ten hours old at the time of this posting.

http://tokenfemalegamer.tumblr.com/

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.

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Enough of these have piled up that it seems like a good time to post them. =D

Roll a D6 – RPG parody of that popular song. =P
http://vimeo.com/23248158

Arcade light switch
http://www.etsy.com/listing/74059377/working-arcade-light-switch?utm_source=OpenGraph&utm_medium=PageTools&utm_campaign=Share

After Portal – What happens outside Aperature. Quite clever really. =)
http://youtu.be/NorZUFfpvC0

Zelda Commercial with Robin Williams
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bINUfbLV_0M

I’m such a nerd. HAHAHAH! Guys be more geeky please!
http://www.collegehumor.com/video/6534168/im-such-a-nerd-with-katrina-bowden

What it takes to be a Huntard in WoW. Classic.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uTrOc0lfXY

Live action Anime!! Makes the Cosplay all worth it!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsYgqKJr4mE&feature=player_embedded

E3 Booth Babes questioned. There must be some booth babes out there that knew some of these answers. Even one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_O18vLXZMMw&feature=player_embedded

Star Wars explained by someone who has only seen bits and pieces of it. =)
http://vimeo.com/2809991

Part of the world Little Mermaid song parody. The geeky version. Hehehehehehehee.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWpjS4JTJKI&feature=player_embedded

Swamp Ass PSA Starring Nathan Fillion – Serious condition that effects millions of gamers each year. Beware!
http://www.break.com/comic-con-san-diego-2011-nerd-machine/swamp-ass-psa-starring-nathan-fillion-2079470

Lots of Words with Friends lately. Somehow a bunch of friends have found on me on the WWF. Or maybe the word has gotten around that I’m an easy win. I blame Facebook. =P

Thought I would share a few highlights.

One sort of strategy that I mostly aim for is trying to garner as many points for as few letters as possible (small words are flat out easier to find). Love the symmetry on the OX play and 54 points for two little letters. Not my move, but worthy of a mention, because really two letter move for 54 points!!!

Some of my favorite shorts have been “wit” for 48 points, ‘jam’ for 45, ‘chef’ for 76, and ‘goes’ for 63. Thats right people, not a single Q or Z to be found. =D
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