All moved into our new place. Well, all of our stuff is now out of the old and in the new, but nothing has actually found its final resting place. =P
Saw this the other day, and though I don’t link things very often, it just cracked me up. Love Mortal Kombat!
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone out there! I hope you are all as full as I am right now.
<3 Token Female Gamer
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.
I hope everyone had as wonderful a halloween as I did! Managed to finish my All Hallows Eve achievemnt and still go out trick or treating IRL! Candy + sedentary computer game addiction = way too many extra pounds. Time to bust out the Wii Fit! =D
Wanted to leave you all with this excellent image from Aion today. Clearly nakedness sells, but nakedness topped with a pumpkin head, zomg! Merchants wet dream. From all of the vendors that spam Aion mercilessly, Happy Halloween! Every holiday is a shopping holiday. =)
<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.
These are the sorts of things he likes to email me:
http://kotaku.com/5311760/the-girl-at-the-video-game-store
http://www.sodahead.com/blog/100601/toad-has-been-giving-us-the-finger-since-1985/
<3 TFG
If the first movie was an aphrodisiac, then this sequel is laughing gas – riding high while laughing all the way.
It’s definitely a solid addition to the franchise and ultimately reminded me more of the TV show then its predecessor. Lot more humor, big action, and Optimus starting and ending the movie with his usual monologue.
Plot wise there are holes the size of Bumblebee, but I attribute those to authenticity and filled in the blanks myself. =)
In fact there quite a few of the plot lines reminded me of the first movie and I am tempted to say they just added material to the first script, but the run time for each movie is the same. I think its more likely that this was a previous version of the first movie script that got a bunch of extras added to it.
A dear friend and geek pal of mine recently moved away. Like all true hardcore geek friends, we met online. We used to play EverQuest together (back in the day when role-playing was still cool).
Eventually it was discovered that we lived in the same general area. Not close enough to hang out all the time, but close enough to play some decent D&D every month or so.
And then he up and moved (and I haven’t played D&D since!!!! Damn j00!) Something about job relocation and buying a house, you know, extremely mature reasons. Of course I am supremely happy for him about all the positive stuff, but I’m sad I lost a geek friend. They are hard to come by, for me anyway, and for him apparently also.
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
While Uwe Boll has garnered game to movie adaptations a horrible reputation, there are in fact a few movies about games that have managed to not offend, even entertain.
And though Mr. Boll can be attributed with the most recent epidemic of terrible remakes, the trend was set long before. Super Mario Bros anyone? In a way he is really just carrying on a long-standing tradition.
Actually there are more game related movies then I realized. This is a decent list. I’m not sure how complete it is, what I can say is that most of the game movies that I have seen are on it.
Some of these movies found their way into my favorite pile and that’s what this is really all about.
I should mention that I chose these movies not for their award worthiness or for their ability to bring about world peace. They managed to sneak into my top five because I enjoyed watching them. And lets not forget that the genre is sparse on quality, thus expectation is brought down a lot (a LOT).
