New Years.

Whee, happy new years. <3

2010. Sounds nifty.

Just a quick blog post, more for me than anything, so I can come back and actually remember my new years resolutions:-

• To start going to sleep before midnight on school nights,
• Make a level 80 druid, and,
• Buy a bigger monitor. A really big one.

Sounds good, eh?

Live long and prosper.

(Edit: I can't get the font right on this. Deal with it. At least it's not Papyrus.)

Oh, blog. That's right.

I knew I'd be too slack to keep Blogging. Ah well, it's all good. :D I'll start again. All it required was for me to not to my maths revision and be bored enough to go to Blogger, and then remember that I have my own blog.

Wheee.

Anyway, not much to say. Shane in 4 days. That's 4. Four. :D

Well, I've been watching educational videos on the game industry recently, and I've been thinking more about girls and games, and why they're not interested. Most people seem to think that's it's because of the female characters in games and their, ahem, "assets".

But then I was reading an article about the hottest female characters, and Tifa came out first.

This made me think. I'm pretty sure that Tifa is loved by females. I mean, I'd say that Final Fantasy VII is a favorite for females. So, then, the statement that females don't like playing games with characters with over-the-top hotness isn't really true.

So then I was confused.

So, being the nerd I am, I thought about it some more. Most people think that females don't like games because of:

• ridiculous female characters, and
• the negative gamer stereotype.

I disagree with this. I think females don't play games because they're afraid of being alienated.

I mean, this whole "mob psychology" thing. People want to be accepted. People want to belong to a group.

I think girls don't game, because they're too scared of, kind of, leaving their social group to do new things. I don't think females are comfortable enough to say "hey, no, I'm not going shoe shopping, I have a raid".

My experiences also help to reinforce this belief. I don't know a girl who is against a fun game of Guitar Hero, Wii Tennis, even sometimes Halo, if other people are playing. I mean, if a group of girls are at my house, and if everyone plays, they're not being alienated so it's all okay.

So, for games to be attractive to women they need to be social, so women can get their friends to play to and remain as part of their "group". I think this is why MMOs seem to have a lot more female players than, say, Call of Duty.

Anyway, that was quite a long rant. I have no idea if any of it made sense, but I don't really care.

I'm off to do maths revision. :D

Happy.

Some things just make me smile. Like green tea. And dinosaurs. And the cello. And Savory Deviate Delights. And Shane. (:

Arthas.

... and this, kiddies, is what awesome is made of. (:

New hat and Goldshire.

I had a rather fun time gaming today. Got a nice new hat. :D Now my 'lock looks like the biggest 'tard every when she's on the most ridiculous looking mount of them all: the Hawkstrider.

It's awesome.

Oh, and my staff glows. Epicly insanley super, much? XD

I just finished following a few 80 friends of mine as they owned everyone in and around Goldshire. Was fun. Being level 36, I died quite a bit (believe it or not). :P

Ahh, WoW. How I love you so. <3

No life.

From TWNetwork

"your little friend is a fake he steals videos and pretends to play to them

his cliffs of dover video is stolen and pretends to play it and he cant even fake it norma because he holds notes on parts wheere its impossible

khronmaster said this

"You should explain why you stole a Cliffs Of Dover GH3 video with nearly three million views and pretended to play along to it by adding a hands video and your intro. Not to mention you dedicated it to a friend. Gee, I'd be quite disappointed if my friend stole something and dedicated it to me.

you can't hold orange in Solo B buddy. It's impossible. You have to tap it. Not to mention you're using an explorer guitar controller and not tilting to activate star power...you could of just pressed select, but the select button is too far away and small from reach on the explorer controller to press to activate star power.

and it's too late to cover it up, I've already saved the video.

For those of you not knowing what I am talking about:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SWqu_6FJvg
^^That video is just this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOLZeeCS0-4
Except he added his hands view and his intro to it.

http://img263.imageshack.us/img263/4464/kikistolen.jpg

Kiki posted this video a month ago. The video with 2.9 million views was posted before Guitar Hero 3 was even released.

If you're gonna cheat in GH, how should be know you're not cheating in TTR?""

My reply

"I've just finished playing World of Warcraft for 6 hours. And I thought I had no life.

Come on dude: who cares? IT'S A VIDEO.
So what if it's fake?
Kiki's video has 119 views. Seriously, who gives a fuck?

I can't believe I'm the one saying this (and not the one being told), but you need a life. Sending messages to all of his friends because his video is "fake"? Lame, and a giant waste of time.

I'm going to go and organise my Magic the Gathering cards now, feeling good while knowing that there is someone lamer than me out there. (:

Live long and prosper. :D"

It's good to know that there's someone lamer than me on the interwebs.

Stupidity.

I'm reading the WoW forums, and I can feel myself getting dumber and dumber.

But I can't stop!

This is horrible.

Advertising.

How brilliant is this advertising? XD

Websites spelt out with corpses. Excellence.

(These were both in Org, different days, on the Frostmourne server)