Une Enfant Terrible

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I found this bouncing around the web and thought I'd share. It perfectly describes everything I hate about game stop.

( The Guide Awaits )

Here's some I know of:

• Henry Hatsworth and the Puzzling Adventure
• Lock's Quest
• Nostalgia

Know any more? :D

So I have been hearing a lot about Aion since it came out. Thing is, I'm not hearing in-depth opinions on it. I refuse to play WoW because I am a natural obsessor and am too afraid I'll start ignoring my real life to play it. LOL. Not that likely, but I'm not risking it. Hubbs played WoW for less than 6 months before he ran out of stuff to do/obtain and got bored with it and quit.

Hubbs' friend lent us his cd, but we still need to cough up $50 for a cd key and we're not willing to do it without significant understanding of the game [since we can't try it out].

So, here's what I'd like to know from those of you who play/played Aion.

- Pros
- Cons
- Similarities to WoW
- Differences from WoW

Thanks in advance!

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Changing "Blonde Moment" to 'Dumb Moment'.

Apperently, I offended people. I would like to say that I did not mean to offend anyone by saying this, and that I don't actually think blondes are 'dumb'.

I'm just used to the saying 'blonde moment'. Sorry.

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I was playing Legend of Zelda Windwaker with my lil bro. I was in some kinda forest-ish island. Well there's this one little island next to that place that makes statues of pictures that you take with your Pictobox.

The only way to get to that island is a long, complicated process of going from one plant to the next and next, going to the edge of the Forest Island, and using a special leaf to float from that island you're on, to there.

That is till you get a ladder right when you first visit.

I, even though I have used this ladder to climb DOWN from the Picto Island, did not think ONCE "Hey, I can use this to go UP the island."

I kept using the long annoying process and take the ladder as an exit, never occuring to me that I can use it as an entrance.

Could of been a real time saver.

So, what was your most dumbest moment while gaming?

On Saturday the 14th at 4AM UTC/GMT we will be upgrading the operating system of our network load balancers to a newer version, one that will allow us to use both CPUs! Nifty, because multiprocessing is nice.

Since we have 2 load balancers, the plan is to upgrade 1 at a time, and there really should be very little impact to our website. Hopefully you won't notice a thing and I'll get to go back to the hotel and watch some wonderful late night infomercials.

We've got a lot of exciting projects coming up for 2010 and we're hoping that we'll be able to deliver them all to you, that you will find it useful/cool/lovely and then you will use the site even more. Behind-the-scenes work like this will give us the capacity to handle the anticipated traffic, so expect a few more maintenance windows especially in the beginning of next year as we've got some neat ideas to improve performance around here! We had the recent 30-45 minute outage yesterday due to one of our logging databases filling up disk space -- not so great design coupled with my human error in handling the initial problem -- and it looks like we're going to finally have some resources to eliminate stuff like that. I can't wait!

As usual, I will be updating status.livejournal.org before and after, just in case you are not able to reach our main website during the work.

Street Fighter IV Cozy.

All the more reason as to why I love CAPCOM. ♥

Note: The Cozy is vastly different from the Snuggie.

I love horror games, but there is one series that I have absolutely refused to play: Resident Evil (at least the older titles). Why? Because I have a fairly severe phobia of spiders. It's not just RE, though; I pretty much avoid all games that have spiders. I've even had a hard time playing Zelda: OoT because of the skulltulas.

But unfortunately (fortunately?), that day has come where I'm being pressed to at least try to overcome my fear of spiders, albeit virtual ones. I'm a pretty big fan of BioWare and have caved in to purchasing DA:O. o_O This will be interesting...but I figure if I can be forced (well, more like pinned down) to sit through the entirety of Arachnophobia without later having nightmares, there may be hope for me yet.

Anyway, it makes me wonder...does anyone else have peculiar and/or perhaps trivial reasons for not playing certain games?

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Hi all, repogirl the dollmaker here!  With the holidays really coming in, I'd like to take orders for any  plushes! 

Conditions:
- I will take a maximum of ten orders, so first come, first serve to get in your holiday gifts!  This will be posted to two or three other communities, so keep this in mind!
- Three doll maximum per customer!  First doll is $25, each additional is $20.
- Customer pays all shipping and handling fees.  Shipping includes delivery confirmation.
- Dolls can now be made either from cotton jersey with eyes drawn directly on the fabric, or made of flannel with eyes printed on transfer paper and ironed on. 
- I'd order now, because come December, I need to turn my attention to gift making for the family!  I need to knit/crochet/sew scarves, hats, dolls, stuffed animals, etc for family members too! ;)

Examples:
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As far as games go, I've made:

-Nathan Drake (Uncharted)
-G-Man (Half Life)
-Leon Magnus (Tales of Destiny)


Well, hope to hear from you guys! :)

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 Which is better in your opinion for the Wii and why?  Lego Indiana Jones or Pikman? 

I saw a girl wearing the Pheonix Wright one in black, and I am TOTALLY getting it.

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Also, if you haven't played Mario & Luigi : Boswer's Inside Story, I absolutely love it. It's really cool, and the storyline is actually very interesting and easy to follow. The battle system is turn-based, but the new moves and special moves are really cool. Bowser even has moves using Koopas, Goombas, and Shyguys; not to mention when he's giant.

Who else really enjoyed it? :D

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My boyfriend recently found it at a GameStop; we drove about an hour or so just to pick it up.

And it is absolutely AMAZING.

I've watched him play it, and it is so beautiful. I am going to steal it away from him, as well as Shadow of the Colossus.

I highly, HIGHLY recommend this game to anyone out there.

It's rare, so good luck finding it for a reasonable price (aka $40 or so).

The Last Guardian trailer almost made me cry.

I can not begin to describe how cool this is.
No, really.
Go tickle every steampunk bone in your body, and contemplate building a Lego Difference Engine.

So, as some of you may know, Steam had a 50% special on Mass Effect this weekend, and my boyfriend suggested I get it. (When I questioned him about it, he reminded me that he'd played it months back and that it was one of the few games he actually thoroughly enjoyed anymore... which is saying a lot.) 

So I went ahead and bought it on Saturday, and wow. I can't believe I didn't get this game ages ago! I'm having so much fun with the level of interactivity involved and all the different conversations you can have (and everyone has a voice actor, which is so cool). The amount of detail and information the creators put into the history, politics, races, planets and star systems are pretty awesome, too. You can even go to Luna (our moon) and see a really spectacular view of Earth from it.
I haven't even beaten the game yet and I'm super excited to play it all over again just so I can give my character a different "personality" and see where it leads me. I had been playing Borderlands (another really fun one) before this and leveling a Siren, but I haven't even opened that game since I bought this; ME has just completely taken the cake.

Has anyone else ever "discovered" a game well after its release? I honestly hadn't even heard of it except when my b/f had mentioned he was playing it ages back.

I don't play the game (Tried it some time back, but it didn't appeal to me) but I got codes for a bonus package from PAX. Details are here.

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* Ritter's Power Lv1 (x10) - Become a physical juggernaut!
* Heliy's Competence Lv1 (x10) - Ninja.
* Apostel's Ability Lv1 (x10) - Destroy enemies... with your BRAIN.
* Small Prevent Item Drop (x3) - Don't be a chump and have your corpse robbed; use these nifty items before biting it.
* Increase Drop Gold (x3) - Increases your gold drops. First you get the money. Then you get the power.
* Sun EXP Stone (x3) - Boosts your EXP gain! EXP!

There were five per DVD-ROM, and since my friend doesn't play either I have ten. I hate to see them go to waste, so drop me a LJ PM if you want one.

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