Careful with that Wii there Son, you might hurt your self..

Something they need to advise you on - next to wearing the strap and objects - is that you might strain muscles and in turn make your self VERY sore. Odd that they don't since most Gamers are "known" for being out of shape and such.

I managed to make my self sore playing bowling yesterday. I thought just my elbow would bother me, but it seems my shoulder and back are in on the attack more so. Its something I should have exspected cause you really do get in to the game. Most I've seriously played on Wii was Wario Party. Which isn't really active, but is lots of good party fun.

Right now I'm downloading the new WoW Patch. I wonder what goodies await me this time. I do remember someone talking about the racial restraints on mounts being lifted. I'm sure thats going to make for a clustefuck of amusement.

I'll report later on any humor worthy findings.

Edit: As I finished this post the patch notes poped up on my screen. I skimmed through them, noting the confirmed Mount change. I skimmed to my Main's Class - Shaman, to see what changes were made. To my less then exuberant joy - I get to RESPEC because they refunded my talent points due to a change in ONE talent tree. I didn't notice if any other class had to respec, but forgive me for being annoyed. My issue is I'm playing a spec - to level mind you - I'm not familiar with. So I had to do a few trial and errors with the tree when I respeced at 71. I had something I could work with. And as I moved up in level I did what i could to improve what I had, but now cause I really don't have a good memory I get to try the game agian. Good times. -.-

Video time!

Okay I've been busy being social on WoW and in real life with lots of nice events with friends. I had some time tonight that I took off from grinding - I'll explain tomorrow if I can - to check out some videos on you tube. I found an amusing WoW one that goes over the classes. It was mad pre-BC (burning crusade for those of you lacking knowledge)and covers things fairly well as far as how the class's seem to be. The only thing thats changed since the video was made is Mages are stupid broken and poor Shammies are limping along. I play one so I know, but do enjoy the video for some snickers.

WotlK but no game time and prviate servers

I admit it. I've gotten lazy. Actually scared it more like it, with the Wrath of Lich King to be released at midnight tonight I can only imagine how things will be. Spend an hour to two hours to get my copy that I paid for. Spend another two hours updating my system and downloading the new expansion to it. Only to.. wait what? A QUEUE?!

Yep. Something I exspect to see on many EST servers ( with others to follow suit respectively as it becomes 12 am their time) due to the people who left WoW (for 50 assorted reasons) only to return with WotLK. Causing servers that were low population when they left to surge up to high or even locked status in many cases (Like with my own. -.-) I wouldn't be surprised to see a number of realms to actually crash due to the overwhelming resurgence of players returning with the expansion as curiosity of the new is always a deal breaker when you swear something off.


So whats a girl to do? Thank her Lazy nature for a change. I forgot to get a new subscription card for my account and my game time expired yesterday actually. Now it won't top me from doing a one time charge to one of my cards should the urge push me, but I already know what its going to be like. Not to add I've avoided WoW the past week due to Guild Drama I seen coming a mile away thanks to a friends forewarning. So I've not gotten any recent game time really.

But bearing in mind I already roam a regular Medium to High Population server I can only wonder what tonight would bring if I did attempt to log on after updating with WotLK. More like I wonder how long my Queue is going to be really. I tried to get a bit of game time in on one of the private servers I frequent only they are still on patch 2.4.3 and I've already gotten the 3.0.3 patch - I could downgrade but that means having to install the Echos of Doom patch along with the correction patches. So I've attempted to locate a diffrent private server in which to game on that is up to patch 3.0.3. Not much luck really.

The few I found when I attempted to access their server lists via the WoW launch screen I was told my account - which should have been active by now didn't exist and I should contact Blizzard for help. It made me giggle and sad at the same time. The Private servers supporting 3.0.3 don't offer a forum or area where I could ask why I was unable to access the realm lists for their servers. Given I had changed what I needed to in order to get on but with no luck and no help. Whats this teach us kids? Find a friend with a private server you can play on. Seriously.

The Blogger.. Part 2

So picking up where I paused at the other night. My gaming education then shifted gears as I got in to RTS and MUDs online. Now by this time I was in High School and my gaming for consoles was a observation through one cousin who was still gaming strong.

Time drags on.

I started dating and a few boyfriends in I find one in to gaming on consoles. And fearing to be rusty as he's on a PS2, I'm more curious to watch and observe over his shoulder then jump in to gaming. At one point a friend of his finds out about this and attempts to convince him to marry me as soon as he can. I find the humor in it of course, but whats even funnier is I'm still with him to this day. Gaming away, but I'm getting a head of my self.

Creepy mofo you really wana keep the camera on.

It is with the PS2 I find New additions to the Silent Hill and RE families. A few sleepless weekends later of gaming at his place I add these to my happy memory box. I soon discover Fatal Frame. It was like the rush when I discovered Silent Hill. The game play was new and unusual - if a bit frustrating at times with the restrictions to camera movements but the game didn't lose its hold on me. I soon added it to my list of games to play till the disk broke.

I get in to playing with him in Slayers and other fighting games. You win some and lose some. Then one day when we were hanging out I wander in to the game room to find him playing a curious game on the PC. I'd never seen it before, it looked like some card game but not with playing cards. So in my usual way, I sat and watched. It was a couple days till I got the urge to ask him to play my self. He sat by my side and helped walk me through my new addiction - Magic the Gathering. The game, now seriously out dated, was a PC version in which you played a Plains Walker trying to save a world from being taken over. It was amusing, but he soon told me that it wasn't just a PC game. WHAT? I had to see this.

So we dug around in a closet in his room to find a moving box full of MtG cards. I dove in reading what I could get my hands on. It wasn't long till he was helping me build a Green deck. And he found his old decks for us to play with. It became something fun for us to do when we just wanted to sit and spend time together. Playing with the cards, making new decks or looking at what was coming out.

Another skip in years, we move (as in him and I) and the addiction keeps going. We find places to play against others. We become regulars and get better at our skills and game styles - he's more aggressive while I play on strategy. After some time of learning rules and getting better I take over running the weekly events for a friend at his Comic and Gaming Shop. I get to be a bigger geek by picking up my comics on top of gaming. Go me.

It gets better though, as my friend loses his shop help he asks me to take his place in helping him run the shop. I gladly agree to it, while working with my boyfriend to get him in place to run the FNM when I wasn't able to. Now at the shop we cover all types of gaming, table top, console, LAN gaming and miniatures. So now on a daily bases I get a great big helping of other types of gaming. This is where I get an exposure to WoW. At first I giggle and mock it, amused by it in truth. Months though in what is really a far more stressful job then some might think, I cave and make a trial account to vent some stress. It was better then I expected and far more entertaining.

In between all of this insanity - I get in to Anime. LORD do I get in to it, Cosplaying and all. My best friend took me to my first AnimeCon. BEST TIME EVER. Anyway I can sum this part up in one word - Otaku. Tyvm. My mom also raised me on Star Wars, Star Trek and M*A*S*H. So yeah I'm just all over the f*king place really.

Currently I still work for this shop, I'm still with the boyfriend and I'm a big geek. As it stands my Boss got in to Warhammer and 40k. I'm currently looking at building my own army, as well as my boyfriend. I still play Magic, if anything to appease the guys surprised to hear a girl plays. I play WoW.. and consoles.. and more then I really have money for. God Help me.

But hey... I'm a Gamer.

The Blogger.. Part 1

Not really sure how to start this honestly. I mean, how do you really talk about your self? I suppose its something that may come through more as I blog and you read. But I think some background information helps.

I come from a mostly female family. I was raised by my grandmother and mother. I only have a sister and a few cousins I consider siblings because they spent so much time in my house or I in their. SO there goes any talk of me getting in to games because of a Brother. ^_^ Kinda makes me proud I guess.

Sexy NES

Our very first system was a classic NES. I loved Duck Hunt, though I did try to shoot the dog a few times due to his mockery. My sister liked Mario. I remember we got it for Christmas along with a TV for us to play it on. My mom I think did it to keep us busy so she could watch TV in the Living room, but as she listened to us play she got in to playing her self.

It became a family thing to play Duck Hunt or Super Mario. It was fun times for us really, my grama even got in to playing as well. Something that continued in to our next system - the Sega Genesis. While I don't remember what other games we had for the NES, we had tons for the Sega. As well as having the system for a rather long time. My grandma and my sister got in to playing Toe Jam and Earl. It was there way of spending time together, mostly impart due to as my sister got older the more her and my grandma seemed to clash.

We had Sonic and a few 2-d side scrollers, as well as Street Fighter II. Mortal Kombat was one of my favorites. The list is gets kinda endless here. Life moved on and we changed consoles agian. This time upgrading to the snazzy Play Station.

We all ooh'd and Ahh'd over it as we all tried to find games we could get in too. Mom and Grama found Casino style games they liked to play on it, while my sister found racing games and Crash Bandicoot were her flavor. I struggled to get in to them, the casino ones were alright and racing was sorta fun - unless my sister picked a track she knew and I didn't.

Creepiest Mofo EVER!

This though would be where I found a genera where my addiction would really begin. Silent Hill. Creepy, nerve wracking and SO GOD DAMN COOL. I played through it over and over again till I had each portion of the game nearly memorized. Beautiful graphics compared to so many of the time, a life all its own. I was amazed. My passion for this style of games still flourishes today. I love a game that can pull you in by the collar and hold you there till your gasping for air. I followed it with Resident Evil and anything that seemed close to the style of either.

This is however where my console journey with my family ends though. Times changed, people changed. We ended up getting a computer at some point, and I got in to playing (For some reason) the silly little games it came with. They kept me busy, but as I figured out the functions of a pc I moved along in gaming. I got my first taste of a RTS with Cesar. It was a great game I loved to play, addictive really. I actually have a current version of the game to play, but with the updated graphics and snazzy new features to actually go in the houses of the people in your town - I still love the very first.

Part 2 to come...