Why, Batman? Why Do You Hate Me So?

Why do you seem to hate me, Batman? Or is it you, Rocksteady, that dislikes me so? *cues tragedy music and rain whilst doing dramatic hand on forehead gesture* Ok, ok, so I can be a bit dramatic. But when you think you’re almost going to finish something that you’ve invested many many hours in, and then discover that it’s impossible and you’ll have to start again, you would be too.

Batman Arkham City Promo Scene

I’m a huge fan of Batman Arkham Asylum, and thought Rocksteady did an amazing job with it. And when they announced Batman Arkham City, I swooned and my heart raced with excitement. I wondered how they could top such an awesome game. And when it released, I was thrilled that they somehow managed to do so. I spent many hours on my first run through just enjoying it all, soaking in the scenery and the delivering some satisfying brutal justice to criminals. I had stopped playing back in May, all I had left to do was to find the Riddler and beat him (which was very anti-climactic by the way). Or so I thought. Continue reading

Opinions, Not For The Easily Offended *Updated

I swear it seems like the interwebz has been in an uproar a bit too often as of late. I think it must be the lack of new games coming out right now (FIX IT YOU GAME DEVS). Anyway, todays drama is about an article posted on CNN by Joe Peacock called Booth Babes Need Not Apply. His post is basically about fake geek girls who attend conventions for attention and how it is hurting the community as a whole. I personally really liked his article and except for one or two sentences, found it to match my feelings perfectly. I highly recommend reading it so that you’ll understand the rest of this post. Now I will try to be as elaborate as possible about my feelings toward this topic, cause I’ve seen what it can do to you if you aren’t.

When I saw Joe’s article come up in my Twitter feed, I decided to give it look-see, and I was pleasantly surprised when I did. His post reminded me of the one I posted a few months back about fake gamer girls. Sure mine was about gamer girls and his is about geeky girls, but the basic idea is the same, we hate fakers. Well it seems a bunch of people got super offended by his post,

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Dallas Comic Con 2012

Ok, I have to blog about this, because it was just such an amazing experience. Saturday I went to my very first Dallas Comic Con!

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Polyvore – COG’s Night Out

I’m a huge pinterest addict and one of the things I love to browse through is the outfits that people create. My only problem with that, is they never seem to be my style. So last week I finally discovered the site that they use to create those amazing and cute getups. It’s called Polyvore. Some of you may already know of it and use it, but I’m behind on things from time to time. Especially if it’s fashion related. I’ve decided I want to make some outfits that I would actually wear, and I’m following the lead of Console 2 Closet and design some outfits based off of video games.

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Shoes For The Gamer In You

Nine years ago, I met one of the most talented artists I know, and I’ve been lucky enough to call him my best friend. I’ve always been so jealous of how good he is at drawing anything he wants. I remember in high school he sketched a perfect likeness of Gandhi. Recently he’s been doing some canvas shoes, and they came out beautifully. I hope to get a pair from him pretty soon myself, maybe even try some custom heels to appease my girly side. Here are some pictures of his latest shoes inspired by Legend of Zelda Majora’s Mask and Portal 2. You can get those, or custom made ones with anything you want on them, here.

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Retro Lancer Now In 3 New Flavors! I Mean… Colors.

If you’re like me, you may be a huge Gears of War fan. You may have also seen the Retro Lancer props that came out when Gears 3 released in November last year, and like me, drooled and squealed at the opportunity to get one from GameStop. I splurged on all the Gears 3 things available from GameStop, including the original gunmetal retro lancer. When the gold one came out, I wanted it as well, but I didn’t have enough Powerup Points to get it from GameStop and not enough moola to get it from eBay, I am still very envious of those who have the gold one.

Well GameStop has now given you more reasons to be drooling, envious, and of course, to shell out a few hundred bucks. They’ve come up with three new Retro Lancer colors based off of the most popular skins used in Gears 3.

20120419-121654.jpg Deadly Cute (Pink),

20120419-120108.jpg Team Metal (Blue),

20120419-121256.jpg and Electric Green.

If you want any of these beauties, it’ll cost ya $99.99. They’re available for preorder now and will be here June 1, 2012. So if you missed out last time and would like one of these Limited Edition Retro Lancers, you should break into that piggy bank and get over to GameStop and pre-order yours. I’m not usually very big on pink, but I am seriously liking that Deadly Cute. Though Team Metal is a close second.

Life Is Good and Always Getting Better

Hello there, friends! More exciting things happening in the world of Sam. Remember when I mentioned that I was a community manager for Talking About Games? Well, it’s gotten even better. I was asked to be a host on the Talking About Gamers podcast! Sure these things may sound silly to some, and it may be even sillier for me to be so excited about them, but I am absolutely thrilled. I really do love video games and the whole gaming community, and these things just let me embrace that and be more involved with it all. Sure I have been a little apprehensive with it all, I don’t want to intrude on anything. But I think I am going to try to be a bit more outgoing with it. If I cross any lines, I’m sure they’ll tell me. Who knows, maybe the podcast will help with Likes and Followers for TAG. Our first recording will be this Sunday. I am excited and nervous. I hope I do a good job. I better start playing a few new games so I can be up to speed on it all. Continue reading

Mother. Wife. Gamer.

I always start a post but by the time I get around to finishing it, it’s either no longer relevent or I’ve lost my train of thought. I am going to attempt to do this in one sitting. Please Ally, stay asleep. Anyhoo, a few new things have been going on as of late. Nothing to stop the presses about, but I’m going to tell you about it anyway. To spite you! Bwuahaha! (That’s my evil laugh, just for future reference). Ok, I’m not really evil. I mean you can always not read it if you want, it’s not like I hijacked your computer while you started reading this and made it stay here until you finished… or did I? *Dramatic prairie dog face*

I guess I can start with Ally’s 6 month check up on Thursday. We, or rather I, decided that I wanted Ally to have a female doctor, instead of the male doctor that we were assigned when she was born. He was a nice enough doctor, but I spent more time waiting in the front waiting room and in the examination room, than I did talking to the doctor or his nurses. It was just a little too dingy for my taste. So I found us a new pediatrician. She is very sweet and I liked how she did her check up. I was really impressed with them overall. They gave me a courtesy call to remind me about the appointment and everything. This may sound crazy that I am excited about that, but our last pediatrician did not ever do that. The nurses at this new place were great. Super friendly and made me feel welcome. The location of this place is in a very good neighborhood, so that made me feel even better about our choice. I am probably going to run out of adjectives for how great this place was compared to our last pediatrician. The waiting room was painted like a jungle with trees and animals and had a lot of elbow room. The examination room was bright and colorful with hearts and animals all over the wall. Very cheery place. So I think we have definitely found our new doctor. Now onto the results of the visit. Ally is now 16.7lbs and 27 inches long. My little girl is growing so fast! She is in perfect health and progressing just fine. I couldn’t have been more pleased with how good she is doing.It really is amazing to watch her grow and learn. Makes me feel all warm inside.

Whoa, that was a little all over the place. Hmm… maybe blogging while sleepy isn’t a good idea…? Eh, screw it, you probably stopped reading it after the first sentence anyway. Lately, I have been having a bit of insomnia. Either that or I have realized I am a night owl and not an early bird. Maybe a little of both. I get stressed and wired at night and this sudden burst of energy comes out of no where. Usually it is to clean. Random right? This is when I go all Superwoman and clean the house from top to bottom. I did this Friday night and Mykal woke up and was pleasantly surprised at how the house was in order. I guess I’m also like that because Mykal works so hard that I want to make it feel equal. This is why I would make a great housewife. One day this could be a possibility. I’ll be waiting for that day. For some reason work has been stressing me out lately. It adds to my insomnia. So does bills and a whole bunch of other things. But enough of this random bunch of words. No, this doesn’t mean you can stop reading, it just means I am switching from household talk (or lack there of), and taking a turn on to geeky street.

I’ll admit it to anyone, I’m an achievement whore. I can’t help it. I love to see my gamerscore go higher and higher, and when I see scores higher than mine, it makes me want to run home to my xbox and get to playing. Currently I am 100 points shy of 13,000. I want to get that last 100 so I can be at a nice round number. I also want to go through and fully complete each of my games. That means get every single achievement. Easier said than done, but I am going to try anyway. For the past day and a half, I have been obsessed with Stacking. It’s a xbox live arcade game (and pretty sure its in the PS marketplace as well) that I got on sale a couple of months ago. I finally got around to playing it, and it is fun. I really liked it. It’s about a little boy who had his brothers and sisters taken away to do child labor and he goes to rescue them and bring down the evil Baron. You are a little Russian stacking doll that can jump into other Russian stacking dolls and use their abilities to solve puzzles and get closer to rescuing your family. If you haven’t tried it, I highly recommend it. I’m about to start the expansion for it called The Lost Hobo King. I’ll hopefully get to it tomorrow. Next mini game on my list will either be Ms. Splosion Man or maybe Super Meat Boy, they have both been out for a while, but I didn’t play a lot while pregnant. I also need to get some play time in on Assassins Creed Revelations. I have it, but I was finishing up Batman Arkham City before I started it. I can’t really play more than one big game at a time, I feel like I’m not fully invested in it do. My “to play” list is huge and I;m hoping that I will be able to change that list into my “already played” list.

Well, that’s enough late night blogging. I can feel my fingers get sluggish as they aren’t flying across the keyboard like they normally are. Until next time!