I’ve started contributing to two amazing websites out here in the interwebs. In alphabetical order they are…
All Things Fangirl
Pop Culture Nerd
Over at the Nerd, I’ll be writing about what promises to be a short but sweet season of Big Love and with the Fangirls, I’ll gush about games, comics, and my Nintendo DS.
These two sites are awesome. Read them. The end.
For my thesis senior year, I wrote a spec script for one of the twenty medical procedurals on television. (The value of my degree is plummeting as I type this.) I read medical journals, called physicians, and even ventured into the library to flip through medical books. I overshot a little. My mother is a physician who can’t take more than twenty minutes of any medical show, but she suffered through a few episodes of the one I was spec-ing. When I called it at 5am, having been up all night trying to figure out how to make a renal failure joke, she told me that these shows got the medical stuff right about 30% of the time. In her professional medical opinion, I needed to go to bed.
So even though they’re only right about medical stuff 30% of the time according to the experts, House’s portrayal of a video game designer in the episode “Epic Fail” was exactly that. The video game industry isn’t exactly transparent, so it’s not as if every viewer was shaking their head throughout the episode, but it would have been nice if they’d at least talked to someone who made games. A ten minute conversation, fifteen tops, and they could have gotten it at least 30% right. (more…)
After Lucifer was demoted for stealing campaign funds, he quickly clawed his way back up the political ladder becoming the Vice President of the Free World. Remarkably, all the bastards he’s sired have had no effect on his career in politics whatsoever. In fact, Lucifer has seven little half demons running around town. (more…)
The first thing I noticed when I started playing Sims 3 was that you could create blue, green, and red Sims. I promptly created the Anaconda family with a green father and blue daughter, helped them navigate their way through their careers in journalism and rock n’ roll respectively, and peopled a gigantic house with blue and green babies. Now, I loved these characters, and I did my best to help them live fulfilled lives. But then the save file got corrupted, and I realized my blue sim, Yolanda Anaconda, was never going to be Rock Star unless I planned on playing for 36 hours straight. After considering this option for a day or two, I said screw it. What’s the point? Where does hard work in life get you anyway? I’ll tell you, with a brood of blue and green ingrates that you have to potty train and clean up after.
That’s when I created Lucifer, the handsome red devil you see now. (more…)
The minute the big purple blob panted against the glass of it’s cell in the intergalactic spaceship, I knew I had to have this game. I immediately created my own Xbox live account, separate from my boyfriend’s (because I wanted the achievements dammit), and played through the entire game in one sitting. I hadn’t been this hooked since Aladdin came out for the SNES.
You play as a cute little blue alien in yellow astronaut garb, and after finding a high tech leash, you take the Maw, previously mentioned big purple blob, around a lush planet and feed him. You either use the leash to sort of swing the Maw in the direction of the food, and he laps creatures up with his tongue, or you use the leash to catch creatures and toss them into the air for Maw to catch with his gaping… maw.
The more the Maw eats, the bigger he gets. To see just how big he’s going to get is reason enough to play through to the end.
But there could have been even more reason to play the game through if they’d developed the story a little further (more…)
