Gamer Geek Posts

20Dec
5

Blergh.

Today is a rough day. I knew going into it that it would be, but I still didn’t expect it to be quite this bad. For anyone that may not have known, one of the reasons that I hadn’t been updating this site as much as I should (other than my lack of internets) was because I was writing for Bow Down To Us. It was kind of a dream job if you will and though moving and funds didn’t always allow me to write features as often as I wanted, I was proud of what I did write. Sadly, today we’re boarding the windows and closing up shop. The reasons are understandable and hell I even applaud them, but it’s still rough. It’s almost like losing a part of yourself. I owe quite a bit to that site, and this is kind of my farewell speech if you will.

Where do I start? I have so many things to thank you for. Thank you for allowing me a place to feel comfortable. I could be silly and random (and often times, drunk) and make nerdy jokes and references and just have everyone laugh at me in the good way. Thank you for letting me on the different shows and trusting that I would be able to hold my own in conversations with everyone (and for understanding even when I couldn’t). Thank you for allowing me to write, for giving me a purpose to write. Thank you for helping me figure out that yes, this is what I want to do with my life. Thank you for helping me rediscover who I am and be ok with it. And thank you for helping me meet the person that I love dearly. If it wasn’t for the podcasts and the site I never would have started the jokes that led to my falling in love and moving cross country, and I don’t quite have the words to thank you properly for that. Hopefully this is not the last we’ll see of this project, maybe it just wasn’t the time right now and maybe it can be again soon.

So long and thanks for the fish? Yeah, that works.

Posted by tart in Gamer Geek, General Geekery, Uncategorized
09Aug
0

I’m horrible I know

Bad blogger, no posts!

I know. Sigh. 50-60 hour work weeks have a way of crushing any desire to do anything creative along with your soul, what can I say?

There’s been so much new geekery too! I have been learning to play D&D thanks to a few friends who don’t mind my reading things and then IMing them going “waaaaiiiitttttt I don’t get ittttt!”. (yes, I do whine like that to my friends, but they assure me that it’s endearing!) I’ve also been learning to play Magic: the Gathering, and let me tell you, I’m not half bad with a Pearled Unicorn. Any tips on deck building are welcome though! I’ve mostly just been playing Packwar to try to get used to the flow of things, but I’ve got a tournament of sorts to go to in a few weeks, so I have to build my first deck! I’ll get a list of cards up here soon for the ease of helping me.

Gaming geekery has been pretty hefty lately too. I’ve been playing: Pokemon SoulSilver, (yes still. I love my pokemon, I’m sorry!) Dragon Quest 9, Assassin’s Creed, Uncharted, Transformers: War for Cybertron, 3d Dot Game Heroes and Fairytale Fights. I have the attention span of a small child, I know. That’s why it takes me so long to play through something, I bounce back and forth between things too much. So far the main winners for my attention are Fairytale Fights and Dragon Quest 9. I’ve also been dabbling in Maplestory on a friend’s recommendation. And there’s always WoW, though you can tell from PW:Bubble and from asking my Real ID cohorts that I’m not on much.

My ever present love for books hasn’t lessened either. If anything, I’ve been reading more lately than I have in a long time, mostly due to the fact that after a 10 hour work day, laying in bed and getting lost in a book is about the most energy I have. Plus the Kindle app for my blackberry is reaaaaalllllyyyyy handy. >.< Right now, I’m on a bit of a YA novel binge. This is fine with me though, as John Green, Laurie Halse Anderson, Sarah Dessen, Wendy Mass and the duo of Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl are all phenomenal writers.

And with that brief update, it’s 2:30am, and I think I’m finally tired enough to sleep. Now that I’ve installed the WordPress app to my phone, hopefully posts will be a little more often, but I make no promises until I’m fully moved and settled.

<3,
Tart

Posted by tart in Book Geek, Gamer Geek, General Geekery and tagged with , , ,
27Jun
1

Things I’ve learned from War for Cybertron:

- I fail at jumping.
- I am more of a Starscream fangirl than I thought.
- Hearing “I AM MEGATRON” reduced me to a quivering puddle of squee-ing.
- Co-op story mode is for the win.
- StoppableForce kicks my ass at this game
- I am a bad ass sniper. \o/
- This game is so full of win.

More detailed info on it coming as soon as I get more play time with it. :)

Posted by tart in Fangirl, Gamer Geek and tagged with , ,
08Jun
0

Welcome to the Next Gen (Finally)

For those of you who don’t follow me on twitter, I finally stepped into 2006 and bought a PS3. I know! In my defense, I USED to own a PS3 (one of the old school fattie 80gb ones) but when my personal life ‘asploded I lost custody of it. So to break in my shiny new 120gb slim (wooo upgrade!) I bought the first Assassin’s Creed and the first Uncharted as well as 3d Dot Game Heroes. So far, 3d Dot Game Heroes has consumed my life. That game is so much fun. I’m a huge Zelda fan (and I mean really, who isn’t?) and 3d is really similar. Just straight up old school fun. The kind of fun that has me yelling, “OH! A SPIDER!! Kill it! Kill it deaddddddddddd!” and making stabbity noises (yes, stabbing has a noise in the World of Tart) and acting like a nerd in general. I still haven’t gotten to spend as much time with it as I would like, but working 50+ hours a week and progression raiding will do that to you. Hopefully everything will calm down soon so I can get back to some semblance of normalcy.

But in the meantime if you have a PS3, my PSN name is tartdarling (duh!) so feel free to add me and say hai sometime :)

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