What's a hardcore gamer?
People always talk about "Oh, I'm a hardcore gamer," or "I'm a casual gamer," or "He/She/It is hardcore/casual gamer/nongamer."
I don't get it.
I love playing video games. But am I casual or hardcore? Am I a gamer at all? A lot of people seem to think that the very fact that I'm female makes me a casual gamer, or not a gamer at all.
I don't get it.
I mean, I'm not very good at video games, I'll give you that. The few I am good at usually have the word "Sims" in it.
But I LOVE to play video games. I play them constantly (except when I'm on the internet, of course!). And I DO play hard video games, like Red Steel (debatably hard, I'll admit).
I don't get it.
Tuesday, June 10
Tuesday, May 27
We're Current Gen!!
This is for all you video game junkies out there. So it's somewhat known that a console is "next-gen" until news of the next console is released. Then it becomes "current-gen." The following is an excerpt from the column "Loose Talk" in GameInformer.
"The holiday season may be over, but industry analysts are still busy trying to read the future. Loose TAlk has heard that the next iterations of the Xbox 360 and Nintendo's Will are expected to hit in 2010, while Sony is expected to come out with its PS3 successor in 2012. While 2010 sounds right on track for thext Xbox if you go by standard five-year console cycle, Sony's 2012 mark would put the company behind Microsoft in hitting the market with a new system. This would once again allow Microsoft to have the market all to itself for a period of time." (#182 p. 30)
Then there's another paragraph, but I'm not going to type that.
On a sadder note, the Spring Play's director for our school died this weekend. It's really...eerie. She seemed as healthy as ever last time I had seen her. It just...something kind of died, y'know?
"The holiday season may be over, but industry analysts are still busy trying to read the future. Loose TAlk has heard that the next iterations of the Xbox 360 and Nintendo's Will are expected to hit in 2010, while Sony is expected to come out with its PS3 successor in 2012. While 2010 sounds right on track for thext Xbox if you go by standard five-year console cycle, Sony's 2012 mark would put the company behind Microsoft in hitting the market with a new system. This would once again allow Microsoft to have the market all to itself for a period of time." (#182 p. 30)
Then there's another paragraph, but I'm not going to type that.
On a sadder note, the Spring Play's director for our school died this weekend. It's really...eerie. She seemed as healthy as ever last time I had seen her. It just...something kind of died, y'know?
Friday, May 23
Sims 3
They're actually doing it. They're actually making The Sims 3.
First reaction: faint.
Second reaction: run down two flights of stairs to show my mother and sister the one-page article in Game Informer.
Third reaction: Go online and find every scrap of information about The Sims 3 that I possible can.
It's going to be amazing, I can tell. Instead of the "hamster-cage" that The Sims 1 and 2 used, it will be an open world. Instead of your Sims being stuck in a lot and leaving only by taxi, car, school bus, or carpool, they can walk around and explore the area. A bit like the DS version or MySims in that sense. But it supposedly has the same point-and-click method, or at least there hasn't been any mention of anything otherwise.
The graphics are pretty impressive. But there's only about a third of the difference between 2 and 3 as 1 and 2. The movements are supposed to be much better, though, but I've only seen screen shots so I don't know for sure. Like, the hair is supposed to flow better and stuff.
The personalities are better. Like, there's specific categories like clumsy or paranoid or my favorite: klepto.
A weird thing, though, is the new moods method. There's no meters this time around. A bubble pops up and says stuff like: "Sim is hungry. Click here to solve this." You click it, and Sim knows what to do to take care of himself. There's even stuff like, "Sim is horny," but I'm not sure how accurate that is.
You can take your Sim to work. And you can do little "tasks" (like washing dishes) to further yourself closer to promotion, it's not depending just on skills, mood, and friends. (I personally hope they do something with the family friends thing. I hate having to keep people at a fifty or higher.)
It's supposed to come out in 2009, but that's all I could find for release date.
I don't know if I can play Sims 2 anymore. I remember, waiting for 2 to come out, I couldn't play The Sims 1 anymore. I was too spoiled just by the screen shots and things I had seen. It just wasn't good enough.
Does anybody know when SimCity 5 comes out? Or if it even is? :(
First reaction: faint.
Second reaction: run down two flights of stairs to show my mother and sister the one-page article in Game Informer.
Third reaction: Go online and find every scrap of information about The Sims 3 that I possible can.
It's going to be amazing, I can tell. Instead of the "hamster-cage" that The Sims 1 and 2 used, it will be an open world. Instead of your Sims being stuck in a lot and leaving only by taxi, car, school bus, or carpool, they can walk around and explore the area. A bit like the DS version or MySims in that sense. But it supposedly has the same point-and-click method, or at least there hasn't been any mention of anything otherwise.
The graphics are pretty impressive. But there's only about a third of the difference between 2 and 3 as 1 and 2. The movements are supposed to be much better, though, but I've only seen screen shots so I don't know for sure. Like, the hair is supposed to flow better and stuff.
The personalities are better. Like, there's specific categories like clumsy or paranoid or my favorite: klepto.
A weird thing, though, is the new moods method. There's no meters this time around. A bubble pops up and says stuff like: "Sim is hungry. Click here to solve this." You click it, and Sim knows what to do to take care of himself. There's even stuff like, "Sim is horny," but I'm not sure how accurate that is.
You can take your Sim to work. And you can do little "tasks" (like washing dishes) to further yourself closer to promotion, it's not depending just on skills, mood, and friends. (I personally hope they do something with the family friends thing. I hate having to keep people at a fifty or higher.)
It's supposed to come out in 2009, but that's all I could find for release date.
I don't know if I can play Sims 2 anymore. I remember, waiting for 2 to come out, I couldn't play The Sims 1 anymore. I was too spoiled just by the screen shots and things I had seen. It just wasn't good enough.
Does anybody know when SimCity 5 comes out? Or if it even is? :(
Thursday, May 22
potato chips
I'm eating the best potato chips in the world right now. Old Dutch Original. I'm eating a personal bag. And I'm really thirsty because of all the salt. I love salt though.
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Greatest graphic novel of all time. Worst movie of all time. I take that back. The movie's okay in its own right. But I read the books first, and the movie just didn't do it justice. Like, Murray is hardly in the movie at all, yet she's the leader of the group in the books. Quatermain was not handsome like Sean Connery, he was an old guy addicted to opium. Dorian Gray did not exist. He was NOT IN THE BOOKS. Nor did he have sex Wilhelmina Murray. Quatermain did. Although I'm biased. I only saw about half of the movie before I got extremely frustrated. And turned it off.
I'ma go email Book-san now.
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Greatest graphic novel of all time. Worst movie of all time. I take that back. The movie's okay in its own right. But I read the books first, and the movie just didn't do it justice. Like, Murray is hardly in the movie at all, yet she's the leader of the group in the books. Quatermain was not handsome like Sean Connery, he was an old guy addicted to opium. Dorian Gray did not exist. He was NOT IN THE BOOKS. Nor did he have sex Wilhelmina Murray. Quatermain did. Although I'm biased. I only saw about half of the movie before I got extremely frustrated. And turned it off.
I'ma go email Book-san now.
Monday, May 19
Yeah.
So, right. I used to have a different blog by the same title as this. But it was awful. So I deleted it and started this one.
We're goin' with religion for this one.
So my friend Tires did a pretty cool speech today for American Literature. It was about how only Evolution should be taught in science class. I might agree with that, but her reasons weren't entirely thought out. She said that Creationism and Intelligent Design (which are the same thing to me) weren't science, therefore didn't belong in science class. Okay. So why are we writing speeches for American Literature? Or learning more math than science in Physical Science?
What I think should happen is that we should learn why all these Creationist/Intelligent Design "theories" came into play. Like, in Greek mythology, there's all these stories about how there's monsters in the mountains. Obviously some guy didn't just dream this up because he was bored. He saw a volcano erupting. Until then, he had never seen such a thing. So he based a story after other stories he had heard (hypothesized) that there was a fire-breathing dragon in there that Zeus had captured.
Or the star that the wise men saw. There's proof that the thing existed. Like, there are ancient Chinese and Korean texts from around the same time describing a "tailless comet" that didn't move.
So yeah. Take that.
We're goin' with religion for this one.
So my friend Tires did a pretty cool speech today for American Literature. It was about how only Evolution should be taught in science class. I might agree with that, but her reasons weren't entirely thought out. She said that Creationism and Intelligent Design (which are the same thing to me) weren't science, therefore didn't belong in science class. Okay. So why are we writing speeches for American Literature? Or learning more math than science in Physical Science?
What I think should happen is that we should learn why all these Creationist/Intelligent Design "theories" came into play. Like, in Greek mythology, there's all these stories about how there's monsters in the mountains. Obviously some guy didn't just dream this up because he was bored. He saw a volcano erupting. Until then, he had never seen such a thing. So he based a story after other stories he had heard (hypothesized) that there was a fire-breathing dragon in there that Zeus had captured.
Or the star that the wise men saw. There's proof that the thing existed. Like, there are ancient Chinese and Korean texts from around the same time describing a "tailless comet" that didn't move.
So yeah. Take that.
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