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SF IGDA 10/03

Wednesday, October 4th, 2006
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What follows is mostly a stream of conciousness brain dump as I get ready for bed. Please don’t hold it against me.

Games, gals, and feminism…

Sunday, July 16th, 2006
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“Father, your death is avenged.
Now that I have destroyed Bison,
His empire will surely collapse.
Finally, you can rest in peace…
And I can get back to being a young single girl.”
~Chun-Li
It’s hard being a woman these days. I’m sure its hard being a man too for different reasons, but since I [...]

Power On!

Thursday, June 29th, 2006
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Do you remember Captain Power? That show that had those jet/space plane toys where you could actually fire at the tv screen and the show would shoot back at you? Man that was awesome! I always wanted one of those toys…I remember watching the commercials and drooling. And yet I never [...]

Poor puppy

Thursday, February 23rd, 2006
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The other night I had a dream about Nintendogs. I hadn’t played the game (actually) in about a week. I turned it on, and not only was my corgi puppy filthy, starving and parched with thirst she’d also actually grown up into a full, mangy dog. (This is actually impossible in Nintendogs.) I desperately tried [...]

If they build it..?

Thursday, January 12th, 2006
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My husband’s family and their friends back East have - well, a decent amount of money.This pretty much assures that their kids have the tendency to get the ”hot new thing” for Christmas. Rock on kids!
But not this year. This year the ”hot new thing” was the XBox 360. But not a single kid got [...]