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Yeah, I'm late, but it's still kind of Friday.

Sort of.

Get you some cocoa and have a seat:

• Super Husband has finished Mass Effect 2 and is happily blowing shit up in Bioshock 2.  It's funny because he's concerned that I'm not kicking him off the 360 for a reason.  Nope.  I'm replaying Dragon Age: Origins.  I'm determined to either get Alistair to make me his queen or get Zevron in a threesome.  We all have our priorities.  The 360 games will be there when I'm done.
  
• In case you frothing-at-the-mouth gamers haven't heard, Blizzard is looking for beta testers for StarCraft 2.  I know it was stupid of me to make that announcement seeing as how you are all rabid for it, but you know, some peeps get a little into the gaming to see what's going on around them, like the snowpocalypse.
• Well, duh, of course we both applied for the beta opt-in.  I haven't mentioned it, but I'm pretty certain there will be marital discourse if one of us is chosen but not the other.  I suspect that whoever might get the lucky chance will have the other hanging over his/her shoulder drooling.
• I'm actually beta-testing for a game right now, but it's not a game that's really my cup of tea.  It was different then I thought it would be.  Not unpleasant, just not my sort of game.  Live and learn.
• No, I can't tell you which one.  So, hush.  I wouldn't be able to tell you if we got in on the beta testing for Starcraft 2, either.  It's call non-disclosure agreement.  I can and will rub some noses in it later after the official release, though, if we're chosen.  Considering the thousands of thousands of possible applicants who damn near knocked in Blizzard's door for the chance, I'm not betting on it, but hey, fingers crossed anyway.
• You know, I love me some Dragon Age: Origins, but I never realized until recently the exact amount of replay value in the game.  I'm already getting quests I never got the first time around.  For instance, I had Leiliana all over me the first time I played, but I didn't ever get her personal quest.  I didn't even know there was one.  I'm not sure what I did differently, but it's very cool all the same.  This game gets better and better.
  
• I've also come to terms that while I am itching for Final Fantasy XIII, I'm finding that I'm not liking the very linear aspect of J-RPGs anymore.  I still love them, don't get me wrong, but if I had my choice, I'm rediscovering why I like A-RPGs more.  Yes, I cut my teeth on J-RPGs, but things like Baldur's Gate and Neverwinter Nights really had something about them that I really enjoyed:  No Godsdamn Random Monster Encounters.  Besides, I like a game that doesn't end in a handful of days, or if it does, it has amazing replay.  The last J-RPG I played with that kind of replay was Final Fantasy VII.  (Besides, it was worth it to put Cloud in a dress.  They've watered them down so much since then.  Fucking American censors!)
  
• Speaking of Dragon Age, the expansion comes out in a few weeks.  Yes, I am squee-ing.  I have downloaded the more recent expansion of "Return to Ostagar" in hopes that it will tide me over.  Yeah, I'm done with that one.  Next!
• Zombieland, Zombieland, Zombieland!
• We missed DrakeCon for financial reasons, but apparently our peeps had a grand time and even got to enjoy the awesomeness that is Voltaire.  I am a lot sad we couldn't be there, but hopefully, he'll be at another con we can attend.  I really, really miss not getting his autograph in my book.  Oh, well.  Maybe another time.
• That's okay, there's always DragonCon.  Anyone who wishes to contribute to our group's Bail Fund, please let me know.  We will need it.
• Did I mention the Saints won the Superbowl? 
  

So, yeah, there you have it.  You might have had to dig it out from under the snow, but this brings another Fully Functional Friday to a close.  Now, go sledding.  It's good for you.




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We couldn't really go sledding, unfortunately.  It snowed, snowed, snowed, snowed some more, then rained, snowed, rained, snowed, rained, snowed, snowed, froze.  Nature is rather bipolar in this state. 

So, my other blog has Totally Random Thursdays where I endeavor to hope to guarantee at least one regular entry a week.  I try.

Damn my social life.

Either way, I felt that I should do the same for this blog, just so it doesn't get lonely or some crap like that. 

Welcome to the very first episode of Fully Functional Friday where I prove to you that this blog is indeed still fully functional (and anatomically correct).*

On with the show!

• Watch Super Husband play the demo for "Dante's Inferno".  I will try it this weekend.  Admittedly, my first thought was, "Didn't I see this fighting style in 'God of War'?"  That thought was quickly superseded by "Holy shitbunnies what kind of drugs were these designers and on and I want some!"  Okay, the engine doesn't look all that unique, but damn, this shit is pretty in a worst-nightmares-dreamed-up-by-a-human-wishing-to-be-a-demon kind of way.  I want to play to see just how far they take it.  Of course, this is what EA wants, but I will play gleefully in their hands!  Damn my twisted tendencies...
• However, that whole making a "book" to fit the game thing should mean that EA should have to carve its own circle of hell out of marble using a toothpick while at the mercy of a demon spawned by Satan's feces.  "Dante's Inferno" the book was written many years ago and this game has drawn aspects of his vision of hell from it to be a fully-formed horribly twisted game experience.  To want to print a book off of the game is a desperate bid for stupid people's money...  Wait...  Nevermind.  Carry on.
• Super Husband has one-uped me and actually played "Mass Effect".  He has also made sure we will be getting "Mass Effect 2" in the next week or so.  I will play the first while he oohs and aahs over the second.  I figure this gives me critiquing advantage and is not because I've been hopelessly addicted to "Runes of Magic" which is totally his fault.  Dammit.
• I am creating t-shirts.  You don't get to see them until I get a sense of how well they will be accepted when I go to the next con.  Heh.
• Speaking of cons, some ladies and I have a Plan for MidSouth Con.  Yes, it's totally sexist, but the cons are nothing if not not sexist in a completely acceptable, non-politically correct way.  (Girls get to dress as sluts; boys get to try to overstep boundaries; girls beat boys up.  Boys get to dress as sluts; girls get to overstep boundaries; most boys just revel in it and don't care.  Good times!)  There will be southern belle dresses, collars, leashes, alcohol, and a whole lot of mischief.  I love Cons!
• Just wait for Dragon Con.
• On Facebook, there was apparently a Fictional Character Week where you picked a fictional character that best represented you.  I didn't know how to best represent me.  I'm a zombie-fighting, explosion-loving, horror/fantasy/sci-fi/bad movie-watching, Halloween-obsessive gaming geek girl with a really twisted sense of humor and a rubber chicken.  Let's add a nice rack to that.  I have yet to find a fictional character that best describes that because reality is definitely funnier than fiction.  I am my own fictional character.
• Most geek boys don't believe I exist anyway.  I had met many in life and online.  The ones in life were intimidated; the ones online thought I was a guy pretending to be me.  Yeah, and this is why I'm with Super Husband who is a Geek with a capital G.  Sorry, boys, you had your chance.
• Okay, so, I saw the Lego Universe MMORPG trailer.  Looks cute and stuff, but am I the only one who thought I would only pay for it if I could fight Lego ninjas against Lego pirates?  Just sayin'.
• James Cameron is still a hack and should stay far the hell away from "Forbidden Planet"!

So, there you have it, a totally disjointed train-of-thought edition of Ye Olde Kumquat.  I know it just fulfilled your every whims.  Please, deposit used tissues in the trashcans, you pervs.




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*Serious brownie points to those who know what song I got this inspired post title from.  I might even find something to send to you.  Maybe.  Perhaps.  If you beg.  MWAH!