My favorite reading materials: cookbooks, novels, textbooks and Game Informers
Question: If you want to know something about video games, where do you usually get the information from?
It's clear that we're becoming a more digital based culture, so I would guest that most people just check their favorite websites to get the latest news right when they want to see it. That's what I do most of the time.
But what about good old fashioned magazines? With the number of print publications decreasing more and more each day (for example, the long running magazine Nintendo Power will send out its last issue next month), it seems obvious that not many people still put their money into monthly mailing subscriptions.
To be totally honest, GameStop's loyalty program is one of the main reasons why I've had a subscription to Game Informer for the last few years. That two-in-one special is probably the biggest part of the company's success. But I do prefer the feel of a physical magazine copy and look forward to receiving a new issue each month...even though I am well aware that I am not part of the magazine's main demographic and find myself uninterested in many of the articles they print...but that has nothing to do with this...
Do you still read magazines or do you get your all information from online sources?
A friend of mine posted this challenge on her Facebook page and I thought it would be interesting to throw it out to you...
Describe your favorite game, but make it sound as terrible as you possibly can.
Here's mine:
You play an overweight, out-of-work tradesman who is invited to a castle to have cake with its princess. After a short trip through the local sewer system, you arrive at the castle only to discover that it is a basically an abandoned art museum and the pretty princess has been captured by the disembodied voice of giant turtle. The only way to save her is to explore the art museum/castle and jump each into the paintings, one by one.
Inside the paintings, you will be forced to complete menial tasks in the pursuit of monetary compensation and defeat random creatures that are much larger than you so that they will transform into weird stars with creepy, beady eyes that never blink...
You will waste an extraordinary amount of time running up a staircase that never ends.
Your only friends in this journey are a transparent little person in a mushroom hat and diaper that can somehow be in several places at once, an owl that likes to remind you how fat you are and a vocally challenged green dinosaur that only appears long after you finish the journey and shoot yourself out of a cannon.
Since I have already nominated 11 fantastic bloggers and posted 11 random (video game related) facts about myself, I'll just skip those parts.
Here are the questions from Shakibrya:
1. What’s the meaning behind your blog title? I have always loved video games but everybody and their mother's mother has a video game blog. Mixing in fashion was my attempt to be creative. The name itself came from trial and error. (Many of my other choices were already taken).
2. Who would play you if your life was a movie? I'd hope for Keke Palmer. But she would have to genuinely love games.
She's fashionable but does she play video games?
3. What song(s) would be the soundtrack of your life? Paradise--Coldplay Every Teardrop is a Waterfall--Coldplay Everybody Loves Me--OneRepublic Made For You--OneRepublic Must Be Dreaming--Imogen Heap We Can Make the World Stop--The Glitch Mob We Swarm--The Glitch Mob Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence--Utada Hikaru LoveStoned/I Think That She Knows Interlude--Justin Timberlake Serious Coin--Nostalgia The Hero--Nostalgia And the Super Mario Galaxy 2 theme...
4. What are your favorite books to read? Depends on my mood. Right now I'm into anything related to geishas (Memoirs of a Geisha; Geisha, A Life). Super Mario: How Nintendo Conquered America is on my reading wish list though.
There's an empty space on my bookshelf. Only this can fill it.
5. Who is your style icon? Also depends on my mood. Right now, it's Dita Von Teese. Bet you didn't see that coming. Just take the time to watch some of her interviews. You will not be disappointed.
I mean, look at her...Amazing.
6. Describe yourself in 3 words. Fickle fashionable gamer. (I think I'm cheating, but oh well...)
7. What’s the most inspiring city to you fashion-wise? Umm...London, I suppose. I've never thought about that before.
8. What is your dream job? Terrible ad campaigns aside (read my rants here and here), I still dream of being a Localization Editor at Nintendo of America. Or Europe.
9. You are invited to The Oscars to present an award, what do you wear? This or something extremely similar.
10. It’s your first date and you want to make an impression. What do you wear? I would wear this skirt if I owned it.
Any suitor must understand that video games are my first love.
11. What are your favourite colours to wear?
Various shades of black, white, grey and beige. I've included a picture of my closet at school for reference...I do branch out, but my wardrobe is a work in progress.
Look closely and you might spot some bright blue and pink.
I just want to take this time to thank you--yes, YOU--for reading my almost random nonsense. It really means a lot to me.
Video games are often considered a solitary activity. Everyone knows the image of the loner in the dark basement, playing from sun up to sun down, only interacting with people in the real world when it becomes absolutely necessary. Many believe that the obsessive gamer who avoids social interaction is the only kind of gamer that exists. These people tend to overlook the fact that multi-player titles can bring people together just as easily as the most popular single-player games can tear relationships apart.
People don't play games like this anymore...on computers like that...
For example, games like Super Smash Bros. Brawl can turn strangers into friends and the closest companions into bitter (but loving) rivals. With the right group of people, this classic can erase the stress of even the most difficult day. It's the game of choice when it comes to my friends. If someone suggests we play video games, they only ever have one title in mind...Many of our late nights get-togethers have been filled with laughter and the struggle to get the Smash Ball and come in first place.
Instant party: Just add friends.
Some of our favorite inside jokes have been inspired by the random things that fly out of our mouths in the heat of battle. The longer we play, the more incoherent we become. My favorite Smash Bros. related quotes include these amazing gems:
"Pikachu used Thumber!"
"Oooo, food!...Oh no, it's a trap!"
"You think you're SO HAPPY!"
"Not the sparkles!...Keep your sparkles away from me!"
This only scratches the surface of our insanity.
And don't think that things like this are for hardcore gamers only. Even my friends who've never picked up a controller can simply watch us play and still feel included in the madness. The fun that it creates is just that universal.
Video games don't belong in a basement. They are meant to be shared.
So, what do you pull out when your favorite group of gamers gets together? Do you prefer to play alone or with friends?
