Monthly Archives: April 2006

That’s some good empowering there boys…

Wonderland has a story about a new website attempting to “empower female gamers.” This GirlsofCS seems to be nothing more than a Suicide Girls wannabe. One of the posters on Wonderland found that the site is owned by LANFusion where someone linked to a page on the GirlsofCS site where you can see the kind of “empowering” they are talking about. As I said over at Wonderland:

it doesn’t look like anything but yet another nudie site to me. Skinny 18 year old white girls… yawn.
I don’t see anything within the site itself that even talks about gaming.
If this is empowering, I don’t want to see what unempowered looks like…

I am going to have to start taking one for the team…

First I missed the Bloodrayne movie and now, I’ve missed my chance to see Stay Alive. The local theater monopoly Kerasotes has started something they call the Five Buck Club which is a deal where you get to see certain movies for the titular price of $5. Basically, it is an attempt to get people to come to movies that have been out a while and so its just a step between first run theaters and the dollar cinemas. However, it is only for films that have been out for a few weeks. Last week Stay Alive was still regualr price, and now, this week its gone! NOooooo!!!!!!!!!! I’m just going to have to start going to crapy movies on opening night if I want to make sure I see them… Can I deduct my tickets as research expenses???

I should have picked an easier line of research!

I”m currently in a class on Hollywood masculinity so I’m writing about the Aliens versus Predator games. (OK, not all of them. Unfortunately, I don’t have a Jaguar and I’m not really into RTS games.) However, to make my argument about the depictions of the different speicies and masculinity, I think I should rewatch the movies.
In this same class there are people wring about a movie they have chosen.
Now let me get this right, I have to play two games and an expansion pack AND watch seven movies for the same assignment they only have to watch one movie?!?!? Man, I am a moron!!! I should have been a film person!