5 Reasons 99% of "Girl Gamers" are Annoying as Hell

1. They seemingly can't learn how to take a joke
If you are any type of gamer you know girls get insane attention when they play simply because they are female. As a girl, if you are aware of this and still get pissy when some guy tells you to get back in the kitchen, you should not be playing online games. You probably SHOULD get back in the kitchen because that oven is not going to pre-heat itself. Instead of getting angry, have a comeback or at the very least just ignore them. After all, you're playing the game cus you want to, not for the attention RIGHT?! Right.

2. Their gamer tags are just asking for trouble
I hate joining a MW2 pregame lobby and seeing a name pop up like "angelprincess6969". 1) because they are usually level 12 and are without fail placed on my team and 2) I hate hearing "oh my goddd i like, totally almost killed that guy! what's a claymore?!". I will admit that I am guilty of sometimes being that stupid, clueless girl but NO LONGER. I am aware of how annoying it sounds to other people. For reference, if you have any of the following words in your gamer tag in any combination, you should just stop now:
princess, angel, baby, cutie, gurl, sexy, queen, 696969696969696969696969 etc...



3. They still get pissed when their boyfriend/husband plays games
If you are going to call yourself a Gamer Girl, you are no longer allowed to tell your boyfriend/husband that he can't play Call of Duty until 4 in the morning. Either he's allowed or you go back to being the girl that will sit on the arm of the couch for 2 minutes to play a round of Cooking Mama for the Wii and consider that enough gaming for the day. I am aware of at least one situation where a girl was heavily into gaming and still didn't allow her boyfriend to play. Make up your damn mind!


4. LAN parties are more of a whoring opportunity than anything else
How annoying is it that regardless of whether or not you want to be distracted by girls, you are. Especially when you are somewhere where utmost focus is required. I know it's awesome that as a girl, you feel comfortable enough to go to a LAN and ACTUALLY play. And if you go to play and you don't prance around like a 2 year old in a tutu, then it's all good. Some people pay money to go there and show off their skills and win prizes and all that good stuff. Either play the game or stick to e-whoring.

5. Girls rarely talk about the actual game they're playing
Every girl is guilty of this because we are natural born chatters. We like to fill silence with idle chatter whether it be pertinent or not. The only problem is, that distracts from people trying to focus. They do not want to hear about your new shoes. They want you to let them know where you got shot from so they don't meet the same end. I'm guilty of this. I am aware of it. And if you think talking about random stuff in the pre game lobby is acceptable it is not. That is when you should be shit talking absolutely everyone because you're the best and you're going to win (even if you know you're terrible)

Finally! Final Proofs for "Cowboy Creations"

Hey ya'll! So I finally got all the info I needed to finish this site off and so I shall post the screenshots of the final proof. I decided against making buttons because they just weren't working and it was pissing me off. I instead decided to keep it simple with text links. Yay!

Soap Bars Page


Other Products Page


I'm not sure that i'm completely in love with it but she can tell me whether or not she likes it and we can go from there! It's simple and it works. Nothing fancy but then again, i'm pretty sure i'm doing this for free.

Thoughts are appreciated!
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5 Reasons Playing MW2 Makes You a Better Driver

We all know Modern Warfare 2 is an incredibly awesome and fun game, but did you know it's also beneficial? Now, you may or may not have noticed that after you play an FPS for a while, your focus is all zoned in and you find it easier to focus on things later. I've noticed this and I've also noticed that if I play Modern Warfare 2 or even CounterStrike for extended periods of time and then drive, I drive better. Even in winter. Let me explain...

1. Focus, focus, focus

As I mentioned earlier, if I sit in front of my TV and play MW2 for an hour or two (or six...whatever...), I get into the "zone". Every gamer has experienced the zone. You keep getting kill after kill without dying, you run faster, reload at just the right time and melee your opponent into the ground with the precision and skill of a pro! This is amplified if you don't take any bathroom/food/drink breaks and just play straight through and especially if you're playing with friends or randoms that talk shit. If you, after this intense period of focusing, take a drive, your focus has not yet been fully broken and it transfers to your driving. You see every sign, hit your brakes at just the right moment and speed up when the coast is clear. Fabulous in it's logic, is it not?

2. Increased reaction time to just about everything

There's nothing worse than trying to sneak up behind an opponent and instead of pwning him with your knife, he turns around and knifes you because you were too damn slow. To counteract this, you learn to either shoot the mofo in the back of the head execution style or sneak up and knife him before he knifes you. You turn around faster when you hear footsteps behind you. You switch weapons right before you run out of ammo to avoid being embarassingly slaughtered. So it is with driving. A deer jumps out in front of your car? Fuck that! You already saw it coming so you swerve away from that bitch. Car in front of you slams on their brakes to avoid hitting the car in front of them? You got this. You slam on your brakes and get the hell out of there. Who wants to pay for higher insurance when there are map packs to buy!

3. Ignoring environmental nuisances and seeing past them

In Modern Warfare 2 there are several environmental details that are put there to distract you & make you double-take something you think you see off in the distance. This includes things such as falling snow, leaves and other such things blowing across the screen that have absolutely nothing to do with the game. They just make it look more real. And they are VERY distracting. If you play the game and you get used to these factors, you start to look through them. You look past the snow and see only the solid objects (ie. people) in the distance. When I drove in the snow this year, I found I was looking THROUGH the snow instead of AT it. Yes I was still annoyed that it was there but it was much less distracting. This means that I'm paying attention so I can get out of the way when the idiot in front of me starts sliding around because he was staring at the snow instead of paying attention.

4. Asians/Women/Old People become better at driving

Since young Asian boys play MW2 the most, they will increase their driving skills early because of the previously mentioned items. Anything that will help Asian drivers not suck at driving is okay with me. Although nothing will help women become GOOD drivers, playing MW2 at least ensures that me, and everyone on the road with me, survives until the end of the day. And although there are very few, if any, old people that play, the ones that do will reap the same benefits as everyone else. And since the Asians, girls and old people are better at driving, YOU, the GOOD driver, will have to compensate less for their shittyness.

5. Being the best at MW2 means you don't have to jack up your truck anymore!

Once you feel you are amazing at Modern Warfare 2 and you pwn enough noobs, you will no longer feel like you have to compensate for your small...er...you know...by jacking up your truck. Everyone knows that guys with trucks taller than their houses are full of testosterone induced RAGE and drive like assholes just because their clearly visible under carriage isn't eye catching enough. Instead of being an attention whore on the road, be one on Xbox Live. At least that way people can mute you.

Adobe Photoshop CS5 Review & First Thoughts

So I have Photoshop CS5 for the Mac now. I have Illustrator, InDesign, Dreamweaver and After Effects as well but I haven't installed them yet because I was just too excited to try the content aware fill.

Now in the demo videos, this fill looked completely fool proof and so so so easy. Either I'm doing it wrong or those videos are faked because the content aware fill, although very very useful in some instances, was not so useful in other "test runs"

To begin with, I edited a picture I took a earlier this year just to test the content aware fill. I decided it would be easiest to take the pond out of a photo. The results were...

The before...


And the after...



So as you can see, that worked fairly well. The pond disappeared without any insane side effects to the rest of the picture.

Next I tried to erase an object off of another object, in this case a mailbox off of a house. I thought this would be simple for the Content Aware Fill since it was a small area. Well...
(Please pardon the deformed images...having issues with the photo uploader)
Before:



The area I selected with the quick mask tool:



And the after:



Another feature that I was looking forward to was the supposedly incredible and enhanced stamp tools and healing brush tools. They were supposed to pick up fewer contrasting colors to keep the darks/shadows from bleeding onto the light colors and vice versa. I tested it. It's reduced but its still pretty noticable. But thanks Adobe, the less dark that gets picked up when I don't want it, the better.

I didn't have much time to play around so that's all I have for now. I may or may not write another blog tomorrow when I've tried Illustrator/Dreamweaver. We'll see.

Till next time!

Ohhh Thursday...

What a craptastic day.

I ended up staying up all night playing MW2. Literally all night. Like 9 straight hours of MW2. I stopped at around 5 which is when my dads alarm went off and got out of bed & got dressed up for my Great Uncle's funeral. He's my dad's aunt's husband so we aren't related by blood and I never met him but my dad wanted to go so I went with him so he would have a driving companion.

My close family on my dad's side (this includes me, my sister, my mom & dad, two aunts, two uncles, 5 cousins and my grandmother) absolutely hates the other side of my family for some reason. Not my mom's side, but my grandpa's siblings & their children. One of my grandpa's sisters (I don't know what that makes her in relation to me...Great neice? No idea) brought two different outfits to change into for the ceremony and the burial/reception. She's one of those people that soaks up attention regardless of whether or not it is deserved. She just strikes me as so...not...genuine. Or respectful. No wonder we never met them until my grandpa died.

Anyway. I managed to get about an hour of sleep on the way home after I played a little of my most recent DS game (Harvest Moon). And for some reason I am now completely awake and feel totally refreshed even though i've only had one hour of sleep in almost 48 hours now. I'm strange.

Plans for the evening include more MW2, chillin, maybe a bath with bubbles and all that jazz.

Till next time!

Song of the Day: "Humid Extent" by Icy Lytes
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Dear May: Please be warmer. Kthnx

So it's already Cinco de Mayo. This time last year I was in Mexico laying on a beach or something equally relaxing. This year, i'm still in Calgary and it's snowing. Ew. What the hell.

I haven't really been up to anything or busy at all, just haven't had motivation to post a blog. I haven't even had motivation to play video games which is really sad. I souped up my resume and made it pretty. In Quark because I still haven't heard from the SAIT computer store about the Adobe CS4 Design Premium Suite for Mac coming back into stock yet. I tried to call but they close at 4 (20 minutes ago...of course)

It's nothing too special but at least its more eye-catching that the usual boring black and white lines of text.

I have all my final marks back now:


Big improvement from last semester. I went up from 3.06 to 4.0. That feels absolutely amazing haha.

In other news, tomorrow is Thursday and i'm going to Lethbridge to attend a funeral for my great Uncle. :( I don't do well at funerals. I hope I have waterproof mascara still.

And never one to end on a sad note, I found a dress for Shawn's sister's wedding that I love but its $130 so hopefully I can get a paycheck soon and pick that baby up before some girl steals it as a prom dress.



Anyway, that's all. Until next time!

Song of the Day: "It's Me Bitches" by Swizz Beats
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