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PAX incoming!!!

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I will be attending PAX Prime this year and will be liveblogging the event.  I plan on attending some of the presentations but will probably be spending most of my time on the show floor.  Some of the presentations I am planning on going to are: Rooster Teeth, Bungie, 343 Studios, Squre Enix, Penny Arcade, and a few more.

I can’t wait.  So stay tuned here for info and pictures from PAX.

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Do iPhone owners have more sex? No.

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Dating site OK Cupid did a study where they took a look at the camera that took profile pictures on their website and related that to the dating history on the website for those users.  Not exactly good science, or even sound statistical analysis (Correlation != Causality) but nevertheless their extrapolation from that dataset was that iPhone users have more sex than other phone users!!!

Bullshit.  This only means that hipster loser douche-bags that are clueless enough to buy iPhones also can’t keep a steady girlfriend.  Perhaps iPhone users are narcissistic assholes who will do anything to look cooler than they actually are.  You could just as easily determine from the data that iPhone users are having sex and they are terrible at it and their partner dumps them.

Or, maybe their antennas are dropping the call the next day.

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Torchlight 2 coming out next spring!

The followup to the Diablo look-alike from Runic Games is headed to PCs springtime next year.  Torchlight 2 will contain the biggest feature asked for since Torchlight: Online Co-Op.

I loved Torchlight and can’t wait to play the next version of the game with friends.  If it hits the street at anywhere near their current price point I will pick it up for sure.

As for the MMO the team is working on?  It’s still in the works, according to their press release.

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Beefy: Internet Celebrity (youtube)

The Tech Star video I posted the other day reminded me of this nerdcore hiphop tune from Beefy called Internet Celebrity.  It always reminds me why I do any of this tech crap.

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Honest Review: Just Cause 2

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I am currently playing Just Cause 2, which is by far the most fun I have ever had playing a sandbox game.  I typically don’t spend much time exploring and goofing around with side missions and fun tricks when playing sandbox games.  Steal all the cars in GTA?  No way, too boring.  But this game?  It kicks ass. More »

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Coming Soon: Honest Reviews

I have had a plan to do video game and tech reviews for a while.  So, coming this week I will start doing some honest reviews of video games and tech and the like.

After gamestopgate and hearing about sites and editors getting directly or indirectly paid for positive reviews and seeing the obvious bias that the larger video game related sites I started thinking that people need honest reviews from a third party that isnt getting free games and hotel stays and party invites and advertising dollars from the publishers.

Honest reviews.  Thumbs up, or thumbs down – plain and simple.  Coming soon on www.madeofwinandawesome.com

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New theme.

I finally got my new theme working the way I like it (mostly).
It is based on a free GPL theme called ThrillingTheme.

New theme, again.  Thrilling was driving me nuts in a couple of ways – mostly the image sizing script and the fact that it ignored the ‘more’ tag.

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How to spot a Kimbo fan on a message board

How to spot a Kimbo Slice fan on a message board:

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DNS change. MadeOfFailAndLose.

The blog is now back up and running. I guess it went down at some point yesterday when an upstream ISP split nodes. I have updated the DNS and we are no longer full of fail.

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All I want for Christmas…

Five years ago, the makers of the popular web comic Penny Arcade created the Child’s Play charity partly in response to the constant flow of news articles portraying gamers in a negative light and partly to do some good in the world with their internet celebrity status.

Since then Child’s Play has since contributed over $5 million in toys and games for sick children to play with in over 69 hospitals across 6 countries.

How does it work?  You visit the Child’s Play website, click on the icon for the hospital that you would like to support and it will bring you to an Amazon wish-list that the hospital has set up.  Pick and item or two from the list, checkout, and Amazon will send the item(s) directly to the hospital.  It is quick, it is easy, and it gives sick children something to do while in the hospital.

Both Victoria General Hospital and the BC Children’s Hospital in Vancouver are partnered with this charity.  Instead of gifts this year, I will be encouraging my family and friends to donate to one of the above hospitals, or one in their local area.  I encourage you, my 5 loyal readers (Hi Mom! ) to do the same.

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