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soc_puppetSo, um. This year, I think I may give in and go for NaNo. I have a plot, I have characters, I have vague worldbuilding-ish, I may even make it to fifty thousand words. Not necessarily all in November, and it will likely be quite hard to tell anyway, what with me planning on writing by hand anyhow, but. It's possible! I acknowledge it! (Someone gab at me about this more, I need more info :|a)
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Dude, cheap stuff. I love getting stuff cheap. Even if it's crap, I like paying less for it! Deep discounts? Awesome. Quite possibly the only thing better than cheap stuff is cheap stuff that comes with free stuff (or, rather, Bonus Content At No Extra Charge). The only thing that's better than that is actually free stuff, and the only thing that's better than free stuff is stuff they pay you to take, but I digress.
I loooove cheap stuff, especially if it comes with bonuses-at-no-extra-charge. Which is why I just picked up (the?) two "Zenses" DS games from K-Mart (Ocean and Rainforest if there's more than two, which there may be, given that they've got rocks with console buttons on the side, and one has Square and one has Circle).
Are they any good? Who knows! I've heard diddly squat about them. They're described as six addicting puzzle games/brain challenges set to relaxing music, which seems like a contradiction to me (how are you supposed to relax while playing addicting puzzle games with fifty levels, I ask you), but wev. They were only five bucks apiece, and for a new DS game, that's a pretty good deal. (Incidentally, the price is a good argument against their being good, but it also lowers my expectations considerably. Something can be five dollars' worth of good a lot more easily than, oh, thirty dollars' worth of good.)
In any case, if I end up thinking they're crap, I can always sell them at Half Price Books.
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I think I might have had more, but if I did, it escapes me for the moment. Hopefully I will be able to re-capture any elusive information later.
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Edit: Can't believe I'm editing already, but. Found information on Zenses. Most importantly:
Target Age: Females 25+
Seriously? Seriously? Wow, no wonder I haven't heard of it before. If there's one surefire way to make sure that no big gaming magazine is going to pick up a copy to review, it's to blatantly market a game towards women.
From the web site: "Zenses Ocean is the first in a series of games targeting one of the fastest growing segments of the videogames industry - 25+ females. [...] The result? A brand new and totally fresh gaming experience for the modern woman, offering spa-like escapism in your handbag!"
Wow. Wow. Has it occurred to them at all, I wonder, that women twenty-five and older are perhaps the same women who liked to play video games before they were twenty-five, and liked the games available already (except for the over-the-top misogyny, etc)?
Still, the web site has pretty enough graphics, I guess. Although, for a game aimed at women, they could be quoting more from us in the "Words of Wisdom" section.And while I find the picture of the Spa Attendee playing the game more than a little amusing, it is rather telling that she is quite white and thin. Criticism (mostly) revoked? There's a woman of color pictured on the page that offers free downloads of the soundtrack, and she's actually more clothed than the white woman. They're both still thin, but. One step at a time, I guess.
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Dude, cheap stuff. I love getting stuff cheap. Even if it's crap, I like paying less for it! Deep discounts? Awesome. Quite possibly the only thing better than cheap stuff is cheap stuff that comes with free stuff (or, rather, Bonus Content At No Extra Charge). The only thing that's better than that is actually free stuff, and the only thing that's better than free stuff is stuff they pay you to take, but I digress.
I loooove cheap stuff, especially if it comes with bonuses-at-no-extra-charge. Which is why I just picked up (the?) two "Zenses" DS games from K-Mart (Ocean and Rainforest if there's more than two, which there may be, given that they've got rocks with console buttons on the side, and one has Square and one has Circle).
Are they any good? Who knows! I've heard diddly squat about them. They're described as six addicting puzzle games/brain challenges set to relaxing music, which seems like a contradiction to me (how are you supposed to relax while playing addicting puzzle games with fifty levels, I ask you), but wev. They were only five bucks apiece, and for a new DS game, that's a pretty good deal. (Incidentally, the price is a good argument against their being good, but it also lowers my expectations considerably. Something can be five dollars' worth of good a lot more easily than, oh, thirty dollars' worth of good.)
In any case, if I end up thinking they're crap, I can always sell them at Half Price Books.
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I think I might have had more, but if I did, it escapes me for the moment. Hopefully I will be able to re-capture any elusive information later.
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Edit: Can't believe I'm editing already, but. Found information on Zenses. Most importantly:
Target Age: Females 25+
Seriously? Seriously? Wow, no wonder I haven't heard of it before. If there's one surefire way to make sure that no big gaming magazine is going to pick up a copy to review, it's to blatantly market a game towards women.
From the web site: "Zenses Ocean is the first in a series of games targeting one of the fastest growing segments of the videogames industry - 25+ females. [...] The result? A brand new and totally fresh gaming experience for the modern woman, offering spa-like escapism in your handbag!"
Wow. Wow. Has it occurred to them at all, I wonder, that women twenty-five and older are perhaps the same women who liked to play video games before they were twenty-five, and liked the games available already (except for the over-the-top misogyny, etc)?
Still, the web site has pretty enough graphics, I guess. Although, for a game aimed at women, they could be quoting more from us in the "Words of Wisdom" section.
