http://pwned.com/trickynicky42/blogs/ Pwned.com - [PWNDUK] Navie's Blog Feed en-us http://pwned.com/showblog/3269/trickynicky42/The-Pwned-Community/ It's a funny thing, pwned.com. I've been here in the community, sometimes active as hell, sometimes too busy with RL, since day 2 or 3 and it will never cease to amaze me what a wonderful community this is. I can be away from pwned for a long time, and each time I return I have familiar faces asking after me, and I know I can send messages to others, people I've not met in real life but know just as well, and be greeted with a warm response. The community as a whole has had a few scuffles (my own involvement sometimes a factor) but for better or worse we are quite the unique bunch of people, gamers in hobby. Perhaps it's sappy, Cheers theme song sappy. While having been a member I have seen some great things happen. I've seen two lovely people fall in love an ocean apart, I have seen the community pull together in the support of members in need of just an emotional (and virtual) http://pwned.com/showblog/3269/trickynicky42/The-Pwned-Community/ http://pwned.com/showblog/3168/trickynicky42/OC-Odysseus/ Heard of OC Odysseus?nbsp; Yeah, you probably have and nothing good about him.nbsp; I had the pleasure of signing into xbox live and being the latest in a series of people to spark his hatred out of the blue, indicative of the 20something spam messages he sent me.nbsp; Now, this makes me laugh because I can roughly guess how long it took him to type/record every single message, and compare that against the 5 seconds it took me to wipe the list of them out via holding down the delete button, not having read any of them.nbsp; The result?nbsp; A hearty LOL.nbsp; nbsp; Now, I attended University for 2 years for the subject of psychology, and I still believe the term "crazy fucker"nbsp; should be inducted as a medical term.nbsp; That's what this guy is.nbsp; I won't pretend I know what his issues are exactly, and Im not sure I'd like to know b/c I am fairly sure it involves daddy touching h http://pwned.com/showblog/3168/trickynicky42/OC-Odysseus/ http://pwned.com/showblog/3054/trickynicky42/woot-found-a-place/ So hubby and I found a flat, move in date is Aug 11th and I am sooooo excited!!!!!!!nbsp;nbsp; Its a cozy 1 bedroom, 10 ft high ceilings, hard wood floors, very bright lounge.nbsp; Ill post pics of teh inside once we move in and get settled (i have pics but someone else still lives there and they may not want their place on display on teh internetz lol) But here is the outside and the view: nbsp; nbsp; nbsp; nbsp; Originally built as a single mansion in the early 1800s nbsp; nbsp; Teh oceanz at the end of my street.... less than 100 yards from our new front door!!!! nbsp; nbsp; hella excited, T minus one month to go tho, then live gets a whole lot simpler nbsp; I also have a job interview monday! nbsp; cya all in the funny pages, miss ya nbsp; Navie http://pwned.com/showblog/3054/trickynicky42/woot-found-a-place/ http://pwned.com/showblog/3014/trickynicky42/Zomg-this-RL-level-feels-like-a-Grindfest-/ Right.nbsp; So, Im hardly ever around on pwned and I dont talk in the SB, I have a hard time returning comments and msges.nbsp;nbsp; Real life, lulz.nbsp; I wish I could be around more, especially now that I know who has pokemon to battle.nbsp; But here is a brief update in teh life of Navie: nbsp; As some of you know I work in telesales, and the hours for that job eat up most of my day: 11am -8pm.nbsp; Honestly, who makes those hours??? I have been looking for another job lately that will pay more and give better hours.nbsp; grrr, and thinking about going into work tomorrow makes me wanna punch someone.nbsp;nbsp; So I am determined to find new employment before the job makes me hang myself off the 3rd story balcony. nbsp; Flat hunting.nbsp; My hubby and I currently live in a 3 bedroom place with two other people and it's time to spread out and get our own space.nbsp; We've been usin http://pwned.com/showblog/3014/trickynicky42/Zomg-this-RL-level-feels-like-a-Grindfest-/ http://pwned.com/showblog/2832/trickynicky42/truth/ nbsp; comic from xkcd.com http://pwned.com/showblog/2832/trickynicky42/truth/ http://pwned.com/showblog/2689/trickynicky42/WOOT-/ WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT If you don't hear from me in the next few days... dont come looking LOL! I will be alright!nbsp; Im on a mission folks, I got my bow and I'm headed into the jungles of Hyboria.nbsp; Fear not!nbsp; I shall return unscathed!nbsp;nbsp; ^_^ Bday present from my loving hubby. http://pwned.com/showblog/2689/trickynicky42/WOOT-/ http://pwned.com/showblog/2534/trickynicky42/PS3-pwned-by-my-friend/ Tricky Nicky42 (10:40:00 PM): do you have XBL? Gigantor1313 (10:40:14 PM): again i do'nt enjoy video games, as i have a PS3 Tricky Nicky42 (10:40:29 PM): Oh i keep forgetting Gigantor1313 (10:41:36 PM): I enjoy a mediocre library of non exclusives, and the few things that do come out for it, often require a lenghthy instalation, so much so that i want to hurt someone Tricky Nicky42 (10:41:50 PM): LOL Gigantor1313 (10:42:54 PM): I also like that game developers have stated taht the ps3 is hard to design for and often develop xbox 360 and wii games first and if enough people throw money at them they pretend to work on a ps3 version Tricky Nicky42 (10:43:17 PM): damn Tricky Nicky42 (10:43:21 PM): sony fucks up again Gigantor1313 (10:43:40 PM): but they won blu ray (whoopie), crys http://pwned.com/showblog/2534/trickynicky42/PS3-pwned-by-my-friend/ http://pwned.com/showblog/2529/trickynicky42/Im-on-XBL-FINALLY/ I moved out from under the rock I was living under and finally got myself hooked up on XBL. Go ahead, Friend me! Put your gamertag here too. http://pwned.com/showblog/2529/trickynicky42/Im-on-XBL-FINALLY/ http://pwned.com/showblog/2527/trickynicky42/Like-A-Virgin----/ Virgin Media is the new ISP we chose to go with, and it just got installed literally yesterday and thus far over the past two months they have not tried to impress us at all. Allow me to tell you about this 2 month long debacle of getting faster broadband installed: TIMELINE OF SUCK: Mid March - We sign up for Virgin Broadband. They tell us our install date is 21st of March. 20th of March - We get a letter saying they cannot install at our house until the 6th of May because they have to drill under the street to get the line to our flat. 19th of April - Get letter confirming installation date for the 18th of April. Completely WTF? Call them to tell them to unfuck their shit. End of April - Mark sees Virgin tech outside building, speaks with him to find out that they didnt need to go under the road after all, they could use the existing ductwork 6th of May - No one sh http://pwned.com/showblog/2527/trickynicky42/Like-A-Virgin----/ http://pwned.com/showblog/2514/trickynicky42/Zen-and-the-Art-of-Blog-Maintenance/ So as some of you may or may not know, I am one of two new writers for www.gamegirl.com . LadyLuck and I will start in on blogging for the site any day now and I was told it was free to announce last night =) So I thought I would! I am very excited for this opportunity to not only share my thoughts and gaming experience, but to also improve my writing ability. nbsp; nbsp; As many of you know, I also write for this amazing site here, pwned.com. I typically do 1 narticle a week and I do try to make it something with subtance instead of throwing someone from the internet willy-nilly into the article field and then clicking submit. This will not change, I will still average 1 a week for pwned.com. I will still write, still be throwing undie designs out whenever I feel inspired, and still chatting in the SB at about the same rate (which is usually when only the UK kids are on Lol) http://pwned.com/showblog/2514/trickynicky42/Zen-and-the-Art-of-Blog-Maintenance/ http://pwned.com/showblog/2430/trickynicky42/pwned-panties/ booyah. tell andy you'd buy em. They're boyshort cut for maximum sexiness. yeah. http://pwned.com/showblog/2430/trickynicky42/pwned-panties/ http://pwned.com/showblog/2358/trickynicky42/MS-Paint-at-work/ Well, there is only two things I can boast in skill from 3 months on the job as a telemarketer: My team of Pokemon and l337 MS paint skills: Had to take a pic of it with my cellphone b/c our computers are insanely locked down due to data protection... ...Actually, I could've gotten sacked for doing this Llol. http://pwned.com/showblog/2358/trickynicky42/MS-Paint-at-work/ http://pwned.com/showblog/2233/trickynicky42/----Hair/ Sometime this week I will be dying my awesomely awesome orange hair back to dark brown. I have got to get out of the job im in, and need to be earning at least double what I am now. And I would hate to think of missing out on an opportunity simply due to someone's opinion of my hair color. I can always dye it back at some point in the future, but it still makes me a bit sad... I gotta go back to being ordinary. blah http://pwned.com/showblog/2233/trickynicky42/----Hair/ http://pwned.com/showblog/2030/trickynicky42/The-Collection/ I finally inventoried the DS collection, and I have the following games. Im quite proud of it actually. 1.Animal Crossing: Wild World 2.Assassin's Creed 3.Brain Age 2 4.Bubble Bobble Revolution 5.Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow 6.Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin 7.Chess 8.Cooking Mama 9.Cooking Mama 2 10.Dementium: The Ward 11.Diddy Kong Racing 12.Diner Dash 13.DK Jungle Climber 14.Dokidoki Majo Shinpan! 15.Drawn to Life 16.Electroplankton 17.Elite Beat Agents 18.Essential Sudoku 19.Final Fantasy III 20.Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles 21.Kirby: Canvas Curse 22.Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy 23.Lego Star Wars: Complete Series 24.Lost in Blue 2 25.Mario Luigi: Partners in Time 26.Metroid Prime: Hunters 27.More Brain training from Dr. Kawashima 28.Ninja Gaiden: Dragon Sword 29.Nintendogs: Labrador and Friends 30.Pokemon Diamond 31.Pokemon Ranger http://pwned.com/showblog/2030/trickynicky42/The-Collection/ http://pwned.com/showblog/1861/trickynicky42/Life--the-universe--and-everything/ So I am never around on pwned as much as I'd like to be.nbsp; Life is in the fast lane at the moment and I am just waiting desperately for things to slow down.nbsp; The hubby and I are both aggressively searching for better jobs, while still doing our current full time ones.nbsp; I haven't registered with a doctor yet and I am down to the last month of my stockpiled BC.nbsp; I have to do that this weekend. The only perk of where I work now is being able to play my DS and raise my pokemon while on the phones (telesales).nbsp; I almost lost said job the other week when a curse word I had said was picked up by the Quality Assurance Team.nbsp; Luckily, it wasn't during a call and I only got a warning. We're visiting my family in the USA in May, and after that looking for a new flat, somewhere in the marina area.nbsp; The husband and I are taking up windsurfing this summer. So much to think a http://pwned.com/showblog/1861/trickynicky42/Life--the-universe--and-everything/ http://pwned.com/showblog/1711/trickynicky42/the-MMO-itch/ the MMO itch is back again. Well, I should say the Everquest itch. EQ was my first online gaming experience, back when I was 16. I stuck with it for almost 5 years and became disappointed in the the direction the game went and my lack of ability in keeping up with the population in terms of keys, flags, equipment, levels, and AA points. I tried playing other games in between EQ sessions. I missed the old school stuff. The noobishly falling out of the tree city of Kelethin to my death, the being killed and not know where my body was, The thinking the guy with the full suit of matching armor was teh shit. But I've come to accept it doesn't have anything (well, much) to do with the new content, it doesn't have anything to do with keeping up with the jones's. It's that Age of Innocence with our MMORPG experience that we will never get back. Everyone who loves the genre can remembe http://pwned.com/showblog/1711/trickynicky42/the-MMO-itch/ http://pwned.com/showblog/1451/trickynicky42/Nintendo-DS-and-YOU-/ When browsing through the various console sections at the local Best Buy, a gamer is likely to pass up the Nintendo DS, chalking it up to child's play given the exorbitant amount of games based on children's movies for the system. And after all, who can really trust the credibility of a handheld that comes in PINK? However, this fangirl is about to tell you exactly why the DS is the most multi-faceted system available on the market, and one of the best investments you can make with your hard earned gaming allowance. To me, the Nintendo DS (and when I say that, I mean my DS Lite) is like my Ipod. My ipod has a number of playlists with vastly different samplings of music that I can tune into to perfectly compliment my mood or my day. The same is true for the NDS. Never before have I seen such a wide array of tastes and subject matter in gaming on a single system. A game to http://pwned.com/showblog/1451/trickynicky42/Nintendo-DS-and-YOU-/ http://pwned.com/showblog/1390/trickynicky42/I-say-Apple--you-say------handheld-gaming-systems--/ Hooray, what I always wanted...portable Whack-a-Mole. Yes, you read right. Recently, Apple announced it would be teaming up with gaming juggernaut EA Games to bring new and innovative handheld gaming to the Iphone. Their target: the casual gamer. Businessweek.com quotes: "The target, in other words, is aficionados of casual games, often played in short duration on mobile phones and other handheld devices. "I can't imagine (Apple) is shooting for hardcore gamers," says Sidney Shuman, news editor for GamePro magazine. "These games are more for your mom or your little sister. These are play-it-for-15-minutes-and-forget-about-it games." Whatever the demographic—many are women—the casual gamer is an attractive market" To get around that pesky little problem of the complete lack of buttons the IPhone boasts, Apple will grant full advantage of the accelerometer to game deve http://pwned.com/showblog/1390/trickynicky42/I-say-Apple--you-say------handheld-gaming-systems--/ http://pwned.com/showblog/1368/trickynicky42/Growing-up-Girl-/ Another blog bitching about girls, gaming, and the like? yeah. There were alot of gals out there in pwned.com world posting blogs on the subject matter of girls, gaming, and girls who game. I wasn't thinking much of it, and I wasn't inclined to throw my two cents into the ring... until I read BunnyXAblaze's blog and read the link http://www.destructoid.com/g4tv-finds-their-new-gamer-girl-73814.phtml. At first I almost clicked the X on the browser, about to write it off as more assholes using the anomynity of the internet to express their openly sexist point of views. But as I read more, I came to the realization it was much more than that. It's a no win situation. Girl gamers. We grow up gaming. We gain skills in RPGs and FPSs. We hit an age where we start noticing the social pressures on how we, as girls and as women, should look. We begin to change. Every adve http://pwned.com/showblog/1368/trickynicky42/Growing-up-Girl-/ http://pwned.com/showblog/1309/trickynicky42/zomg-I-can-has-orange-hairs--/ I loves it ^^ the pics dont do how bright it is justice imo. http://pwned.com/showblog/1309/trickynicky42/zomg-I-can-has-orange-hairs--/ http://pwned.com/showblog/1037/trickynicky42/Teh-Juggling/ my 2nd Contact Juggling video! http://pwned.com/showblog/1037/trickynicky42/Teh-Juggling/ http://pwned.com/showblog/1023/trickynicky42/Under-Pressure/ A week ago, I deleted everything off my pwned profile and left because I had about had it. I had written a blog entry, and someone called me, in essence, a hypocrit. It was the proverbial straw, and I thought I could leave without looking back. In reality, it wasn't even this situation that had me pissed... indeed, I was and am on occation a hypocrit... but I am also human. No, it was the stress of everything going on in my life right now that had me up in arms to begin with, and I overreacted to a silly situation... on the internet none the less. I came back to pwned because of the overwhelming response I received on my myspace of people asking why and asking for me to come back. I realized I really like the vast majority of the pwned.com community, and I stupidly overreacted to a situation when the stress was coming from somewhere completely different. I've been told I have a vo http://pwned.com/showblog/1023/trickynicky42/Under-Pressure/