Name: Tifa Lockhart wannabe. Lita. She's too badass for a last name!

Appearance: 

Woooo, levitating kitchen knives!

I apologize for how shitty she came out. And yes, I know she's missing a hand. I couldn't make it look decent.

Purpose for Joining the Fight: So she's from the future, and apparently aliens are taking over the planet. Not many human survivors remain, and her whole family was wiped out. She's been fatally wounded in the arm by an alien, and will also die soon. She meets a scientist who sends her back in time to 2012 in order to prevent the impending alien apocalypse and bring her family back.

Weapon: She uses hand to hand combat mostly, but she also has SUPER SPECIAL AWESOME Telekinesis powers thanks to future technology, and she likes to throw things around with her MIND. Hence the terrible drawn daggers that are floating by her. Let's all hope that Amber never sees this, because she'll kill me for how awful the weapons came out.

Personality: TOTAL BADASS, mixed with some anger issues.

COME AT ME, BRO!!!!!! NONE OF YOU WILL EVER BEAT HER!

I don't know what the hell is wrong with me, but thanks to some ABC Family movie I just watched on Netflix and something I read online, all these memories of something that happened to me when I was in middle school came back. Now that I finally recovered from the little mini meltdown I had, I figure it's time that maybe I should talk about it.

I was bullied 5 years ago. See, I went to a small Catholic elementary school, with only 24 kids at the MOST in my grade. This can either work to your advantage or aid in your misery. Before the middle school years, my class was like one big family. We were all friends. But, when sixth grade started, things began to change completely.

It was the first school year that I would have without my best friend, who switched over to public school. But the thought of going through a school year without her really didn't phase me. The year before that, I had become very close with two other girls in my grade, and still was maintaining other friendships with girls I had had since even younger. The first couple of weeks of school went smoothly. I was happy and having fun with my friends. Then, things started getting a little weird.

One of the girls I had recently become friends with, was the type of girl that would have to brag constantly about everything she had. I was never that type of person, but for some reason, now when she would start bragging, she would afterwards ask me what things I had gotten recently. At first I just politely ignored the question, but then I could tell that she would get annoyed with me. So, I figured, she must want me to do what she does--brag. So I did, because I thought that was what she wanted from me. My assumption was obviously completely wrong, but I really didn't know what she was trying to get from me. Apparently, this started to bother the girl a LOT, and from then on, things were going to start being VERY different.

I'll never forget that first day of school after she decided that she was going to target me. I walked into our classroom, like I always did. But as I was trying to say hi to my friends, the girl just gave me this....look. And from there on out, the bullying began. I'm not going to go into details and try to explain to you every single thing that was said or done to me, but I will give you some examples. I was called "ugly", a "loser", "fat", "emo", and "a waste of space", which translated more to me as "you don't even deserve to be alive."

I started dressing differently. My mother had actually been buying me quite a bit of black clothing for some reason, so I decided to use that to my advantage and wear all black when I wasn't in my school uniform. Black sneakers, black jeans, black shirt, and a black cap with a skull on it was my usual outfit of choice. I started laughing and smiling less and less, until I rarely showed any emotions at all. My parents sensed a change in me, but probably thought I was going through one of those angsty phases that some kids get.

It got to the point where I would dread going to school every morning so much that it would make me sick. I was constantly filled with anxiety, but at the same time, I lost all of my emotions as well. I didn't care about anything anymore. The only thing I DID care about was what this girl was going to do to me next. Everyone else I was friends with was scared and intimidated by the girl, so I literally was left with nobody. I would sit in my room and just relive what happened to me that day over and over again, or go cry as hard as I could in the shower where nobody would hear me.

I never cut myself or inflicted any other form of self harm upon myself, but I will not deny that I never thought about doing it. I felt worthless. So much so that I was actually angry at myself. And even though I understood the idea behind it, I just was not convinced that self harm would help me at all. However, I did have suicidal thoughts sometimes. I would look at all of the prescriptions of pills that my mom has to take for all of her various minor health problems, and wonder how many would actually do it. How many would I have to take to end all this suffering? One time I even almost tried to end it. I had just had a breakdown in my room by myself. My mom was out, and my dad was doing something outside. I went down to the kitchen, and I saw my mom's knife set that she uses for cooking. I pulled out one of the sharpest ones, and looked at it for a while. I remember that I slowly lowered it by my wrist, just thinking, "How much would this actually hurt before it would all be over?" Of course, I could never bring myself to doing it. But the fact that I had those thoughts still scares me to this day.

Long story short, after 7 months of this torture, things changed at school, and I was slowly getting better and becoming me again. The girl suddenly started being friendly with me again, but before I could comprehend what was happening, she switched schools. I haven't spoken to her once during these past five years. I never told anybody what I went through. Not my parents, not my friends in high school, and even my very best friend only knows minor details. But every once in a while, during one of those nights where you just can't get to sleep, I wonder what would have happened to me if it hadn't stopped. Would I have eventually gone through with those thoughts I was having? Would I still be here right now? It upsets me so much now, because right now I KNOW that I have a life worth living. I KNOW that I'll be able to do something with it someday. I KNOW that I have plenty of people who love and care about me.

So basically, I wrote this to finally get my feelings down, but I think ultimately, what I want to be able to say is that it really does get better. If you know someone who is going through a situation similar to what mine was, please, PLEASE tell them that. You could save their life. Words can have such an unbelievable impact. And as for the ones like me who were too scared and too proud to tell anyone, just know that you're not alone.

That's my story.

I was bored. Don't ask. Also, I messed around with the screen size and now the video is a bit smaller, so....watch it on Youtube rather than on my blog.

So my parents and I are driving back home from Boston on the Massachusetts Turnpike. I'm listening to music and my parents are talking about the directions that the annoying GPS voice lady keeps giving them. I look up and for some reason glance about 300 feet in front of us, in the area of the guardrail that separates the two sides of the highway from each other. As I look up, out of nowhere, I see the impact of this burgundy SUV hitting the guardrail on the opposite side of the highway. The car begins to flip over the guardrail. As it's doing this, I start screaming, "Oh my God, Oh my God" over and over again, which finally alerts my parents attention, who were looking at the road in front of them.

The car is now upside down on top of the guardrail. Almost in slow motion, it flips back over again over the guardrail in a cloud of dirt, and lands back on its wheels, on OUR side of the highway. During this I literally hear no sound. The car begins to roll across our side of the highway, literally right in front of us. There's a cluster of about 5 or so cars that witness this car beginning to roll across the highway, and slow down. All 4 or 5 of us on this side of the highway try to steer to the right, near the grass that is always on that side of highways, trying to get out of the destroyed cars way. The car continues to roll on by. As it passes our car, my mom desperately tells me not to look at the vehicle, because who knows what the passengers inside look like. But I can't do that. The car is still right in front of us, and with the simplest swerve to the right it could crash into our car and the others. I can't see anything other than a deployed airbag inside the car.

The car finally comes to a complete stop at the edge of our side of the highway. We and a few others pull over to the side. My parents get out of our car and run over to the vehicle along with another older couple. I'm still freaking out in the backseat, but I manage to calm down enough to see what's happening. I watch as my parents stand a ways away from the car, unsure of what to do. I know that they were afraid of what it may look like inside. Eventually I watch as my dad gets the passenger door open, and another man carries out a girl in her mid-twenties. His wife grabs a blanket from their car,  and lays it out on the grass for the girl to sit on. As this is happening, tons of cars slow down to figure out what just happened. One even takes a picture on his phone. All of them keep on driving though.

I look ahead to where the destroyed vehicle is again, and I become worried that none of them have called 911. I dial the number on my phone inside the car, and as I begin to explain in a hoarse voice what has happened, the operator tells me that two people had already called in and help was on the way. I open my door partially to hear what's going on. My mom is talking to the one rescued girl, asking her questions like what is her name, and where is she from. I hear her ask, "How did we end up here? All I remember is a car cutting us off" My mom has to explain to her how the car ended up all the way on the other side of the highway. Two police cars eventually show up. My dad begins talking to one of them, who writes down everything he says on a pad.

It finally comes to my attention that the girl who was carried out of the car seems completely uninjured, despite a little cut I can barely make out on her face. I know that there has to be at least one other person in the car though: the driver. I open the car door again a little. I hear the girl ask my mom, "Is my friend alright?" After a few more minutes, my parents get back in the car along with the other couple, and say that they are all going to move so that the EMTs and ambulances can get in. There's nothing else that we can do. As we begin to drive away, I finally can see the driver's side of the vehicle. It's smashed in completely and I swear to myself that I can see a bit of blood on the outside.

My parents begin to tell me that the driver was apparently barely breathing according to the other couple who chose to check that side. The two girls were apparently going to visit some friends in Boston, when a car decided to cut them off without using any signals. This obviously made the driver swerve, hit the guardrail, and the rest is history. I don't know if the driver lived.

I think it's scary how the matter of a few seconds can mean life or death. If we had left Boston maybe 5 or 6 seconds earlier, it's a guarantee that that car would have flipped over and crashed right into us. It's truly a miracle how there was no traffic on our side of the highway, allowing the car to make it all the way to the other side. And just how one second I was bored to tears in my car, and the next I was witnessing this terrible scene happen right in front of us, fearing for my life.

I'M ALIVE!!!!

They do this to me at school daily.

The wifi in our house had been acting up recently, and I ended up losing it completely twice in the past month. It's finally fixed properly, so I will be on again more often. I actually kind of missed this place!

I haven't written a blog since the middle of April, so I felt like it was time to just write something. With everything that's been going on, I just don't have time. What I want to do is just tell you guys what's been going on recently with me, and all of the things I'm planning on doing this summer online for IGN and Youtube.

What's Been Going on With Me Lately:

• SCHOOL. Jesus Christ, between school work, AP testing, preparing for and taking the SAT and SAT Subject tests, I've barely had time to breathe. Hence why I haven't written anything in a while.

• Playing Skyrim. I finally bought the game a few weeks ago, and somehow in the past two weeks actually had time to play it! It's what's got me through having no internet. I really enjoy it, and am about 20 hours in without any major glitches or lagging occurring so far. My favorite thing about this game would have to be how it constantly reminds me how much I hate children.

That's what happens to you after you tell me 30 times you help your mom HARVEST CARROTS.

• Anime Convention. I've been planning and getting costumes ready for the annual convention in New Jersey here that I'll be talking about shortly.

Now onto the stuff that'll interest you more. I have a challenge for myself to blog, vlog, make new Youtube channels, and basically try to do a lot more stuff online once summer vacation begins for me on JUNE 7TH. It'll be similar to how active I was last summer, if anybody remembers. What I'll Be Doing:

• 1 Year Anniversary and Followers Celebration: It'll be one year I've been on IGN on July 25th, and I plan on doing some fun stuff to celebrate that, like a live stream video game marathon, if I can get the equipment in time. As for followers, my goal was to get 3,000 followers by the time my 1 year anniversary happens, but since there's a pretty slim chance of that occurring, I want to just do things to thank the 2,600+ followers I already have been privileged to have. I'll do a whole question answering vlog, and pick followers at random to tell me what they want my next blog or vlog to be about.

• Vlogs: I'm planning on making a new Youtube channel specifically for vlogging. This time however it won't just be for IGN, but people on Youtube to watch as well. I'll make a new regular blog post on here with the link to each new video to keep people up to date. I plan on ranting and talking about games, movies, pop culture, current events, and other random stuff. You'll see! I'll still be writing regular blogs too, but possibly not as often.

• Youth in Revolt Reunion: Remember that shitty podcast I was a part of late last year? Well I've been planning on having a reunion episode with the members of that podcast which were umadbroooo, fatboomer, philpee, and Regal. A lot has changed with us since our last episode in early December, some aspects we most definitely will not get into, but it will basically be similar to how it used to be. If it ends up going over well with the community we could try to do a couple more episodes over the summer.

• Convention and Cosplay stuff: So if anybody remembers from when I went to New York Comic Con, I did a blog with pictures of me and my friend in our costumes, and then another documenting the whole day at the con with stories, videos, and a picture slideshow at the end. I'll be doing that again for the big convention I go to here in Jersey called "AnimeNext". I plan on doing 2 blogs for each of the 2 days I'll be there, with more videos, stories, picture slideshows of costumes, and maybe even interviews if I can actually pull that off.

Then I'll probably do another photoshoot with my friend sometime in June with the costumes we'll have worn, and I'll be making ANOTHER Youtube channel for everything cosplay and convention related, whether it be videos of panels at conventions or advice on how to cosplay. I'll transfer everything from last year's NYCC related I have on my old account and add it to this new one. Again, whenever I have a new video up for that account, I'll make a new blog with the link on here.

Here's a preview at one of my costumes:

I bet none of you can figure out what it is!!!!!!

The other cosplay I just finished getting together today is probably one a lot of you know: Misa from Death Note.

Well, that's everything. I just realized how ambitious this all is since I also have other things to do over the summer....but I'll try to accomplish as much of it as I can.

~somegamergirl

God, that looks like the title of an essay you'd write in kindergarden. O__O

Anyways, I went to this convention here in Jersey last month, and I was supposed to upload all this crap a few weeks ago....Well, I finally did it, do here it is! I went all three days and cosplayed each day as well.

The pictures are the first half, while all the videos come afterwards. (P.S.- There's a special MyIGNer cameo in one of the videos.) Oh, and please subscribe to my channel!

FRIDAY- I was Yuuki Cross from Vampire Knight and my friend was some character from the anime Black Butler. I didn't get there until around 3 on Friday because my friends from public school still had classes. In the videos you can see me jump off a log and scream, figure out how to pay a bill, and watch guys fight with sticks. I'm making this all sound a lot more exciting than it really is.

SATURDAY- I was in this Vocaloid cosplaying group. I have videos of a Legend of Korra fan panel, Sailor Moon girls dancing to K-Pop, and a SUPER SPECIAL SECRET AWESOME APPEARANCE OF MRNANDERSON/NICK!!!!!!! I know you wanna watch it!!!! There's a shitload of pictures of our group, but I DID get pictures of other people as well!

SUNDAY- I was Misa Amane from Death Note and my friend was Chii from Chobits. There's videos of Cosplay Chess, me quoting Yu-Gi-Oh! Abridged, and me and my friend's reaction to some guy who randomly took a picture of her while she was sitting on the grass eating an apple. IT WAS WEIRD.

That's it!

~somegamergirl

I can't believe I've actually stuck around on here for a whole year. I should be commended! Anyways, it's been an interesting twelve months on the site, so I'll list some of the more memorable things.

Joining- Yeah, that's kind of a given isn't it? All I remember is I somehow ended up on this site and clicked 'Sign Up' before I could even think. O__O

Winning the Comm Nom After Barely a Few Weeks Signing Up- Now that one I'll still never understand. Why the hell did you people vote for me? I was too nice back then! Hm...maybe that's why. It was a chaotic 4 days filled with trolls and assholes writing on my wall, but my follower count jumped from 248 to over 2,000 in that short period of time. I think that should make MyIGN history or something.

 Beginning of Pet Peeves Blogs- Ah, those were the good ol' days in which I used to blog regularly. And they were good! I could start doing that again, but I'm way too lazy.

The 9/11 Blog- That is still the blog that got me the most comments, but most of them are probably from Wiitard's stupid comments, Jason putting him in his place, and me and Amber's delightful first encounter! And we still hate each other....oh yes we do.

Youth in Revolt Podcast- Does anybody even remember this? As much as the podcast sucked and we stopped doing it thanks to recording difficulties, it's still one of the most memorable experiences I had on the site. Phil/Philpee practically breaking his table in rage, Matt/fatboomer doing his fanboy voice, Regal being......Regal, and that certain brown kid that likes to run around and pretend he's a unicorn. Yeah, he was an asshole. I really don't like him. <3

The JumpyLuweegee Revolution!!!!!- I somehow picture him working at a toll booth now and reminiscing on how much he hated us all. I really don't know why...

My Failed Attempts at Vlogging- Yeah, those didn't really go too well. As a matter of fact, I'm not even going to continue talking about them.

Wall Spamming Parties- Now those are fun! Until it happens to you...

TinyChat Parties- These have ranged from super lame to super FUCKING AMAZING. It just depended on who was there and what mood we were in.

My Cosplay/Convention Blogs- Yeah, nobody cares about them.

The Angry Awards- LeCamb, I will forever have the ultimate blackmail on you.

Space Mahrines Skype Group- Even though it's gotten kind of quiet, we still used to have some pretty good times in there.

Writing Umad's Rage Quit Blog- I really can't believe you people fell for that!

I know there's plenty of other stuff I'm missing...

So, I've really changed in the past year. Let's take a look...

What the fuck???? Who made that into a meme???? It couldn't be Len, could it??? Oh God, between the hair color and the meme this is just pretty damn awful. So yeah, that was a year ago!

Now let's fast forward 5 or 6 months later...

Much better, no Miley Cyrus shit in site!

And then fast forward another 5 or 6 months to the present...

I think I've just proven that IGN makes people look better.

Well that's all I got. Thanks for a great year guys.

~somegamergirl

Umad: Okay, so KiraLight, somegamergirl and I were talking about what we could do to make this place a little more...interesting. By that, I mean weird as fuck. Now, how do we do that? By making everything backwards (not my idea, I was out-voted). Starting tomo...shit, it technically is today. Starting August 14, we shall talk in backwards sentences. It'll be like Yoda, only not. The more people we get involved, the more fun and a pain in the ass it'll be. So join in. Especially if you love Yoda.

Kira: Umadbroooo, Somegamergirl and I were coming up with some crazy ideas while we were doing some intense drugs a few minutes ago and we thought it'd be a lot of fun to make our own special day. Talking Backwards Day. Yes, it is the new awesome thing to do and we shall all do it!! Seriously, the more people that do it, the more fun it'll be. Starting I'm already!

SGG: Since this site has been boring as fuck lately, I think we need a day to....do something different. YES I UNDERSTAND THIS IDEA SUCKS AND IS STUPID. So don't bother telling me, because trust me, I know. Oh, I know. Just let loose and have fun with it for the day. Who knows what will happen?

And watch this spoof of the Dark Knight trailer while you're at it:

So I have this thing where I laugh while watching all horror movies but can freak out when I play certain horror games. And Slender just looked like one of those games that would leave me crying in the fetal position by the time I was through. And hey, I was right! Thanks Mr. Slendy! Anyways, here you are; 21 terrifying minutes of me playing Slender. The end of the video is the worst part. T__T

Also as a warning, you might not want to have the volume on too loud.

Me before Slender:

So....innocent. T__T

Me after Slender:

I'll never be the same.

After I played Slender a few days ago, I decided I'd keep up with this horror games thing and try out this free flash game online called the House 2. Turns out it was stupid and hardly scary in the slightest, but you might enjoy the video either way.

I'm planning on trying Amnesia next! And then maybe a second part of Slender.

And sorry about the part where everything freezes for like 10 seconds. I forgot to edit it out. -___-

So little Sora_LBP_Ezio1997 is fairly new to IGN. He starts checking his newsfeed, and stumbles across a blog talking about Street Fighter. AWESOME!, he thinks to himself. Street Fighter is da diggity bomb! He proceeds to ignore the contents of the blog and scrolls down to the comments section. As he begins to start typing his approximately 2,400 word essay on just exactly why Street Fighter is "da diggity bomb" and how every copy of all other fighting games should be distributed to the various Sea Worlds across the globe and fed to Shamu for breakfast, he spots a particular comment.

"As much as I've enjoyed all the Street Fighter games, I've got to say that Tekken will still always hold a special place in my heart. I mean, it was my first fighting game and all. "

WHAT? TEKKEN? TEKKEN?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

Calm down, little Riku_RRR_BethesdaBronie.

After screaming like the angry German kid at his computer, he notices icons underneath the comment. A thumbs up and a thumbs down. He furiously rolls his mouse over to the thumbs down icon, and with a little satisfied click sees a red "-1" appear underneath the comment. That'll show him to ever bring up Tekken again!!!!!! He then proceeds to find a blog all about Tekken and downvote every comment posted in it, regardless of its content.

The SDS has begun to infect young Sora_NBA......FemShepLUVR. And by SDS I mean, Stupid Downvoting Syndrome.

Wearing a condom won't save you from contracting SDS!

Now, I hope this little anecdote helps bring to mind any of the ridiculous times you've seen somebody get a comment downvoted. I know it helps get my memory....juices flowing!

For example, I was reading that article about Tony Scott's suicide. I decide to actually scroll down and see some of the comments out of curiosity, which is rare for IGN articles. The first comment I come across is a user that's basically saying, in layman's terms, "He was a great director, rest in peace and you'll be missed." You know, the standard top comment you see whenever somebody passing away is involved. He got over 300 upvotes, and somehow, over 90 downvotes. The reason?

Well, there actually could be various understandable reasons. For one, some people see suicide as cowardice. For another, maybe some people really didn't think he was that great of a director. But the majority of people that comment on main IGN articles don't seem to have the necessary brain functioning to even think of things like that. The main reason people downvoted an innocent comment like that is simple because....they're assholes that think they're cool to do things like that on the internet, and don't seem to understand that somebody else's opinions don't have to pertain to themselves.

NO, you don't look like this.

Just as I start thinking that probably only really happens on those main articles on IGN, that MyIGN is just too above that kind of immature shit, I come across a new blog by the very handsome and charming tcanning asking for user's opinions on their top 10 PS3 games. Notice how I used the word "OPINION". So, you know, everyone starts putting in their lists. All of these lists have reasonable games in them, nothing that's terrible. And half of them just get downvoted. For no reason. I'm sorry, but did tcanning ever mention that these lists are going to become the fucking new Ten Commandments? I DON'T THINK SO.

Unless....tcanning is secretly God....

Has the stupidity of Youtube really made it's way into our commenting system? Seriously, if you don't agree with an opinion somebody has and downvote them, write a comment back! And by opinion, I don't mean somebody saying that a guy should rest in peace, because seriously, that doesn't count. Even though I tried justifying reasons earlier, that's just fucking stupid. If you REALLY didn't like his movies, simply write that, and move on with your life. Stop hiding behind your computer screen, and confront people! Is it really that difficult? You don't even have to be an ass about it! And if you're just doing it to be a troll, seriously consider finding a new hobby. Most decent trolls at least LEAVE COMMENTS.

Now I'm not trying to say that this upvoting and downvoting business is running our lives and is the most important thing in the world, because it's not. But you wouldn't be right in the head if you didn't think it was even the least bit annoying to see in the community.

AND JUST TRY TO DOWNVOTE THIS BLOG MOTHAFUCKAAAAS.

Oh that's right, you can't.

It's that time of year again! In less than three weeks, New York Comic Con will be taking place at the Jacob Javits Center. I'll be there, but the question is, will you?

The only other IGNer I know that's going so far is redhood56. I remember Angry saying something about it a while ago, so I'm having Umad ask him whether he's going or not on Twitter for me. Anyways, redhood and I wanted to have a little MyIGN get together during the Con. We'd like to meet at the IGN booth in the Dealer's Room and just hang for an hour or so with whoever goes. I'll figure out times and the exact meeting later on after I figure out if anyone else is even going.

So, if you're planning on going, please tell me in the comments below!!!!

~somegamergirl

Hey guys, and welcome to my NYCC blog series! This first part will contain all the slutty pics I took and my written account of the Con.

The pictures (What you actually care about):

The story (What you don't give two shits about):

New York Comic Con. The place where nerds from every genre, every age, and every state come together to wait on lines to wait on lines. From shopping, to creeping, to being creeped on, to being in a flashmob, there seems to always be something to do at the Con.

The day began with my best friend Alazne and I buying tickets for the ferry to cross the Hudson River and be in New York City by ourselves for the first time! LE GASP! Luckily, before there was even the slightest chance of us getting lost or falling into a manhole, a few of Alazne's friends arrived at the ferry a few minutes later. We got on the boat along with some other cosplayers and once we arrived in the city, we followed the giant mass of Star Wars, Batman, and Minecraft cosplayers to our destination: the Jacob Javits Center.

We waited in a huge ass walking line, pretending to be enthralled with the architecture of the center as we were herded like cows to a slaughter towards the GREEN entrance. Where the GREEN signs were pointing at. Held by workers wearing GREEN. At that point I honestly thought they wanted me to go to the PURPLE entrance. By the time we got to where the line split off into the GREEN or yellow entrances, it apparently didn't even matter anymore which way you went in. According to a guy that jumped onto a platform on the street, "You can go both ways. I know I do! "

After hearing some guy screaming about the meaning of Homestuck, we were finally inside! I began my obsessive manhunt of good cosplayers to photograph for this blog and for the memories whilst Alazne and her friends attempted to get all their other friends to rendezvous in the area. Once I made enough people feel awkward and the mess of meeting up with people was settled, we took a quick first venture into the Dealer's Room. And the place was a claustrophobe's worst nightmare. Ahhh, I felt home. 5 minutes later the happy feelings dissipated into annoyance at the mob of people, and we decided to split up into smaller groups in order to do what we each wanted. We promptly left the Dealer's Room, and made our way to the Artist Alley.

By then we had been asked several times if people could take our picture to which I always replied, ".........umYEAHSURE!" As we walked towards the Artist Alley, we stopped several times to take some more photos. During this, however, I had my first experience with creeper shots. I saw at least 3 people take a picture of me and my friends from a distance away without even asking. Granted, they were all girls and probably oggling at our Asian friend, but it was fucking weird experience nonetheless.

The Artist Alley had lots of goodies, my favorite thing I purchased being my little Tali cardboard standee thingy. My friends saw their old Spanish teacher signing autographs, some ex wrestler named Tito Santana which prompted us to laugh loudly at the people that would actually want an autograph of a public school Spanish teacher. Some time later we left the Javits Center to get some lunch at a food cart outside, where some middle aged drug dealer-y looking guy wanted to buy one of our passes off of us. After slowly walking away and eating our food, we went back inside. Which was utter chaos. We literally had to make a Conga line in order to escape the mob.

I then had my first experience with another thing: a group cosplay photoshoot. This giant group of people that were from the same thing we were cosplaying as practically handcuffed us to take pictures with them. We followed them to a large atrium where the shoot would take place. In all seriousness, it was actually pretty fun, and we had a large turnout of photographers. The only part I'm still trying to wash away from my mind was when they made me stand in front of all these people with cameras by myself. The other cosplayers felt bad for me, and SOMEHOW thought giving me a group hug would ease the pain. Worst experience of my life.

After that, we decided to finally try the Dealer's Room again. As we entered, I had my first encounter with the Slenderman. Joking around that he would take one of us, I quickly noticed that one of our friends actually DID go missing. We freaked for a few moments until he quickly reappeared behind some fat guy. Curse you, Slendy! The Dealer's Room had some pretty sweet stuff, and I went crazy in there.

Then it was autograph time. Earlier in the day I had wanted to go to the Dark Horse Comics booth in order to get the writer of Mass Effect 3, the artist of the ME graphic novels, and the voice of Ashley Williams to sign my copy of ME3. However...things didn't go my way, and I missed the signing. Therefore, I was determined to get Tom Felton (Draco Malfoy from the Harry Potter movies) to sign something for me. I arrive with Alazne at his autograph table, only to discover that the person in front of me was the last person he would sign, even though he had an hour left. Awesome!

So I sprinted back to the Dealer's Room to try to get Jessica Chobot's autograph, and security tells me that the line is already closed because of the amount of perverts people vying for her autograph and picture. Ironically, I was literally standing in front of Chobot for a good 10 seconds, and she even looked up at me for a few moments. So that counts, right? No? I must say, she's prettier in person.

Annoyed that I didn't get ANY autographs, I stomped back into the Dealer's Room, wanting to drown out my sorrows by wasting more money on figurines and video games. I got bored after another hour or so, and 7PM was nearing. The Dealer's Room was now closed. At this point most of Alazne's friends left either for Penn Station or the Waterway ferries. Alazne and I were there until 10PM, when my dad would pick us up. So we slummed around the Artist Alley again some more, creeped on more people for photos, took pictures with Slendy and Kirby, and got lemonade and vanilla scones from the Starbucks inside. Then the best thing of the day happened.

Alazne and I were randomly venturing around the place trying to find something to do when all of a sudden we happened upon that large atrium room we took the group photos in earlier in the day. There was a group of people standing around a large boombox, and crowds of other people sitting on benches or standing and chatting. All of a sudden, the boombox began playing "Gangnam Style", and the people standing around it began dancing to it. MY FIRST EXPERIENCE WITH A FLASH MOB. As people began realizing what was going on, everybody slowly joined in. I filmed the first verse and chorus, and then dragged Alazne to the back row with me to dance. I can't dance for shit, but I felt like fucking Chris Brown for those 2 minutes! Afterwards, the people in charge of the flash mob said it would be on Youtube soon. I'll be sure to make a blog of it when it's finally online.

By 9, the place was pretty empty, with maybe 1/7 of the people still hanging around. Alazne and I decided to run around, film ourselves being weird, playing music and dancing to more music. The most exciting things going on by this point was a Deadpool on skateboard, and people attempting to climb on the bars of the Center. We literally just kept walking the length of the place, back and forth, taking some last photos, until we were finally kicked out at 10 for closing time. After trying to figure out where my dad was for 10 minutes on the phone, only to realize we were in the same place the whole time, we left New York, and headed for a diner to eat.

It was a pretty damn good day.

Part 2 of my NYCC Adventures will be all the videos I took, including part of that Gangnam Style flashmob I was talking about. And Part 3 will be all the goodies I bought.

~somegamergirl

If you're reading this, then good. You should be. Your attention is what I feed off of in order to survive. If I'm not getting my hourly dose of attention, I may die from what is commonly known as Social Hierarchy Disorder. It means that if my ego isn't satiated, then my self-esteem drops to an all-time low and I will probably compensate for the lack of what I substitute for love by becoming a stripper and getting my fill of attention there, where men will gawk and pay me for taking my clothes off because they clearly respect me for who I am as a human being and notice me as the star I most certainly am. My stripper name will be either "Hot Pink Stuff" or "SomeStripperGirl"....I'm still working on the name, but it'll be like totally awesome.

And if I am receiving my clearly well-deserved attention as I should be because I'm a girl in a sausage-fest website of a world, then I will proceed to show you my appreciation by treating you like shit. It's not that I don't like you, it's that I'm just using you for my own personal gain. Because treating you like you're beneath me helps make me feel like I'm cool and that I'm the star of my own life, and not some fucking stupid ass unicorn or anything like that taking the spotlight away from me. I'm the kind of girl who other girls want to be, and who other guys want to be with.

Wanna know why? Because......

I was going through my photos, showing some pictures to Amber on Skype, when I came across this one picture I took on my iPhone a few months back. It made me want to publish a blog with some cool pics I have on my computer. Enjoy.

Just a street in New York

This was the view of my front row seats of Live with Kelly and Michael back in October

Took this one while practicing parallel parking over the summer with my dad.

My hot ass Shephard in ME2

The Intrepid in NYC.

Entrance to Midtown Comics in NYC

Damage from Hurricane Sandy.

An awesome cosplay at NYCC.

Another cosplay from Comic Con.

A cool picture I took while in the car.

And finally a collage of some of my cosplays

I can do another one of these if you guys like.

I've been trying to plan what I'm going to cosplay as next, searching the character I want to do. I've been able to figure out one new cosplay, but I need one other and I'm not sure what to do. So I'm asking you guys to help!

Here's the one character I want to cosplay next as:

Saeko Busujima from High School of the Dead

Here's basically what I want to do...just not with the skirt ripped like that:

And here's the version I desperately wish I could pull off.... T__T

Anyways, I have a few random ideas of characters to do for my second costume. These are the ones I'm considering:

Ritsu Tainaka from K-on!

Stocking from Panty and Stocking:

Kurisu Makise from Steins; Gate:

Now it's your turn! If you have any ideas, please tell me in the comments section. Personally I think I might go with the last one, but I'd be interested in seeing what you guys come up with.

~somegamergirl

Just wanted to wish everyone a Merry Christmas/ Feliz Navidad! Since my family is biracial, I always have to say Merry Christmas to all the people on my dad's side of the family and Feliz Navidad on my mom's, so I thought of an AMAZING WAY TO COMBINE THE TWO SO I CAN JUST SAY THAT FROM NOW ON! MERRY NAVIDAD! Good, right? ..........No?

Anyways, here's some random pictures I took on Christmas Eve, and a few from the day before that.

Some gifts for the little doggies

All the dogs gifts in their bags

Nikko, acting like a hooligan

We went out for sushi for our Xmas Eve dinner.

The dessert platter for Christmas dinner!

A delicious cookie my friend made for me

There's a Hershey kiss inside of it!!!! D:

Nikko should be my official blog mascot! >:D

The tree gifts for me, my mom, and my dad go under

The ones on this side are all mine!!!!!!! >:D

Christmas cards we got from family and friends

More cards, and yes, the one on the right is my family's, with my giant ass face plastered on the front. -___-

The inside of our card

Aaaaand the back!

The dogs' Christmas trees, with their gifts underneath

The dogs' stockings

Our main tree, where the gifts for our other relatives go.

And my tree! With part of the lights out -__-

And finally, Nikko and Meelo want to wish you a Merry Navidad too! They have weird Christmas PJs on...Don't ask.

~somegamergirl

Christmas was really awesome this year when it came to presents. Basically everything I got was stuff I had been telling my parents I wanted for the past 7 months, and besides the accidental duplicate of a movie my dad ordered, I won't be returning anything. Here's what I got!

Beats headphones that I absolutely adore, considering the fact that the last headphones I had were from the 7th grade.

These Super Mario playing cards are the free Platinum Members award I chose from Club Nintendo over the summer, and it finally came in the mail recently, so my parents decided to hide it from me and wrap it for Christmas.

The new Ellie Goulding CD. It's absolutely amazing. Although I don't understand why the hell Best Buy would put it under the genre of "rock"......Weirdos.

A crap load of Blu Rays I know my dad got cheap on Amazon. xD There's Pulp Fiction, season 3 of Modern Family, season 1 of Community, The Godfather Trilogy, Apollo 13, The Silence of the Lambs, The Dark Knight Trilogy, and Evangelion 1.11. My dad actually intended to order Evangelion 2.22 as well, but he accidentally ordered another copy of the first movie, so I have to exchange that.

My video game haul was much better than last year. I got two older games I've been meaning to play: Batman Arkham Asylum and Bioshock, and then four games I missed out on during the year: Tales of Graces f, Dishonored, Sleeping Dogs, and Paper Mario Sticker Star.

The Mass Effect Art Book, and 3 of the Mass Effect graphic novels.

I needed some books too! I got Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer and World War Z by Max Brooks.

Apple TV!

A perfume and some makeup.

Sexy ass boots!

Candy! I have no idea where the fuck they got Hello Kitty cotton candy from....

And finally, I got a new chair for gaming! My old black one I got in the 4th grade, and it was basically being held together by duct tape, so I was in desperate need of a new one. It looks a lot brighter in the pictures though. O__o

And that's about it! I also got some clothes, but they're really not worth sharing.

I hope everyone had a good Christmas!

~somegamergirl

As the new year is approaching in a few days and the madness of the apocalypse has finally waned over, I've gathered my thoughts about all the crap that happened in 2012 to make some decisions on what I thought was the best of the year for me. Here it is...

Best TV Show: The Walking Dead

Although I got into this show only in the past few weeks, I can safely say that it is one of the best television dramas I've watched in a long while. The first season is succinct and excellent, mirroring the qualities of a well told movie. While the first half of the second season bordered into soap opera territory, it quickly recovers with it's last 4 or 5 episodes. And even though I haven't watched it yet, I hear the third season of the show has been it's best yet so far. Filled with grit and gore, and dealing with the heavy issues of humanity, this show easily earns the top spot for me.

Honorable Mentions:

Modern Family

The Legend of Korra

Community

Breaking Bad

Best Game: Mass Effect 3

Spare me the long winded blog comments telling me all about how terrible you thought the ending was. You know, I wasn't very happy with it either. But you can't let that tarnish the fact that this game was undoubtably incredible until that point. The pacing was quick, the characters were still full of their usual charm and distinct personalities, the emotions and drama could still touch your heart, and the gameplay was solid and entertaining. Nobody can deny the sheer excitement they experienced when playing the game's opening in Vancouver due to the buildup of that moment from the previous games.

Honorable Mentions:

The Walking Dead

Dishonored

Journey

Sleeping Dogs

Assassin's Creed 3

Best Movie: The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

Alright, this category was a tough one. I know that I enjoyed a few of these movies just as much as my ultimate top pick, but the fact that I still am in the midst of trying to see a few of the other films I wanted to choose, I decided to choose a film that didn't come out during the midst of the Oscar season. A lot of people probably never even heard of this movie, directed by John Madden, and starring British veterans such as Judy Dench, Bill Nighy, and Maggie Smith, and newer actors such as Dev Patel.

Here's the premise:

British retirees travel to India to take up residence in what they believe is a newly restored hotel. Less luxurious than its advertisements, the Marigold Hotel nevertheless slowly begins to charm in unexpected ways.

There you go. Doesn't sound the most intriguing, does it? Yet it is, and the stories of each of the retirees intertwines with each others' and the culture of India in the best of ways. You will laugh, you will get emotional, and most importantly, you will feel an attachment and fondness for the characters. Do me a favor and watch this movie.

Honorable Mentions: 

Argo

Moonrise Kingdom

Skyfall

Life of Pi

Dark Knight Rises

Silver Linings Playbook

Django Unchained

Les Miserables

Zero Dark Thirty

Best Album: Ellie Goulding- Halcyon

This CD, literally from beginning to end, had me completely hooked. I have not had the experience of thoroughly enjoying a full CD from beginning to end in a very long time. As much as I enjoyed Ellie's first album, her follow up is even better. Fully immersed in a darker, edgier tone, the album is literally like a rainforest. Every time I re-listen to a song, I experience a new sound that's been mixed in to create the full effect of the piece. Ellie's voice continues to be pleasingly unique, with her high notes resembling warbling little birds, and her lower ones packed with surprising brevado.

Honorable Mentions:

The Killers- Battle Born

fun.-Some Nights

Imagine Dragons- Night Visions

The Lumineers- The Lumineers

Taylor Swift- Red

The Black Keys- El Camino

~somegamergirl

So umadbrooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo and I hung out this weekend, and since he was being annoying and didn't want to make a vlog, I'm going to post a video of us playing Portal 2 a few weeks back on Steam. I have over an hour of footage until we completed the Coop, so it'll be a blog series in parts until I finish posting them all.

Here are the stars....

DERP

somegamergirl! Anddddd.....

I love Snapchat.

umadbroooo!

The actual gameplay starts around the 5 minute mark. The sound is slightly out of synch from the video, but it shouldn't be too noticeable.  Don't get your hopes up for any of it, though.

And here's our lovely unicorn's words of wisdom for the day!

That's right, kids. Always blame your family.

~somegamergirl