Gaming Hotties

Hey Y'all!

Maxim.com recently released a list of The 10 Most Important Hotties in Gaming Today and I have to say that even though I am not one to really invest much into how people look I think they picked some really awesome girls here!



Jo Garcia - Playboy's resident girl gamer. Well I have to say that I don't believe she has been all that influential in regards to showing that girls can and do game I will say that she is one of the hottest in the gaming industry. Maybe not number one as according to Maxim but fully one of the hottest. Now lets see you get out there girl and show the world what you are really made of!





Morgan Webb - Current G4 Underground host, co-host and senior segment producer of their show X-Play and one of the top female Journalists in the gaming industry. At second on the Maxim list I have to say that this is a good choice! Morgan has done much to promote girls in the gaming industry with her writings and shows!







Stevie Case - Known for beating Quake creator John Romero in a deathmatch, which not only got here a job but a date with Mr. Romero himself. Later known for her writing of game guides and today seen in the development and sales side of the gaming industry. She is a true gamer girl at heart and I can't wait to see where she goes in the next few years.





Olivia Munn - Having got her start on G4's Attack of the Show, known for here role in Ironman2, Olivia is also the author of her biography Suck it Wonder Woman!: The Missadventures of a Hollywood Geek. I personally believe that she is a true asset to gamer girls everywhere. Having read and loved here book I have to say that it is worth the money and the time, she is truly a fearless, honest and funny gamer girl.





Jade Raymond - Her career started off as a Programmer for Sony Entertainment and from there it has been nothing but up for Jade. She is the Producer of Assassin's Creed and the Executive Producer for Assassin's Creed II. She is now the Managing Director of Ubisoft's Toronto Studio. Jade is an amazing role model for not just girl gamers but gamers everywhere. Her success has inspired me personally to go for my dreams, so here is to you Jade!







Veronica Belmont - She is the face of Qore Sony's monthly interactive magazine about the PS3 and co-host of Revision3's weekly video podcast Tekzilla. She is a gamer and social-network junky with over 1million twitter followers, she speaks out loud and proud about her interests!







The Frag Dolls - Now here is my personal favorite and current aspiration, a group of gaming girls sponsored by Ubisoft to promote games and more particularly women in gaming. Not only are all of them "hotties of gaming" they will show you just how a girl gamer should be! Go ahead challenge one of them to a deathmatch and just see who comes out on top!






Kari Wahlgren - Voice over actress extraordinair! She is the leading lady of Voice acting in the gaming industry, being heard in over a 100 titles some of them including: Bioshock, Final Fantasy, Dead or Alive, Metal Gear Solid, and Soul Caliber.









Jessica Chobot - Known for here roll as the host of IGN's Daily Fix segment, Jessica got her start to fame back in 2005 for the picture of her licking a Sony PSP shortly after it's release she is known in the industry now for promoting Japanese culture mainly her love of Anime and Manga.







Felicia Day - Script writer and star of the original web series The Guild, Felicia is not just any gamer, she has taken it to a whole new level showing what a day in the life of a hardcore gamer can be in a very funny way. She is also a singer, which we get to see in her roll in Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog and in her original song Do You Wanna Date My Avatar.



All of these ladies are amazing women and a great influence on the gaming industry. They inspire girl gamers, geeks and nerds to stand up daily and make their voices heard! We should all be proud to have these ladies as a four front to those of us still making our name. Thank you ladies!

And soon to be among their number is.....






Zephyira (Ashley Amber Boyle) - Avid girl gamer, and college student studying to make her way inside the animation and programming side of the industry! I will make it one day, only with your help that is! Show me to your friends! Comment tell me what you think! Let me know what you want to see!







Peace.Love&Gaming! Zephy Out!

Pride & Girl Gamers!

Hey All!

Here is the next installment to my video blog took a little bit longer then I thought to get it up and running but here we go!

Comment and tell me what you think!

Zephy

Zephy's Back!

Hey all!

Alright so I know that I have been gone for about a month now, had to take some time off and get a few things straightened out but I am back now and everything is good to go and ready to start taking the gaming world by storm! Woot! I am currently working on the next video blog and it will be up here in the next day or so. Yay!

Just to give you a little taste of what this next video blog will be about here is a question for you. I know that gamer girls aren't all that rare, often times you just don't know you are playing with a one, but recently I spent some time going over youtube and a few blogs and what not that have to do with gamer girls and noticed one thing. Any guesses as to what that is??

Hint: It has to do with what most of them are talking about when they make their videos and or blogs.

Now this is not by any means to say this is all of them! I know a lot of really awesome gamer girls out there that are really amazing people. :P

Let me know what you all think!

Zephy

Patch Day! 3.3.5

Yay! Patch 3.3.5 is here! I am so excited! All of my friends across the servers can now talk to me easily! Well waiting for the servers to open I figured that I would film a new video blog! Tell me what you think! Much love to all those who are reading and commenting! I would love to know what you all think, so tell me!

Zephy

Love.Peace.WoW

Hey all!

Time for an update with our lovely Zephyira. She is now in an actual raiding guild on the server. Things went to down hill shortly after the first post and I ended up taking her out of Midlo and placing her in the guild Nicotine, where I was quickly asked to be a raid leader and an Officer in the guild. Things are going fairly well we are currently working on getting our two raids set in stone so that those who are running with us have the chance to actually do progression. We would like to be able to get the Lich King down here shortly and start running Hard modes.

Been spending the past few weeks trying to level my warrior Zerenity on Luella's server so that I can have an 80 over there to play with her. Well at the same time making sure that I spend enough time on Zephy so that I am not considered MIA and lose my Raid Leader spot. I would be super sad then :( To level her fairly quickly I have been running random dungeons for a few hours each night. Something that I have noticed is that a decent group is REALLY hard to come by.

For example I had just signed on and qued up for my first random of the night, instant que because I am leveling her prot, enter Scarlet Monastery: Graveyard and I get a healer that is at first blowing up chat talking so I did the nice thing and asked if anyone minded big pulls with no reply. I go about pull the first too and get them down then pull the first half of the next room. The healer is to busy yelling at everyone else in chat to heal me and I die. He then proceeds to turn around and yell at me in chat saying "U SUX STOOPID TANK!" I laughed and watched as he left and requed us, thinking to myself had he just shut and healed there would have been no problem. I am not a bad tank I know what I can pull and hold without dying and I have a nice reaction time from years of playing a hunter and having to act quickly.

I go through a few more groups then end up in a decent one, progressing nicely through Graveyard. About to run down to the boss and low and behold there is one of the three rare spawns, Ironspine. (At this point I had yet to see him and I had run it a good twenty times in the past few nights). So we kill him fairly quickly and he drops his chest piece, Ironspine's Ribcage! I am so excited at this point because this is a HUGE upgrade for me, and I am the only Mail wearer in this group! So I roll Need and people are telling me gratz when I look down at the rolls in my chat and see that the Rogue in the group had rolled need too....How douch is that?? I am now pissed at this point this rogue had run off to kill a mob and I had to chase after to save him, attacked when I said no attacking and now had just stolen one of the best upgrades in chest pieces for me at this point. I did the nice thing and asked very calmly in Chat if he would mind handing it over since it wasn't something he could use, and got ignored. Everyone in the run was asking him to open it. I even opened a trade window and asked him in whispers to hand it over. At this point I was so pissed at this jerk that I was about ready to just leave the run all together and make them suffer through a wait for a new tank. I decided instead to wait the two mins that is left on the timer for the rogue and kick him. Still didn't get me my chest piece but it made my bad day turned even worse night feel a little better :P

Going on that night run two more randoms with fail healers and am about to give up for the night when on the last try I get this awesome healer, Lunai - Deathwing. Not only was she able to allow me to pull large groups she could keep me topped off to full with no problem at all! I ran for another two hours that night with her and we ended up talking in whispers. Turns out she is a real girl gamer herself! It made me smile to think that the best healer I had seen in a while in the lower runs was a girl and all those guys that we had dealt with had no idea that the two people keeping them alive their tank and healer were in all reality girls! Anyways if you are reading this Lunai you are an awesome healer and I hope to get to run with you again!

The sad thing that comes from all this is that people in game have become really elitest. I remember leveling in the days of Vanilla WoW and being able to team up with just about anyone and they were willing to help and to teach. Now you get in a random group and somewhere in there there is usually one person who thinks that they are better then everyone else and is going to comment on everything that everyone else is doing instead of watching what they are doing. I don't mind the constructive comments that actually help better people! I do mind the "I am better then you" and "n00b" comments. All of us were learning at one point or another. The moral of this story?? Be careful you never know who is in your group with you! Just because they don't have BoA's doesn't mean they don't know what they are doing and who knows you might just get blogged about! :P

Peace. Love. WoW

Zephyi

Video Blogs! Take One!

So me and Luella figured we would try a video blog this time around, and see how well it goes! We had a lot of fun doing it. And with Luella's awesome editing skills it turned out totally AWESOME! So watch and enjoy! /kiss

I hope y'all enjoyed it and come back for more!

Peace. Love. WoW.
/kiss

Zephyi

Birthday Recount and Games in the News!

Birthday Recount, Hello 23!

My Birthday was on the 30th of April and I have to say that this was a pretty awesome Birthday! Well I guess it didn't start out so well I will admit that. That's right Zephyi got broken up with the day before her birthday :( BUT it's okay! I am over it! We decided that we are better off as friends. :p

Anyways! On with the most amazing things! A few of my in game WoW friends got together and helped me get the last few achievements I needed to get the final Achievement Glory of the Hero! just after Midnight on my Birthday. Which worked out amazingly. They spent a total of about three hours helping me get Abuse the Ooze, My Girl Loves to Skadi All the Time (in which Skadi dropped Reins of the Blue Proto-Drake and Killerpalli won the roll but gave it to me as my birthday gift :D) Ruby Void, The Incredible Hulk and just after midnight on my birthday it's self we got Zombiefest! Winning me my achievement and my Reins of the Red Proto-Drake! Yay! I have the most amazing friends sometimes!

Zephyi on her Red Proto-Drake

I got the normal gifts from family, you know new converse, jeans, and girly stuff from the mother and sisters :p The greatest gift ever came from the Best Friend Luella! She got me a watch with World of Warcraft Logo in it *giggles* she was so excited to have it sent all the way from Hong Kong! Which I find absolutely amazing personally. Along with the watch she got me the hunter pin from J!NX, the ultimate stop for all gamer/geek/nerd ware! So that I can represent my class of choice!

Luella's Gift To Me

Speaking of Luella and Birthdays! For her birthday this year I came up with the idea of making her Hearthstone Brownies! I figured that she would love them and she did. I also got her the first book of the Warcraft Series Day of The Dragon, that way she can start to work her way through the lore herself instead of turning around and asking me :p I joke! She can ask me at any time, I love her questions because she makes me think more about the lore and what is going on in the world!

Hearthstone brownies, made by yours truly!

Alright! Enough about Birthdays! Recently well reading through a one of my favorite sites The Jace Hall Show I was shocked to find a two posts on two different news casts done by CNN, attacking gaming and more specific on one of the World of Warcraft it's self.

This kind of stuff really upsets me. As Jace so nicely put it:
"It is my opinion that human beings are capable of creating destructive relationships and associations with almost anything. Seeking pleasure and avoiding pain is a fundamental trait of the human condition. This trait can occasionally direct people toward the use of escapism. Sometimes this can be a necessary mode of survival and very healthy – other times is can lead to counterproductive personal and social behavior."
Meaning that anyone can addicted to anything that holds a place of interest in their world. Be it drugs, gambling, reading, drinking, sex, working out, watching movies, and even eating. Yes, video games can be among those things but to right attack World of Warcraft and blame it for all this kids problems is WRONG! Obviously there was issues there before hand. His parents even said that he was what we would refer to as a "nerd" and often times, high school and society can be hard on people who tend to fall under that label. Now I am the first person to hate labels but the reality is that yes people are treated differently depending on their "social tag". As his mother states Ben was "far more animated then we had seen him in years." Is there something so wrong with a game allowing someone to find themselves in the world?? And the fact that the people here are stating that he had become "anti-social" is wrong. To play and to actually excel in WoW you must be social. Just because you aren't sitting there talking to the person face to face doesn't mean you aren't being social. In fact for people with social anxiaty disorders it is a lot easier to talk over a voice system then to sit there in an uncomfortable position and have a face to face conversation. Here they can be themselves without having to worry about a panic attack or stuttering or so many other things. And eventually it gets to be easier to talk and helps build that self esteem you need to function in society.

What's the difference between talking to someone on the phone and talking to them in game?? A lot of people in today's world want to sit here and say that games are so bad because they stunt social abilities but the reality is that they actually help. To get something done in any online game where you are playing with others you need to be able to explain it to the fullest and allow everyone to understand what is going on and for that you need social skills!

Now yes, Ben did get addicted to the game, but like I said before there is something else that needs to be looked at here. Addiction is not because of the game itself, the depression is not brought on by the game. There is a larger factor here, you need to step back and take a look at the family and the life around the person. As the report itself says, most people in this case use the game as an "escape hatch" here they are in a fantasy world where people look at their stats and what they can bring to the game, not at their apperance, not at if they can sit there and talk to you face to face without having a panic attack, and it offers all these people a way to relax and function. And yes some of these people do get addicted but I reiterate it is not the game causing these people to get "addicted" it's something else going on in there life and with them as a person. To out right attack the game and EVERYONE that plays it is wrong, and a poor choice on CNN.

The problem that most people in society have with video games and the like is that they don't understand how someone can sit there and play for hours. Now here is my point, I don't understand how someone can sit there and watch a mindless TV show for hours and hours a night. At least with gaming, I have to think. I have to react. My mind is functioning. And specifically with World of Warcraft I have to be social. Not just sit and stare a box that lights up feeding me information, that mind you tends to be very bias. But I don't attack you for watching the TV do I?? No, I smile and I let you have your TV shows well I sit there and play my video games.

Another issue to look at here. There would have been no issue in the parents eyes with Ben had he gone to school gotten the grades and came home and did his homework and then sat in the sollitued of his room for hours on end depressed as can be. The fact that he was affected by a game and for once in his life was "animated" well doing something caught their attention. Ben was one of the unlucky few who couldn't find a balance in playing and life itself. In all honesty I feel bad for the kid because for those few months he was something! He had self esteem and a social life, and made memories that will last him the rest of his life. Had he just found that balance.....he would have been okay.

Now onto the third and final thing of the day! CNN's second video on Gaming!

First of all let me say that those people that walked by, even the lady he helped are all the scum of society. How hard is it to pull out a cell phone and call nine-one-one?? Not hard at all. You don't even have to stick around just give them a point to arrive at and leave.

Now here is my problem with CNN. Why attack video games over this?? What the hell does video games have to do with this at all?? You want to look at something where violence is being pumped into society, look at the news! It's not often that I see a "nice" news report anymore. It's all this person killed this person and this person raped and pillaged the land, and so on and so forth. I mean I turn on the News today in the middle of the day when children are normally getting off of school and what do I see?? A sex act happening in the class room and the teacher doing nothing to stop it! A husband murdering his wife in cold blood. A male teacher raping a child. And to top it all off a MOTHER raping and killing her daughters playmate and then burying the child's body off somewhere so no one will find it. And yea video games are the spawn of the devil that makes perfect sense to me, what about you?? (please note sarcasm :D)

Alright for all you gamers out there one last thing! We need to support the fist amendment rights in games and sign the petition to protect them! There is no way this is fair to allow them to sensor what goes into our games and what we can or can not play as a society! That would be like them telling us what we can or can not ready! That is called Book Burning and I don't know about y'all but last time I check we do not live in Fahrenheit 451.


Zephyi