First of all I think this generation of consoles all have their share of problems. I personally prefer my PS3 and Wii for my gaming. That's just me, but if there is anything I hate more in this world is fanboys/girls of any system.

So yesterday I was waiting for my ECE class to start and I had about an hour to kill so I thought why not play some Mario&Luigi 3. I'm sitting in the hallway and across from me was three guys talking and here I am just trying to beat some monsters with bowser. Till some muscular guy comes up to me and said "Just wanted to say you get some mad points for playing video games. We need more girls playing video games" and I said back to him "Thanks I guess....I just got a PS3." Then he starts saying bullshit to me that annoyed the hell out of me. This is how the conversation goes:

Fanboy: Oh I couldn't get a PS3 since ALL Sony products break and I heard a lot of PS3s break easily.

Me: *Having a surprised look on my face* Well I've had my PS2 since 2002 and it still works still this DAY!

Fanboy: Wow... thats the first time I've heard that from someone. Xbox360 the best system to have now since it doesn't break as easily as Sony stuff.

Looking very dumbfounded by what he said. Me: What the hell are you talking about!? I never heard of the PS3 breaking on anyone and even if it does happen thats rare. It's not like the Xbox360 that seems to have more problems with the whole Red Ring of Death and other issues. Thats why I rather have a PS3 since I need a system that can last long time.

Fanboy: Whatever. I'm not sure where you hear your information from, but it most be IGN or magazine.

Me: Actually I get my information from Destructoid.

Fanboy: Never heard of it.

Me: It's a community for gamers. It's like a blog community you can say and they have updated news about video games. Even Kotaku has stuff too.

Fanboys: Oh one of those nerdy sites. Nah, I don't really go on them. They seem too nerdy for me.

Goes on to say other shit that got me mad. Saying things like the Wii isn't a real gaming system and Sony has no good games to play. After what he said about the Wii and PS3 I just left. Honestly don't care about which system is the best because at the end of the day I just play video games for fun. After that talk I really felt bad for him because he was a fanboy that most likely doesn't remember why he even plays video games in the first place.

So that was my first encounter with a Xbox360 fanboy. I never met and Wii fanboy/girl or a PS3 fanboy/girl yet. I don't think I want to any time soon. I can't deal with close minded gamers, it makes my head hurt.

Going into the so called "real world" I have experienced a lot of things up till now and experiencing little by little of the adult world. When I started in going to my local community college I didn't really know what I wanted to do or how I should go about choosing a career for the rest of my life. So one summer during my 3rd semester I tried work study program and got a chance to work with children. I loved it and soon after changed my major.

Now after taking three Early Childhood Education classes I've come to experience a lot about being a teacher. From this I've experienced ignorance as well. One time a teacher at the first day care I worked at saw me playing my DS and said to me "I didn't know you were THAT much of a child that you would be playing video games still at this age." Those words kind of got to me since I got into Early Childhood. It's statements like that make me not say I love playing video games.

I didn't think liking video games made me less of a teacher and I also didn't know personal hobbies of a teacher even mattered. I know they don't, but maybe to some people they do. I love video games and at times whenever I meet someone older than me I'm hesitant to say what my interests are. Worried that they may not take me seriously as a adult. This even happens with my aunt's friends. I say I'm into video games and want to teach small children, then I kind of see the gears in their heads turn trying to understand why I like both. I remember one time I over heard one of my aunt's friends saying "she seems kind of the weird type, never heard of someone liking video games at that age. Do you think she is serious enough to teach children?". Well that person was a bitch anyways and my aunt didn't really like her saying things about me like that.

I don't understand why video games seems like a lesser hobby than anything else someone is into doing. Well I feel like I'm going on to little rant, not what I wanted to go about writing, but whatever I guess. I think after writing this I've come to conclusion why I wanted to get into Early Childhood. I like being around people who are as childish as me. Hell, I even remember a kid at the day care I was working at being shocked that a teacher played video games. He was like "Mario Galaxy is really hard, even underwater. Do you know how to beat that level". Very cute hearing that from a five year old!

Even at twenty years old and in college I still don't feel like an adult yet. Maybe it's the fact that I don't live on my own yet and still watch The Power Puff Girls time to time, but whatever I reason I'm still going to play video games till I'm in my 70s.

And if you read all of this you deserve a cookie!

You know when I first got my DS phat I didn't think my cousin would be interested in video games. I remember in the Christmas of 2007 whenever I would go to my aunt's house in MN, my cousin August at the time 4 would always watch me play Zelda games. He was more into playing games from lego.com or Cartoon Network's games, but still was interested in getting a DS. When August showed interested I was very happy to finally have someone in the family to talk to video games about. Funny thing is he was more surprised that a adult would be interested in video games.

During the Fall of 2008 it was August's 5th birthday and he finally got what he always wanted....A DS LITE! Now like the nice cousin I am I let him have all my old DS games since his parents did think they were little pricey. After that he would always ask me what to do in this game and how to get pass this monster in Zelda. When he was five he use to play Mario Kart and get in last place, but still held on to the idea that he won lol. He didn't care as long as he was having fun. I would love to get him into more video games as he gets older. I would love to get him into some old PS1 and PS2 games. Just to expand his taste little.


What I really think is a bummer is his parents only let him play 15 mins of DS which in my view is little unfair. Don't understand why you would give your child a DS and expect him to play little of it. I understand children can't play video games all day, but in my opinion it's better than watching a T.V. for hours and not have the mind working little. At least while playing video games you get the mind working. I mean how many times have you guys played any Zelda game and thought about how to solve this puzzle to get into the next room? When I was growing up my mom really didn't care how long I played video games for. I think it was because he knew I would get a headache and take a long break.

Now that I think about it I can see why August loves me so much. It's because I'm a kid like him at heart. Granted he's even surprised that I like the same shows and knows what I'm walking about half the time. I wasn't a child too long ago, but I understand his mindset more than his parents do. I hope when he gets older his parents give him little more freedom about playing video games.

And here a picture of my cute cousin playing his DS Lite^_^!

So after 2 years old Wii playing and only having that as a "current" generation console....I finally got something new. I've been waiting for this day forever and I couldn't be happier :D!!!!

I FINALLY GOT A PS3 (Slim)!!!! So I called my local game store and asked if they had any PS3 slims out yet. It was my lucky day and they only had one left to sell, but the guy was really nice and waited for me to pick it up! After power walking to the store from my college I finally got there with a PS3 slim just sitting there waiting for a good gamer to pick it up.

So after an one hour train ride back home playing on my DS I finally get home. Tired from today I asked my sister to move my PS2 and Wii into my bedroom so the PS3 can have the whole living room. After playing 2 hours of LittleBigPlanet I'm SO HAPPY RIGHT NOW :D!!!! I feel like the Nintendo 64 kid right now ^_____^!!!

And my Wii must hate me now.

I just like this picure of both of them.

So first off I know I'm talking about a topic that's been beaten to death, but I wanted to talk about something different. Well not all too different. It's pretty much my experiences of being a female gamer. Let's get this straight I never liked the term "Girl Gamers", it just very dumb to put Girl at the end of a term that should be for both genders. However I'll use it here just because I'm little tired now.

I've been playing games since I was very young and I can thank my mother and older brothers for that. I still have little memories of using the SNES' Super Scope. It was fun when I was kid I would into this huge park that had a lot of trees and I use to pretend to be Link in the lost woods trying to find my sister who would be pretend to be the skull kid. I was a really into Zelda back when I was a kid ^_^. Thinking back to my childhood now most of it was surrounded by video games and anime, but mostly video games. I even remember the first time my brother handed me Super Mario Land and the underground theme scared me >_<!

Anyways, I never thought of myself being different from other gamers when I was a little girl and even now I still don't feel that difference. I always hear about how other female gamers experience guys who always react in a "OMG U R GIRRL GAMER!" when they find out a girl plays video games. For me I never experienced that from guys even in my local video game stores I don't get treated differently. So I don't understand where some female gamers are coming from most of the time.

Even when I was in high school the guys didn't really flock to me because of my gaming. Then again most of the guys in my high school weren't really gamers -__-; . When I did meet other gamers outside of school most didn't really make a big deal about me being a girl. I always thought maybe it's because I live in New York City and there must be a lot of other female gamers. However, now that I'm in college it's hard finding other gamers >_<! Whenever I see a person who playing on their DS or PSP I always feel tempted to start a conversation with them, but I don't -_-'. My shyness after all.

Forgot to say! I don't have many experiences with online gaming since I don't have the money or time for it now. I pretty much wasted most of my summer catching up on DS games.

From my point of view this is how I see myself: as a girl just loves video games. Don't make a big deal about it like most gamers it's just another hobby I love doing. Always thought of video games like a interactive book that you play in another world. I know...it's a silly way to look at video games and my family would laugh at me if I told them that's how I see video games as. Geez...I feel like I rambled on again dammit -_-'.

Sigh....it sucks to be single with all your friends in relationships already. Ever since my last relationship I've always wondered if similar interests really matter in a relationship or not. I mean you hear that saying "Opposites attract" and I think that saying sucks personally. My best friends Ryan and Sammi have been dating for months and they always say they don't have much in common, but I think that's bullshit. They have more in common than they think! That's the funny thing about them. I know I shouldn't have a "check list" when it comes to finding a boyfriend, but from past experiences I want to meet someone who has similar interests as me.

My last relationship with my ex-boyfriend was such fail. We dated for a few months last year and everything was fine till he started to criticizing me about playing video games and watching anime. It was more that he had a problem with me playing video games than anything else. He thought playing video games made me more of a tomboy and also the fact of not wearing make-up added to my "tomboyness". Granted I dress pretty normal for a girl and not really in baggy clothing at all. So to me I really didn't see what was wrong with the way I dressed.

So few months later like around the beginning of the last fall semester I broke up with him because I couldn't take the fact that he was just dating me for two reasons: 1. getting me out video games and 2. changing me into more of a girly girl type of person. So after finding out of those were his reasons I pretty much said to him "Go fuck yourself ^__^!" and I never spoke to him after that. I mean why date a person just to change them? If you don't like how the person is then break up with them. Don't try to change something you can't fix. Besides anyone who tries to get me out of gaming is swimming in dangerous waters.

My friends have said to me OVER and OVER that finding a boyfriend who loves video games is really easy. Easy my ass! If anything it's pretty hard to find other gamers and even at my college there aren't many who really are interested in video games. After my last relationship I want to look for someone who is interested in video games like me and understands my love for them. I know it's just a hobby, but it's a hobby I love a lot and grew up with.

I wrote something like this on Kotaku and people were quite helpful in my question ^_^. I would've wrote a question like this on the forums, but I know it would start some long page thread. Overall I'm wondering if common interests really matter in any relationship?