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Gamers Impersonating females get more phat lewt

Jul 30

Posted by rosicrux in gaming | No Comments

race start girl wow This shouldn’t be news to any regular MMORPG player. It certainly isn’t for me. I’ve seen this happen since the early days of Ultima Online. Yet, even though we players know that the female avatar we interact with on the screen has a good chance of having a pasty male user controlling it, we still don’t assume as much.

Hell, I know guys that only play as girls in MMORPG’s. The slight-to-infinite increase in monetary gains, combined with the ease of getting into groups makes it a no-brainer. I tried it a few times, but since I like to create characters that reflect my personality as much as possible, I just didn’t feel comfortable with ample hips and swinging bosom (or is that ample bosom and swinging hips? …no matter!). Although, I must admit, the female models in WoW look much better than the male ones.

Mission: find out which local lawyer plays as Oola:

A 36-year-old female attorney from Austin, Texas, is the real-life person behind the sexy and smart female Oola and the bruiser male Smotis in NCsoft’s “City of Heroes” but she said the differences between her avatars and herself didn’t go far beyond physical appearance.

“I was a bit disappointed that I didn’t branch out more. I think it was a lack of originality on my part,” said the lawyer, who asked that her name not be used.

Purty blue lights : the Logitech G15 Gaming Keyboard

Oct 15

Posted by rosicrux in tech | No Comments

Most people who come here know I am an avid gamer, especially first-person shooters, and have been for the majority of my life. And I am not alone, gaming has been a phenomenon for at least 2 decades on personal computers.

Why, then, has it taken until the last couple years that keyboards geared for gamers have come from the depths of the abyss? I mean, to me, it’s a no-brainer and a hole in the market. Except for a few horrible cheap tries, the ZBoard was the first decent attempt I saw. And then the Saitek gaming keyboard. Both have enticed me, but not quite enought to buy.

Leave it to Logitech. As soon as it was announced, I knew I would be purchasing the G15 Gaming Keyboard. After a few months of wait, I thought it would be released in October… but the Logitech site, even at the time of this post, still says it’s “coming soon”. Luckily I heard a tip that some had been spotted in Best Buys, and I found the keyboard at one of my local stores. It appears they may have some kind of limited-time exclusivity on the keyboard like the have had on other Logitech products like the MX510 mouse an dthe new G5 mouse.

So, I get the box home and plug the keyboard in. The drivers installed flawlessly, and don’t have much of a memory footprint. The LCD screen on the top displays time, CPU and RAM status, volume controls, and even songs I play with Winamp. The blue glow is great and comes through each key very nicely. The little switch to turn off the windows keys is a perfect touch, and the 18 macro buttons are just waiting to be programmed.

The keyboard has nice keys that are not mushy or overly rattley (is rattley a word?). They keys are smaller (in width) than the keys on my Logitech Internet Navigator keyboard, but they also travel further and are more responsive. The volume wheel I love, as I had one in a previous keyboard and wheels are much better than buttons to control volume.

Like all Logitech keyboards I have used, the wristrest is flimsy, but it does its job so far. The keyboard itself is extremely solid and pretty heavy. The keys and black plastic have a flat satin finish on them that gives the appearance of hard rubber.

So far the keyboard has proved pretty useful in games. The lighting is the main thing. I honestly haven’t used the macro keys much, but I tested the on-the-fly macro making and it works very well. Or you can use the macro maker in the profile program, which allows more fine tuning and editing.

A little pricey at $80, but it’s the best gaming keyboard out there.

On to the pics!