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Internet

Evidently this is where I talk about things on the internet, including this website, Twitter, and SocialVibe.

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ATUBGIRL

I’m a day late, but in my defence the reason I didn’t write this yesterday was no I don’t need to explain this to you, shush.

Yesterday was the monthly ATUB meet up, where all those epic people who use Twitter and also happen to live in the glorious city that is Adelaide meet up, drink and talk nonsense. I’ve only ever been to one other meet up, all the way back in October/November, but this was by far more fun and just a little exciting.

The meeting was held at The Highway Hotel where we had multiple tables reserved specially for the event. We rocked out the drinking, drawing on every conceivable surface and remarking on how much of a woman I am for jokingly wearing a skirt. I saw the old faces who I’ve talked to since I don’t know when (although as usual Rubenerd didn’t make an appearance. ONE DAY!), plus a fair few new ones. This is where I segue into a shout out to Brenton, Ash, that FlitterbyG person and that KerryJ person. I also finally met both Cypherage and HugePedlar (The antelope are fat this year) who I have to admit, wasn’t as British as I expected, but was still pretty awesome.

After hours of fun at The Highway and most people had left, the last of us went to the Ed Castle (?) for dinner. It wasn’t as nice a place, but with the meals being just ten dollars I wasn’t really going to complain.  After dinner, we all talked for a little while, before going our separate ways.

Thank you for the fun times guys, it was nice catching up, and meeting the new people. I’m going to try and be more of a regular to these events, and I do promise to be (slightly) less drunk.

Other places you can read about the Feb ‘10 ATUB:

• Harnessed Crayon
• Adelaide Tweeters (I guess you could call this one the “official” post)

There are photos about the place as well:

• Monnie’s Picasa gallery (From which the above photo was “borrowed”. I’ll return it when I’m done!)
• Brenton’s Picasa gallery (Not as big as Monnie’s, but I’m in it so it’s instantly awesome)
• Flitterbyg’s Flickr gallery (I didn’t photobomb any of these ones, but they’re still worth a look :P)
• Aliyaki’s Facebook gallery (She’s too good for Picasa or Flickr, and everyone in her photos seems abnormally happy)
• Hugepedlar created a random video from photos taken that day “introducing” everyone who came, which can be checked out here (you could of used a more flattering photo of me man, I mean, come on!)

More will be added as I find them/can finally load them. CURSE YOU CAPTAIN PLANET HITLER CAPPED INTERNET!

Success.

You know you’ve achieved success when you have your very own hashtag. By you I of course mean me though. No offence.

So hey, you guys rock, and I’ll make my very own “dear diary, ATUB WAS FREAKING AWESOME” post in the coming days, but right now I’m too tired and Star Wars turns me on something shocking.

But when it comes to me, which is what this is all about, make sure you tag your tweets with #whatawhore; because I’m awesome.

One of its many features

The final piece of writing in my fantastic series of wonderful writings from years ago. This is the earliest dated one, from the start of July 2008.

I use MSN Messenger everyday. I hate making phone calls, and other than that there isn’t much other way to talk to everyone I know. So, most days I am on the internet, chatting away to various people; being social without needing to get off my ass.
More often than not though, I might go do something else away from the computer. I watch TV and dvds, might play a computer game on the other computer, or I might go out. MSN caters to such needs so I don’t need to worry about having to sign out all the time; instead I can just switch my status from online to something like "Busy", "Away", or "Out To Lunch". As a habit I normally just list myself as being away, because, I am.
What gets to me is I could set my status to away, and people still talk. It’s alright if I’m set to away but still at the computer, but when they hold entire conversations and get pissed at me for ignoring them, then I get irritated. The last thing I want to come home to after a night out is several convo’s that go like this:
Girl1: hi
Girl1: what u doing
Girl1: this sucks
Girl1: hi
Girl1: im bored
Girl1: hi again
Girl1: i talked to a brick wall today
Girl1: well i triede and u gave up so i cant do it
Girl2: hi
Girl2: hru
Girl2: hello???
Girl2: y arnt u tlkn
Girl2: do u hate me?
Girl2: y do u hate me
Girl3: Hello
Girl3: How are you?
Girl3: I’m bored :P
Girl3: I really need to talk to you…
Girl3: Well fuck you then.
To which I usually reply (whether they are signed in at this point or not):
"See the status? It is set to Away. Another way of saying Away is to say ‘I AM NOT HERE, DO NOT BOTHER TALKING BECAUSE YOU WILL NOT GET A REPLY AS THE PERSON YOU ARE ATTEMPTING TO START A CONVERSATION WITH, IS CURRENTLY NOT HERE.’"
First off, girls overreact WAY too much.
Second off, what the fuck is the point of having "status" changes in MSN if no-one is going to bother paying attention to them? I set my status like that so dumbass people know I’m not there, and WON’T think I’m ignoring them. What is the fucking point then, if people ignore the status?

Out of Office

As part of a post on NotGamers, I sent a question to Robin Walker at Valve Software, only to receive an out of office email saying to contact Gabe Newell about anything TF2 related. I sent the same email to him, to get this reply:

I am out of the office starting Feb. 12th (but on email). For general issues, e-mail scott@valvesoftware.com. For marketing or press issues, e-mail lombardi@valvesoftware.com.  To complain about HL-2 Ep 3 taking too long, email laidlaw@valvesoftware.com.  To complain about L4D2 not taking long enough, email toml@valvesoftware.com.  To complain about the crafting/lack of crafting in TF2, email robin@valvesoftware.com  To compliment the writers of Valve for creating funny out of office replies, email lazygadabouts@valvesoftware.com.  I’ll be back in Seattle Feb. 21st.

I couldn’t help but laugh. Seems they have their fan base pretty much covered.

This is where I insert the equivalent of crickets chirping, but in text format. I don’t really know how to do that, so here’s a post instead.

So, for those who haven’t been following me talking endlessly about it, I’ve bought a new website specifically to talk about gaming. Presenting with no further…whatever the word that comes after that is (adieu? A Jew?).

NotGamers.Net

Big text for big news right? My problem is I’m getting that into gaming that if I let myself write about it on here, the majority of posts on here would be that of Team Fortress 2 talk, or the fact that I bought Left 4 Dead 2 today. Hey, I bought Left 4 Dead 2 today! Anyway..

On NotGamers, it’s basically just anyone who wants to writing posts about whatever games they want to. So far I have sections mainly for Valve games because lets face it, at the moment I am a complete Valve fanboy, but as time goes on more sections will be added as needed.

So basically most of my time online has been for gaming, NotGamers, and answering questions on Tumblr. This is where I’ve been and why I haven’t been writing much. That and I’m lazy.

Preserved for Prosperity

I wish to proclaim myself forever CASUAL CHAMPION OF ZAK AND SARA BY BEN FOLDS. I just had to grapple with someone attempting to overthrow my high score, but I got back on top. So for now and the future, here’s the proof that I am the best at EVERYTHING forever.

THERE I AM! First column! I AM THE GREATEST.

Team Fortress 2 Group Chat

I decided while I wait for the inevitable TF2 update that comes out today, I’d look at Group Chat and see what people are talking about…it’s not what I expected (but I totally should of, it is the internet).

Cyberman128: my penis is the latest weapon
PugPuncher :D: SNNNNNNNNNNAAAAAAAAKKKKKKKKKKKEEEEEEE!!!!!
[S-J] Iron Jebus: I want an egg !!
PugPuncher :D: CANDY
Sandvich Nominski [Demoman]: The latest weapon sucks, then
Idiotska: wheaties
✯[5E]LZ.✯ⓀⒾⓃⒼ✯: stop nooob
Idiotska: breakfast of champions
PugPuncher :D: …………….
Cyberman128: no, it’s huge
HybridPuppy: Valve give us our update already.
Sandvich Nominski [Demoman]: Or is it the enemies who suck the latest weapon
[S-J] Iron Jebus: if that is true that its a very small weap
ORANGE GARBAGE: k
PugPuncher :D: ?
ORANGE GARBAGE: k
[S-J] Iron Jebus: not good for long range fight
✯[5E]LZ.✯ⓀⒾⓃⒼ✯: SOLDIER FTW
ORANGE GARBAGE: HAHAHHAHHAHAHHAAAA
Cyberman128: Lag
PugPuncher :D: ?
✯[5E]LZ.✯ⓀⒾⓃⒼ✯ SOLDIER FTW
[S-J] Iron Jebus: this is like the 6 guy i block today
ORANGE GARBAGE: oh no u di-ent
Sandvich Nominski [Demoman]: Yeah, same
micky315: DEMO FTW
[S-J] Iron Jebus eats sandvish
Sandvich Nominski [Demoman] loves pizza
ORANGE GARBAGE: oh
Pluethra: Lol free weekend. :D
ORANGE GARBAGE: hey
Pluethra: Iiiii suucckkkk,.
Sandvich Nominski [Demoman] REALLY loves pizza
ORANGE GARBAGE: who wants me to spam some more?
[S-J] Iron Jebus: i love owning the actual game <.<
SubZer0effect: buy the game
Cyberman128: THE SOLDIER AND DEMO ARE BOTH FIGHTING OVER MY PENIS
SubZer0effect: same
Sandvich Nominski [Demoman] is eating pizza right now
Pluethra: IM TOO POOR AND LAZZEHH.
SubZer0effect: its so much better
[S-J] Iron Jebus: cause.. free weekend.. ONLY LASTS A FREAKIN WEEKEND
ORANGE GARBAGE: who wants spam?
Agent Phaser Rave: real men eat steak for breakfast
Pluethra: NO.
[S-J] Iron Jebus: jeez
Pluethra: RLY?
ORANGE GARBAGE: SPAM
ORANGE GARBAGE: Spam
PugPuncher :D has changed their name to PugPuncherⓓⓘⓝⓞ.
ORANGE GARBAGE: SPAM
ORANGE GARBAGE: SPAM
[S-J] Iron Jebus: so owning the actual game is better
Cyberman128: cocks
ORANGE GARBAGE: SPAM
Sandvich Nominski [Demoman]: Saxton Hale eats real men for breakfast

I…got nothing out of that. Except Sandvich Nominski seems a little obsessed with pizza.

[censored]

Escaping With The Papers (A new blog)

It’s not unknown that I’m obsessed with Team Fortress 2. So it shouldn’t be any surprise that now I’m contributing posts to a new blog dedicated to the game.

Doc_Swarley has started the site for posting game news, discuss maps and classes, strategies, and anything else really to do with the game. There are three of us writing for the site, so there is bound to be quite varied writings and opinions.

It’s still new, but you can check it out at Escaping With The Papers. My first post on it is up and discusses the new update teaser, which indicated that Valve will be adding the ability to make your own motherfucking weapons (awesome).

If you like the game as much as I do, give it a look and maybe drop a comment or two.

Challenge #5

Already done my next challenge, posted to me on my FormSpring page.

I challenge you to film yourself doing that trick where you hold a broom, look at the top of it, spin around 20 times, throw it on the ground, and jump over it. Also, I will have your running away from the camera photo by Friday night. I will write it down. Sorry for the lateness!

It sounds confusing, but after looking at a reference video, I was set to do it.

Challenge done! It was really fun to do. Of course, my sister did the filming. Thanks for the challenge, Craig.

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