Kathunter's Personal Space

" I am going to tell you a story about one boy who lives on 27th. I live on 24th. "
[via fragolls.com]

"For a limited time, when you buy two select video games from Toysrus.com, you can get a third one free. If Toysrus.com not the seller, this will be noted on the product detail page. "
[via Amazon.com]

The new Frag Dolls web site finally launched. Kinda cool I have to say.

However, I am not fond having my photo taken, so my pal SafetyMonkey has assisted in recreating one of the images. I have never loved a photo of me more!

For anyone who has stuck around past my "glorified story telling days" to stick it out through the current "omg she only talked about fucking games" days...
I wanted to say a very special goodbye to someone I love.



Jonas has decided to shake up life once again in his classic style and move to NYC. He stayed over last night before his flight, and there was this genius moment when he was looking for his keys as he got into his cab. I looked at him and said "you have no keys in your life right now". No house, no motorcycle, no office... No keys.

I can't imagine my life here without him. He was my left arm. You know the friend who can get along without if you really have to, but really sucks to try.

Sitting here tonight after he left, noticeably alone, I found myself thinking about my life and what it means to be a 30-year-old video game player who needs reading glasses to play Socom, but in the end, I had to shut up my indulgent pity party and face reality. Somehow, over the last 2 years, I lucked the fuck out and found a soul mate in a friend here in this city. How many people have been that fortunate?

Life really is pretty damn good when you are lucky enough to have Jonas as a best friend.

Dear God... if I die before I wake, please tell him how much I will miss him...
oh, and that I don't appreciate him leaving his dirty boxers in my living room.

Thanks - kat

Romantic differences...

SomeGuyIKnow: I can't believe you're sad about Halo 2 being leaked
SomeGuyIKnow: I'm glad I don't' have to wait as long to play it.
kathunter: you wont
kathunter: no way
kathunter: you are
kathunter: it s not modded
kathunter: you cant
SomeGuyIKnow: Paul has a debug.
SomeGuyIKnow: And I can just get mine modded.
kathunter: weak
SomeGuyIKnow: hahaha
SomeGuyIKnow: Why weak?
kathunter: you lost best friend job
SomeGuyIKnow: Are you upset that I'm a pirate? I'll still buy the game. I'm just happy I don't have to wait.
kathunter: you have to think about all the people at Bungie (who I love) who want N9 to be the day
kathunter: they made it possible
kathunter: you can't even keep Christmas day?
kathunter: fucking kids
SomeGuyIKnow: You feel very strongly about this.
kathunter: yes i do
SomeGuyIKnow: I feel very strongly in favor of playing Halo 2.
kathunter: you have 3 years to play H2
SomeGuyIKnow: I already played it the other night anyway.
kathunter: you already played H2
kathunter: thank you
kathunter: ugh... i have nothing to say. it must be the sickness in your head talking
SomeGuyIKnow: If the Halo creators were there when I opened the box on November 9th, I might feel bad.
SomeGuyIKnow: So it's not like I'm opening my presents early.
SomeGuyIKnow: Is this our first argument?
kathunter: i think the whole, bud light vs pabst was the first
SomeGuyIKnow: And that ended in blood. Maybe we should change the subject.
kathunter: you have no idea how many MS and BNGY friends I have
kathunter: this can't end well
SomeGuyIKnow: Yeah, Halo 2 is tearing us apart.
kathunter: i had no idea we were so fragile
SomeGuyIKnow: I told you I was a delicate flower on our first date. Not in so many words, but that was the underlying theme of the ballet show I put on for you.
kathunter: i knew this deep down
kathunter: i just did not want to face it
SomeGuyIKnow: We'll face it... together.

(I am so confused)

I have been in LA visiting friends after an interesting Microsoft event, and taking a break from blogging, but I must break my silence to say, "shame on the French". Whoever was responsible for the Halo 2 leak should be turned over and spanked soundly. No, that would be too nice. He would like that. He should be locked in a room with W until November 09.
Do gamers not have anything better to do? Have you no self respect? Don't you know how much work Bungie put until keeping Halo 2 silent for 3 YEARS? And now this, on the eve of the greatest gaming month of all times. I am shocked, and saddened.

On another note, there is now an NPC in Matrix Online named "Katscratch" - how cool is that, eh? Now see, that is a perfect example of a gamer using his time for something worth while.

Recently, seanbaby was given the task of deciding who was funnier, Bush or Kerry. I love te visual description of Bush: "Whenever the president delivers a funny line, his face contorts into a self-satisfied smirk, as if the joke and his mouth are having a silent award ceremony to celebrate his outrageousness. "

MY MOM MADE ME THIS WAY
Again, from this year’s Republican Convention, Bush explained his no-nonsense attitude by pointing to his mother and saying, “Now and then I come across as a little too blunt – and for that we can all thank the white-haired lady sitting right up there.”

Humor Rating: 1: This got another roar of laughter and applause from the crowd, though it wasn’t so much a joke as it was a shout-out to his mom. And that’s cute when football players do it. However, there reaches a point of fame where a shout-out is unnecessary. This man’s mother was First Lady. She’s not going to run home and call her friends, “My son mentioned me on TV tonight! He’s going to come over later this week and show me how to transfer it from TiVo onto a tape!”

[via the Wave]

"Ubisoft, one of the world's largest video game publishers, today is proud to announce the signing of a development agreement with TQ Digital, a Chinese Online game developer and operator of MMO's. As part of the deal, TQ Digital will develop a Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game (MMORPG) based on the 'Heroes of Might and Magic' franchise. The title is slated for release in late 2005"

[via GameDaily]

"Ubisoft has already released one map free of charge - Village, which will be followed by a four-map package (Assault Pack #1) that will cost only $5.00 - a pittance for four intense levels packed with fast-paced close-quarter action, and hours of replayability. Look for the four new maps of the Assault Pack within the next several weeks."

[via GamerFeed]- and patch will be here soon, promise

(This entry is for every gamer who ever saw the sun rise...)
A couple things about me that are important to know if we are going to have this Blog/XBox Live based relationship.

1. I have a little problem with procrastination.
2. I am not a morning person. I prefer to never see morning unless I have met her face-on after a marathon session of gaming or a night dancing in my beautiful home city of San Francisco.

Both leave me happier than (just about) anything else in my life.

Another tid bit to mention is that am a self-employeed writer and set my own hours which is a recipe for disaster given point 1 and 2. My days end up being spent reading Frag Doll emails (seven women can write a heck of a lot when spread out across the U.S.), IMing (a job in itself), and gaming -- segregated carefully into time segments for "fun-only" titles, "competition" titles, and "review" titles -- but always waiting for the beauty of my nightfall.

When I sit in my kingdom (aka my bedroom) I stare outside and wait for dusk.The colors perfectly complement my cigarette and red bull as I brood, until finally there is total blackness. It is as if a heavy blanket covered my windows -- eliminating anything the outside world had previously placed on my overflowing to-do list. The only thing left that exists is my music, my consoles, 2 laptops, my tower, a can of Vienna Sausages and my RIFTs rule book. This is really all I need to be happy these days. In my kingdom I can wear my fuzzy read hat, my "Lick Bush" shirt from the Ministry concert, fuzzy red socks, my Shoryuken hoodie and NO ONE CARES!
Come on, all gamers know what that feeling is like at night: no one calling, no one emailing, no office to be at, no class to make, so many new crazy-good titles who need more tender loving care, and your world is exactly as you want it - all at your fingertips.

I am a kid in her own virtual playground.

This all may sound silly, but tonight when I was sitting here feeling like the luckiest girl in the world, I had to share my joy with someone, and that someone was you. Thanks for sharing it with me.

I know I am not legally allowed to say I wish someone would pop a cap in Bush; I remember that from government class, but what about Edwards. Is he covered by any law, because if he is not, I would not mind if someone put his hand in warm water and made him pee in his bed tonight.

update: ok, I listened to it again, and don't hate him quite so bad. And Cheney? It is factcheck.org, not factcheck.com -- get your facts straight.

In case you have not heard, World Cyber Games in in San Francisco this week, and I will be rocking the Ubisoft area with Seppuku and Eekers playing Prince of Persia 2, FarCry, and some flight sim game (need to look that up before I get there). I get to play PoP2!!! This will be my first WCG, and I plan on being a total camera whore while I am there. I will post photos daily.

RoosterTeeth, the makers of the Red vs. Blue Machinima, have a few new announcements: a new site, but most importantly they have finally made their new series public. "The Stangerhood" is a new machinima using the Sims 2 rendering engine, and will have more of a sitcom feel than rvb. So far they have only posted the intro trailer, but keep an eye out for more episodes soon. These Austin based kids pretty damn funny -- I even bought 2 copies of their DVDs just to use as impromptu gifts.
If you make a profile, add me as your friend. I am listed under "deadkat". Congrats Gus.

"Those tubes became a critical exhibit in the administration's brief against Iraq. As the only physical evidence the United States could brandish of Mr. Hussein's revived nuclear ambitions, they gave credibility to the apocalyptic imagery invoked by President Bush and his advisers. The tubes were 'only really suited for nuclear weapons programs,' Condoleezza Rice, the president's national security adviser, explained on CNN on Sept. 8, 2002. 'We don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud.'
But almost a year before, Ms. Rice's staff had been told that the government's foremost nuclear experts seriously doubted that the tubes were for nuclear weapons, according to four officials at the Central Intelligence Agency and two senior administration officials, all of whom spoke on condition of anonymity. The experts, at the Energy Department, believed the tubes were likely intended for small artillery rockets. "

[via The New York Times]