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Disaster Strikes the Rogers House and other first world problems

Posted by stephrogers in Gaming, technology and tagged with , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Today at our house this happened…

xbox crash meme

It is a disaster of epic and absolute proportions. I have lost my entire game of Dance Central and I had been playing that for literally hours. I had unlocked most of the locked tracks and was playing on ‘hard’ mode. I will now have to start from beginners and no songs again. I have lost my entire saved game of Lego Lord of the Rings. I have also lost the entire back catalogue of Guitar Hero 2, 3 and World Tour. It’s tragedy times one bazillion and mental breakdown is imminent. All day we have been remembering games we have lost. On top of the ones listed above here are some more…

The kids saved games of Minecraft

450 out of 500 orbs on Crackdown

Hubby was up to the last level in Halo4 and now has to play the whole thing again to find out what happens to Cortana (please no spoilers, I will kill you!)

The damn lion in Viva Pinata. That took me frigging months to get into my garden. GONE!

The saved game on Civilization Revolution where the boys had tanks playing on deity difficulty and were invading other cities for a domination victory, where they were the first to get tanks

Millions of lego coins in our Lego games – Harry Potter, Indiana Jones, Star Wars and Batman – I had finished the lot. I had even unlocked LegoLand on the Star Wars game! I was about six levels in on LOTR.

Harry Potter on Kinect – we were up to the last level. All gone

Hubby’s custom character in Fifa

Zillions of hours of Skylanders with ALL the Skylanders characters upgraded….

Anyway you get the general idea. Our whole gaming existence is gone. It’s all gone.

I took to Facebook to complain about the growing gamer crisis and on my wall I got condolences, however on Hubby’s post we got slammed for our obsession with first world problems, which was actually pretty funny. I posted the above meme to Facebook for the haters.

Hubby pointed out that it could be worse. At least we don’t play any of those long games like Skyrim, Mass Effect or Fallout. I don’t know. I’m just not seeing an upside to this. If anyone is looking for me over the coming months I will be wearing my fingers and dance moves to dust trying to get my games back.

Have you ever lost anything that at first seemed inconsequential but turned out to be a really big deal?

 

 

Lessons from a Social Media N00B

Posted by stephrogers in blogging, technology and tagged with , , , , , , , , ,

I started this blog back in November, and not only was I new to blogging, but I was new to social media altogether. (I’ve had a FaceBook for a while but only had ‘friends’ that I actually know in real life, which gives it a different feel). I went to WordPress.com and with much trepidation I signed up. I spent the first few weeks just reading other blogs. I followed the ones I liked and did research that way. I didn’t ‘like’ or comment on anything because I didn’t have my confidence up yet. My first post went out in November and I started picking up followers. Since then my blog has evolved into what it is now. A few short months later and I’m feeling somewhat comfortable with it, but still perplexed by some of the nuances.

I started using my Twitter around the same time I started my blog. They seemed to go hand in hand. I’ve had a Twitter for a while but couldn’t understand it or use it. Was it like FaceBook? Where were people’s pages? Through starting my blog I have explored Twitter a bit more and I can almost say I know how to use that too.

IT CROWD

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Virtual Immortality – Tweets from the grave

Posted by stephrogers in Social commentary, technology, Uncategorized and tagged with , , , , , , ,

If you could continue with your social media presence after you die would you? This is a question I had after reading an article in the Huffington Post today Social Media for your Social Afterlife. A company called LivesOn has produced a computer program that will learn your likes, tastes and syntax by watching you on social media. Then in the event of your death this machine will maintain your social media accounts. You will be tweeting beyond the grave. Apparently lots of people have already signed up. But is this just a little too weird? And what is the point of social media anyway?

tombstone

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