Wednesday, February 23 

The title of this entry is entirely serious. I’ve always liked newegg.com because of some cheap games that it has, but also because it probably has the quickest free shipping I have ever seen. And this most recent story doesn’t disappoint on their shipping.

Recently, probably last Thursday or Wednesday, my graphics card decided it just didn’t want to live anymore, but it did want to show its affection by displaying pretty red dots and making my computer blue screen. It was a sad day especially since my laptop is about as fast as a brick. Surfing the web is slow on it so just imagine doing anything else…

Luckily for me, I was going to get a new graphics card and pretty darn quickly too. I looked around over the weekend for some good replacement cards, and ended up with a GTS 450 (Not a power house I know, but it does a great job on a budget). So on Monday I ordered the card from Newegg. Now the shipping was entirely free so I was expecting roughly 3 days, since that is usually how long their free shipping takes, but to my surprise I got it the very next day. Oh yes, I bought a card off the Internet on Monday and received it on Tuesday without having to pay outrageous next-day shipping charges.

Now I do need to add that it was shipped from Memphis and I live in southern Illinois so it really didn’t need to travel that far. But still normally items shipped at a cost from other sites don’t even take 3 days.

Anyway, I really wanted to write this because I didn’t write a sad post about how I lost my graphics card and the fantastic shipping story needed to be told.

And finally onto the question… Do you have any interesting shipping tales (could be good or bad) or just an interesting tale about buying something off of the Internet?

Friday, February 11

I guess I should probably explain what power gaming is, or at least what I think it is and how I am going to be using it. Power gaming, in my eyes, is essentially to spend a lot of time playing games and in my current case, finishing them. Now if you don’t know, or aren’t from CheapAssGamer.com, there is something some gamers like to call a backlog. This is essentially a list of games that these gamers have either not played yet or not beaten yet. Well during the 2010 year I decided to rid myself of a lot of my backlog by power gaming. By this I mean that I ran through and finished a lot of games. Anyway, lets get into the details…

Last year is represented as starting from January 1^st 20010 to December 31^st 2010 and all of these games were completed in that time frame. Another thing is that all of these games but three were actually started during this 2010 period. I added these three games because I felt that I completed the majority of them during the duration of 2010.

So now onto the number of games completed, or stories finished, during 2010. In total there were 52 games completed, which means 49 games were started and finished in 2010 by myself. You may be wondering if I truly mean finished and I do. None of these games were halfway completed and then thrown away. But I would like to make clear that on average most of these games took 8 hours to complete. There were some oddities like Mass Effect 2, 20+ hours, and King’s Bounty, 40+ hours.

Here is the list of games completed in order…

-         Darwinia

-         Trine

-         Castle Crashers

-         Shadow Complex

-         Universe at War

-         Mass Effect 2

-         Little Big Planet (Started in 09)

-         Star Trek Legacy

-         Defense Grid: The Awakening

-         Foreign Legion: Buckets of Blood