Sony's new PS3 peripheral a girl's best friend?

So my friend Matthew Smith (http://www.dawgeth.com) and I were talking the other night in an IRC channel about some of our favorite gaming consoles. Something came out along the way about how I had heard of a possible price drop for the Wii sometime this year if they were to compete with the other systems this year. Microsoft has Project Natal, a hands-free motion sensing technology that lets you use your body as a controller and thats due out for this years holiday season. And then theres Sony's wand... Matthew sent me an image link of the device which in theory is supposed to be similar to that of the Wii's controller, hence a reason for a price drop on that console. Now I'll give you a few moments to really look at it and see what the first thing is that comes to mind...

... really... take a moment...

Ok now, doesn't that look like a friggin dildo? I really shouldn't know these things... but it looks like its got all the right curves for every girls secret desire. I wonder if this is Sony's idea of appealing to female gamers. "I cant get a dildo for my Xbox 360 so I went with the PS3."

If that wasn't bad enough, Sony uses this technology in their controllers that they call "Dualshock" (its really just a couple of badly balanced motors) which creates a vibration for that extra sensory when playing games. I can only imagine this vibration technology being introduced into these wands.

Anyone remember the Harry Potter brooms that recalled because girls got a little too excited when they discovered their brooms could vibrate? Or how about recently... the full-sized Team Jacob and Edward pillows for girls to sleep with. I'm thinking marketing is getting a little bit too risky these days with kids...

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Warforged Update!

So last night I submitted my warforged warlock to my dm to get approval and to see if there was any suggestions as to improve or change anything. Turns out that I do need to make a few changes to fit the world and the background but there is nothing major. I'll post an update after I get that done and submitted. Anyways, he went to explain what he pictures this character to be and let me tell you that this guy is a genius! Take a look at what he wrote.

I'm imagining a warforged whose metal is rusted red/brown; wood pieces black and slick, like dead wood in a forest; the slight smell of compost; sprouts of living plants from some joints and intersections of plates; eyest that glow a bright, verdant green; and, this ironwood root structure spiked gauntlet, with four inch unbreakable thorns which seem impossibly sharp...

Now I dont know about you but that like totally opened up all sorts of ideas as to what this character might look like to someone who may have stumbled upon him in the middle of an old forest. So its all I've been able to think about today is what my character may look like. Above is what I've drawn so far and I know that it really doesn't look like theres a whole lot of wear and tare on this guy aside from the cracked brow. What I see is an old vine thats draped over the top of his head... he's maybe got a mushroom or some kind of fungus growing out of his neck. A tree or some kind of plant has taken root near his legs and has formed around him over the last several hundred years to claim the character as a part of the plant. And that spiked gauntlet is in a tangle of vines. My character is a prisoner of the forest and the plants his prison until he is awakened once more...

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