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Right, so I myself haven’t posted in a while but more importantly my friends who normally do post are also busy with college. YET, we somehow average 100+ views a day. Why is this? Is it our League of Legends topics? Is it our random geek thrills and photography? Or is it my obsession with Deadpool? Either way, I feel really bad not posting and I know we have readers who would love to add to the site so, I am looking for Authors / Editors. I know we are called So Cash, and we haven’t been playing Eve online lately but I don’t care. If you play Eve Online and you wish to tell us a tale about Hi-sec war or better yet a 0.0 experience. Then I’ll let you. if you play League of Legends by Riot games and want to post your Tier list vs others or maybe you want to post a champion guide or build order, go right ahead! I will have it so. Tell me what you want to do, even if you are a photography major or journalist major at a university somewhere and you are required to or are just looking for a blog to add your own personal flair to, then DO IT! Ask, and you shall receive. The only guidelines I ask you follow is to credit people if you use their material. (No stealing!) and try to not post obscene material that would only be adults. A few curse words such as “Fuck” every now and then aren’t stressful but don’t post a game review bashing a game entirely with profanity. Post gamer / geek / student friendly topics and have fun. I will be approving membership to the site and if we get enough Authors, perhaps I’ll upgrade the site to have specific area for each topics. Maybe even make a private section, etc. This site supports youtube links, so if you post a youtube url in the HTML screen, it will embed it automatically.

How do you apply? Just email me at rockmanneo12@gmail.com
Topic: A So Cash Application
Body: your name, preferred user name (can choose on wordpress), a little bit about yourself and your motives for applying to the site. nothing crazy just brief. Then just tell me what you want to post about. First come, get first dibs on topics of course. The email you want to use to sign in is also important.

Topic ideas:
This is just to give you examples of what you can do, that I’m looking for.

League of Legends by Riot Games

• Champion tiers
• Champion critiques
• Champion guides or builds
• Dominion strategies
• Draft mode Dos & Don’ts
• What to expect in Ranked
• How to not Feed the enemy team
• How to get average to good Creep Score
• Why Magic Resist and Armor are important
• When cursing in the All chat goes too far

Material could include Pictures, links to league craft, youtube videos, narrative mp3′s, etc. You can only upload images to this site right now. Do to cost of upgrades, Video and music as well as space is restricted.

Let’s Play or Game Reviews

• Game Critique
• News
• Upcoming Releases
• DLC (Downloadable Content)
• Trailers
• Reviews
• Guides

College Life

• Dorm room life
• Parties vs studies, balance?
• Hangovers are bad
• Pranking your roommate
• Is your university worth the $$?
• Calculus raped me

Geek Talk

• Graphics cards
• PC building (What’s important?)
• Internet Browsers
• ipod/iphone/ipad (stuff)
• Apps
• Operating systems
• PROGRAMS FOR DOING STUFF! (Not just photoshop)
• Programming!

Random stuff of interest or that makes me cry

• XKCD.com
• Coffeepress.com (That’s not a soundboard, that’s Roy – mug)
• Axe cop or Dr. Mcninja
• Red vs Blue (roosterteeth.com)
• imgur.com
• Reddit.com
• somethingawful (Be careful O_<)
• Deadpool (Marvel)
• Anime (Yes.. even anime..)
• Deviant art.com
• Newgrounds.com
• Personal Art or drawings or 3D Max
• Flash
• Conventions
• thinkgeek.com
• Pandora
• Blah Blah Blogging, I made a poptart! Herp a Derp!

Minecraft

• Do you love Notch?
• Why I love or hate Survival
• Creepers destroy my hopes and dreams
• Creations, worlds
• Pyramids  (I love them)
• Dieing, before it was cool

Garrysmod

• <3 Garry
• I spawn things and kill them for fun
• Mingebags
• Poses or comics
• Contraptions
• mods / scripts
• Pmod!

Dungeon fighter Online

• Why I hate gunners
• When Witches are actually fun to fight…. wait..
• PVP
• Builds, Guides
• Why Lesbian is a popular name
• She broke my +10 weapon!

Eve Online

• Wormhole space
• Suicide ganking = fun at the office
• Mining vs mission running
• Ship Load outs
• Corporation goals
• Shit fits
• Buffer Refusing

These are all just examples but if you have something else you’d like to post then by all means, run it by me. Once I approve your first few posts, you will gain the ability to post what you want and when! No pressure. Just remember I’m always watching.

Attention: So Cash is also looking to reestablish it’s affiliate network. If you’d like us to list you and/or your site as an affiliate. Email me at Rockmanneo12@gmail.com titled: Affiliate. Whether you are an e-commerce site, or search engine, or just a simple blog, we will see about listing you.

 

Our biggest concern for affiliating again is to make the money to pay for this site and upgrade it like we did in the past. I hope that this site will once again grow! Thanks to anyone for their assistance.

Jake and I had the distinct pleasure to attend Video Games Live in Austin on Saturday. I can tell you that the experience was nothing more than phenomenal.

First, a little backstory. Video Games Live is a concert event put on by the gaming industry, where an orchestra plays music from the games we know and love, synchronized with videos and a killer light show. The event was founded by Tommy Tallarico, a well-known video game composer and former host of some of the gaming TV shows that used to be on G4, like Judgement Day and The Electric Playground. It was co-founded by Jack Wall, another famous composer, his most recent work is the Mass Effect soundtrack. It was truly an experience meeting both of these guys.

We had originally wanted to go back in 2005, but the Austin and Houston shows were cancelled due to low ticket sales and poor advertising. To make up for it, they sent us signed copies of the show’s program booklet, plus a T-shirt. This time, the show had a full house.

The show took place at the Michael Dell Long Center for the Performing Arts, just off of West Riverside street in Austin. Outside there was a large waiting area, we got there about an hour and a half before doors opened, so we decided to take some pictures.

The merch booth:

There was also a costume contest, so we also saw a few cosplayers. Some were pretty good, you could tell they made it themselves, others were a little less, you could also tell they made it themselves.

Naked Snake and Revolver Ocelot

Admittedly, Jake and I had no idea who they were supposed to be, so we had to ask.

Sephiroth

Spartans

Naturally, these guys won the costume contest. Was there ever any doubt?

Next time we go, Jake wanted to cosplay as a MechWarrior. Who should I go as?

Upstairs there was a Guitar Hero competition, whoever scored the highest on “3′s & 7′s” on Hard would get to go out on stage and play “Sweet Emotion” in the new Aerosmith game. Fun fact! Tommy Tallarico is the cousin of the lead singer of Aerosmith, Steven Tyler.

The setup for Guitar Hero was a little shonky. The video seemed totally out of sync with the audio, and the controller didn’t seem like it was responding. Jake failed at 4%, I failed at 16%. Oh well, at least I beat him. I was setting up the camera to record him playing, but by the time it was ready, he had already failed.

The winner of the contest, apparently a girl, came out to play on stage later, and five-starred “Sweet Emotion,” not on Hard, but on EXPERT. If she scored 175,000 points, she’d win a $2,500 laptop. Naturally, she did.

Enough pre-show stuff. Here’s what the stage looked like.  Huge projector screen in the background, orchestra and choir, and a light show which doubles as an epilepsy test.

The start to the show was funny. They started with a screen of two players playing Pong, was the orchestra playing a note every time the ball hit something.

I won’t delve into the details of the show, since it’s different every time, but there were a few big games which they played music from:

Metal Gear Solid

God of War

Mass Effect

Legend of Zelda

Super Mario Bros.

Metroid

World of Warcraft

Final Fantasy

Civilization IV

Castlevania

Halo

When the World of Warcraft segment came on, there was a unanimous and thunderous “FOR THE HORDE!!!” from TOO MANY FUCKING WOW PLAYERS in the audience.

Finally, there was one guest which stood out in particular. His name is Martin Leung, better known as the “Video Game Pianist.” He gained fame from a YouTube video he posted a long time ago, showing him playing the Super Mario Bros. theme on piano, BLINDFOLDED. To this day, that video has been viewed by over 40 million people. He played some Final Fantasy music, and then finally played the Mario theme, blindfolded, live, on stage. This guy was epic.

After the show, we waited about an hour and a half to get signed posters from Tommy Tallarico and Jack Wall, Martin Leung was also there, I got him to sign as well.

Finally, the geniuses behind it all. On the left, Tommy Tallarico. On the right, Jack Wall. Wall was the conductor for the orchestra during the show.

In other news, the “I’m blogging this.” shirt is now my official Awesome Event Attendance shirt.

Overall, it was amazing show. Hopefully they’ll be back to Texas on their next world tour in 2010 or so. See? I told you I’m blogging this.

Video Games Live – Austin TX 2008