This might as come as a little of a shock but I am a big incredible nerd. I may be a pop culture enthusiast and glam queen however I am a huge video game playing, world of Warcraft loving, science fiction novel reading, Buffy the Vampire Slayer watching nerd.

This past Christmas, I had traveled home to Michigan to see some of my family members for the Holidays. While at my Aunt and Uncle's house my cousin and I decided to play first person shooter games. First of all it is dangerous to play any sort of video game with a 13 adolescent male. They are always better than you, no matter what the game is and by the time I determine what all the buttons do on the console my cousin has already killed me eight times, thus dooming me to failure. One game though that I am really good at is the Left 4 Dead series. Oddly enough running through delapedated war zones with members of the infected chasing after you is something that I am really good at. Somehow always at the end of playing Left 4 Dead I have made the world a safer place by eliminating the zombie threat. I also feel like if there ever was a zombie invasion, between myself and the rest of my Left 4 Dead friends we would be able to survive. I really enjoy the game. I don't know if it is because of the vast arsenal of weapons available to you - I love getting the chainsaw in Left 4 Dead:2 and going crazy - or the idea of endless supply of zombie targets to devastate.When I asked Utility Player, Ian Sorensen, about it he commented that:

"I don't really understand it. I played it one time and played two levels and thought to myself 'it is the same game, with the same weapons, and same bad guys the only thing that changes is the scenery". 

Though this is true, I kind of like that fact. Sometimes I do not want to think with my video games. Although I like the Final Fantasy and Legend of Zelda games, they are sometime way too complicated for my short attention span. If I have to go online and read a walk through guide book to tell me where to go all the time, than I really do not want to play it.