| Review of Gamer Grub | Monday 01st March 2010 |
| I just saw something in the convenience store that caught my attention. It was a snack mix that had cashews in it, which was the first thing that I saw because I love cashews. The next thing I noticed was that it was pizza flavored. Cashews on pizza? That is weird, but AWESOME. And the third thing I noticed was that it was called Gamer Grub. Grub for gamers? It's bound to be overpriced - yep, $2.00 for 6oz bag. And heck, that was the 2 for $4 special the store had - normally they were 2.49. But I love cashews and I love pizza, so I bought it without a second thought. As I walked out of the store with it, I examined the bag more closely. According to it, it had a special formula of nutrients designed to improve focus while gaming. And it said it wouldn't cause greasy fingers or keyboard crumbs. The reason was that it was designed to be eaten by tearing open the specially designed bag and just pouring it into your mouth. Which I didn't realize at first, so I pulled out a cashew and thought it was greasier than they claimed. But then, it dawned on me that I was "doin' it wrong" and I began to feed on it the proper way. It was delicious. As far as pizza-tasting snacks go, this was one of the best - despite the cashews. I have no idea how they did it, but cashews, almonds, and other snack-like foods became the perfect carriers for whatever secret pizza sauce they poured on it. Not only that, but it did seem to live up to its claims of energizing the eater. Although I was not gaming at the time, I figured that it would likely help me focus in class. Of course, I had to take a look at the nutrition facts myself. I suspected that they wouldn't actually be very good for you. And yes, they are about as sodium-filled as they can get, and the two packs I ate constituted about half of the calories I need per day. But I don't eat breakfast so hopefully I can get away with this. Other than that though, they aren't too bad. The pizza kind, at least, is very low in sugar (although it has a fair amount of other simple carbohydrates). It has 3g of protein per serving, which is 12g per bag (There are somehow four servings in a bag despite the obvious result of eating it all at once), which isn't exactly low as far as protein goes. On the other hand I had expected more, given that it was filled with cashews. They are also chock-full of nutrients that no one says are bad for you, though, like Vitamin A. Also, despite being an "energy" food there is no caffeine. It would be kind of hard to pack caffeine into a snack mix, admittedly, but I suspect this was an intentional choice of the manufacturer. Likely, gamers who would use this as intended will be drinking caffeinated beverages alongside them anyway. (I was, and I wasn't even gaming.) And yet, they are delicious, and despite their price, high calorie count and extremely high sodium, I want more. I suspect cocaine is involved. |
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| This is a test blog post | Sunday 31st January 2010 |
| So, Nick reminded me that this thing still works. I am amazed. I thought that if I stopped coming here it would disappear, like a dream, because I am the Dreamer and when I go away everything poofs out of existence. Poof! There it goes. Not that I'm saying I wanted this to disappear, I just more or less forgot about the site. Well, the fora anyway. I use the site to download the <SPOILERS REMOVED> and to remind myself about the Vent port. Oooh, sorry, I can't tell you what I've been downloading because it has to do with - well I can't tell you, it's a special, secret surprise we have concocted up for all of you. And holy crap, I spelled concocted right in one go. Whee me! So, you ask, what's been going on in my life? Because I am totally important to you and junk. Clearly. Anyway, I am glad you asked. So far, not much interesting has happened. My job from last summer that I mentioned went well because I had a supervisor who had no idea what I was doing and never checked up on me. I got the project done, of course, but I cut it close. I have to say that I was quite impressed with my skills at overcoming obstacles and gathering and using resources. These skills are ones I am carrying into my current project - Civ 4 Modding. As well as, well I can't tell you the other thing. But rest assured, it's going well. This semester has no programming courses, just math. I thought all of it would be easy but apparently Analysis is going to be a bit tougher than I reckoned. Well, if I actually could keep my integrals and derivatives straight, maybe it wouldn't be. Dumb mistake there. And I had to miss a class from a sudden onset of illness, which is never fun. Next semester shall be my last, probably. I will then graduate and get a normal day job. Hopefully my experience will be enough to land something. Now, on to news about the site! We've had a lot of people frequenting our Ventrilo server. Well, Ian's Ventrilo server. Still, there hasn't been much activity here. Which is mostly our fault anyway. We should try to get some people interested in our community and use this site chiefly as a community resource center and communication forum. And maybe we could get some people playing MMOs together and have raids and stuff! That's the dream, kids. That's the dream. |
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